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Ron Reagan Jr.: My father is 'fetish object for the far right'
Washington Examiner ^ | March 31, 2011 | Byron York

Posted on 03/31/2011 9:19:22 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

In a new interview with the BBC, Ron Reagan, Jr., son of the late president, called his father "a fetish object for the far right." Expanding on his point, the younger Reagan calls President Ronald Reagan "sort of the rubber bustier of the far right."

Reagan Jr.'s remarks came when the BBC's Matt Frei asked him, "Are you happy the way [Ronald Reagan] is remembered in this country, especially by the conservatives?"

"Oh, I just think it's inevitable," Reagan Jr. responded. "Who else are they going to remember that way? Richard Nixon? I don't think so. Warren Harding? Maybe. But he is a fetish object for the far right, he's sort of the rubber bustier of the far right -- you know, they all have to go and touch him, as it were."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: reagan; ronreaganjr
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You’re a depraved, disgusting little punk, Jr.


41 posted on 03/31/2011 11:38:25 AM PDT by Gene Eric (*** Jesus ***)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
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42 posted on 03/31/2011 11:40:39 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat, they sh#t on.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Must be time for little Ronnie’s monthly headlines.


43 posted on 03/31/2011 11:43:33 AM PDT by Let's Roll (Save the world's best healthcare - REPEAL, DEFUND Obamacare!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

There’s something about the boy that’s not quite right. He seems to be a perennial adolescent.


44 posted on 03/31/2011 11:44:01 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Skipper, a rubber bustier’s more your kind of fetish object than ours.


45 posted on 03/31/2011 11:50:07 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Jr. is despicable.

He doesn't deserve to have the name...

46 posted on 03/31/2011 12:11:08 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dick Vomer

Frustrated dads.


47 posted on 03/31/2011 12:17:57 PM PDT by DigitalVideoDude (It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: trisham

There was an old radio DJ in the 60s and 70s that used to say, “Here’s a song by Sal Minneo, such a nice looking man, isn’t it a shame that he never married.”


48 posted on 03/31/2011 12:49:12 PM PDT by KC Burke
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Ronnie Prescott (not worthy of his father’s surname) has as much worth as a discarded, crushed styrofoam cup in a stockyard.


49 posted on 03/31/2011 1:25:20 PM PDT by Irish Queen ("Don't fence me in")
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To: KC Burke

Funny. Things have certainly changed, haven’t they?


50 posted on 03/31/2011 2:08:42 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham
What a load of gibberish. Nobody (normal) "fetishized" Reagan. They loved him because he made us as proud of America as he was. Nobody fetishized Nixon, because even though he was an anti-communist, he was a kooky liberal on social issues and a disgrace to the office. And how many living people would even think about Harding? There's probably only a couple of dozen people who were even alive as adults during Harding's presidency. Now Calvin Coolidge, that guy was fantastic.

Interesting that Ron Reagan is a liberal. Were he a conservative, he could have risen to unprecedented heights in politics. Instead he's an annoying little gnat that nobody (even his fellow liberals) takes seriously.

51 posted on 03/31/2011 3:02:47 PM PDT by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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To: boop
Interesting that Ron Reagan is a liberal. Were he a conservative, he could have risen to unprecedented heights in politics. Instead he's an annoying little gnat that nobody (even his fellow liberals) takes seriously.

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The above from your post struck me as particularly insightful. You are absolutely right.

52 posted on 03/31/2011 3:17:42 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: GeorgeTex

“President Reagan is the best president of the last 100 years at least. 70 years takes us back to FDR”

Good point. I was thinking of the best president since WWII since that is the era of the modern presidency. But if you want to find a president who was comparable to or better than Reagan you would have to go back to Theodore Roosevelt.


53 posted on 03/31/2011 6:00:14 PM PDT by detective
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To: detective

Ronald Reagan was my CINC for 8 Years and those were the best 8 years of 28 in Uniform ... twinkle toes is jealous and a loser.

TT


54 posted on 03/31/2011 8:33:36 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Radical islam is real islam. Moderate islam is the trojan horse.)
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