 |
| Ronald Reagan rises from the dead to ask the GOP candidates to stop hiding behind his name. |
In Monday night’s debate in Tampa, Fla., Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, mentioned Ronald Reagan just four words into his first answer of the night. It was the first of five times that Mr. Gingrich would mention Reagan; no other candidate did so even once.
This was not, it turns out, an isolated example. Mr. Gingrich uses Reagan’s name early and often, and in almost every debate.
Gingrich is lucky that Palin is not in this race, as she seems to mention Reagan after almost every other breath.
It is no wonder that the Republicans keep bringing up Reagan, because they certainly CAN'T bring up George W. Bush, and many people are too young or too forgetful to remember the truth about Ronald Reagan's presidency.
But not everybody has forgotten.
