Reagan junior warns Bush: ‘stop hijacking my father’s reputation’ (Who is he to warn Bush?)

Sunday Herald | 9/26/04

[areafiftyone]

Since we can't post the article here is the link Reagan junior warns Bush: ‘stop hijacking my father’s reputation’

[areafiftyone]

You Ronald Reagan are NOTHING like your father - you are not a man you are a girlieman like Kerry! All you and the other democrats know how to do is put down REAL MEN!

[TexasBud]

He has said this before, I think. Why does the media think this is news? Did Bush give a speech and mention Reagan recently or something?

[ArmyBratCutie]

I couldnt despise him more if he were clintons son.. he is a disgusting wussy, with no real job, handouts from his fathers friends, using HIS FATHER, to continuously get a 15 minute fame buzz....what a CREEP....below describes him to a tee!

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Buckley vs. Reagan (Jr.)
Robert Novak (archive)


July 12, 2004 | Print | Send


WASHINGTON -- Amid the spontaneous outpouring of respect and affection for Ronald Reagan following his death, a discordant note was sounded by his son. In a succession of television and newspaper interviews, Ron Reagan Jr. used the occasion to trash George W. Bush by drawing invidious comparisons between his father and the current president. Nobody knew how to respond in a time of national mourning. Nobody, that is, except William F. Buckley Jr.

The elder statesman of the conservative movement considered Ron Jr.'s remarks a public challenge that ought to be challenged publicly. Buckley wrote Reagan a letter that specifically addressed his claim in an interview with The New York Times that he, as a self-professed atheist, admired the Buddhist teachings of "mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion." Buckley told him: "You proceed in a single interview to profane/deride the faith of your parents, which is not very mindful."

There was more than one interview. In his graveside eulogy, the son threw a dart at President Bush by saying his father never wore "his faith on his sleeve." That was just the beginning of attempts to dispel any notion that Bush was another Reagan. "My father did not know George W. Bush from Adam," he said on CNN, adding: "My father was a man -- that's the difference between him and Bush." As far as Republicans using the Reagan heritage, he said on MSNBC, "This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, they're no Ronald Reagans."

This fit the desperate effort by Bush-bashers to keep the president from politically benefiting as a result of national grief over Reagan's passing. With publication in The New York Times Magazine of Ron Jr.'s interview with Deborah Solomon, Buckley wrote the son with a point-by-point response.

RR Jr.: The nude picture of his sister Patti in Playboy was "just something that is not too exciting."

WFB: "Why then was there so much excitement about it?"

RR Jr.: As for his father's reaction when he dropped out of Yale to join the ballet, "That was fine with him."

WFB: "It wasn't fine with him and he enlisted my aid in trying to persuade you to stay in college."

RR Jr.: Having three cats while being childless "is like having children." WFB: "No, it's not like having children."

RR Jr.: As to whether his mother helps him out financially, "Of course not. My father felt that children should make their own way."

WFB: "I know, and you know that I know, something about that question. But to say that 'of course' your mother does not help you out suggests she will not do so even if there were a need. Are you saying she would not acknowledge you in her will?"

RR Jr.: As to the Abu Ghraib prison abuses, "How can Christians tolerate it?"

WFB: "I don't know of any Christians who 'tolerate it.' The perpetrators are reviled."

RR Jr.: In an answer to a question, he said he did not vote for Bush in the last election.

WFB: "Odd that you should permit this invasion of privacy whose only purpose is to remark the political infidelity of the son of Ronald Reagan."

RR Jr.: His father "worked hard to impress upon his children the value of kindness."

WFB: "If he did, he was manifestly unsuccessful."

This is more than a wayward son, at age 46 with a career seemingly going nowhere, seeking 15 minutes of fame. He has signed with MSNBC as a "contributor" for the 2004 campaign. It is a windfall for Democratic operatives to quote the son of Ronald Reagan saying of Republicans: "I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists."

[Alia]

He sounds like a pipsqueak.

[Servant of the 9]

Will Michael please slap the little pansy and send him back to the Dog shows?

