Patti Davis' Kerry Connection

Newsmax ^ | 6/14/04

[marshmallow]

It must have saddened Ronald Reagan immensely that his two younger children both turned out to be flakes. As if he didn't have enough to worry about. He concealed his pain well.

Ms. Davis, to use her "professional" name, attempted to use her long-running feud with her parents as a springboard for a literary career. Disgraceful. Not to mention her "Playboy Centerfold" adventure (see below).

Mercifully, examples such as those above mean that nobody takes her nor her sibling seriously.

[Cuttnhorse]

I have been reading Peggy Noonan's excellent book on Ronald Reagan, "When Character Was King", and Noonan tells about how Patty was notified of her father being shot.

A secret service agent interrupted Patti at her shrink's office where she was in therapy...not that there's anything wrong with that.

[ozzymandus]

So when Patty was a rebellious hippie punk, she went to Kerry for anti-American advice. That says a lot more about kerry to me.

[Badeye]

Nothing more pitiful than a grown adult carrying around a case of "mommie and daddy didnt love me" blues.

Nobody takes her seriously, no matter the topic.

[Justice]

Patti certainly has had her ups and downs.

However, I seem to remember a column she wrote a few years back where she wrote about the honor of her father vs. the crudeness of Clinton. I appreciated that.

She also wrote a couple of columns about Hinckley getting sprung. She was against it and saw it as a political effort especially by liberal lawyers. I appreciated that too.

[Cicero]

My first reaction when this Nancy Reagan stem cell campaign started was: Another orchestrated media campaign.

It's obviously not a coincidence that so many different media sources all pick up on these themes at the same time.

In this case, their purpose is transparent. It is, of course, pro-abortion, which is dear to the media's heart. But it's also a wedge issue that pretends to pit Bush against Reagan in order to keep Bush from benefiting from the obvious points of resemblance to his predecessor.

If they can portray Bush as being ungracious to the grieving widow, or uncaring about health care, so much the better.

It was no coincidence that the issue arose precisely at this time.

[areafiftyone]

Nancy feels strongly about this and that is her perogative. The media and the Kerry camp don't have any right to politicize this. This is a personal issue for Nancy. When Nancy is ready again to take this issue up she will. In the meantime let the woman go thru a period of mourning first.

[Steve_Seattle]

Is it true that Patti Davis posed nude for Playboy a few years ago? If so, she must be the smallest-breasted woman ever to have that honor.

[areafiftyone]

Yes she did. She was 49 and dropped out of college to do it in 1994.

[A.A. Cunningham]

The Gipper didn't spank Patti Reagan enough when she was little.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Mike was the one who impressed me the most with his eulogy. It was heartfelt and very emotional.
What was really touching was his talking of his faith and his Fathers faith and how if influenced him.
Also the really wonderful and kind things he said about his Sister Maureen brought tears to my eyes, they must have been very close.
But when he talked about the day when he, his Father and Maureen would all be together again I just lost it.
It was without a doubt the most beautiful thing he said and he described it in a way that I could almost visualize it.
Mike is the true gentleman and the real heir to Ronald Reagan.
I want to cut some slack to Patti and Ron but when go back and analyze some of Ron's remarks, some of them just don't ring true and I wonder if the guy is a closet Atheist or just a hardcore secularist.
He had all week to think about what he would say and that was the best he could do?
What a shame. By the way the way Fineman and Matthews talked you would have thought they both had a school girl crush on Ron.

[Captain Peter Blood]

According to the IMDB her measurements are: Measurements: 33B-25-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Wonder why she hasn't breast implants?????????

[areafiftyone]

By the way the way Fineman and Matthews talked you would have thought they both had a school girl crush on Ron.

I can believe it. Matthews get that way when he talks about Hillary too. There are puddles on the floor he is drooling so much.

[F.J. Mitchell]

To cursed with kids like these and continue to be pro-life, attests to the strength and moral fiber of the Late Great President Reagan.

[F.J. Mitchell]

To "be" cursed with kids like these.

[bannie]

My comment about Patti being a misguided little girl was meant to show the pathos of her chosen persona. Certainly, she is middle aged. Certainly, she is seeking attention by the way she dresses and by trying to shock us with the company she keeps. She's trying to carve out something somewhere. I am sad for Mrs. Reagan that her daughter is so pathetic in her errant cries for attention.

[bannie]

Is that Playboy Centerfold cover real?

[Undertow]

I don't know about anybody else but I cringed at her "I wanted to kill the rest of them" statement concerning the goldfish at the funeral. Maybe I'm just nitpicking but I thought it was tasteless.

[bannie]

I agree that Mike Reagan is a man for whom the Reagans must all be proud. My heart is with him and his love for his father and for Nancy Reagan. He is a man who deserves--and receives--my respect.

[Heart of Georgia]

-Howard Fineman confirmed that Ron Jrs' eulogy was indeed a swipe at Bush.-

Never doubted it. I did hope he didn't mean it the way it sounded, but he had a hard, bitter look on is face at the time. Sad that he would use his father's funeral to promote his leftist agenda.

I've noticed the kerry-is-very-religious-but-doesn't-wear-it-on-his-sleeve talking point has been thrown out there. With Ron's blessing, I'm sure.