The Romney-Reagan remix

Boston ^ | March 9, 2010 | Alex Beam

[yongin]

Mitt Romney was on the David Letterman show last week and hit a home run. It was two white guys from the Midwest, born in 1947, chatting amiably about the icons of yesteryear: Earl Scheib, the car-painting magnate; the Studebaker (a car, for you younger readers) and the Rambler Classic, manufactured by AMC, the automobile company managed by Mitt’s father, George. AMC and Studebaker were wiped from the face of the earth by better cars made in Japan by more diligent workers, although that is not a subject that came up.

Letterman saved the last minute of Romney’s appearance for some happy chat about Mitt’s Gawker moment: his he-said, he-said altercation on a plane with B-list rapper Sky Blu. Romney said Blu “gave me a good swat.’’ With perfect timing, just before breaking to a commercial, Romney let fly his wan, scripted joke: “He broke my hair.’’

Oh my heavens, I thought. He’s running as Ronald Reagan. The lacquered hair; the cloying nostalgia; the Deaver-esque, red-white-and-blue, me-Tarzan leitmotifs of his “Free Strong America’’ campaign. It worked once, twice if you count Reagan’s reelection. Perhaps the third time will be charmed, too.

[yongin]

With Slick Willard hawking his book, the media will tout him as the next Reagan. Conservatives need to be ready.

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the media will tout him as the next Reagan. Conservatives need to be ready.

And you are doing it, too. Conservatives have been ready for years and KNOW their own!