Ronald Reagan Is Still Dead (Projectile Vomit Alert: NYT's Frank Rich)

The New York Times ^ | January 20, 2008 | Frank Rich

[2ndDivisionVet]

CONTEMPLATING the Clinton-Obama racial war, some Republicans were so excited you’d have thought Ronald Reagan had risen from the dead to slap around a welfare deadbeat.

Never mind that the G.O.P. is running on empty, with no ideas beyond the incessant repetition of Reagan’s name. A battle over race-and-gender identity politics among the Democrats, with its acrid scent from the 1960s, might be just the spark for a Republican comeback. (As long as the G.O.P.’s own identity politics, over religion, don’t flare up.)

Alas, these hopes faded on Tuesday night. First, the debating Democrats declared a truce, however fragile, in their racial brawl. Then Republicans in Michigan reconstituted their party’s election-year chaos by temporarily revivifying yet another candidate, Mitt Romney, who had been left for dead.

The playing of the race card by Hillary Clinton’s surrogates to diminish Barack Obama was sinister. But the Clintons are hardly bigots, and the Democratic candidates all have a history of fighting strenuously for inclusiveness. By contrast, the Romney victory in Michigan is another reminder of how Republicans aren’t even playing in the same multiracial American sandbox.

[2ndDivisionVet]

They print this dreck, but they have a problem with Bill Kristol? Too funny! No wonder they're about to go bankrupt!

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

“Never mind that the G.O.P. is running on empty, with no ideas beyond the incessant repetition of Reagan’s name.”

This is actually a good point, but not in the way Frankie Wankie meant.

[Darkwolf377]

Republicans were so excited you’d have thought Ronald Reagan had risen from the dead to slap around a welfare deadbeat.

Frank Rich is so giddy he has a job you'd have thought Barney Frank stopped by to slap HIM around.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Frank-less B*tch.

[mkjessup]

How does a simple-minded movie critic become an authority on politics?

Oh wait, it’s the New York Times, their whole existence is nothing but a bad movie.

Fwankie needs to get back into a dark theatre where his ignoble career started.

[alaskamomma]

Watching the Ny slimes swirl down into the pit of nothingness has been exciting for me.. I will celebrate when that final flush happens...

[Onelifetogive]

Never mind that the G.O.P. is running on empty, with no ideas beyond the incessant repetition of Reagan’s name.

I wish!!!

[Pajamajan]

"Ronald Reagan Is Still Dead"

And, liberals are still stupid.

[Advil000]

How many PAGES of specific policy ideas has Fred released now? I don’t think that qualifies as no new ideas.

But of course why would the NYT actually want to tell the truth when it would make it so much harder to push a really good lie?

“Creating an agenda out of thin air ping!”

[ajay_kumar]

And the demorats Hillary and Obama have such marvellous ideas!
All I heard so far is more spending, more taxes. They talk about increasing jobs but have no details, just words.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

So now its part of the vast rightwing conspiracy that Hillary and Obama are racebaiting each other. Another brilliant call by the NYT.

[ought-six]

Whenever Frank Rich opens his mouth something is subtracted from the sum total of human knowledge.

[W04Man]

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[EBH]

Now wait a minute isn’t Obama’s church racist? I thought I read somewhere their a “black church and proud of it” tripe. Clintons playing the bigot card is forgivable? Why?

The two way street isn’t two way as this editorial clearly demonstrates the two-faced elitist rhetoric of a democrat.

[Corporate Law]

Nha, that is Pinch’s special pleasure with Frank.

[RichInOC]

And surprisingly enough, Frank, he’s still smarter than you.

[OCCASparky]

Funny thing they don't realize is that while the MAN might be gone, his spirit and ideals endure.

And THAT is what they simply CANNOT deal with.

[Ben Ficklin]

Reagan the Man has been replaced by Reagan the Myth.

As a myth, Reagan has taken on messianic characteristics. And all GOP candidates are measured on their potential to be a second coming.

[kittymyrib]

McKennedy is Frank Rich’s favorite RINO. Conservatives should take note of which GOP candidate is endorsed by Socialists on the other side.

[popdonnelly]

Ronald Reagan committed the great sin of demonstrating that the liberals are full of excrement.