Kinda sad that they have to make themselves out to be someone else instead of defining their own identity. But then, pathetic is the new GOP.

What, you mean they're war criminals who illegally fund terrorist death squads, give arms to America's enemies, and perpetuate a Machiavellian foreign policy that results in the deaths of hundreds of thousands?

Or do they just like jellybeans?

Highroller48: What, you mean they're war criminals who illegally fund terrorist death squads, give arms to America's enemies, and perpetuate a Machiavellian foreign policy that results in the deaths of hundreds of thousands?

No, I think they're trying to equate themselves to the real one.

Patty was clearly in a fowl mood when she wrote that piece. She's wrong about the current crop of republican pygmies who all if heaven forbid somehow attain the office would proudly don her father's detestable policies, may he moulder forever in hell

i have yet to see any of the candidates able to sleep for eight years.

Boojum2k: Highroller48: What, you mean they're war criminals who illegally fund terrorist death squads, give arms to America's enemies, and perpetuate a Machiavellian foreign policy that results in the deaths of hundreds of thousands?

No, I think they're trying to equate themselves to the real one.

Sounds like Reagan to me.

The Reagan hero worship within the Republican party is just pathetic.

kronicfeld: The Reagan hero worship within the Republican party is just pathetic.

Reagan was a great guy. Good politican, good leader.

These bozos tho....bunch of idiots who seem to have forgotten what 'conservative' means.

Weaver95: Reagan was a great guy. Good politican, good leader.

He was a politician through and through. He was a master of the art of marketing and public image. I would not call him a great leader, and was damn lucky that things worked out the way they did on the international stage.

She sounds smart.

Must be a Democrat

My fellow Americans,
I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed
legislation that will outlaw atheism forever.
We begin praying in five minutes.

/obligatory
//firsts

Good article.

Why would a presidential candidate admit to being afflicted by the onset of Alzheimer's?

Patty was clearly in a fowl mood when she wrote that piece.


Perhaps she's too chicken to say how she really feels.

Well, Thompson is making heroic efforts to be in the race while not entirely Being There but is obviously too smart. And Paul is doing more of a batshiat crazy H. Ross Perot impression. Guiliani seems sincerely, devoutly and truly crazy. The only plausibly senile candidate is McCain but what's the point? He's too old. Then again.... hmmmmmm! I nominate McCain as the most Reaganesque prat of the lot. Unless you count Clinton.

Weaver95: Reagan was a great guy. Good politican, good leader.

Reagan was a traitor and should have been shot.

If you want another Reagan, just elect the biggist Nin-com-POOP!

I love saying that.

Those guys at Termite Terrace were the greatest comic geniuses ever given enough rope to hang themselves by pointy-haired bosses who didn't understand what the "creative talent" was up to but didn't want to question themselves out of the goose that laid the golden egg.

Nin Com POOP!

Ed Grubermann: Weaver95: Reagan was a great guy. Good politican, good leader.

Reagan was a traitor and should have been shot.

With your handle, "Boot to the Head" would have been a better answer.

/you probably see that a lot..

Having another Reagan in the white house won't be so great if he comes with another Nancy.

/You know what I'm talking about.

kronicfeld: The Reagan hero worship within the Republican party is just pathetic.

It's the same way with the Chinese and Mao. Check this article - the parallels just jump out at you.

Alphax: Ed Grubermann: Weaver95: Reagan was a great guy. Good politican, good leader.

Reagan was a traitor and should have been shot.

With your handle, "Boot to the Head" would have been a better answer.

/you probably see that a lot..

I think Ed has already taken on boot to the head too many...

<b>Alphax</b>: <i>With your handle, "Boot to the Head" would have been a better answer.</i>

Nah nah...

Damn you HTML box!

kronicfeld: The Reagan hero worship within the Republican party is just pathetic.

The Kennedy hero worship within the Democratic Party is just pathetic.

/John Kerry's leechlike devotees touted him as the other JFK from Massachusetts who is also Catholic...

Reagan was very polarizing, quite unlike Bush the Uniter.

Ed Grubermann

Reagan was a traitor and should have been shot.

Thanks for that laugh, sir.

/Stayed at the Washington Hilton just back on Halloween
//A guy was standing in front of the hotel with a Reagan mask and bullet holes in his chest

Dear Jerk: Reagan was very polarizing, quite unlike Bush the Uniter.

Bush the Uniter
not a divider
capping cold suckas
'cause he's the decider
[beat boxing goes here]

JQPublic: kronicfeld: The Reagan hero worship within the Republican party is just pathetic.

The Kennedy hero worship within the Democratic Party is just pathetic.

No, see now, there's a difference:

Kennedy actually made America a better place, whereas Reagan got people to think that he helped make America a better place but actually got away with murder and ate jellybeans. The former is worth honoring, the latter is not.

To prove his virility, Huckabee has been photographed in those ridiculous hunting clothes holding a large rifle and several dead pheasants

Christ, those were shotguns and the clothing is on par for pheasant hunting. I prefer more orange but mehhhh.

I wonder what her opinions on all the dems trying to be like her mom? Nancies all of them.

JQPublic: kronicfeld: The Reagan hero worship within the Republican party is just pathetic.

The Kennedy hero worship within the Democratic Party is just pathetic.

/John Kerry's leechlike devotees touted him as the other JFK from Massachusetts who is also Catholic...

