Opinion

Another Reagan landslide

Looks like another win for the Gipper.

Many news outlets are highlighting a new Quinnipiac Poll in which Barack Obama is ranked the worst president since World War II. Obama now ranks even lower than the man he blames for everything, his predecessor George W. Bush.

Not so well reported is that Ronald Reagan is rated the best post-war president. The poll isn’t even close.

Reagan polls at double the second-place winner, Bill Clinton, and more than four times JFK.
We think we understand why.

In foreign policy, Reagan’s “peace through strength” philosophy was derided at the time by liberals as reckless warmongering — but it led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Meanwhile, Reagan also believed that, far from being the solution to what ailed America, Big Government was the problem. And his tax cuts kicked off one of our most enduring recoveries.

Barack Obama’s message could not be more different. Like Jimmy Carter, who accused Reagan of courting nuclear war, Obama claims anyone who disagrees with him simply wants to go around invading other countries. And he campaigned on the theme of “smart government.”

The results are all around us: victory snatched away in Iraq, a dysfunctional ObamaCare, an arrogant IRS, etc.

Is it really any wonder that given a choice between Reagan’s strength and small government and Obama’s weakness and “smart” government, even today Reagan handily wins a contest for the presidency?