Sheeeyit. Ron Brown had a funeral a week for about six months and I don't remember Dan Blather or the National Urinal getting their lacy panties all wadded up over that.
While I fervently wish George W. Bush were more like Reagan in many ways, I think charisma plays a large part in W's political life, too. It's not Reagan's blazing personality, but a sort of quirky likableness. It drives the media insane to realize people sort of like it when Bush accidentally makes up nutty words during soundbites, or gives people goofy nicknames on the spot. A man who has the courage to name his dog Spot suits me just fine.
Now, John Kerry...
The left is so filled with black hatred of anything conservative that they refuse to acknowledge ANY positive traits therein.
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I couldn't disagree more. Ronald Reagan was attacked viciously for many of the very lines the media plays over and over this week. He was not considered to have the stature, intelligence or grip on presidentiality required by the times. He was thought to be a relic of another era.
History has proved his critics wrong, the love and affection displayed this week by average Americans has proved them wrong. I will not take their bait and allow those that attacked Reagan to reluctantly celebrate him only to create a political wedge between him and Bush.
A media shenanigans & media schadenfreude ping.
I recall them often speaking of the charisma of Bill Clinton. ( I call it sleaze factor, they called it charisma.) They don't want to see the real thing, which Ronald Reagan oozed with.