The Grand Debate, er, Reagan seance - a great success!

[mgc1961]

With the Air Force One of Damocles looming overhead, eight intrepid candidates for the 2012 Republican nomination held forth on Wednesday for nearly two hours at red podiums on a red stage in front of an American flag, in what I assume was the First Annual Ronald Reagan Channeling Competition — or GOP debate, if you like. It seemed less like a debate than like the kind of séance you would hold if you wished to summon Reagan’s spirit. Nancy was even in attendance, looking on in sharp black-framed glasses.

And the spirit showed up in spades! At one point I worried we would have to exorcise Ron Paul.

Ronald Reagan drifted from speaker to speaker, murmuring in tongues. He hovered first over Gingrich, then making himself known by a series of mysterious rumblings. Rick Perry dared to suggest that Ron Paul had denied Reagan at least once, if not three times, citing a late 80’s letter from Paul (yes, I realize I’m mixing Biblical metaphors) to the Colossal. But Paul turned this question back on him, explaining that he had only opposed Reagan because he was more full of the Spirit of the Gipper than Reagan himself.

Shortly after this mind-shattering revelation we were forced to watch a lovely early posthumous tribute to Nancy Reagan, just to remind us not to get too carried away.

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