Ageless, timeless, right-to-center libertarian. Well..not so ageless, and that's why I could not accurately and fairly vote on the worst president in our nation's 230 year plus history. I know Rush Limbaugh believes the Clinton administration was the most corrupt administration. However, he fails to take into account the breadth of our nation's history, convieniently perhaps. He fails to take into account Ulysses S. Grant, although while a more than adequate general. As president, he presided over a notoriously corrupt administration.

Therefore, I cannot make an accurate assessment of our nation's worst president. However, I do believe Reagan was perhaps our most overrated president.

You remember Reagan? He single-handedly won the Cold War. Brought the nation out of a recession. The mythmakers hoped to enshrine him on Mt. Rushmore. And, the Republican presidential hopefuls aspired to his mantle.

However, internal events in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe led to the Cold War's demise. Economic recovery was inevitable when oil prices returned to normal levels. His 1981 tax cut was followed quickly by tax hikes you rarely hear about. And although he failed to shrink government, he did shrink government regulation and oversight leading to savings-and-loan crisis of the late 1980's. Marginal tax rates for the wealthy were cut, but rising payroll taxes hit the working class. He astronomically increased defense spending, while cutting certain social programs creating our first major homeless epidemic. He handed his successor an enormous deficit. And, although this is now a minor footnote, he presided over the Iran-Contra scandal. However, the mythmakers conviently whitewash the 80's with a nostalgic makeover in hopes of reframing a conservative "golden age" with Bonzo as president.