Posted on 07/06/2011 5:03:41 PM PDT by rhema
What a lovely, lovely man.
Never a pointed word. Always soothing. Just one big kumbaya lug of a president.
Can’t we all be as civil and wonderful and eternally non-radically sweet in our political dialogue as Ronald Reagan?
Um….excuse me.
Snap out of it!
For reasons that appear unfathomable other than the clamor from GOP consultants selling their how-to-attract-Independents-Minorities-and-The Women’s Vote sure-fire soap suds -- and that would be for a pretty penny not to mention in vain -- a strange fate has befallen the former president.
Ronald Reagan has been bland-ed. By the Right.
The man Rush Limbaugh fondly refers to as "Ronaldus Maximus" is being recast by some Republicans as "Ronaldus Vanillus."
Like Washington in all those bronzed statues everywhere, like Lincoln sitting immortalized in the big chair in the big stone temple on the Mall, Ronald Reagan has been marbleized.
Right before the eyes of those who know better, not to mention all those miles of videotape, the 40th president has ceased to be a real person when cited by some Republicans. Stripped of his considerable real-life capacity for straight talk, his uncanny knack for zeroing in on exactly the heart of his opponent’s real message, complete with a pithy dispatching of modern liberalism and its practitioners -- the real Ronald Reagan has ceased to exist in the minds of those who lovingly summon his name at election time.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT ARTICLE!!!
Why do the establishment types not understand the base’s reaction to Donald Trump on the birth certificate? We want someone willing to confront our foes, & call a spade a spade. Oops, was that racist? ;-)
RINOs amd the MSM are trying to separate Reagan from the fire of the Tea Party.
It's psyops. These things go on all the time, and that's why you have to look between the lines when any faction tries to explain away...
Ah, nevermind.
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