So9

[7.62 x 51mm]

STFU, Ronette homo girlie-boy! The refill truck for your 1,000 gal KY Jelly dispenser is in the driveway, waiting to unload. Better not miss it this time, rump-raider.

[So Cal Rocket]

Pot. Kettle. Black.

[RichInOC]

Skipper...you first.

[areafiftyone]

This is a new interview. I am sure this British slime paper was licking its chops when they interviewed him. The love this stuff especially when it trashes Bush. They act like Ron Reagan is important in this country. HE IS NOBODY! He is just a MSNBC Lap Dog! That's all. Jeeze they act like he was president and NOT his father. This guy is a jerk!

[RasterMaster]

Ronald PRESCOTT Reagan is no JUNIOR (Ronald WILSON Reagan)!

[Fatalis]

The stowaway should talk.

[Freepdonia]

Reagan junior warns Bush: ‘stop hijacking my father’s reputation’

George Bush is a hundred times more deserving of "hijacking" Reagan's reputation than Junior ever could (or should).

[slag]

To Ron,
I knew Ronald Reagan and your no Ronald Reagan.

[Mike Darancette]

There is a special level in Hell for the likes of Ron Reagan.

He hates everything that his father stood for but would be nothing but for the last name that great man gave him.

[marineguy]

Ron is a has been that never was. The only thing that he contrbutes to the debate is whether or not to bring back jean jackets and talking with overly done hand gestures.

[Gibtx]

this boy could not wait to for his fathers grave to get cold before he took advantage of his name.... and his father would be ashamed of him now....

[earlyamerican]

Little Ron needs to stop besmirching his father's reputation. He does his father's legacy no good. Michael Reagan is the legacy keeper.

[medscribe]

America to Ronette: Shut up and go back to your ballerina ways. Dubya is the true inheritor of Ronald Wilson Reagan's legacy, not some twerp who tramples over his father body to get a job at PMSNBC.

[katdawg]

“This is an administration that has cheated to get into the White House. It’s not something Americans ever want to think about their government. My sense of these people is that they don’t have any respect for the public at large. They have a revolutionary mindset. I think they feel that anything they can do to prevail – lie, cheat, whatever – is justified by their revolutionary aims.”

And what would we call Kerry videoing himself to make himself look like the hero that he wasn't in Vietnam? Wouldn't that be considered a lie?

[LuckyHat]

Was he wearing panties? maxipad? and lipstick? when he said this?

not that there's anything wrong with it..(snicker) just wondering...

[ArmyBratCutie]

if you have ever seen him on MSNBC you can TELL its nothing but a "hand out" job... they never let him talk unless its to bash our President .. he would be asking for a dollar to clean your windshield if he hadnt been born to President Reagan... what a shameful jerk

[OldFriend]

Oh, sthweetie, you theem to have your panties in a thwist.

Calm down, thit on Chrithie's lap and he'll make it all better.

[Good.V.Evil]

If it wasn't for HIS name he wouldn't even be a dog show commentator!

[Defiant]

Maybe left-winger Chris Heinz could get in the act, and say how proud his dad would be of Tarayza using his family fortune to promote an anti-American socialist. Maybe while we're at it, we could find a great-great-great nephew of Teddy Roosevelt to say that the GOP has lost its way.

Ronnie boy has no more value in his opinions for being a Reagan than Michael does, but Michael's make a whole lot more sense. Neither should be influential for their last name.

[Ghengis]

It must suck to exist only as a parasite on your father's name, realizing that you are not worthy of licking the boots of those you criticize.

He is utilized to speak on this subject only by accident of birth and the willingness of the left to throw him out there as an occasional court jester for their cause.

[areafiftyone]

Sounds like he's been hanging over at DU for years. He spews the same vile putrid hatred that they spew. Disgusting vile creature that he is!

[battlegearboat]

He is an abomination.Never cared for the panty waist myself.

[Awestruck]

That ungrateful pathetic little loser isn't worthy of licking his late father's boots.. he must have been adopted and they didn't have the heart to tell him... same with his dyke sister Patti...

