GOP contenders embrace Reagan legacy

[Systematic Chaos]

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - Ten Republican presidential candidates wanting to replace President Bush embraced a more popular president, conservative icon Ronald Reagan, at every turn in their first debate of the 2008 race.

"Ronald Reagan was a president of strength," Mitt Romney intoned. "Ronald Reagan used to say, we spend money like a drunken sailor," said John McCain (news, bio, voting record). And Rudy Giuliani praised "that Ronald Reagan optimism."

The world, however, is far different today than it was some 25 years ago when the nation's 40th president relaxed at his retreat in the rolling hills of southern California.

Iraq and terrorism now are top issues, support for Bush is at a low point and Republican hopefuls find themselves trying to prove to the party's base that they're conservative enough to be the GOP nominee — on social matters as well as the economic and security issues Reagan championed.

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[Ganja Ninja]

1. Why don't they just cancel their convention ...

and hold a seance instead? Nancy could sponsor it and the ghostly specter of the Gipper, wrapped in chains Jacob Marley style could choose the next GOP candidate.

[Berry Cool]

3. It could be like "A Christmas Carol"

George HW: Ghost of Party Past
Dubya: Ghost of Party Present
Jeb: Ghost of Party Yet to Come

"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost of Reagan. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it...in life my spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our money-changing hole...No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse...Mankind was my business. The common welfare (not worrying about 'welfare queens') was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business..."

"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said the American Voter. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!"

[Ganja Ninja]

4. Almost makes you want to pull the covers over your head and

go back to bed for another 4 years.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Bonzo's Lackey , ate jelly beans and used casuistries more than

Marie Antoinette!

[tanyev]

5. There's still time to dig him up and put him on the 2008 ticket.

[KittyWampus]

6. It's Morning in America! Now hit the snooze button and go back to sleep.

[LiberalFighter]

7. You know it's like they want to have sex with Reagan

Not exactly a pretty picture. Bad in a Republican way because they want sex with a man. Bad everything else because they want sex with a dead guy.