Hildy--weren't you the one that figured there were "issues" for Ron Reagan regarding George W. Bush?
Larry Sabato, Scarborough Country, just criticized Ron pretty harshly, and ended analyzing him exactly as you did.
Joe just played a clip--the only one he played.
It was Ron saying he didn't "know what was wrong with these people" that they have to invoke his father to justify the war (when did they do that?! but I digress). It's "their administration", said Ron, and if they can't justify it themselves except to say Ronald Reagan would agree, then they're no Ronald Reagan.
Well, there's a taste of the tone this will take.
in Philadelphia, which featured a tribute to his father,
telling the Washington Post's Lloyd Grove, "The big elephant
sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply
unqualified for the job... What's his accomplishment?
That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?" Since then he's
been quiet about the current occupant of the White House -- until now.
Reagan says he doesn't have anything personal against Bush.
He met him only once, at a White House event during the
Reagan presidency. "At least my wife insists we did -- he left
absolutely no impression on me. But Doria remembers him
very negatively -- I can't repeat what she said about him,
I'd rather not use profanity. I do remember
Jeb -- a big fella, seemed to be the brightest of the bunch.
And of course their parents were very charming."
Reagan's parents were notoriously remote from their four
children. Ron Jr. reportedly had the closest relations
with his parents and he remains close with his mother, Nancy
Reagan, who as the keeper of the Reagan flame is often
called upon to dedicate public sites bearing her
husband's name. Reagan says his mother shares his
"distrust of some of these [Bush] people. She gets that
they're trouble in all kinds of ways. She doesn't like
their religious fervor, their aggression."
Reagan says his family feels particularly alienated from the
Republican Party over its opposition to embryonic
stem cell research, which could have significant benefit
for Alzheimer patients like his father. "Now ignorance
is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many
of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better,
people like [Senate Majority Leader] Bill Frist,
who's a doctor, for God's sake. People like him are
blocking it to pander to the 20 percent of their base who
are mouth-breathers. And that's unconscionable --
there are lives at stake here. Stem cell research can
revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics."
Yes I did, it's pretty obvious. But he will be all over the place now, doing the devil's bidding.