I don’t much care whether Reagan goes on a coin or not (though at this point it would be especially tasteless to do it over the objections of his wife, speaking for him), but this bit is just unbelievably stupid:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/12/05/dime/index.html
WHAT?
And I’m not talking about his new name “the freedom president,” I’m talking about the stretch of idiocy this guy makes to try and top the connection FDR had to dimes.
Don’t blame me! I’m from Minnesota!
I agree that Reagan is popular. But he just doesn’t quite make the threshold of the other coin heads of the twentieth century. He just didn’t have the same impact. And impact was what got the heads on the coin, both literally and figuratively.
Hmmmm. I would recommend putting up more resistance than the issue deserves, then “caving in”. Gotta give 'em something. Otherwise they’ll be carving him on Mt. Rushmore.
What? You think I’m kidding? I hope you’re right.
Well, they’ve transferred the name across the street to the new G.W. hospital’s emergency room.
I’m just curious, but How did reagan commit treason?
Because his administration sold arms (“gave aid and comfort”) to Iran, our enemy at the time?
Not saying I necessarily agree with that interpretation of events, just noting where s/he may have gotten the idea…
Now, i will say she has a very good reason for this…
…she wants her face on the dime.
An interesting view. . Nancy as the scheming Livia and Ronnie as the unsuspecting Augustus.
He sold weapons to a sworn enemy of the US, namely Iran.
I think that would make GHWB Tiberius, Clinton would be Caligula and GWB would be Claudius, the idiot man-child (except that Clasudius was just pretending). 
How about these ideas for the fine coinage of the United States:
— No, I’m honest. What the hell did JFK ever do?
Flowbark agrees that JFK is possibly the most over-rated President in US history, at least by the public (historians apparently take a subtler stance).
Still, you asked for a list.
Kennedy managed the Cuban Missile Crisis fairly well.
Kennedy secured the above-ground nuclear test ban.
A lot of the ground work was done for the Civil Rights Act in the year preceding Kennedy’s death. Still, Johnson was the President who pushed it through. There’s a pattern here: Kennedy also proposed Medicare in 1963, but it was Johnson who delivered it.
Kennedy also created the Peace Corp. Personally, I’d like to see Mark Twain, John Von Neumann or maybe Richard Feynman on the $20.
That’s only half of it. His administration then took the money made from the sale of the weapons and used it to illegally fund a group of terrorists in Central America, the contras, for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Nicaragua. AFTER Congress had made two laws prohibiting this.
FDR authorized the internment of the Japanese during WWII.
Oh but he did urge them to intern the Japanese as “responsibly as possible.”
I don’t think that Reagan did anything so egregious in his time in office.
I think supporting terrorism was pretty egregious but if you don’t like FDR, let’s replace him with Martin Luther King. He would certainly be a much more worthy candidate that Reagan and it’s about time we put a black American on some currency.
Two words for you, RNWebner:
Iran
Contra
Giving aid and comfort to our enemies (selling arms to Iran), then using the money from said aid & comfort to perform overtly illegal (Congress specifically prohibited aid to the Contras) activities in our backyard. The only reason Reagan isn’t rotting in a jail cell right now is his ability to pick doggedly loyal (to the point of criminal conviction) followers to perform his dirty work, the fact that William Casey was already dead when this came down, and the obvious mental deterioration he was already suffering at the end of his second term.
Hey, isn’t it time to reitre Teddy from that monument anyway? I’m sure we could recarve his mug into Ron’s likeness w/o too much trouble.
Would we get to vote for Young Thin Elvis vs. Chubby Vegas Elvis again? That would make it worthwhile.
The Mint will have to develop a new form of currency for Reagan’s likeness to adorn. One that completely forgets what it is worth, or one that varies in value depending on the networth of the person holding it. That ol’ trickle-down, voodoo economics currency.
Maybe Reagan could go on a new round of “state” dimes, or several?
Little Reagan heads, floating around.
Many state quarters depict sailboats. We could make various individuals little sea captains on a new round of dimes. Hey, is that Ted Kennedy with a couple bar hos?