Tweet of the Day, and Reagan at 100
**Written by Doug Powers
It’s safe to assume that Michael Reagan has a slight disagreement with Ron Reagan Jr’s “dad had Alzheimers while he was president” allegation in his book:
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Reagan Jr’s book suggests — even though the myth has been debunked for years — that President Reagan had Alzheimer’s during his presidency, citing in part some verbal fumbling during a 1984 debate with Walter Mondale. Sure, maybe if Reagan hadn’t slipped a little during that debate he’d have won all 50 states.
Reagan Jr’s claim that his father was stricken with Alzheimers by 1986 would mean that the president was in the throes of the disease when he delivered the famous Brandenburg Speech in 1987:
Moe Lane adds:
Decide for yourself whether or not that is a man with Alzheimer’s – but never forget this. Before they hated Sarah Palin, or Dick Cheney, or Donald Rumsfeld, or Condoleeza Rice, or George W Bush, the Left hated Ronald Wilson Reagan. They hated and feared him – and not least for the way that he destroyed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in eight short years. It’s not even that he did it; it’s that he did it so apparently effortlessly. Reagan made his opponents look like chumps – which they were; I was on the other side during that decade, so I have some familiarity with the type – and he will not be forgiven for that until after his last opponent is dead in his bed of old age.
Meanwhile, plans in DC are continuing to honor the 100th birthday of a great president, relegating claims like the Alzheimer’s-in-office myth to the smearheap of history where they belong.
Some people are asking for bipartisanship? They’ve got it:
In less than a month President Ronald Reagan would have celebrated his 100th birthday and a tight-knit group, consisting of many Democrats, is stepping up to try to throw the Republican “Gipper” the biggest birthday bash ever.
At the helm of the group’s congressional and White House efforts is Michele Woodward, a former staffer of Reagan’s who serves as the executive director of the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission, which President Barack Obama formed 18 months ago.
In the upper chamber Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.) have been extremely instrumental in crafting the events of the Feb. 6 centennial celebrations, said Woodward, adding that they are in the process of drafting a “dear colleague” letter, which will ask members to make floor statements in honor of Reagan on Feb. 3.
Probably not the kind of bipartisanship the left had in mind, but hey, it’s a start… right?
**Written by Doug Powers
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That statement points to where things can go very wrong. It is where history risks being rewritten.
Regan understood the left because his career as an actor depended upon it. This made him a great president and provided him with the tools to be so effective.
I’ve said it for years, and I’ll say it again: Some leftists will never forgive Ronald Reagan for NOT blowing the world to smithereens like they said he would.
As for Ron Jr., I don’t know what to make of the guy. He tried to ride on his father’s name and fame as a liberal, and has failed miserably. He couldn’t eulogize his father without sticking it to religious conservatives. And now, he can’t help himself but to say that all his father’s defamers were right despite the evidence (which you think would mean more to a committed atheist).
If he thinks his dad had Alzheimer’s while he accomplished so much, you would think he would say something like “He did more with a brain disorder than almost all Presidents did without one!” But that wouldn’t be the Ron Reagan way, would it?
Ron Reagan is the typical felt wing socialist, trash his own father so he can grab a bit of fame with the MSM. Looks like he knows people in low places, because that’s where he hangs out. Under rocks.
Ron Reagan Jr. appears to be a very unhappy man. What a waste.
What is it with former ballerinas like Ron Reagan Jr and Rahm Emanuel? What are they so vicious and catty towards their own? Little Ronnie hates his father. Rahm hates Israel and Jews (and just about everyone else too).
New Man Rule: Never listen to former ballerinas.
They were against President Reagan before they were for him.
It is really sad, when you think about it.
Ron is the son of one of the truly great American Presidents, yet all he can think to do with that unearned fame is to smear his Dad.
Quite sad.
Only one comment… I agree wholeheartedly with MICHAEL REAGAN!!!
Another loser kid wanting 15 minutes of fame and hoping that the wacky media types will have him sit next to Megan McCain on a pundit panel.
I admired Regan as the President.
But that family seems a bit messy.
Oops typo, Reagan.
Well old-timers disease is inherited, right Ron? It comes on some earlier than others.
Oh, that’s going to be rich! Can anyone imagine Al Franken trying to say something nice about President Reagan? He’d blow a gasket!
I doubt that he’ll try. He’s never shown any class up until now, so there’s no reason to expect any.
No problem. The leftwing crazies will say things about Reagan that they think are really nice, like pointing out Reagan wasn’t as conservative as they imagine his knuckle dragging neanderthal supporters like to think.
Stuff like that. It’s right there in the leftwing crazies’ Demagoguery for Dummies handbook.
I seem to recall dear nan’s book did not sell well, I hope ron’s sells under hers! I love President Reagan and no amount of negative stuff will change my mind about him. At least when President Reagan was in the WH, the world seemed to like and fear our nation. Sure can’t say what we have in the wh now!
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I thought Little Ron got his 15 minutes of fame when he did the “Risky Business” skit in his underwear on Saturday Night Live.
Yeah, I’m not thrilled about the Democrats honoring Ronald Reagan on his 100th birthday…especially these days.
