Be prepared to see Ron Reagan Jr. out there slamming Bush.....

[kerry-is-my-prez]

after an appropriate amount of "grieving" time. Ron Jr. has slammed Bush several times and works for MSNBC as a commentator. He has also written several articles and is supposed to write an article for Esquire about why Bush should not be re-elected.

He's a liberal Democrat, is quite outspoken and says that he voted for Nader in 2000. It sounds like he want the opportunity to work more - and the best way would be to cause some controversy and get more air time. I don't think Nancy would be too broken up about it and even if she was I don't think it would matter to Ron Jr.

Some quotes from Ron Jr.:

http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_11_30/ai_66937983/pg_2
IS: One last question. Over the years you've made a number of public statements--about gay rights, women's rights, etc.--that were a clear break from your family's point of view. Was that hard for you?
RR: Not at all. I spent most of my childhood arguing at the dinner table so I didn't worry about disagreeing with them, and I certainly didn't worry about what republicans might think of me then, or now. I was brought up to speak my mind, and that's what I do.

-snip-

“What happens when you go in the Oval Office is you start living in a bubble, you know....David Kay, for instance, comes out with a report and says Iraq never had weapons of mass destruction. What does George W. Bush say? ‘Well, I still think they had them.’ That’s not just spin. That’s dementia.”
– MSNBC contributor Ron Reagan, Jr., during live coverage of the January 27 New Hampshire primary results.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/04/14/ron_reagan/index_np.html
"My father crapped bigger ones than George Bush," says the former president's son, in a flame-throwing conversation about the war and the Bush administration's efforts to lay claim to the Reagan legacy.
"The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now," he said during a recent interview with Salon. "Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's -- these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people."



Reagan has always been a vocal opponent of his father's political party, but never as much as he is now. He told me he will write an article of undetermined length for Esquire explaining why George W. Bush should not be re-elected.

One reason, I inferred, was that Bush has blocked stem-cell research for diseases such as Alzheimer's. Reagan is extremely clear about his feelings on this subject, since his father, who will turn 93 next month, has been felled by this insidious illness.

"It's unbelievable that Bush doesn't approve stem-cell research," Reagan said.


http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_11_30/ai_66937983

RR: As a child, I never really trusted politics or politicians, my father excepted. I didn't really like the people I was seeing who were coming around to the house. I saw them as chain-smoking, unhealthy folks who never really seemed to be discussing ideas so much as strategies. It seems to me politics is supposed to be about making the world a better place for everybody, naive as that sounds, and not about just beating up your opponent in some election.....
Bush lacks the experience, he lacks the aptitude, and he lacks the temperament for the job.

-snip-

RR: I was amused after watching the Republican convention that a few pundits pronounced Bush statesman-like, statesman-like, for having managed to read somebody else's speech off a TelePrompTer, without smirking or sweating.

-snip-

....when Bush was asked by the conservative journalist Tucker Carlson shortly thereafter what he thought Carla Faye Tucker might have said to him in that meeting had it taken place, he put on a squeaky little voice and said, "Please don 't kill me! Please don't kill me!" Now, it takes a special kind of guy to ridicule a woman he's just put to death. If that doesn't demonstrate a lack of gravitas, as well as a lack of dignity and self-respect, I don't know what does. This is a man who had already spent some years now as the governor of the state, had presided over executions before, and should've realized that putting somebody to death is serious business, not an occasion for frat-boy humor. So--experience, aptitude, temperament: I think Bush falls short in all three.

-snip-

[Bonhomme Richard]

1. This line says it all to me..............

"unhealthy folks who never really seemed to be discussing ideas so much as strategies. It seems to me politics is supposed to be about making the world a better place for everybody, naive as that sounds, and not about just beating up your opponent in some election....."

The reality he speaks of is what is leading to the disintegration of the United States. It is paramount to treason that the republican party is willing to do ANYTHING, ANYTHING to win. Not that democrats don't do the same but it is no where near the level of the conservatives. The viciousness of the attacks on Clinton from the beginning are a perfect example.
The best interest in the nation has nothing to do with their agenda.
It's my teams wins at any cost.

I also believe the media's switch to a conservative agenda really began in earnest during the Reagan administration. Once they removed the equal time regulations true, factual reporting ended and the blatant propaganda began.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

2. Wouldn't it be great to see him speak at the convention?

n/t

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. .

[Fenris]

4. He also mentions in that Salon article that he's NOT a Democrat

Because he feels they try to out-Republican the Republican party. Which is a common sentiment.