Reagan Said Rudy Was 'Crazy'

American Spectator blog ^ | Friday, May 25, 2007 | Philip Klein

[rob21]

Cool.

[Condor 63]

I’m no fan of Giuliani but that one is such a stretch the last name is Armstrong.

[Politicalmom]

Heehehee

Kind of takes the shine off the “Giuliani shakes Pres. Reagan’s hand” pic, doesn’t it??

[EagleUSA]

Well, he is a liberal. That is a fair assumption.

[real saxophonist]

I want to get in early on this one. Oh, man!

[inkling]

Stretch Armstrong is right -- this is some pretty weak tea. There's plenty of legit complaints about Rudy without resorting to these lame arguments.

(BTW, I wouldn't recommend using Ronald Reagan to violate the 11th Commandment.)

[feedback doctor]

Not a Rudy supporter here, but is Reagan saying that about Giuliani in total, or about this particular idea?

[jdm]

Who hasn't been called "crazy" before? I don't like Giuliani's politics either, but I think he's saying he's "crazy" about this one particular thing, not insane or crazy in general.

[azhenfud]

No, Giuliani wasn’t shaking President Reagan’s hand - the President was taking something away from Giuliani.

[the invisib1e hand]

I’m no fan of Giuliani but that one is such a stretch the last name is Armstrong.

it's open season, haven't you noticed?

Context-abuse alert.

[stylin19a]

or is he saying it about Marcos...

[mgstarr]

The only thing I really like about Rudy is that the sociocons/theocons dislike him so.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“The only thing I really like about Rudy is that the sociocons/theocons dislike him so.”

The only thing I really like about Rudy is that there is nothing to like about him.

[manapua]

This is a surprising intellectual low from the American Spectator. Have they been taking lessons from the MSM on snarkiness, misleading headline writing, ignoring context, and lack of historical knowledge?

Rudy was right. In 1988 Marcos was in exile, living the life of a king in Kahala, Oahu. He should have been in prison.

BTW, the U.S. did file an indictment against Marcos earlier in 1986 for fraud.

I'll say it again, Gudy was right to target that murderous scumbag. If you pious "conservatives" disagree, please explain.

Dittos on all previous stretch Armstrong comments.

[kempo]

Leave Ronald Reagan, my hero, out of it. He would never have approved the trashing Giuliani has received here.

[Rodney King]

Leave Ronald Reagan, my hero, out of it. He would never have approved the trashing Giuliani has received here.

You want us to leave Reagan out of it, yet you use him to weigh in on Free Republic politics?

[elizabetty]

He would never have approved the trashing Giuliani has received here

He would have approved of Giuliani on the Republican Presidential ticket even less.

[mkjessup]

These desperate RudyBots who survived the Bug Zapper are trying so hard to have it both ways, they want SO much to believe that Ronald Reagan practically adopted Rudy and had him baptized, but when something like this pops up, they immediate shriek about ‘context’, ‘stretch Armstrong’, ‘Reagan would never approve’, blah-blah-blah, and the curious thing is that it would appear that Reagan’s comment about Rudy ‘being crazy’ suggests that even the Gipper could see circumstances in which that ‘11th Commandment’ (that Freepers have been pummeled with by the Rudyphiles), could be set aside if necessary.

Rudy isn’t going to be the GOP nominee, and he damn sure isn’t going to be President. End of story.

[Condor 63]

These desperate RudyBots *snip* but when something like this pops up, they immediate shriek about ‘context’, ‘stretch Armstrong’,

I take offense to the comment. I'm the first one that said anything about Stretch Armstrong and I'm no RudyBot. I'm on record as supporting Duncan Hunter, it is made perfectly clear in my profile and I alluded to the fact that I am no fan of Giuliani in the original post. I still think it is a ridiculous stretch for someone to write "I think Jake is crazy" in his diary and anyone to propose that means anything serious.

If it does mean anything well then it means I couldn't even vote for my own brother since I've called him that and worse.

There are plenty of legitimate concerns about Giuliani without silly pigs in a poke like this.

The only people that would need this particular pig are either desperate, lazy or incapable.