maudlin pewlings about things that never were, but sounded Ever-so-Good when repeated endlessly - often amidst such ongoing crap as the Nicaragua scam.

Surprising.. your adoration of this man, given that you're quite less gullible about that kinda crap than the average non-voter.

I had to live through his warm-up campaign in CA, before the ad-hominem became the [1]sole method of political bafflegab - solidly from the My-Gramma Hard Right, who wrote 'how-tos' about torpedoing any possibility of honest debate, perhaps ever again.. here. Via that recipe for contrived bafflegab we now all see daily:

Ronnie et al invented the Fantasy World of that 'Morning in America' bit.
(It's still 'Morning in America' - but for a much smaller slice of the population than when Ronnie was practicing in CA) It's Opportunity Time for the 8% to claw their way up ---> into the 3%. On Ronnie's platitudes. Watch 'em Go --->


But as Michael Reagan pointed out at the CA part of this spectacle, re the shooting of RR:

Then a film cut to Michael Reagan's eulogy:

The memorable part, I thought, began -

..{something} "when he was shot. Yes, he probably felt grateful that God had spared him, *but not wearing his religion on his sleeve*, he accepted this as a responsibility and not a mandate. [!!]

* enunciated a bit slower than his regular speech

He added, either "an important distinction" or, "a significant distinction", at an even slower cadence, almost syllable-by-syllable...

Fascinating, I think. I wonder what will be said in the rehash tomorrow and tomorrow and -


ie overall, Kudos for RR; obloquy for Shrub, from these two.

And I second Michael on *that* part; the sucker had more class, even amidst the self-colored rosy glasses, than the current bumpkin could ever imagineer. True-Believers will, apparently, settle for LOTS-less than Ronnie, currently.

Still, I watched this shit while it was Happening; I remember the mental-health folks being turned-out od closed institutions with *no* place to go. "Tough Love', no doubt; 'love' in Repo doggerel. War is Peace. Love is hate.

Don't plan on rewriting that history Morning- style.. til all of us who did live it - die off or end up in Ashcroftian Correctional Facilities, next to the 40-lifers who smoked pot (or were caught with a week's supply).

{sheesh}



[1] Remember that Nixon 'won' his first seat by the prototypical [literally!] Red-smear campaign launched against Helen Gahagan Douglas; this was Repo territory all along, but post-Ronnie, it has become now a Murican standard: kill debate by non-sequiturs uttered to confound any points raised.

Ronnie ratted out HWood 'commies' to HUAC, ingratiating self into that cush job as 'spokesman' at GE. Tell me about his ethics, sometime. His and Larry Parks' et al. HUAC history is Revealing. Beats Action flics.