Please, Republican worship of Reagan makes JFK look like William McKinley. Your attempt at playing the equivalency game is hilariously transparent.

/Remember the Maine!

Saiga410: I wonder what her opinions on all the dems trying to be like her mom? Nancies all of them.

I see what you did there.

Talk about doublespeak.
You say you want a War On Terrorism
And then when your candidates come up they say they want to be like one of the world's most famous crooks and terrorists supporters.

Everyone know that Reagan's son is a liberal talk show host in Seattle?

Weaver95: kronicfeld: The Reagan hero worship within the Republican party is just pathetic.

Reagan was a great guy. Good politican, good leader.

These bozos tho....bunch of idiots who seem to have forgotten what 'conservative' means.

I see the political acumen that led to two votes for Bush is as sharp as ever. Considering how consistently you manage to be catastrophically wrong, have you ever sat down and done some serious thinking about your basic assumptions?

Astronomical expansion of presidential power
Equally astronomical expansion of privacy invasion
Unprecedented levels of secrecy and subterfuge
Votes for extra "emergency powers" that never get taken back

It all started with the Neocon tool Reagan and now you're reaping it's reward. Thank GOD I'm planning to leave this country of idiots. Everyone here is farking asleep

Wolf_Blitzer: Please, Republican worship of Reagan makes JFK look like William McKinley. Your attempt at playing the equivalency game is hilariously transparent.

Hush, you'll give away the new talking point! It's all they have!

goletaal: Everyone know that Reagan's son is a liberal talk show host in Seattle?

And Reagan's other son is a conservative radio host. What's your point?

Sandelaphon: Weaver95: kronicfeld: The Reagan hero worship within the Republican party is just pathetic.

Reagan was a great guy. Good politican, good leader.

These bozos tho....bunch of idiots who seem to have forgotten what 'conservative' means.

I see the political acumen that led to two votes for Bush is as sharp as ever. Considering how consistently you manage to be catastrophically wrong, have you ever sat down and done some serious thinking about your basic assumptions?

If any Republican who voted in the last thirty years did that, they would realize they've been played for fools since then. From Nixon to Dubya, all Republicans have been crooks who pull the flag out whenever they are about to get caught. And their fanbase couldn't realize this little factoid until it became evident to everybody through a collapsing economy and high gas prices.

These bozos tho....bunch of idiots who seem to have forgotten what 'conservative' means.

So they are infact just like Reagan, who grew the government by the largest amount in US history, raised a massive deficit, ended up with increased taxes four times in two years after he realised how bad his tax cuts were, introduced more socialist policies on what can and can not be done and implemented some of the worse gun control laws of the century, spent more money on foreign affairs and interferring of other countries for the social benefit of Americans. No one has done more for the liberal movement in decades.

The sad thing is that people forget all that and build a myth around a man that has more in common with Hillary Clinton than the supposed Republican platform. He did managed to promote some conservative policies though for at least a year before turning back to his prior ways. Just because you proudly proclaim being a conservative or liberal doesn't mean you are close to being one, and in truth everyone is a bit of both.

Kill all the policitians, lawyers and priests.

Macular Degenerate: Everyone here is farking asleep

It's called sexsomnia, and we're working on it. We pay so much on health care so we can further the research on things like this.

m2313: Talk about doublespeak.
You say you want a War On Terrorism
And then when your candidates come up they say they want to be like one of the world's most famous crooks and terrorists supporters.

I wasn't aware that the Republicans were attempting to be like Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter.

randomjsa: m2313: Talk about doublespeak.
You say you want a War On Terrorism
And then when your candidates come up they say they want to be like one of the world's most famous crooks and terrorists supporters.

I wasn't aware that the Republicans were attempting to be like Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter.

That's a VERY lame case of projection. Truly pathetic.

So it's a contest over which one is the biggest chicken hawk, homophobic puppet leader with terminal brain rot?

Oh I must have wandered into the semi-regular Reagan-bashing thread full of revisionist historians who claim that only Republicans liked Reagan, and that he was a murderer and that he had "terminal brain rot" throughout his entire presidency, instead of his last few months, at most. He wasn't by any means perfect, as the AIDS debacle goes to show, but he did much more good than ill for our country, and it gets kinda annoying to hear all of these farkers claiming that Reagan and all Republican presidents and murderers, when they were instituting the same types of foreign policies as many Democrats, especially JFK.

06Wahoo: goletaal: Everyone know that Reagan's son is a liberal talk show host in Seattle?

And Reagan's other son is a conservative radio host. What's your point?

I was just asking. Leave me alone, scary man.

Boojum2k: Highroller48: What, you mean they're war criminals who illegally fund terrorist death squads, give arms to America's enemies, and perpetuate a Machiavellian foreign policy that results in the deaths of hundreds of thousands?

No, I think they're trying to equate themselves to the real one.

The one with Alzheimer's disease who began displaying symptoms in the mid-1960's with "amusing" gaffes, ossified foreign and domestic policy and inane misquotes of famous Americans, and who ended his days a tragic mental and physical wreck unable to remember his wife and children's names?

The_OcO: Why would a presidential candidate admit to being afflicted by the onset of Alzheimer's?

Normally the Reagan-hate annoys me to no end, as I feel it's bashing someone who was by and large a good guy, did what he thought was best, and generally succeeded in doing much more good than harm... but this one made me laugh. Well done.