[rhombus]

Yeah, everyone uses the Reagan analogy. Reagan ran for president three times before being elected in a very different world. Reagan had considerable public relations skills and I don’t remember his embarrassing child being in the media all the time. You could be right or you could be wrong about her being the next Reagan. Either way I’d hold the mockery if you want to convince people who are even the slightest skeptical. Reagan’s people didn’t do that.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

I don’t remember his embarrassing child being in the media all the time.

Uh, you don't remember Ron Reagan and Patti Davis? Seriously?

[Gargantua]

"Either way I’d hold the mockery if you want to convince people..."

I'm not trying to "convince people."

Anyone who by now actually doesn't see that Sarah Palin is our one chance out of this mess isn't about to suddenly grow a brain as a result of some genteel witticism from me. I say what I say so that when she wins in a landslide in 2012, I can pull all these self-archived posts out of my 1-terabyte-usb disc and rub your silly, petulant ostrich-beaks in it.

So chill, mango. It's all good!

:-)

[2ndDivisionVet]

Welcome Back, Dad

I've been trying to convince my fellow conservatives that they have been wasting their time in a fruitless quest for a new Ronald Reagan to emerge and lead our party and our nation. I insisted that we'd never see his like again because he was one of a kind. I was wrong! Wednesday night I watched the Republican National Convention on television and there, before my very eyes, I saw my Dad reborn; only this time he's a she. And what a she! This was Ronald Reagan at his best -- the same Ronald Reagan who made the address known now solely as "The Speech," which during the Goldwater campaign set the tone and the agenda for the rebirth of the traditional conservative movement that later sent him to the White House for eight years and revived the moribund GOP. Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time around.

~Michael Reagan, syndicated conservative talk show host and son of President Ronald Reagan

[CAluvdubya]

and I don’t remember his (Reagan's) embarrassing child being in the media all the time

Seriously? You don't remember all the hateful things Patty Davis said about her mother and RR? She was pretty much estranged from them and so was her brother, Ron, the ballet dancer. They both, to this day, hate RR and Nancy's politics and have never been quiet about it.

Plus, their nastiness couldn't be chalked up to teenage mistakes like Bristol.