I've just been watching.......and you know what, the media is SURPRISED.........they are REALLY, HONESTLY surprised!
And I tell you what else: I believe that Nancy Reagan is truly stunned at the outpouring of affection from the PEOPLE............I thinks she's spent her whole life around DONORS! Not saying that ugly -- but I think she may be shocked at this turnout.......
It will comfort her much to know just how much he was loved by WE THE PEOPLE
Reagan was a man of the people... has to be killing the Dems inside to see this. So much for their "party of the rich" crap.
The media are so accustomed to cheap PR events, photo-ops, and endless posturing that it has taken most of them until now to realize they've been dropped in the middle of an historic occasion. Many haven't realized it yet.
It's a cliche by now, but most of them don't know anyone who voted for Reagan anyway, and because of that they've been perfectly comfortable in the belief that his whole time in office was nothing but a bad dream. They'd better take a good, long look, because this is the America that's going to hit them in November. The smartest of them may take that little lesson home today; the rest will retire to their comforting illusion that the rubes loved Reagan but the Real Smart Folks didn't. That, after all, was their theme up until about four hours ago.
Two other thoughts. George W. Bush was brilliant in his absence - it made Kerry look like the cheap opportunist that he is. And second, Lady Thatcher at the head of the line was perfect. Just perfect. God bless her. And God bless Nancy Reagan.
You'd think by now they'd get some hint of how out of touch with 90% of us they are when they view the real America at times like this. But no .. they can't even believe what they're seeing and hearing themselves without trying to intellectualize or explain it away somehow. They think they're SO damn smart .. and they're the ones who are truly lost. Liberalism really is a mental disorder.