UPDATE: Dana Milbank in today's Washington Post: "Aspiring RNC Chairmen Wonder: What Would Reagan Do?:
Luckily, all six RNC candidates agreed on a solution to the party's woes: They would say Ronald Reagan's name over and over, as if it were a tantric incantation.
Anuzis quoted Reagan in his opening statement. Former Ohio secretary of state Ken Blackwell lamented that too many Republicans "campaign like Ronald Reagan and then govern like Jimmy Carter." Saltsman talked about his high school days: "Ronald Reagan was president, and he got me excited."
Katon Dawson, chairman of the South Carolina GOP, tried to top that. "I was inspired as a college graduate by a fellow who walked in the room by the name of Ronald Reagan."
The five GOP chairman candidates (maybe we should call them the Washington Generals, since they're all losers) just voted for their favorite Republican president, and it was a rout.
Reagan 5.
Lincoln...who's that?
I guess the rule here is that, by definition, the best Republican president can't be anyone that a Democrat might pick. That's a shame, because as the song (not by Cher, unfortunately) says, "he freed a lot of people." Maybe that's the problem. Also, shouldn't Ike get an honorable mention.
Tear down this myth.
Blogger's note: Changed the headline from the original because....I can. It's my blog.
Will, wow, you're really looking to get crushed by batty, swifty, and the rest of that group, aren't you?— Some Boca Dude- EVERYTHING the GOP elite (and not so elite) do is based on spin, research, PR and consultant-driven BS. They are functionally unable to utter a single thought that isn't predigested or carefully parsed prior to its utterance. In other (less grandiose) terms, they can't (speak) nor handle the truth! Which is why they were so completely routed this past November! Piltdown Man— piltdownman
- "Will, wow, you're really looking to get crushed by batty, swifty, and the rest of that group, aren't you?" I'll be interested to see if they're willing to make the argument that Reagan was better than Lincoln, and to see their reasoning. So far, no one has taken up the challenge.— will
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- Wow. Hard to believe, but it seems that batboy is even angrier than usual tonight. Three posts in less than 15 minutes - each one angrier than the previous. I guess not much is going on at the other Philly.com blogs, so all his hatred is getting directed towards Will?— Talking point sleuth
I guess the RNC Chair candidates remember that all the Republic candidates for presidents claimed to be reincarnations of Reagan, so they wanted to promote their own candidacies by also invoking the Great Communicator. With Obama hinting that he is following Lincoln's practices or at least his ideals, even taking a train to the inauguration in imitation of Lincoln, the RNC candidates might think they were supporting the wrong party by saying "Lincoln." Indeed, although Lincoln was the first Republican president, his policies were the antithesis of recent Republican policies (going back at least to Nixon), so it makes sense that the RNC chairman candidates would not name him as a favorite.- Comment removed.
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