Reagan, Assailing ‘Doomocrats,’ Touts His Policies
President Reagan, campaigning against the “liberal fear-mongers” and “gloom-and-doomocrats,” on Saturday painted a pretty picture of the economy under his leadership, urging voters to “stay with the policies that turned this country around.”
Traveling to Michigan and Texas, two important but economically battered battlegrounds in the presidential contest, Reagan pummeled Democrats with good economic news, a weapon they had hoped would have been taken away from the GOP by election time.
The message, aimed at Reagan Democrats: Happy times are here still, and the best is yet to come.
“While we eagerly look to the future, the naysayers, the liberal fear-mongers and the Washington gloom-and-doomocrats talk about how they plan to manage America’s decline,” Reagan told a rally at the Mesquite Rodeo Center outside Dallas.
As he has done for the last several weeks, Reagan made a strong plea for voter turnout, saying, “This is a chance to vote for the values that make America great and for the policies that turned this country around.”
Earlier, Reagan tried to bring a little good cheer to a rally at the Macomb Community College in Warren, Mich., a Detroit suburb, which has suffered heavy job losses because foreign automobiles have severely cut into sales of domestic models. Reagan said that sales of U.S. automobiles were higher in the first 10 months of this year than in 1987.
Citing the new national unemployment figure released Friday, which matched a 14-year low of 5.2%, Reagan declared: “America is on a roll.”
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