Someone should tell Ron that bitterness is hardest on the person who carries it. His father was a happy man, full of life and grateful to God.
Poor Ron Jr. A chip off the old block in name only.
I would trust the word of Ron Reagan over Michael Reagan on this issue. Ronald Reagan went to Michael Reagan’s graduation and when Michael Reagan walked up to Reagan Reagan said, ” My name is Ronald Reagan, What is your name?” Michael Reagan answered, “I’m your son, Mike.” Michael Reagan was raised by his adoptive mother Jane Wyman and very occasional went to Ronald Reagan’s home a few weekends of the year. As an adult Michael Reagan didn’t even have a relationship with his adoptive father.
There is something so nauseating about someone who uses a famous relative to foster there own agenda. No one would know who this idiot is if he wasn’t the son of Ronald Reagan
Patty Reagan did the same thing when she decided to take her clothes off for some men’s magazine and then did some soft-core porno films.
I’m astounded by the liberals constant beating of this drum that President Reagan had alzheimers while in office.
Methinks the left should consider the full meaning of their claims but they are so blinded by their hatred of President Reagan they will never see. They think that they can dismiss his accomplishments by claiming he was ill but that, to me, would only make those accomplishments all the more remarkable!
Do they really want to claim that a conservative with alzheimers defeated the Soviet Union while they were still counting on detente?
Do they really want to claim that a conservative with alzheimers was responsible for the longest peacetime economic expansion in our history while their leaders were mostly responsible for stagflation, the misery index, large tax increases, etc…?
Are they really prepared to claim that they are so incompetent that an incapacitated conservative can run rings around them?
They seem to have adopted their recent motto from POGO: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us.
I’m enjoying the spectacle they are making of themselves, I hope they continue.
The old saying, “You can pick your friends, but not your relatives” rings true here.
Little Ronnie has been an embarrassment to himself for years. Obviously he has some sort of inferiority complex to tear his dead father down to build himself up. Why didn’t he bring this up when dad was alive if it was true?
I would trust the word of his doctors and people who worked with him 18 hours a day for years over the word of a bitter son.
That is alright-we are Right (as in correct) and they are wrong–;)
I am more sympathetic for Junior than upset-the poor sob doesn’t know what he is missing. He must be one lonely soul. Ron, as with most if not all Leftist misses one thing- President Reagan loved America and the American spirit-something that is beyond them.
Alzheimer’s can only be diagnosed through a biopsy or autopsy. Until then is Presenile Dementia with suspected Alzheimer’s. So, how did Ron Jr. come up with his diagnosis? Did he take a part of his father’s brain?
And you play a doctor on TV?
Agreed.
Sorry, but I’m very suspicious of this.
Why would Obama’s stringpullers tell him to do that?
Ron Jr. and all the libs that besmirch the name of Ronald Reagan need to have their mouthes washed out with 20 Mule Team Borax!
Actually, I believe they would be termed danseurs.
But, I think what you call them fits just fine, …perhaps better.
I went through the excerpt Parade had in today’s edition; I pity Ron Reagan, Jr.
On January 16th, 2011 at 2:40 pm, kwrxxx said:
I would trust the word of Ron Reagan over Michael Reagan on this issue.
If you trust the word of this idiot kid then you are the idiot. He has been pulling this “crap” for years.
There’s a deja vu. Geez that stuff would peel paint. And the Gipper could sell ya sand in the dessert.
People with no lives will always be parasites on people who do. Ron jr will sell about 10 books and fade back into the roach hole. What’s that smell? Nope. It’s gone now.
If President Reagan had Alzheimer’s during his presidency, then give me another Alzheimer’s patient to vote for in 2012!
No one would read a book by Ron Reagan Jr if he wasn’t the son of a famous president. In fact, no one would even know who he was if it wasn’t for his father. His friends on the left would drop him like a hot potato if he wasn’t willing to spit on his father’s grave. Defaming his father is Ron Jr’s only claim to fame. So when faced with the choice of growing up and earning his own way or making stuff up to cash in on the fame of his father, he chose the easier, less honorable path.
Ron Reagan: “Stabbing my father in the back at 100″ – subtitled “How I’m still trying to curry favor with the left that hated him.”
It’s currently #1 on my list of don’t read books.
Note to Ronnie-boy:
Just STFU and go away, twinkle toes.
You will never be 1/100th the man your father was.
Fixed it for ya.
How much does selling your birthright pay these days?
Much in the same manner that the left called George W. Bush the stupidest man alive, yet accused him of engineering and planning so complex a plan to blow up the World Trade Center that no one’s been able to link him to it.
Dr. Elkohnon Goldberg, author of the book The Wisdom Paradox which discuss Reagan among others (Dr. Goldberg is one of the world’s foremost neurobiologists, an admirer of Reagan, and a very strong anti-communist having grown up and been educated in the Soviet Union prior to his escape) states that as of 1986, Reagan was indeed showing signs of Alzheimers. He also adds that it is certainly possible for a person experiencing the onset of the disease to continue to be an effective leader and cites several examples in which that is the case.
