1984 Presidential Debate: Reagan v. Mondale 

Mondale lost when he said in his convention speech that he would raise taxes!!

He also already lost being Jimmy Carters VP. The ppl didn't want yhe Carter years back

Bingo! you nailed it. Next!

@@wilnerolivier7971 He was just being honest

@@John_.Cabell_.BreckinridgeAt least Nancy can claim the title of first female president considering she was Reagan during his second term as he turned into a vegetable. Karma got him eventually if only it did it before 1980.

Lol ikr

@@suigeneris2663 Let’s Go Brandon. Or is it...Let’s Go Robert L. Peters? Robin Ware?

@@Wired4Life2 He can’t remember. Not a joke! [shuffles off]

All will turn out to be fake. Just like most media outlets which I don’t pay any attention too

Reagan was 73 in 1984 and Biden is 81 in 2023

I can't reply without :" We weren't able to add your reply. Please try again." 🤷‍♂ Says a LOT about THIS "Platform".🤔

​@@jamesslick4790that's because they're woke asf

@@anonymoussdmtsemployee7770 IKR?

Most Democrats of his generation had a sense of humor.

@@bujmoose3992 it was a different Democratic party. Yeah, more liberal than Republicans, but not insane. I voted for Reagan, But wouldn't have been entirely "fearful" of a Mondale administration, Hell, I liked him much more than Carter!

AND moderators were fair and honest journalists and people like Donna Brazile did not cheat and give the questions to one side (HC) prior to the start. Not sure you can have a free country without honest and independent journalism. Our journalists today are just arms of the state and that is the same thing Communism has always had.

Yeah we could of. The Soviet Union was declining and Gorbachev knew it.

@@alwillk no, when Reagan came into power in 1980 we were declining, and the USSR was on the march... it was because Reagan came along and together with the Pope, and the Thatcher that we won't the Cold War, I know, I remember, I was in the US Navy back then....

All of those economic union busting stepping away from the new deal greed mongers birthed it the bile is just now at skin level

one difference between 2024 and 1984 . . . both candidates sit near the extreme of their parties so there is bigger debate and much more at stake than a moderate Democrat and conservative Republican

​@@kevintucker466 From my vantage point, it's not that the candidates sit at the extremes but that the country can't figure out which direction it is to take. What does it even mean to be American, what does it mean on the world stage, and what should America become? All questions with very different answers, and I'm not convinced that what is called moderate is truly moderate.

And then Reagan/bush outsourced his job to China. Reagan was the start of the downfall of the working class in this country.

The guy left you without a welfare state, put you into debt, and still love him?

Actually no, his advisers did NOT come up with that answer. In fact, Reagan's advisers had been debating how Reagan should respond. Then, at one point, he told them, "Don' worry about it. I'll handle it!" Then he never said another thing and his advisers reluctantly dropped the subject in Reagan's presence - though they continued to talk about the age issue among themselves. Sure enough, he came up with that witty reply. Yes, Reagan did have the idea for his reply already in mind. However, it is NOT true that it was an idea that his advisers came up with. In fact, they were really nervous going into that debate and were as caught off guard as Mr. Mondale and the panel.

LOL! I've watched this clip countless times and what makes me laugh is that Regan recognized very early in the question what was coming and had to compose himself and wait to reply and not be too eager delivering a very well-crafted retort which was both poignant and humorous. Regan might have written that reply himself but it was VERY premeditated, right down to the "take a drink of water while they laugh and applaud so you don't look like a pompous jackass." Then again... he was an actor and delivering a line perfectly was his former profession.

Nope, 56. But it still stuck, the joke.

Actually Reagan governed for shit. What Reagan did do well, was serve up shit and convinced people it was candy.

Except Reagan wasn’t 80 here. 73. And By the time reagan was ten years older he had full on dementia.

Mondale was 56 years old. How was he a vegetable?

@@aRandomShyGuy you remember him, don’t you?

@@melvinhunt6976 I'm not sure what you mean. He was 56 in 1984 and didn't have any impairments that could qualify him as a "vegetable".

Mondale graduated with honors from the university of Minnesota.

@@alwillk Whoopdedo !

Not necessarily. The “southern strategy” worked well for Reagan. In that getting the southern democrats (back then the racist MAGA people that we see today) to vote for him.

Well, assuming “Southerners are racists” (none in the North, Midwest or West… how about Critical Race Theorists (CRT) that preach “ALL and ONLY ‘white’ are racists” (the very DEFINITION of racism) 🧐 All I’m saying is that - while the government and corporations were corrupt back then… just starting to destroy the American Manufacturing base by selling US out to China 🇨🇳 with Wall Street (Bloomberg) building the Chinese Infrastructure and the Postal system using taxpayer dollars to deliver Chinese goods for ‘free’ counting on the fact that the CCP could run wage-slave factories while American towns were decimated…all accelerated once Bush and Clinton took over) AMERICANS didn’t HATE their own COUNTRY just because they were Democrats… Mario Cuomo would never have said - as his son did - “Amerikkka was NEVER that great” and no Democrat back then would have suggested “America needs to be FUNDAMENTALLY changed” (into a Socialist State) That was SDS (Students for a [Socialist] Democrat Society) Abby Hoffman, the Ruben brothers (I knew the younger one) Hillary and Obama… they run the Soviet Democrat Party - now - and they bred ANTIFA and the American Islamists that hide their hater of “Jews” behind their hatred of America… They did not exist as an all controlling, intolerant Ideology that has infested government, the “schooling” (indoctrination) system as they have secreted themselves into American Society today… just as Yuri Bezmanov warned they would tell you “the sky isn’t blue” and “men can have babies” The Soviet Democrat Party was not the focus of power and 90% of Republicans weren’t RINOs buying into this ideology (so long as they could share in the spoils of digital dollars, insider trading, foreign bribes and underage girls provided by Epstein and protected by the FBI. The Greatest accomplishment Trump did - was, inadvertently, flush them all out into the open… and we’ve got one chance to MAGA!

I miss the days when you didn't have to be ashamed of either party. Both sides of the aisle have become so partisan, so rabidly "Us" vs "Them" and so vile in how they deal with one another that I hold no allegiance to either. It's no longer just one party that's bad and one that's good.

lol I never thought of that till u mentioned it, crazy that he scored such a blow with a false premise.

@@linsqopiring6816 I mean, it was funny. But how in the world was that the final answer? The moderator should have asked for a real answer. You can't just skip questions with a joke.

@@AE-bm4no I absolutely agree with that. Nor should you be able to skip a question by changing the subject to some kind of attack on your opponent, which is what seems to usually happen. This is one of the big reasons I'm totally jaded on politics. In the moderators defense though this joke was a real zinger. Perhaps he normally would have?

uh...hence the laughter.

@@vampirerobot I don't think it was an ironic joke. It was funny because everyone was expecting a serious answer

Oh dear. Another "Reagan was out of touch with reality" claim. Like there haven't been a thousand of those, and all refuted by more people than can be counted. I hope you found better things to do in the year since you posted this inanity. I suppose next you'd have come back with something like "Hurr durr he thought he was in a movie!"

@the doctor1225 bullshit. Iran contra was going on right under his nose and Reagan didn’t have a clue. Even his own people knew it. Stu spencer, James baker, George Schultz, Colin powell. Maybe you live in La La land too.