Top Line co-host Rick Klein asked (Ron) Reagan who is more like his father – President Obama or Sarah Palin? Reagan didn’t hesitate:
“Just on the basis of intelligence, you would have to say Barack Obama. I don’t think my father has anything in common with Sarah Palin whatsoever,” Reagan told Top Line. “I'm a little offended that we even have to talk about Sarah Palin, who has nothing interesting to say.”
“Of course my father cut taxes when he was in office, but he also raised taxes as well when he was governor of California. He signed one of the most liberal abortion laws in the country and offered amnesty to illegal immigrants as well. That probably wouldn't sit too well with the tea party of today. But again, those were different times.”
Oh yeah THAT is not going to set well with the Palin-bots and the Teabaggers!
Of course they can take some solace in the fact that at least Michael Reagan, the family member who does NOT share any DNA with the Gipper, is just as wing nutty as they are. Good luck with that bargain basement Reagan family member!
Personally I hope that President Obama is NOT very much like Ronald Reagan at all. I would like to think that our President was a much more compassionate man then was the one who sat on his hands and did nothing during the AIDS epidemic in this country because it was then only considered the "Gay Plague."
Where have you been?
ReplyDeleteHe's been making the rounds saying that for two weeks.
Old news.
Don't forget that in Anchorage, Michael Raegan was here and Sarah introduced him...forget when that way....but, that is her ONLY connection to the Raegan family. President Raegan must be turning over in his grave having sister Sarah connect herself to him.
ReplyDeleteI'd truly love to hear what Nancy thinks...although she's too much a 'class act' to reiterate. I hope Nancy is working behind the scenes ready to nail Palin's ass should she even try to run for the presidency.
i have to say, Gryphen, that while I don't care for Michael Reagan's personality or politics, I think your remarks about him being adopted are cheap shots and uncalled for. Those remarks certainly didn't add anything to your post.
ReplyDeleteReagan's IQ was more like Palins, I would surmise, not like Obama, IMHO!
ReplyDeleteAlso, too, Reagan had already Alzheimers while he was still in office! I don't remember where I read about that just a couple of days ago - some reporter wrote about that, that he was almost catatonic when she was talking to him at the end.
I also remember that he considered KETCHUP to be a VEGETABLE for purposes of school lunches!
Actually Ron's book is getting good reviews. The only thing the snowdrifter and Reagan have in common is that both she and Nancy were pregant when they got married. The snowdrifter doesn't know anything about Reagan.
ReplyDeleteLove Ron Reagan and miss his radio show. I hope he returns to the broadcast medium sometime.
ReplyDeleteCurrentTV, are you listening? ;-)
Anon 4:47,
ReplyDeletethat's kind of snippy . This specific interview was TODAY at noon and I hadn't heard him say exactly that. So no, it's not "old news."
@4:47 - So what? He's still saying it so that Sarah Palin does not tarnish the image of his dead father; the Reagans don't like her! I hope Ron Junior says that same speech once a week for the rest of the year!
ReplyDeleteGryphen,
ReplyDeleteLove you, but I think your DNA attack was a low blow. (Speaking as an adopted child myself).
Here, here! Good point, Gryphen. President Obama is a more compassionate, intelligent man than President Reagan.
ReplyDeletePresident Obama also did not stoop to tactics such as selling out his colleagues to communist witch hunters as Reagan did as head of the Actor's Guild so he could gain more power.
Families could live on one income prior to the Reagan years. Children didn't have to count ketchup as a vegetable in their school lunches as they did under Reagan, and environmentalism was not limited to the totally stupid view of "if you've seen one tree, you've seen them all."
President Obama shares very little in common with the late President Reagan other than a calm and pleasing personality, a patient and reassuring manner. His capacity is far above those who came before him (except for perhaps President Carter who graduated from the US Naval Academy and commanded a nuclear submarine - an accomplishment few earn).
While I can understand the pride of a son in his father, I do think Ron Reagan is a bit too optimistic about his father's accomplishments. There were several good things, but in my opinion the negative outweighed the opposite.
OT but the Alaskan Dispatch just creamed Sarah!! Loved it!
ReplyDeleteBoth biological children of the Gipper don't think much of Palin and gang. In fact in Michael Reagan's book, he is not kind to his father so it's probably not a compliment when he says Palin reminds him of his dad.....
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing Ron Jr on MSNBC a year or so ago arguing with some bubble headed bleached blond wingnut about his dad. The conservadolt insisted she knew Reagan better than his own son did! The ignorance of the far right burns.
Palin has nothing in common with Ronald Reagan....well except that they are both huamn beings, but I think that the jury is still out on that.
