Ronald Reagan Is Still Dead

[IDemo]

By FRANK RICH, New York Times
Published: January 20, 2008

CONTEMPLATING the Clinton-Obama racial war, some Republicans were so excited you’d have thought Ronald Reagan had risen from the dead to slap around a welfare deadbeat.

Never mind that the G.O.P. is running on empty, with no ideas beyond the incessant repetition of Reagan’s name. A battle over race-and-gender identity politics among the Democrats, with its acrid scent from the 1960s, might be just the spark for a Republican comeback. (As long as the G.O.P.’s own identity politics, over religion, don’t flare up.)

Alas, these hopes faded on Tuesday night. First, the debating Democrats declared a truce, however fragile, in their racial brawl. Then Republicans in Michigan reconstituted their party’s election-year chaos by temporarily revivifying yet another candidate, Mitt Romney, who had been left for dead.

The playing of the race card by Hillary Clinton’s surrogates to diminish Barack Obama was sinister. But the Clintons are hardly bigots, and the Democratic candidates all have a history of fighting strenuously for inclusiveness. By contrast, the Romney victory in Michigan is another reminder of how Republicans aren’t even playing in the same multiracial American sandbox.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/opinion/20rich.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[lisa58]

1. and the funneral continues

[Birthmark]

2. Thanks for that.

"Ronald Reagan Is Still Dead"

Does me no end of good to remember that. 2nd worst President ever.

[tomreedtoon]

3. Wrong. Reagan is UNDEAD.

At this point I'm uncertain whether he's a vampire (charming and sucking the life out of everyone he encounters) or a zombie (eating people's brains). But he's definitely of the undead, and has made more of his kind - including the two frontrunning Democrats, the Fembot and the Student Council Candidate. The terminatrix from the doomed future and the black kid trying in his awkward way to make everybody love him.

Still, they're preferable to the Republican alternatives, the Pope of the United States of God...the millionaire who combs his hair with sticks of butter...the tortured vet who is codependent on Bush...the sleeping actor...and the psychotic cult leader.

The important thing to remember is that none of them are Roosevelt, and none of them will save our nation. Only a living being, not an undead thrall of Reagan, will do that.

[Joanne98]

4. May he rot in Hell..........

[dbt]

5. K & R just for the HEADLINE

although I, too, think UNDEAD is more like it!

:evilgrin: