The Right-wing pundits sure know how to pour gas onto their own funeral pyre:
Of course, the big difference is that the Democrats don’t have a Ronald Reagan to take advantage of the situation. Nobody will ever confuse Hilliary’s (sic) shrill denunciations with the twinkle in the Gipper’s eye when he zinged an opponent. Nor will anyone fail to see the difference between the inspirational yet empty platitudes of Obama with Reagan’s soaring rhetoric that touched something so American in people’s souls.
Hillary is shrill. Dude, how do you react when your wife asks you to take out the garbage, do you call her shrill?
And the twinkle in the . . . dammit! Stop calling Reagan that movie name! He was an actor, a bad one at that. He did absolutely nothing to connect himself with anyone tough or brave, he was a f***ing actor!
The twinkle was acting, reading words written by Peggy Noonan, while he tried to feed school kids ketchup and erect a big umbrella to prevent the awful Ruskies from sending missles to attack us. Stop it, just stop it! Soaring rhetoric my ass.
I don't know about Obama yet, but he has a college education, has written books, and actually has thoughts that are deeper than "tear down this wall".
Look here at Democracy Now for some insight into Reagan's effect on California and working people while he was Governor, but that's not important right now.
Seriously, the Right's pining for another Reagan is just sad; a fantasy about a guy who can bankrupt the country, raise taxes with no benefit to the middle class, and spout slogans written by the woman who wrote this crap about poor Elian Gonzales:
a miracle that when he tired and began to slip, the dolphins who surrounded him like a contingent of angels pushed him upward;
There's Reagan's brain: a science-fiction fantasy that has the Righties yearning for Jack Bauer to take over their world and save them, and take away their Constitutional rights at the same time.
After all, they weren't using them.
And our pundit ends with this:
A Guiliani or Romney candidacy would alter the face of the party at least temporarily and give hope to some of the more moderate elements in the GOP.
From your mouth to God's ears. But not for the reasons you believe.
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