Ron Reagan was great last night

[mtnsnake]

I didn't watch the SOTU for health's sake, but flipped the channels afterward to listen to reaction and came across Ron Reagan, I think on MSNBC. Anyway, he expressed his displeasure with how the Chimp's handlers choreographed the whole deal with that dead soldier's mom in the crowd standing next to Pickles for the purpose of political gain for the repukes. He stated is so well, how if it was good for the parents, then that was great.....but how he felt Bush and his handlers went to all kinds of measures to dramatize this for political purposes...and Reagan said he felt very uneasy about making the SOTU the stage for something like that. Then that asshole Scaroborough, or whatever his name is, got all irate about Reagan, but Reagan stuck to his guns, calmly and effectively.

Thank you, Ron, for doing what so many of our Democratic leaders are too scared to do....exposing the repukes for what they are: PHONIES!

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Grace under pressure. Maybe the Reagan name will rise again.

[FreedomAngel82]

5. I love Ron

I've seen him a few times before. He's always a lone though. Poor guy and hear hear on the solider. It was such a show. :eyes:

[AntiCoup2K4]

2. The Busheep hate Ron Jr.

They consider him a "traitor" because they have deluded themselves into believing the Chimp is the second coming of Ronald Christ the jellybean messiah.

In reality though, the neocons have taken the GOP so far off the right shoulder of the road that even Reagan's starting to look "moderate" in comparison.

[sabra]

3. Also had Janeane Garafalo on

and she was kicking some ass!

[FreedomAngel82]

6. Yay for Janeane!

I wish I saw that. I love how she isn't shy and she jumps in there and stuff. :D

[sabra]

8. Oh yah! And she was totally checking them with the whole purple finger

thing. Saying the pictures of them raising their hands in the air closely resembilities of...use your imagination. Also stated that the whole thing was a disgrace.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

4. Yeah but he couldn't bring himself to say "vote for John Kerry"

when he had his chance. Same with Jessie Ventura, same with a lot of people. WTF. No wonder Kerry lost with that kind of "support".

[renaissanceguy]

7. It's probably how many Kerry voters felt.

Many were more anti-Bush than pro-Kerry. Not that Kerry wouldn't have been a good president.... he would have. But my hatred for Bush, personally, was more than my liking of Kerry.
http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues.14741193

[Larkspur]

13. Yep, what you said describes my Kerry support also.

[saracat]

14. Ron did say vote for Kerry. And he voted for him. He said so in his

Larry King interview.What are you talking about?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

15. He didn't say it at the Dem convention

I missed the King interview.

[saracat]

16. He only spoke about stem cell at the Dem Convention.

Patti Davis, his sister ,also voted for Kerry. Nancy gave a lukewarm, very lukewarm, endorsement to Bush. Micheal Reagan, that moran, the adopted one , praised Bush to the skyies. Ron said they don't talk politics at home.I think he means only with Micheal who he said he disagrees with.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

17. Right. He said "cast a vote for embryonic stem cell research"

What was the man's problem with saying 'vote for John Kerry'?
The loathing of John Kerry by all kinds of folks is a bit tiresome.

Here's the transcript of Reagan's convention speech http://www.dems2004.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=luI2LaPYG&b=125925&ct=159643

[saracat]

20. I am saying he said he voted for John Kerry on other occasions.

I know he didn't say vote for Kerry at the convention, but he DID say it on other occasions.He wasn't actually delivering a political speech at the convention but rather an issue orieted speech .He didn't have a problem with supporting Kerry.

[Cha]

9. Thank you, Ron Reagan, for calling

bushinc on his Shyte!

They're always doin' shit like that! They're all copycats of "mission accomplished"..but it's no more accomplished than bush caring about the American People.

I feel sorry for that mother that I hear about ..being USED by the bush cabal.

[earthboundmisfit]

12. Ron Reagan has Balls of Steel! The only reason I watched MSNBC

last night was to hear his take on the SOTU. He is always unflinching, even when ganged up on by thugs 3 to 1. The guy is a true & uncompromising, first class patriot in my book!!! Totally, unimpeachably classy in every respect, Ron Reagan is the polar opposite of Joe the Schmoe Scarborough!

[adigal]

10. He was great, and Blowhard Joe

almost split a gasket in anger.

Please - this is how they play. They do horrendous things and then get angry when you have the audacity to point it out. They take the moral high ground.

[RaulVB]

11. Scarborough is lucky he still free (n/t)

[bgb217]

19. Re RRJ

Ron Reagan Jr is aweseome.

[kskiska]

18. Tom Shales nails * on their PR stunt

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59332-2005Feb3.html

(snip)

Bush also spoke, inevitably, of the valor of U.S. troops fighting in Iraq with no end in sight, or at least announced, and paid tribute to a fallen Marine from Texas, Sgt. Byron Norwood. Then came the most emotional moment of the evening. Janet and William Norwood, the young man's parents, were also seated in the gallery and stood up to tumultuous and prolonged applause. Janet Norwood hugged the Iraqi voter (one finger purple as a symbol of having voted), and they seemed to get briefly entangled in each other's jewelry as the applause went on.

The president, strikingly, stared up at the balcony with little visible emotion on his face but eyes that appeared to be growing misty. Was this a genuine expression of America appreciating its men and women in uniform, or a shameless political stunt using grief-stricken parents as pawns? As we all know in the age of media moments, it matters less what it was than what it was perceived to be, and to a greater degree than perhaps any other time since he's been in office, Bush appeared to have the perception presidency well in hand.