[Main Street]

"Reagan junior warns Bush: ‘stop hijacking my father’s reputation’"

When that godless atheist leftist liberal democratic wussy, who calls himself Reagan's son, stops hijacking his daddy's name and reputation, first.

[Alia]

What amazes me.. Little Ronnie NOT ONCE supported his dad while his dad was in office; but now demands the right to "speak" for his dad? Talk about 'body snatching". ick.

[atomicpossum]

Bush is a better progeny to Reagan than Jr. is.

[ArmyBratCutie]

of note: the email addy to the woman that wrote the article:
I just "shared" my thoughts with her HAHAHHAHAHAHA

Jenifer.Johnston@sundayherald.com

[Two-Bits]

After November, democrats will not give him the time of day. It is one thing to have certain political beliefs but it is another to be used by those who reviled and hated his father. Tell me Ron, why did your father do to you to cause you to hate him so much even in death. You will always be a footnote in history and to think you could have been a contender. During the funeral, I could not help but feel sorry for his wife. She looked so lost and so unloved. Maybe it is a good thing that Reagan's two biological children did not have children.

[Bittersweetmd]

"To Ron,
I knew Ronald Reagan and your no Ronald Reagan."

Did you really know him or are you only making a point? What a great thing to have really have known him.

[DennisR]

Ironically, Reagan says he sometimes finds Bush “amusing, when you see pictures of him on his ranch with his little chainsaw as if he actually does any work there”.

Ron - when was the last time you even SAW a chain saw? Have you ever even started one? Or used one?

[Vision]

If a queen screams and nobody cares, is he still screaming?

[areafiftyone]

Ron would't be able to even pick up a chainsaw. That man is disgustingly skinny and wimpy!

[ArmyBratCutie]

yes I did think that sorta about his wife too....I cant believe, and I dont mean this as disgusting, but I cant believe hes a "guy".. and his poor wife looked so much older than him....
I tell you another thing....Michael Reagans children looked so out of place..I wonder if he has a relationship with his own mother? its shameful that Nancy Reagan doesnt embrace them as any GOOD Grandmother would ... she is a jerk to me too, I've never liked her....

[Texagirl4W]

After hearing that MSNBC was going to have pipsqueak reagan to critique the debates, I sent the following email to Joe Scarbrough and Chris Matthews:

"I would suggest you reconsider using this totally biased so-called 'reporter' to intrude upon the Presidential Debate.

It is akin to the travesty of Dan Rather at CBS - and will SURELY backfire for MSNBC in the 'Eyes of The Beholders.'

Get a PROFESSIONAL and neutral reporter - or suffer the consequences with your rapidly diminishing audiences.

MSNBC can become as irrelevant as CBS, believe me.

xxxxxx, xxxxx, Texas"

I borrowed this email from another freeper by permission. Feel free to use it if you care to.

[jennyjenny]

Sounds like he got his tutu in a wad.

[DennisR]

Yeah - I was giving him too much credit, wasn't I?

[ArmyBratCutie]

woohoo I borrowed it.....thanks

[areafiftyone]

I would rather have Chris Mathews than Ron Reagan. I personally don't care for Chris Mathews but he has never been as disgusting and vile and Ron Reagan.

[Semper Paratus]

Hey junior, "Shut Up and Dance".

[areafiftyone]

I can't stand looking at that ugly face. Jeeze you can see he never inherited his father's looks.

[Bahbah]

"RR Jr.: As for his father's reaction when he dropped out of Yale to join the ballet, "That was fine with him."

WFB: "It wasn't fine with him and he enlisted my aid in trying to persuade you to stay in college."

Ron Jr. a liar. Oh my!

[Let's Roll]

No one has done more to damage the reputation of Ronaldus Maximus than tutu boy.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

2004 Liberal Dork of the Year Awards...

[billhilly]

For the sake of his mother, I think Ron needs to stop pretending to be the son of the former president.

[Semi Civil Servant]

Ron's a ballerina. What else can we expect?