Posted on 07/29/2004 8:17:44 AM PDT by Roberts
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU JULY 29, 2004 10:24:25 ET XXXXX
RON REAGAN RIPS BUSH IN ESQUIRE ESSAY
Ron Reagan has written a scathing, sweeping, 4,100 word critique of President Bush (not on stem cell) that will be appearing in next month's ESQUIRE magazine. Reagan doesn't hold back in this candid piece where he shares his real feelings towards our 43rd President.
"The Bush Administration cannot be trusted."
"George W. Bush and his administration have taken normal mendacity to a startling new level far beyond lies of convenience."
"They traffic in big lies, indulge in any number of symptomatic small lies, and ultimately, have come to embody dishonesty itself. They are a lie. And people, finally, have started catching on."
"When Nobel laureates, a vast majority of the scientific community, and a host of current and former diplomats, intelligence operatives, and military officials line up against you, it becomes increasingly difficult to characterize the opposition as fringe wackos."
"Given candidate Bush's remarks, it was hard to imagine him, as president, flipping a stiff middle finger at the world and charging off adventuring in the Middle East."
"Even as of this writing, Dick Cheney clings to his mad assertion that Saddam was somehow at the nexus of a worldwide terror network."
"What followed was the usual administration strategy of stonewalling, obstruction and obfuscation."
"But image is everything in this White House, and that image of George Bush as a noble and infallible warrior in the service of his nation must be fanatically maintained, because behind the image lies*nothing?"
"He is ineloquent not because he cannot speak but because he doesn't bother to think."
"His Republican party, furthermore, seems a far cry from the current model, with its cringing obeisance to the religious Right and its kill-anything-that-moves attack instincts."
Impacting...
And your father never had such critics when he was President?
So this article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1180733/posts
will be in the same issue.
I wonder which will carry more weight? Silly question.
This should really have an affect on the normally right-leaning Esquire readership. Maybe he can get it reprinted in "Dog Fancy" Magazine to make sure he covers everyone else.
What are the personal accomplishments of Ron P. Reagan... Did he ever graduate from any college (let alone get an advanced degree), has he run a business, has he led any social causes other than this very recent stell-cell crusade, has he helped any group of people or been a great philanthropist? Other than television and an occasional article where he gains recognition from name and not talent...has he done anything at all? He is after all in his mid-40's. It seems he ought to have quite a resume, considering the amount of rhetoric we hear from him, and the high-profile the Dems have given him!
Most people stand on the shoulders of great man. Ron is standing on his father's tomb.
He had a failed, late night political talk show about 20 years ago, again trading on his father's name.
I predict this will be his last gasp. The citation by Drudge show his desperation, and sets him well into minute sixteen on his fifteen minutes of fame.
"Given candidate Bush's remarks, it was hard to imagine him, as president, flipping a stiff middle finger at the world and charging off adventuring in the Middle East."
Once more, somebody needs to explain that Germany and France are NOT "the world". Talk about lying...
"Even as of this writing, Dick Cheney clings to his mad assertion that Saddam was somehow at the nexus of a worldwide terror network."
Never, EVER heard that. Sorry Ronnie(not) but you're full of used food.
""His Republican party, furthermore, seems a far cry from the current model, with its cringing obeisance to the religious Right and its kill-anything-that-moves attack instincts."
Kowtow to the Religious Right? The president who still says "Islam is a religion of peace"? Don't think so, he's a bit too PC for the RR in this regard.
"Kill-anything-that-moves attack instincts": wha?
Pound sand, tutu-boy.
Whatever credibility this guy ever had vanishes with this undiscipolied diatribe.
Next.
Who care what this ballerina ne'er do well thinks!!!
Where are the facts, where is the evidence for all his assertions? All the left ever does is launch ad-hominem kill-anything-republican-that-moves attacks. They never bother to think.
Man, I'm REALLY going to enjoy the coming Bush victory.
Like I said... on another thread.
Ron Reagan is a spoiled brat who is searching for attention. I am sure RR is not happy with his baby boy. No real knowledge of that...... but I am sure! ;)
Like I said... on another thread.
Ron Reagan is a spoiled brat who is searching for attention. I am sure RR is not happy with his baby boy. No real knowledge of that...... but I am sure! ;)
When the girlie-boy bashes Bush he is also bashing his father. Many of the people serving in high positions in the Bush administration also served in the Reagan administration. This guy has a serious mental disorder and needs immediate treatment. When Bush wins in Nov. poor Ron will have to be put on suicide watch.
"George W. Bush and his administration have taken normal mendacity to a startling new level far beyond lies of convenience."
Sorry, Twinkletoes...but this level of oration did NOT come from your mind. Bill/Hill/etc., maybe.
And also considering the tremendous advantage he had in being the son of Nancy & Ronald Reagan: powerful friends who could have easily helped him in ANY chosen career, great wealth and position, and God knows what else. Instead, he prefers to be a frustrated little boy - furious at his accomplished father for forcing him into the shadows. Pathetic.
Unfortunately, I don't think so.
Not that he's a person of consequence, but the Liberals will always trot out "Nancy's nancy-boy" periodically just to take a dig at his father through the name recognition alone.
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