Ronald Reagan's Misrepresented Legacy

This post is a link and a partial quote.  Enjoy the facts.  Read, witness, comprehend, and consider how the current Republican party would tar, feather, and burn at the stake everything that RR was, did, and stood for, if not for the fiction which has become his legacy.

http://voxverax.blogspot.com/2011/03/whitewashing-of-ronald-reagan.html

"The Whitewashing of Ronald Reagan

By Tom Maertens
(A version of this originally appeared in the Mankato, MN Free Press.)

A Gallup poll taken in 1992 found that Ronald Reagan was the most unpopular living president apart from Nixon, and ranked even below Jimmy Carter; just 46 percent of Americans had a favorable view of Reagan while Carter was viewed favorably by 63 percent of Americans.

This was before the Hollywood-style re-write of Reagan’s presidency that created the fictional character portrayed during Reagan’s 100th birthday celebration. The campaign was led by Grover Norquist and his “Ronald Reagan Legacy Project,” along with corporate-funded propaganda mills like Heritage and American Enterprise Institute that underwrote hundreds of flattering books to create a mythic hero and perpetual tax-cutter. They singled out Reagan’s 1981 tax cut that lowered top marginal rates from 70% to 28% as the basis for the campaign, leaving out the inconvenient reality that he subsequently raised taxes eleven times...."