Reagan oozed masculinity and manly virtues

[Cocoa]

Is oozing masculine virtues a side effect of Alzheimer's?


http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/editorial/8875424.htm

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If one of the social graces is knowing when to leave, Ronald Reagan was a gentleman with providential timing.

His death came at just the right moment. Not for his family, though they must feel relief that his suffering is ended, but for the nation he loved. I mean this: Americans are in the throes of an identity crisis, trying at this difficult historical juncture to figure out what kind of people they are.

Are they the sadists at Abu Ghraib? Unwelcome occupiers or liberators of Iraq? Arrogant invaders bent on confiscating precious resources, or freedom fighters trying to help others claim their birthright to liberty?

To read commentary from the far left these days - or to view the world through Michael Moore's propagandist camera lens - one is hard-pressed to find American affirmation. For the Bush-hating crowd, the leap from "we deserved it" to "Bush lied!" to "quagmire" and now to "Iraq is an unmitigated disaster" was a matter of mere baby steps.

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[Hepburn]

1. <GAG>.....

Anyone here meet him personally??? Yuck! "Oozed masculinity and manly virtues!?!?!?!?" GMAFB!! I met him and I was close enough to get a kiss from him. BARF - he oozed stage make-up and heavy cologne!!

[indepat]

11. That the Gipper mastered the art of exuding manly bonhomies is a given

[MrBenchley]

2. What a puddle of pus....

"An eternal optimist, as everyone can't stop saying, Reagan embodied the spirit - dare we call it cowboy - that permitted America's founders a vision of freedom that, for all its unattractive manifestations, beats the alternative of terrorist rule every time."
Quick...was he embodying that spirit when he was selling arms under the table to the ayatollah?
Was it when he was laying the wreath on SS graves at Bitburg?
When he was funneling money to the Contras and the death squads?

Reagan embodied the guy in the cowboy movies who had his men beat Audie Murphy up and run him out of town.

[DeadHead67]

7. I'm 100% in favor of Free Speech, however . . . . .

Cocoa I think you have stumbled into the wrong room. I seriously doubt that anyone here shares your world-view. I was a Republican(local chairman of the Youth for Goldwater)until I wised up and had my own personal revolution in the late sixties. The way of 'the Right' is darkness and death. Run the other way!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. I see Ms. Parker...

Is likely having a competition with Peggy Loonan, to see who can smoke the most DMT and still write a column.

[Cocoa]

4. lol

I don't even know what DMT is, but I'm sure they're both smoking it.

They're also competing over who can lick up more of Ronnie's manly virtues.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

8. DMT is a very powerful...

seratogenic/hallucinogenic, one that just about rips your head off with one or two hits from a pipe. Off you go, into another world for about 30-60 minutes.

Which could explain both women's writings.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

5. So the SunHearald has Kathleen ParKKKer as a writer.

Well, then the SunHearald cannot be trusted as a news source.

[AndyTiedye]

6. Talking Tough While Cravenly Trading Arms for Hostages

what kind of manly virtues are these?

[struggle4progress]

9. He was the Wizard of Ooze!

<edit:> I haven't read any Kitty P since she advocated shooting the Democratic candidates, but it looks like she's still providing a friendly face for totalitarian propaganda.

[Cocoa]

10. Or the oozer of wiz

I remember that classic Parker column. She was actually quoting some military officer, anonymous of course. Then after she got a lot of complaints, she edited her quote of him substituting "should be slapped" for "should be shot."

Which means that at least one version, both almost certainly both, is a fabrication.

[Eloriel]

12. Not to me he didn't

I wasn't even paying attention to politics much in those days, yet every time I had the national news on and some jerk journalist (or alleged journalist) would coo about what a great communicator he was, or offer some other bit of adulation, I'd turn to my husband and say, "What planet are THEY from?" or similar. I couldn't believe a whole country (or significant parts of it) could get conned by him.

Blech.

Nor did he strike me as particularly "manly," except perhaps in a Hollywood actor sort of way (that is, as an act).

[donhakman]

13. W just oozes

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