Which is why a guy who was upstaged by a chimp in movies was there perfect candidate. Still is.
Discussion: Will Questions About Hillary's Age Complicate GOP'S Reagan Worship? Chuck Todd Thinks So
Ron also had Nancy at his side to occasionally whisper the answer to the reporterās question Roonie couldnāt hear or understandā¦ Somehow I canāt see Bill having to do that for HRC.
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Itās Okay If Youāre An Aging Republican
Then there was āWhereās the rest of meā film when RR woke up and had had his legs amputated.
McCain was 72 in 2008. The main concern about his age came because of his decision to choose an extremely unqualified VP - and an unqualified VP should be a concern no matter what the age or health of the president. Unless Hillary also chooses someone unqualified, her age should not be an issue.
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Todd is quite out of touch with the Republican Party.
Reagan is no longer a Republican saint. He is rarely even mentioned by the party today - no one invokes Reagan any more for legitimacy or to rally the troops. At the Republican National Convention neither Romney nor Ryan ever invoked Reaganās name ā the only time the name crossed their lips (once each) was to refer to someone else who had worked for the āReagan Administrationā.
The fact is Reagan would be a RINO today and unceremoniously drummed out of the party - and the new far, far right Republican Party seems to realize that he is now that embarrassing uncle whose views no one wants to mention.
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Not even that. There just has to be SOMEONE in the administration lucid enough to do it. Recall GW Bush, the man who turned his Presidency over to Dick Cheney.
Chuck,donāt know what you have been drinking lately but you have been handing it to the repubs( small R ) the last few times you seem to have been quoted.Benghazi for one now this.Not bad.
Dotting old White Guy Republican Alzheimer patient? No problem. Nominate him for sainthood and name everything from the garbage trucks to the Aircraft Carriers for him while worshiping his (misstated and untrue) record of āGreatnessā.
Sharp old White Woman Democrat? The scourge from hell, and ātoo dangerousā to trust with that apocryphal ā2 AM Callā from the Pentagon, and anyway; BENGHAZI!!!
The assumption could work if he and fellow media members continue to remind the public
Why would Reagan worship be deterred in the least? If you cloned Ronnieās actual record onto some nobody today, that wannabe wouldnāt win a single GOP primary. Facts and history are pretty much irrelevant to worshipers.
I totally agree with you. GOP FUD will be a sight to behold in 2016.
My only point is that countering with Reaganās age in the 2016 election will be meaningless. This is just Chuck Todd blathering.
It is fair to judge whether someone is fit for office from a health perspective. The GOP attacks wonāt necessarily be reasonable but HRC isnāt exactly a doddering, old woman with spittle dribbling out the side of her mouth. The attacks wonāt pass the āsniffā test for most voters. There is no need to even raise the Reagan issue.
Hillaryās age is an issue because she would be the second oldest to become president.
Its sad, but society is less tolerant/supportive of older women and is likely to look much closer at this issue than they might with a man.
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I imagine scarborough peed himself when Todd said that about Joeās only hero.
Reaganās record has nothing to do with the repugs worship of him. Itās all based on the hype since he died. The repugs have lied to create the myth of Reagan.
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My thoughts exactly, but to be fair, the Toddster is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
āKingās Row.ā Reagan was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. The movie is not āThe Grapes of Wrathā, but it does portray petty, malicious resentment from the social/economic well-to-do for those living āon the wrong side of the tracks.ā Reagan sympathetically portrayed a hard-working populist whose legs were unnecessarily amputated for revenge.
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Iāve seen Kingās Row several times, and I have to admit itās a fairly good movie with a good cast. Iām never sure if people remember it because it was from the Forties. Didnāt realize heād been nominated.
Itās a well-known axiom among actors that cute animals will always steal the scene. The āBonzoā movies now seem formulaic, period pieces, but they can still entertain. Ronald Reagan was a competent, popular actor playing likeable ā2nd bananasā back in his day.
Yet there are TPers crowing on āPoliticoā (which they regard as mainstream/LEFTist) that Sasseās victory was a victory for freedom and āReaganism.ā