All I can say is, they did the same thing to Nixon (ie, retroactively bestowing a halo simply because the man got old, sick and then died!), so can we really be surprised??

It was awfully obliging of Ronnie to finally pop off ("Ronald Reagan has Alzheimer's", the single most anticlimactic "news" story of the 20th century...to quote Austin Powers: "and Liberace was gay; I never saw that one coming!") just when the Republicans are so covered in shite in an election year that ANYTHING will do to boost morale, even if it's just the reinvention of a warmongering conservative whose "effectiveness" is measured by his ability to spend millions of tax dollars in the arms race.

Yeesh. For my part, I'll be glad when it's all over & the wee little communal attention span of what appears to be the vast majority of my countrymen can return to whatever happens to be the mind-numbing reality TV show of the moment.

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