[adaptivetec] Re: AlterNet: The GOP Candidates' Love Affair with ReaganBy Will Durst
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AlterNet: The GOP Candidates' Love Affair with Reagan
AlterNet
The GOP Candidates' Love Affair with Reagan
By Will Durst, AlterNet
Posted on January 18, 2008, Printed on January 19, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/74275/
Thinning the Republican herd in this year's Presidential Sweepstakes is
proving to be harder than 3-D chess with transparent pieces. In their first
three
primaries, the GOP has mounted three different heads on their electoral
wall. And yeah, that means I'm disregarding the great state of Wyoming, for
the
simple reason they're responsible for Dick Cheney, and deserve to be
ignored, if not flogged en masse and shipped to China to be coated in a lead
based
paint then towed to sea by the FDA.
But the exciting part is if Fred Thompson breaks out of his somnambulant
trance and wins South Carolina and Rudy Giuliani reminds enough withered
transplanted
Floridians of the post-squeegee wonder years up north, the GOP could roll
into Minneapolis for their National Convention this September with an entire
starting basketball team of prospective candidates posing as Ronald Reagan.
Because that, apparently, is the current fashion. Parading around as
spitting images of the 40th President, with an emphasis on the saliva. The
problem
is they can't find the whole package in one guy. They've Balkanized the
Gipper. The Christian Right is genuflecting towards Mike Huckabee. The charm
contingent
is sidling up to his Rudyness, while the Screen Actors Guild wing is
Clapping For Fred, Mr. Law & Order himself.
Reagan Democrats are big fans of John McCain, and the conservative money
boys from Wall Street love that Mitt Romney character. Romney went so far as
to
appropriate Reagan's bulletproof hair, undoubtedly garnering the Secret
Service's endorsement due to the added protection his hard candy shell would
provide
in the unlikely event he adopts a single position long enough to get a bead
on. One has to consider Ronald Reagan lucky he's in the ground and doesn't
have to watch these poseurs go through their paces or he'd be spinning in
his grave like a rotisserie chicken during a power surge. Not to mention
being
royally pissed off about being buried alive and all.
Curiously, two names you never hear mentioned in these celebrity look-
a-like pageants are "George" and "Bush." The President is studiously being
avoided
like a broken pallet of eight penny nails in the center lane of the Beltway.
It's a vacuum almost big enough to suck an elephant through. They hope.
Among the names that do crop up on the campaign trail more often than that
of Herbert Walker's son, are Barry Goldwater, John Wayne Gacy and Bjork. And
the Prez is returning the favor by ducking out of town whenever possible,
leaving the field wide open for whichever of the Dutch wannabees can best
assume
the mantle of looking Presidential. Of course, the impact of that little
trick has diminished somewhat due to seven years of exposure to it.
Playing the "Reagan- Good, Bush- Bad" game has become so popular, candidates
are clambering over each other like blind lemmings outrunning a dam burst,
with their claims to be the ONLY one TRULY capable of bringing CHANGE to
Washington. Living in the shadow of the last year of consecutive Republican
Presidential
terms (5 out of the last 7: 7 out of the last 10) and all the Republicans
can talk about is... change.
You know what, that can't be good. Must be considered a back handed slap at
Dubyah. Unfortunately, it's just a figurative slap and not a real one upside
the head. With a chain mail glove. Which might be more cathartic of an
experience for the nation. And more deserved too.
Will Durst is a political comic, syndicated columnist, AM radio talk show
host and defense liability.
C 2008 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.
View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/74275/
Claude Everett
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