Ron Reagan's views of George W. Bush.

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My father crapped bigger ones than George Bush"
--Ron Reagan Jr., April 2003


During the 2000 Republican National Convention:
The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job... What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?1
One might separate Reagan's statements into sarcastic one-liners and those of careful coherence - something of which he felt Bush incapable.

Asked to comment on Bush's temperament in an interview:
We reveal ourselves in small moments, and one of those small moments that didn't get nearly the play it should have was the Carla Faye Tucker incident. . . .When Bush was asked by the conservative journalist Tucker Carlson shortly {after the execution} what he thought Carla Faye Tucker might have said to him . . ., 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. . . . So--experience, aptitude, temperament: I think Bush falls short in all three.2
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