This Reagan commemoration stuff is getting out of hand

[Bucky]

Quick, we need Jimmy Carter to die! Stat!(That'll show 'em.)

OK, I've got that out of my system...

Actually, what I really think is that Reagan's timing couldn't have been worse. He didn't die at a time when it would bring Republicans together, like at the convention or the week right between John Ashcroft personally preventing the next al-Qaeda attack and the November election. Instead he passes just as the torture story is entering phase 2, the bucking passing up the chain toward the Pentagon and the White House.

Rather than recast the Bushies in Reagan's reflected glow, the timing seems to underscore what a horrible drop in standards the current president represents for the conservative movement. Basically they'll nominate any parrot who can squawk their platitudes without sounding too hateful. Reagan didn't just believe what he said, he understood the ideas he championed. By the end of this week, expect a few disillusioned conservative columnists to start making this point.

[Cat Atomic]

1. Let them run with it. They're going to 'Jennifer Lopez' this thing

faster than you can say overexposure. A few more days of this and people who used to feel vague affection for Reagan will hate him.

[BurtWorm]

8. I was thinking the same thought myself.

Notice how notes of criticism have begun to creep into the coverage, in the newspapers at least. I don't know if cable news has the brains or courage to go a little negative, but given a day or more of this crap, they're going to need SOMETHING new to talk about--aren't they?

[Walt Starr]

2. I, for one, am hoping the Republicans continue to push the Reagasm

I want every building in D.C. named after him. Put his face on every last note in our currency! Every last airport in the naiton should bear his name.

Let's ramp up the Gipper Fatigue.

[KharmaTrain]

3. Raygun's Timing Sucks!

I posted this Sunday and I'm more convinced today...his death will be of little to no consequence to RoveCo. as it would have had the "Great Expectorator" bought the ranch right before the 9/11 Convention. But, no!!! Damn those Reagans!!!

Yep, the coverage is Waaaaaaaaay over the top...and I'm hearing it from people who are far from political. I just got off the phone with a person in Texas (no less) who said he was "tired of all this Reagan shit" on the TV...there was nothing else to watch. Plus look at all the dead weight the networks are bringing out...dinosaurs of a time most of us forgot.

I laughed when I heard some young Bushbot youth on a local talk show say "I didn't know anything about Raygun until just the other day". What's that tell you? The guy was a zero!!! And people are starting to see this as more political than anything else. By Friday I expect the nation will be not only Raygun'd out, but GOOP'd out.

The Boy Blunder's bounce will hinge on how he's portrayed at the funeral. And he's got bad and worse to gain out of it. At best, he gives the speech of a generation (and pigs will fly) and be called "Clintonian" (LOL)...or just not stumble over his feet and read the teleprompter without stumbling too badly...that should do. At worse, he gets snubbed by the Raygun family, or his ghoulish brood attempt to overshadow the Rayguns...and the "compassion" is noted by the few who haven't seen through this frat boy's shallow exterior.

We're seeing, yet again, another attempt to herd in the faithful by the GOOP, who aren't too sure who their friends are these days, but sure know their list of enemies keeps growing. This is as much a show of paranoia as it is "national pride".

Cheers!

[Snellius]

4. At least that bastard Michael hasn't shown his face. Yet

The only positive thing I can think about Ronnie and Nancy is that their kids Patti Davis and Ron Jr., both openly critical of their father's politics, were pretty cool. It's interesting that they seem to be the only relatives beside Nancy in all this endless farewell.

[Carolina]

7. true, but she's their mother

while wasn't Michael (the kid no one wanted ... sorry sometimes I can't help myself) adopted by Ronnie and Jane Wyman?

[RebelOne]

9. Oh, but he has been on Sean Hannity's radio show. n/t

[keithyboy]

5. A lot more people will be gald when Ronnie is buried.

There is backlash already and not just from "liberals."

[killbotfactory]

6. Respect the dead by shamelessly exploiting them!

It's the Reagan way.

[Justice]

10. Jon Stewart Said the only hope Carter and Ford had

in getting this amount of attention was to die while saving a baby......




together.