MSNBC w/ Cenk: Reagan Unelectable Today

Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) filling in for Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC explains - with specific examples - how conservative icon Ronald Reagan would be viewed as a liberal today because the political spectrum has shifted so far to the right.

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[baigandine]

Reagan's fans don't realize how far to the right we've drifted since then.

[baigandine]

@jimmyrtle Even conservatives raised taxes to go to war...until now!

[cfrait1968]

Cenk has never been right about anything. This was the same guy who really believed Anthony Weiner was telling the truth. I wouldn't listen to Cenk for advice on buying used cars, let alone important political matters.

[janbob73]

this is BULL SHIT! if it wernt for regan we would still be in a cold war or nuked i would vote for regan over any of those runnin now

[ekul256]

I find none of these statements compelling and most of them are false.

[Salvysahagun]

Cenk, do you honestly even think any of the Founding Fathers would win today

no way!!

[fefe74e]

HEY I HAVE A SUGGESTION FOR OBAMA: CUT MORE TAXES! LOL

[fefe74e]

REAGAN WAS A COMMUNIST COMPARED TO TODAY POLITICS!!!!!!!!!

[tovartalero]

om nom nom

[farhanabdulrahim1]

the subtitles are done by fox news supporters...utter bullshit!

[misticspear]

@onecoolcaldude Liberals cant do math, but tax cuts pay for themselves? Group think is a terrible thing especially when you have had tow administrations to prove it is wrong. Funny thing is the lowest state when it comes to math are Mississippi and Alabama both are very conservative states

[123ertr]

reagan is right on immigration .

[JImmy4336]

In 1974 Gerald Ford said "our long national nightmare is over". I wish he was right.

[Pokajj5315]

Yeah but Reagan was white so it makes it ok.

[onecoolcaldude]

Stupid argument on the tax rates. Now-a-days the alternative minimum tax, phase out of itemized deductions, limits on mortgage interest deductions, phase out of exemptions and rental losses, increased limits on Soc Sec taxes....blah blah blah, makes the current marginal rates effectively higher today than the rates at the time of Reagan if you do the math....opps liberals can't add...ok.

People don't be duped by this bullshit.

This portrayal is stupidity.Hell Kennedy put out a hit Castro.

[varmfarm]

fuck liberals

[steelersguy74]

@halifaxx55 You're absolutely right about Nixon. I think Reagan could still be elected because he was a big time hypocrite.

[executehelenkeller]

This new conservative movement is nothing more than a knee jerk reaction to Obama. The right portrays him as a communist murder machine and rednecks believe it. I really do think that race plays a much bigger role in this than anyone wants to admit. Thats the bad thing about modern racism. It isn't public anymore, so people can just pretend its not there.

[ddnguyen278]

The nation has moved to the right, people are more pessimistic about change and the future and are much more afraid of it.. With good reason, we've gotten in 3 wars in the last 20 years, borrowed 3+ Trillion to fund them and the world is if anything more unstable.. Now the rich are telling the poor they have to belt tighten while they live it up? The absolute hypocrisy and social divide will tear this country apart..

[FinalAirsoft]

Cenk for President

[TheFunkadelicFan]

@halifaxx55 Nixon was also a "dove". He got out of Vietnam, began a period of "detente" with the Soviet Union (which improved global security), brought China in from the cold, and promoted peace and stability in the Middle East by bringing Egypt into the USA's sphere of influence.

And before Nixon, there was Eisenhower.......!

[laug66]

Go Cenk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[halifaxx55]

I think another president who is way more liberal and certainly wouldn't be considered conservative today is Nixon. Passing the Clean Air Act and EPA, he would be neutered by Mox news. Mox news is fucking crazy!!! FCC get these bitches off!!!!!!

[lukegreen37]

Tehrists.

[Tartersauce101]

@rednecfrmhell

he voted against the war in iraq.