ReplyDeleteAs for Obama and Reagan being "like" - Dude yes! They both have or had male organs!
Reagan waS AND ALWAYS will be a b=GRADE ACTOR. THE PRESIDENT IS USING the right's adulation of the man for political gain. Who knows if it will gain anything.
So Palin just said this on Hannity about Santorum.
ReplyDelete“I won’t resort to calling him a knuckle-dragging neanderthal. I’ll leave that to his wife”
And C4P is sure she is running for Pres now since she alluded to how she will announce.
You know I thought this would be over by now. I thought she was done. If she announces she is going to run I am done reading the Palin blogs forever. I can't take anymore of this fowl woman, and if I have to deal with her on any official level I refuse to deal with her rumors too.
I'm so sick right now
Okay, now she's really done it.
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin made me defend Ronald Reagan. I feel like I need brain bleach. I couldn't stand him as president and hated what happened to the country on his watch. Yet, I cannot stand it that she thinks she's his equal. He did in fact govern California for two full terms. He actually paid his dues. She can't compare to the reality of him or the myth. Give it up.
4:47, old news still stings, huh?
ReplyDelete"His capacity is far above those who came before him (except for perhaps President Carter who graduated from the US Naval Academy and commanded a nuclear submarine - an accomplishment few earn)."
ReplyDeleteI think you might want to add a certain Rhode's Scholar by the name of Bill Clinton to that list.
I miss listening to Ron Jr's radio show. It's also a shame he doesn't get more air time on TV.
ReplyDeleteI have to say, Ron has been making these kind of comments for some time now and most recently when his book was released and the "other" son took to the media about the Alzheimer's comments. When Ron Jr. spoke about his new book and defending his comments, he was also asked about Palin etc.-- so this may have been new to some, but not all of us.
Ron Reagan is right. For prrof, look no further than what in Ketchikan, Alaska a bipartisan crowd of 700 hardworking patriotic common sense constitutionalists did when they had an opportunity to give their opinion of their former governor :
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqhWhBGOEr8
Palin on Hannity tonight. She's not looking (or sounding) too good. She's *wigged* out.
ReplyDeletePart 1
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/index.html#/v/4532278/can-we-
curb-the-spending-part-1/?playlist_id=86924
Part 2
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/index.html#/v/4532277/can-we-
curb-the-spending-part-2/?playlist_id=86924
He should run for Congress. Perhaps Jane Harman's seat
ReplyDeleteLet's be brutally honest. Reagan was not much of an intellect. That, in and of itself is not necessarily a damning observation, but he was not overly bright.
ReplyDeleteBy any objective measure, President Obama is easily one of the smartest presidents in our history. Were he not black, NOBODY would raise the charge that he was not qualified to be POTUS and primping, preening, ignorant bitch like Sarah Palin was. You might as well claim that Palin was more qualified to be the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge than was Dr. Stephen Hawking. No fucking way.
As modest as Reagan's intellect may have been, he seemes a veritable Sir Isaac Newton in comparison with Palin. Palin is a semi-literate, narcissistic, dim-witted grifting clod whose only skill seems to be in butchering the English language. She is EASILY the least intelligent buffoon who has ever dared trod upon the national political stage.
My Canadian in-laws were visiting when the Biden/Palin debate was on TV. My very staid mother-in-law howled with alternating laughter and disgust that we Americans would allow a simpering buffoon like Palin to be one of our candidates but one heartbeat away from the Oval Office.
Why the hell don't we just all say it out loud and get that bitch off the national stage?: Palin is a fucking moron.
Anon 8:19
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I like that idea.
I watched a few minutes of the tongue bath Hannity gave Sarah Palin and I did notice something different about the ex-governor. She looked drugged. Like major tranks were at work. She could barely keep her eyes open, it seemed. Could not watch any more of Hannity declaring Obama's chances for re-election dead and Sarah once again trashing the president's policies. When will this nightmare end?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49124.html
ReplyDeleteAdd this to pizzing off Mama Bahr....lol
bws58 8:55pm
ReplyDeleteFrom Huffington:
"In a tweet on Wednesday morning, Santorum called the story from Politico "garbage." Linking to the piece, he wrote, "This article is garbage.All I said was- she is VERY busy, PERIOD. Reporter trying to create something out of nothing."
Looks like the WIMP is trying to walk it back - surprise, surpise!!! 24 hours and 3, 2, 1 -- It's not my fault!!! I'm the victim!!!
Yadda, yadda, yadda!!!
Oh LOL thanks for the link to Fox News feat. S Palin.
