Old Republicans never die, they just fade away

[dougo]

Well, Ronald Reagan finally faded away. I don't have anything nice to say about him, so I'm just going to leave it at that. I just really hope the upcoming memorialization doesn't last too long, or get too revisionist. I'm not optimistic.

Update: I just thought of one good thing to say: Nancy Reagan supports stem cell research because it could help find a cure for Alzheimer's. I am surprised and impressed by her open-mindedness, and I hope she can coerce people who would otherwise never consider it because of their religious beliefs. But I'm still not optimistic.

Comments

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Me neither.

Just because he was /president/ during the time Communism sputtered to a stop, for example, doesn't mean he personally ended it.

The list could go on.

[mshonle.livejournal.com]

Reaganomics will probably last a while longer... It seems Bush is becoming a supply-sider himself: cutting taxes during a war is just a boneheaded idea.

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

Yeah, really. Considering that they managed to find good things about Nixon, and that some insanely large percentage of Americans still think Reagan was the best president ever, I'm not optimistic about this either.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing-- Reagan already has an airport and an aircraft carrier named after him. I still haven't fully assimilated the amount of goodwill people have for him. It's funny, I actually have less negative feelings about Nixon, maybe because I was too young to remember his reign, but I at least have a vague idea that he did some decent things in relation to China, for instance. I honestly cannot come up with a single thing Reagan did that I admire or respect.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

When Nixon died, the obits remembered the good and the bad things about him. But today on the radio I didn't hear anything about, say, selling arms to terrorists to finance the overthrow of democratic governments. But then I didn't listen to the love-in for very long before I had to shut it off.

I tried to write something about Nancy Reagan and stem cell research--basically I'm glad she's working to support it, but I'm not happy that it takes a personal tragedy to get people to come around. Okay, I guess I just wrote it. Man, I'm tired.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

I heard about Iran-Contra yesterday -- on NPR. That was the only place.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Even NPR didn't mention it while I was listening. Fortunately I had some good CDs with me.

[mshonle.livejournal.com]

What's your favorite Iran-Contra CD? I think I have them all.