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Amerigo Vespucci

(30,885 posts)
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 02:25 PM Jan 2012

"You found Ronald Reagan. He’s living in each and every one of you.” AAAAAAARRRRGH! GET HIM OUT!



Former President Ronald Reagan’s oldest son on Monday compared liberals to termites who are “eating away at the foundations” of America. Appearing a campaign event for Newt Gingrich in Florida, Michael Reagan encouraged attendees not to “go home and forget about it.”

“If you can think of the liberals, think of them as termites eating away at the foundations of your home each and every day,” he advised. “See, that’s what they do every day. See, we can’t afford to let them keep doing that. We can’t just go home and forget about and pick up the torch three days from now or four days from now. We have to be involved each and every day if we’re going to stop all that.”

“So, my challenge to you is this: If you really want to be Reaganesque, write a letter. Make your own time capsule. And write into that time capsule what you are doing today, tomorrow, the next day and the next day to ensure that your grandchildren, your great grandchildren, who live on the 300th anniversary of this nation, are enjoying the same freedoms that you have today,” he added.

“My God, I know there’s a lot of people looking for Ronald Reagan. My God, you gotta know we would all love to have my father back. But let me tell you something, if you wake up in the morning and you yearn to be free, if you wake up in the morning and you see that shining city on the hill and you want that shining city on the hill back where it belongs, and you want America to once again be the proudest nation in the world and have people look up to us then guess what? You found Ronald Reagan. He’s living in each and every one of you.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/31/michael-reagan-think-of-liberals-as-termites/
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"You found Ronald Reagan. He’s living in each and every one of you.” AAAAAAARRRRGH! GET HIM OUT! (Original Post) Amerigo Vespucci Jan 2012 OP
time to call an exorcist... dionysus Jan 2012 #1
i am spewing lunch CurtEastPoint Jan 2012 #2
Somehow, I don't envision children standing up in a classroom with their fists raised and saying: HughBeaumont Jan 2012 #3
Ronald Reagan is living in me? flakey_foont Jan 2012 #4
And the doctor told me it was merely flesh eating bacteria Broderick Jan 2012 #6
Sorry pal, but I exorcised my "inner gipper" quite a long time ago. Blue Owl Jan 2012 #5
What a reprehensible jerk n/t deutsey Jan 2012 #7
Holy crap - Hans Landa used literally the exact justification in Inglourious Basterds . Initech Jan 2012 #8
Bring on Ron Reagan NAO Jan 2012 #9
... KamaAina Jan 2012 #10
Not Me. Just Came Back from the Bathroom. Yavin4 Jan 2012 #11
So that's why I keep forgetting where my car keys are! Ikonoklast Jan 2012 #12
So is plutonium. Octafish Jan 2012 #13
I had Reagan in me but my inner Elvis kicked him out. Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2012 #14
... RainDog Jan 2012 #15

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
3. Somehow, I don't envision children standing up in a classroom with their fists raised and saying:
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 02:36 PM
Jan 2012

"I'M RONALD REAGAN!"
"I'M RONALD REAGAN!"
"I'M RONALD REAGAN!"
"I'M RONALD REAGAN!"
"I'M RONALD REAGAN!"
"I'M RONALD REAGAN!"
"I'M RONALD REAGAN!"
"I'M RONALD REAGAN!"

in a montage, a la "Malcolm X".

flakey_foont

(3,338 posts)
4. Ronald Reagan is living in me?
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 02:36 PM
Jan 2012

So that's what that was. I thought it was the black bean burrito I had for lunch.
Wait! Wait! Ah, better now. Bye, Ron

Initech

(100,070 posts)
8. Holy crap - Hans Landa used literally the exact justification in Inglourious Basterds .
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 02:47 PM
Jan 2012

This part here:


“If you can think of the liberals, think of them as termites eating away at the foundations of your home each and every day,” he advised.

Is reminiscent of:

Col. Hans Landa: Now if one were to determine what attribute the German people share with a beast, it would be the cunning and the predatory instinct of a hawk. But if one were to determine what attributes the Jews share with a beast, it would be that of the rat. If a rat were to walk in here right now as I'm talking, would you treat it to a saucer of your delicious milk?

Seriously... They need to stop justifying everything Reagan did.

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
12. So that's why I keep forgetting where my car keys are!
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 03:15 PM
Jan 2012

Ronald Reagan is eating my brain from the inside!

AAAAAAAAAuuuuhgghghghhhh!!!!!!

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