Posted on 06/23/2004 6:49:39 PM PDT by God'sgrrl
Ron's rantings are another sign that the left, of which he is clearly a member in good standing, has simply become unhinged. Their claims and behavior are so extreme that they lose credibility with people in the center who might otherwise believe them.
Like the rest of the left, Ron simply cannot help himself. He's out of control, and that's almost certainly good for us.
Ron speaks for nobody. He is a lot like his pal Chris Mathews. He does not even know what his father's political views are. Until recently, he had gone as far as to claim that his Dad was not really that big of a Christian. Look, I don't see why any people are shocked about this. This is the same kid who once bad mouthed his own father. He has never had the political views of Ronald Reagan. Neither has his sister. And Nancy, bless her heart...she was a solid all that week of the memorial...even though she did not share all the political views of President Reagan at least she supported her husband and has never gone as far as to claim that the President's policies were different than they really were. She is grace and dignity...Ron Jr. is not. President Reagan, with his stated views...would never endorse stem cell funding. Pattie protested against her father, and was not ashamed to get her picture in the news in the process...WHILE HER FATHER WAS PRESIDENT. Not to mention other humiliating stunts. And bad mouthing both her parents at one point. Ron Jr. does not even know his father that well. Think back to stuff he has said on MSNBC in the past couple of years. He had gone out and said that his father was not a man of big faith.
Lately, with President Reagan's passing...his speeches and actions have been brought back into the spotlight...and ole Ron Jr. had admit that his dad was a Christian or risk total face. President Reagan involked the Almighty quite a bit in public.
Look, the person in that family with the closest views to President Reagan is Mike. In his final coherent years, President Reagan and Mike were very close. They were pretty dang in step when Reagan was still in the Whitehouse for the most part. Sure, there were times when Mike worried they were not close enough. But in time he learned that was just how his father was...and that his dad cared greatly. Look, Ron Jr. has always been a spoiled brat. He and Pattie would do anything for attention. Look at Jr.'s Eulogy he gave. Tried to look cute and came off as not proper for the time. He has always been like that. He is like the spoiled brat that sat in the back of class. Would disrupt and disrespect the teach and class...only making himself look like an idiot. Does what he wants...cause mama will get him out of any heat that arises. And Nancy is part of the reason Ron Jr. is a spoiled brat. In her eyes, for so long, he could do no wrong.
It just amazes me that people get bent outa shape about this...one would think after 20 years...folks would expect it. Now as far him trying to playoff the cheapshot he took at President Bush. It shows two things. A) He has never bothered to look at his own father's public speeches.
B) He is just like most liberals. Take a cheapshot and then try to dance out of it when confronted. Ron Jr. has neither the character nor testicular fortitude of a man.
But again....this is nothing new.
I found myself becoming kind of emotional reading the transcript...it really *hurt* that Ronald Reagan's son is so shallow that he interpreted the love and respect of a nation not for what it was, but as a political slam on the current President.
I guess every family has its quirks...it's sure hard for an outsider to connect the dots and understand Patti and Ron as the children of Ronald Reagan... What is especially sad is there seems to be such bitterness and/or emptiness inside them. This was evident to me at the funeral, for instance Patti spoke of death not with hope, but simply as...death. Ron (who as I remember usually looked straight ahead or down during prayers...?) used the opportunity not so much to pay tribute to his father, but to tell stories of questionable taste and make a political slam. It was the only discordant note in a very meaningful week. What a contrast their speeches were with Michael, who spoke of his father with love, respect, and hope.
I looked for one too the other night. They had a good one on 20/20 or Primetime or whatever it is the other night with Baba Wawa. He looked like such a fruit in his tighty tights.
Sheesh! I wonder if he realizes that he shares a family name (Prescott) with ... the Bushes!
I would swear I saw a FReeper make a post about having this very sign at the ceremonies in DC, and people in the crowd wanting to pose for pictures with it. Do y'all know who it was? They might like to know that it was indeed seen by the family (even if Ron the Lesser Younger is choosing to put his own spin on it -- heck, perhaps they'd like to clarify to Ron what they meant by it!).
He's a little fag, plain and simple. His Dad knew it, the whole nation knew it. The wife's a beard or something. I don't know. But to hear him talk now...he is clearly still as gay as he was when he was prancing around with the Joffrey ballet!
How many more talk shows will this attention whore book?
What a crock of bs this jerk spewed on Larry King Live. He acts as if he was going to see his father all the time when he was ill, but Ron Jr. said when his father was alive that there was no point in going to visit him, as his father didn't recognize him! He also conveniently forgets to mention the at least five-year falling out he had with his mother during that time. And his "shock" at people thinking his religious comments were about Bush is very fake.
Stupid, he is. But young, he ain't. (At least not in my book.)
"Born in 1958, Ron lived his entire life as a politician's son."
