Rachel Maddow: Delusional GOP Needs to Believe in ‘Fake’ Reagan

[See NewsBusters for more.] Liberal MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow and liberal Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne on Monday delighted in mocking the affinity conservatives have for Ronald Reagan, dismissing his record as “fake.” Promoting Dionne’s new book, Maddow introduced, “Ronald Reagan's real record has been submarined and all of his faults and compromises have been ascribed to other people and not to him.”  The smug Maddow continued, “So, conservatives can have one hero in modern history about whom they don't feel terrible disappointment and betrayal. They basically reinvented Reagan as perfect....They need something to believe in, even if it's fake.”