Sorry, and I know I am going to hear about it at least as much as when I defended Inception, but if Dr. Goldberg says the evidence is that Reagan had Alzheimers at that early a date, then I will go with Goldberg. There is no need to be ashamed or embarrassed. We should be proud how Reagan held out to the end.
Bush doesn’t have to be smart. He never would have pulled it off had his people failed to find 40,000 of not only the smartest people on earth, but smart people who can also cover their trails and keep a secret.
I feel sorry for Nancy Reagan. Ron Jr. really has made a fool of himself and debased his father’s memory.
I’d rather have a dead-as-a-hammer Ronald Reagan in office right now than the current one and his God-forsaken advisors.
If we could resurrect Ronald Reagan with Alzheimer’s, we’d not only be better off but it’d be a lot more fun. Ronny would bomb Tehran in the morning, forget he did it by the afternoon and order it bombed again.
Every other craphole country would shut the hell up, hoping against all hope that silence would keep Ronny from thinking about them and subsequently making craters of their capitals.
the fruit fell along ways from the tree on this one. Ron Jr. has to have moral decay of some type to libel his own father in such away.
IMO if that happened the entire world would be changed for the better including America. They’d stop sniveling and whining and start paying attention to what’s going on in the world. Right about now it sucks pretty bad.
The only thing you can really say about Junior is that he’s always been a despicable human being and of course he always will be.
May he enjoy his own special circle in He** when he undoubtedly arrives.
And he did it while suffering from Alzheimers! What does that say about the democrats/socialists?
There’s just no way for the Left to effectively demonize Reagan.
It’s the biggest catch-22 they can put themselves into, save for global warming …
RWR
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It is a sad fact that the offspring of greats are all too often weak-kneed, simpering fools.
It’s interesting: Reagan had 4 children (a fifth died soon after child birth). The two he had with Nancy are a complete disaster. They reject their father, hate their mother, etc.
The two he had with Jane Wyman were fantastic. His oldest daughter died of cancer after leading a wonderful life. he must have been very proud of her. Michael, his adopted son, is also a son that any father would be proud of. He is the poster child for “nurture, not nature.” He is a Reagan, 100%.
Patty and Ronnie? Aye carumba. What disasters…
I’ll read this book as soon as I’m done with Know Your Power and Dreams from My Father.
Yeah those are on my kindling list also.
fixed it for you
The Cold War was a gaping nuclear abyss that everyone knew was there but no one really wanted to talk about. Ronald Reagan didn’t just talk about it, he brought us and the USSR by the hand to the edge of it and forced us to look down into it. He made us finally acknowledge that it was time to fill in that damn hole instead of running away from it as it continued growing.
If not for Saint Reagan, it probably would have swallowed the whole world.
Yep.
“Ron Jr.,” is but one more example of the social, moral, and cultural rot that the opposite worldview-holding “leftists”/”liberals”/socialists/materialists/etc./etc. have brought upon our wonderful country, and to (Western) Civilization in general, over the past 45-70-?95+ years.
If somebody does not understand immediately why what “Jr.” has done by writing this is so very, very wrong, and has to have the reason explained to him;…then that person will never understand….
They all will make suitable replacements the moment we begin facing TP rationing.
President Reagan would never have abandoned Europe as BHO has when he scrapped the European Defense Shield which has NOW set the entire free World on edge!
When President Reagan was in the White House, Americans and our allies knew we were much safer!
With BHO, does anybody, including the loony-leftists, feel safer, more secure, and optimistic about the future?
RRJr, like his friends in LaLaLand, believe only in their wacky world, the ‘here & now’ and to H E double hockey sticks with everyone else and ‘what future’ – live it up for tomorrow we ‘check-out’! jb
Well, family get togethers at the holidays are certainly going to be awkward in the Reagan household, aren’t they?
Good on Michael for calling Ron on the carpet for a such a low blow.
If President Reagan had Alzheimer’s coming on we should scout the country for leaders with the same affliction. He took care of business better than most presidents with their so-called normal brain activity…most were basically full of crap…like Odopy.
hahahahahahahahahaha
Quick! Someone call Sheryl Crow and tell her we’ve found the answer!
judybeth, you’re supposed to feel less safe and more insecure. That way, the gov’t can say they need more tax money for their ad campaign and school classes to raise awareness for this unexpected attitude.
Sometimes, I think the liberals are all part of the Uranus Corporation.
REAGAN 2012!
He’s tanned, rested, and ready!
Just looked at Amazon and it is rated #189 on their Bestseller rank. I expect it will quickly fall to doorstop rating.
You know, I’ve noticed that too. It’s almost as if “greatness” is something that each family has a certain amount of, and it is collected into each of us for the duration of our lives. When we die it is released to be available for the next family members born.
It seems that on rare occasions one person in a family will get an extra large quantity of that greatness and be a truly amazing person.
Sadly, this leaves almost none left over, and so the great person’s own children are left with a dearth of the very thing that defined their parents.
Let’s hope for the Reagan’s sake that some of his greatness will filter down to his grand and great-grand children. Because it sure as hell missed Ron Jr.
You mean all 57.