BufordP made the sign. It was magnificent and the various members of the police departments present at 15th and Constitution asked BufordP if they could have their pictures taken with the sign. It was indeed front and center when the caisson and rest of the funeral procession passed by and we know Nancy Reagan could see it from the car.
BufordP's sign is a remake from the one he held at the March for Justice rally on October 31, 1998 when FReepers and lurkers from all over America came to DC to support the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
BufordP -- way to go! Kudos.
He can't hold a candle to his old man.
Well, Ron Junior's violating his Dad's 11th commandment.
He is home now. He is free. In his final letter to the American people, Dad wrote, "I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life." This evening, he has arrived.
History will record his worth as a leader. We here have long since measured his worth as a man. Honest, compassionate, graceful, brave. He was the most plainly decent man you could ever hope to meet.
He used to say, "A gentleman always does the kind thing." And he was a gentleman in the truest sense of the word. A gentle man.
Big as he was, he never tried to make anyone feel small. Powerful as he became, he never took advantage of those who were weaker. Strength, he believed, was never more admirable than when it was applied with restraint. Shopkeeper, doorman, king or queen, it made no difference, Dad treated everyone with the same unfailing courtesy. Acknowledging the innate dignity in us all.
The idea that all people are created equal was more than mere words on a page, it was how he lived his life. And he lived a good, long life. The kind of life good men lead. But I guess I'm just telling you things you already know.
Here's something you may not know, a little Ronald Reagan trivia for you, his entire life, Dad had an inordinate fondness for earlobes. Even as a boy, back in Dixon, Ill., hanging out on a street corner with his friends, they knew that if they were standing next to Dutch, sooner or later, he was going to reach over and grab hold of their lobe, give it a workout there. Sitting on his lap watching TV as a kid, same story. He would have hold of my ear lobe. I'm surprised I have any lobes left after all of that.
And you didn't have to be a kid to enjoy that sort of treatment. Serving in the Screen Actors Guild with his great friend William Holden, the actor, best man at his wedding, Bill got used to it. They would be there at the meetings, and Dad would have hold of his earlobe. There they'd be, some tense labor negotiation, two big Hollywood movie stars, hand in earlobe.
He was, as you know, a famously optimistic man. Sometimes such optimism leads you to see the world as you wish it were as opposed to how it really is. At a certain point in his presidency, Dad decided he was going to revive the thumbs-up gesture. So he went all over the country, of course, giving everybody the thumbs up.
Doria [Ron Reagan's wife] and I found ourselves in the presidential limousine one day returning from some big event. My mother was there and Dad was, of course, thumbs-upping the crowd along the way, and suddenly, looming in the window on his side of the car, was this snarling face. This fellow was reviving an entirely different hand gesture. And hoisted an entirely different digit in our direction. Dad saw this and without missing a beat turned to us and said, "You see? I think it's catching on."
Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man. But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage. True, after he was shot and nearly killed early in his presidency, he came to believe that God had spared him in order that he might do good. But he accepted that as a responsibility, not a mandate. And there is a profound difference.
Humble as he was, he never would have assumed a free pass to heaven. But in his heart of hearts, I suspect he felt he would be welcome there. And so he is home. He is free.
Those of us who knew him well will have no trouble imagining his paradise. Golden fields will spread beneath a blue dome of a western sky. Live oaks will shadow the rolling hillsides. And someplace, flowing from years long past, a river will wind toward the sea. Across those fields, he will ride a gray mare he calls Nancy D. They will sail over jumps he has built with his own hands. He will, at the river, carry him over the shining stones. He will rest in the shade of the trees.
Our cares are no longer his. We meet him now only in memory. But we will join him soon enough. All of us. When we are home. When we are free.
Being a politician's son is not a prerequisite to following in dad's footsteps.
I think Ron (like all liberals) is an opportunist. Since his dad's funeral, he automatically has a stage .. a stage which the Bush-hating media will give him.
If he wants to make an a$$ of himself, so be it.
>>Ron Reagan Jr stated this evening that he believes that
>>the Americans who waited for hours to honor his father
>>did so because his dad as President was a contrast to
>>the current administration's failings.
I saw the interview and he said nothing of the kind. BTW, I was one of those Americans who "waited for hours to honor his father." A mere four hours was the least I could do to pay tribute to a great president. I took no offense at the Ron Reagan interview. I guess if controversy doesn't exist, you have to create it.
>>Father: Ronald Reagan - President
>>Son: Ronald P. Reagan alleged Nitwit homosexual
Wow! Such strong arguments. If only debates were won on personal attacks.
BTW, Ron Reagan is married, not that his sexuality has anything to do with the issue. You are as misinformed as liberals who still talk as if Rush Limbaugh is overweight. Get a clue.
I correct myself. Son of Clinton.
I always loved Michael Reagan, but since the funeral even more so.
I loved the way he bowed to his father's casket, saluted, and then touched his heart. A beautiful man, and a true son.
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