ReplyDeleteHannity sets it all up:
(economy fucked- economy broke- all obummer's fault.)
"So we have a growing deficit and tax hikes on the horizon. So how is this all likely to play out for the president in 2012 in that race?
Here with reaction and analysis former Alaska Governor, Fox News contributor Sarah Palin."
Forgot to mention that Ronald Reagan's people did not beg for birthday money from the American citizens when Ronald turned 47. How f-ing rude!
ReplyDeleteIf you guys get a 3am phone call don't answer. It is just Sarah Palin calling asking for money for her birthday.
ReplyDeleteObama plans to cut heating subsidies for the poor, so I guess he is becoming more like Reagan everyday. Obama however does not seem to have any kind of dementia, Michele does not stand next to him so she can Q his speech like Mommy did for Reagan.
ReplyDeletePeople have been talking about Reagan having Alzheimer for years now, his son is just being honest. Michael Reagan is either delusional or as many in Palin's circle a simple denier of truth.
ReplyDeleteCompletely O/T, but does anyone know what happened to Floyd Orr's blog...Palin Babygate?
ReplyDeleteHas he just moved it from Blogspot, or has something else happened?
OT; you'll love this, Gryphen.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thestatecolumn.com/articles/the-sarah-palin-rick-santorum-fued-continues/
I will not call him the knuckle-dragging Neanderthal that perhaps others would want to call him. I’ll let his wife call him that instead,” Ms. Palin told Sean Hannity on Fox News.
What grade is she in?
According to this link, Sarah Palin would win the presidency if the elections were held today. That's according to Fox news opinion poll. Check this out! http://goo.gl/ILm9k
ReplyDeleteWell it's Tabloid Sarah Thursday at this blog where the most ridiculous things are manufactured about the woman in question. That's how Murdoch started his empire.. with Bat Boy at the News of the World. And Palin (maybe not Bristol) is more interesting and beautiful than Bat Boy!
Sarah is using Reagan again in trying to raise money for her PAC. The woman has no shame and uses others to benefit herself.
ReplyDeleteShe was never actually comparing herself to Ronald Reagan. She was just trying to steal some the "stardust" of his myth. The real Reagan was actually a very clever man but not in a particularly nice way.
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He had been known to make Palin-sized gaffes.
For example, when Patty Hearst was kidnapped, the SLA demanded that the state of California offered free food to the poor of LA. Reagan was gov at that time and he said publicly that this was a good time "for botulism to break out." Scored poorly both on biology and human empathy.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteHe should run for Congress. Perhaps Jane Harman's seat
8:19 PM
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Absolutely not!
NO DAMNED DYNASTIES!!!
No more Bushes, Clintons, Reagans, Kennedys... or anybody else who thinks they can get a free entry into politics and power simply because of their last name. Politics is a JOB, not a noble title to be passed by blood or marriage.
4:47 is the one who tries desperately to get the first comment in so he/she can report back to the 'bots about it. Congrats, you pathetic soul, you succeeded again!
ReplyDeleteI listened to the "political analysis" by Snowdrift Snooki on Shun Sanity. Nearly lost it when she said (inre: the hate question in the Billo interview) that Obama is thin-skinned.
ReplyDeleteWait. What? WHO is thin-skinned? I know it's a tough one, but she obviously doesn't even know what that means.
The woman is an idiot! Make her just go away forever!!!
Phone transcript from the Nancy-Paylin historic phone call:
ReplyDeleteNANCY's SECRETARY:
"Mrs. Ronald Reagan calling for Ms Paylin."
RAM: "Yeah? Hang on a minute, she's up in her room watching 'The Young and the Restless' (snapping her gum and huffing and puffing to get up the stairs)
"Governor queen, Mrs. Reagan is on the phone!"
$ARAH: "Nancy, how are ya? I've been waitin' on this call from ya and here ya are, making the rill call, callin' me!"
NANCY'S SECRETARY: "Hold please for Mrs. Ronald Reagan, the former First Lady."
$ARAH: "Yeah, sure. (whispering to Tawd to get that 'retarded baby and stick a bottle in his mouth, I'm talkin' to Nancy for cripes sakes and don't want him pitchin' a fit!')
NANCY: "Mrs. Paylin?
$ARAH: (interupting) "Oh, Nancy Nancy Nancy, I'm SOOOOOO happy you called! I was just tellin' Todd how much I love you and Ronnie and how it felt just like comin' home when I was up there at the ranch last week also and how you must have just loved bein' up there with them horses and whatnot and just how rill amerika it felt and....
NANCY: Ms. Paylin, I...
