Steve, you're welcome to hold the views you do but Sam and others have pointed out the opposing argument so many times and extremely well each time, you need to take their responses into account in your replies. Without that, you are simply talking to yourself. Never fun.
On the inflation argument, Sam and others, including yours truly, have pointed out to you that Carter's appointee, Paul Volcker, started addressing the inflation issue and was well on the way to dealing with it before Reagan was elected. Reagan had the good sense to go along with the program. He didn't stop inflation; he simply went along with the program put in place by Carter's appointee.
As for my preference for Kennedy, and to a lesser degree, Carter, over Reagan, I hardly see anything other than standard issue political preferences at stake here. If you can only deal with those kinds of differences by dropping the word "ideology" on it, using the word in its worst sense, that certainly ends all the conversations here. |
