I am sure that the midnight oil has been brightly burning in Manhattan, DC and LA all weekend long. Just you wait. It will be the Democrats that politicize this but they will try to pin it on the GOP.
On the other hand the get to bury positives coming out of Iraq this week. The only relief we have is a brief surcease in Bush bashing.
We will see how the nation response to Reagan's passing affect the sobriety of its judgment. Let us hope they overplay their hand yet again.
If today's turnout in CA is any indicator, this could be a much larger national event than they bargained for.
And another tack will be comparing Bush to Reagan - they will bite the bullet and extol Reagan's praises and then call out what a poor leader Bush is.
I imagine that Bush's morality will click in and they will make no conscious effort to use Reagan's death. Somewhere something perfectly innocent will come up and off we will go.
Let us hope that people are smarter than the media. I hope that some reflect on what Kerry would mean to the Reagan legacy. But I imagine that it is pretty much self selection in this audience. This is our half of the 50/50 nation.
Kerry and Clinton have already politicized it really. Have you ever gone to a funeral where a man enemies are allowed to give eulogies, I do not mean the "loyal opposition" but his enemies. It is really beyond all decency, and if acknowledging that is called "politicizing" the funeral then so be it.
On Sunday night, Peggy Noonan said this would happen. :) The dems are going crazy. It's all the nice Reagan talk that's driving them insane.
indeed, that is my point. Some banal words from Bubba at this service would diffuse all of that. hard to claim its some right wing political machine that has taken over the Reagan funeral (not that its true of course, its media spin) when Bubba has said a few nice words about the man at the service.