$ARAH: (interupting) and can I say also too that those idills that Ronnie and you had to make this great country great also, it inspired me to run also, just like Ronnie and that I prayed that God would open those doors and I would plow on through and...
NANCY: (interupting and raising her voice which jolts Paylin into silence) "MS, PAYLIN!!! (composing her demeanor) Now you listen to me. I am Mrs. Ronald Reagan. I am not 'Nancy' to you but only to those who I know and I don't know you. I was married to Ronald Reagan. He was the love of my life. He never quit his job as governor of California and believe me, he faced more problems in his state than you could shake a special needs baby at. He dealt with those problems and then some, was approachable, warm and caring. He didn't engage in gutter sniping or in antics to get attention. I knew Ronald Reagan. YOU, my dear, are NO RONALD REAGAN (saying firmly) and you will NEVER be RONALD REAGAN. Now leave my husband's legacy alone little tramp." Hangs up the phone
$ARAH: (Holding the phone in one hand and a crunchwrap in the other)
has a full-on Regina George (Mean Girls) meltdown!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpZChF7p1Sk
"Michael Reagan, the family member who does NOT share any DNA with the Gipper, is just as wing nutty as they are. Good luck with that bargain basement Reagan family member!"
ReplyDeleteGryphen, this is the second time that you have mentioned Michael Reagan's adopted status in a slighting manner.
He was adopted by Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman (Ronald's first wife). He is Ronald's son, period, regardless of Ronald's and Jane's divorce. Are all adoptees "bargain basement" family members?
I like your articles and very much enjoy reading about your relationship with your daughter, which I think is why these remarks seem so jarring to me.
"Good luck with that bargain basement Reagan family member!"
ReplyDeleteCan you please elaborate on what you mean by this?
Is the right wing nutter Reagan son any less a Reagan than the liberal son?
I guess you must be drawing some distinction in the fact that the right wing nutter Reagan son was adopted.
I think that is a pretty shameful distinction for you to make and deserves a retraction.
Right wing nutter Reagan can be marginalized in so many other ways, but I guess you couldn't resist the low blow.
The thing I found hysterical about the Palin/Hannity love fest was they completely twisted the BillO interview, when he said "They hate you!" into Obama saying they hate him. HUH? WTF? Accused him of giving an "unfortunate" answer by making himself a victim. Or some such crap. Again, all she knows how to do is project.
ReplyDeleteNo bangs tonight - wig in full view, druggie.
Floyd's site is still down this morning. Anyone heard from him? P-bot attack?
ReplyDeletehttp://palinbabygate.blogspot.com/
You can't help but wonder if Michael Reagan has spent his life trying to make up for the fact that he was adopted by sucking up to his father, even after his death.
ReplyDeleteThose getting the panties is a twist over Gryphen's "right wing nutter Reagan...bargain basement" comment, take a chill pill.
ReplyDeleteJane Wyman and other starlets of her time often adopted babies out of vanity because they didn't want to hurt their "figure"...it is a well known fact that Reagan was NOT close to his adopted son and his adopted son's co-opting his legacy to make money is just an illustration of why Gryphen's comment makes sense. I don't care if he's the bio dad or a adopto dad. The son is a leech and could care less about the man who adopted him. Period. If the shoe fits...
Red for $arah is dead in Tennessee.
ReplyDeleteIn this article about $arah copting a 'Ronnie Reagan' attitude, the comments are running 78 to 1 against her:
http://tinyurl.com/4vzosxv
I'm starting to like my state, again.
"bargain basement"? why, because he was adopted? that's a nasty thing to say.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDelete"Those getting the panties is a twist over Gryphen's "right wing nutter Reagan...bargain basement" comment, take a chill pill.
Jane Wyman and other starlets of her time often adopted babies out of vanity because they didn't want to hurt their "figure"...it is a well known fact that Reagan was NOT close to his adopted son and his adopted son's co-opting his legacy to make money is just an illustration of why Gryphen's comment makes sense. I don't care if he's the bio dad or a adopto dad. The son is a leech and could care less about the man who adopted him. Period. If the shoe fits..."
7:55 AM
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Who cares why Jane and Ronald adopted rather than be birth parents? Birth parents have babies for shallow reasons also.
You are correct that Reagan and his son were not close and it is legitimate to comment on his use of the Reagan name and connections for that reason.
Biological children can be in the same situation and can be criticized for the same reason.
But him being an adopted son does not make him a lesser "bargain basement" Reagan.
So no, I don't believe Gryphen's comment makes sense and it is still a cheap shot. There are plenty of reasons to criticize Michael Reagan's use of his father's legacy. Being adopted is not one of them.