You can have any thought you'd like - just don't expect the rest of us to refrain from pointing out the fact that's it's rather disturbed.
You can have any thought you'd like - just don't expect the rest of us to bury our heads in the sand or pretend we didn't hear him talk about a (mandate).
In case you do not know, Ron Reagan has been married for 20 years to the lady who was with him at the funeral yesterday. He was a professional dancer in ballet who is a liberal and opposed to his father's most fervent political efforts that formed the foundation of his fahter's life. Despite the fact that he loves his father, he is his own man and has his own views as to what is real and important in life.
At a crucial point, in his elegant eulogy, in which every word and manner of delivery was exquisitely chosen and then polished to just short of perfection in achieving its intended effect, Ron said: after he was shot, his father felt God had saved him "in order to do good". Ron knew that he was conflating what his father really thought God saved him for, but he would not honor his father's true feeling, because that is anathana to Ron.
Now to the earlobe. This was very carefully chosen. Of course, Ronal Wilson Reagan was not a homosexual and there is not hint of that. He was a man comfortable in his skin becuase he used his brain to figure out what was real and important to him. The earlobe thing was just an eccentricity that is fine in the family and in Hollywood, but it really is too foolish to splash in front of a national audience, perhaps the greatest national audience there would ever be.
One has to ask why then did Ron Reagan reveal this particular piece of "Ronald Reagan trivia" at this particular point in time? Why indeed? He was goofing on you all. Given his background, he is exquisitely sensitive to the homosexual culture and Ron thought he would dance along a particular line which is rich in ambivalence and ambiguity, just in order to have fun and have lots of private jokes to share offstage at the expense of the great unwashed and uptight.
It was done with a smirk, an arrogance and a slickness, just to play with people's minds.
If you think I am making this up, and he did not know exactly what he was doing, you go right ahead. But in my view, Ron Reagan was playing around with his father's name, just to be prim and slick and to needle people, at a very inappropriate time. But so what, it does not really matter, that's who Ron is, his fahter would not have really minded and who cares? Cepting you, because I commented on what he did.
But really, don't get too upset about it. OK?