I think Nancy was making it pretty clear, that she knows her husband very well, and she is speaking for Reagan, to let these deceivers know that they are wrong. Nancy is saying that Ronald Reagan would approve of a Romney preisdency. She is saying it for a reason, cause she is aware of the ABR crowd and is sticking it to them, cause she knows her husband better then any person who never even met Romney, but tosses his name around to score points. That’s why Nancy spoke, cause she knows her husband better then these jokers. Don’t appologize or try to soften the blow. They need to hear the truth from Nancy, Ronald Reagan’s beloved wife. Go Nancy, give em hell, you go girl!
“I think Nancy was making it pretty clear, that she knows her husband very well, and she is speaking for Reagan, to let these deceivers know that they are wrong”
Excellent post. You are absolutely right.
And those of us who know Reagan, his principles, his character, the things he stood for and fought for, know this to be an utter and total falsehood. Period.
OK, you think that Nancy Davis Reagan speaks for Ronaldus Maximus??? Just because she is his widow? Try and separate the romantic and the fanciful from the political.
When Reagan was POTUS, Nancy was forever sticking her nose in where it certainly did not belong. When Reagan trashed Gorbachev at Reykjavik, Nancy was conniving with the usual gang of top Reagan staffers like James Baker and Michael Deaver and others for Reagan to cave to Gorbachev because it would somehow enhance Reagan's place in history to be seen as spineless but "visionary" in "making peace."
As usual, commercial lawyer James Baker and all purpose prostitute Howard Baker were obsessing over what they always thought was the overriding issue of fattening the income of their clients and sycophants and pals by making business deals with soviet slavemasters while the prisoners in the Gulag suffered and the soviet Jews suffered and while the aspirations of the Russian people were crushed by their evil rulers. Nancy was probably off getting advice from her astrologer and trying to figure out how to convince her husband that er astrologer was always right. Of course, we did not elect her astrologer.
It is no secret that Nancy Reagan is and has always been an enemy of social issue conservatism and was just downright embarrassed that Ronny never agreed with her fashionable friends. She and little Ronnie Tutu were in emphatic agreement in favor of embryonic stem cell research, for one notorious example.
Nancy Davis Reagan's late stepfather Dr. Loyal Davis of the American Medical Association did a very good job of easing Ronaldus Maximus's ideological transition from Truman Democrat to hero of freedom but he was never able to do the same for Nancy who only understands "feel good" and "fashionable" and not political principle. Ronald Reagan was the political leader in the family and Nancy was not. Daughter Patti was an embarrassment during his administrations, protesting his policies and posing nude in Playboy as though anyone was interested other than to facilitate embarrassing her father. Eventually she improved and helped Nancy care for Reagan during the Alzheimer's. Little Ronnie Tutu is somewhere out there to the left of George McGovern and also claims at times to speak for Ronaldus Maximus but he doesn't. Maureen (his daughter by Jane Wyman) was at first a hard right-winger and then a militant pro-abortion feminist and an embarrassment but before she died of a metastasized skin cancer, came back to her senses politically. Adopted son Michael is probably the most loyal family member to his dad's legacy at least since the president's brother Neil died.
In many ways, it is a shame that Reagan did not stay married to Jane Wyman. When she was approached by the usual gang of media suspects in 1980 looking for dirt on Reagan and knowing that their 1948 divorce had been a bloodbath, Jane Wyman said absolutely NOTHING about policy as to which she was no more qualified than Nancy Davis Reagan and, instead, said that the United States would be very fortunate indeed to have a fine man like Ronald Reagan as its president.
In 1976, Reagan challenged Ford for the nomination (another unprincipled GOP-E airhead). I had met Reagan but did not really know him personally. I was a state chairman in that effort. Like my entire generation of conservatives, I paid intense attention to Reagan from 1964 until he was inaugurated in 1981 and beyond. We cringed when Nancy was said to have persuaded Reagan to choose the time of his inauguration as governor according to her astrologer's "readings." We cringed just about every time she opened her mouth in public and every time she connived behind his back with other airhead liberals among her "friends." She likes and admires money. Myth has money galore and is therefore admirable. That, and a desperate desire to be noticed, explains her behavior in her dotage and not any special loyalty to Reagan's views. The woman is not a deep thinker and never was.
The Ronald Reagan who proclaimed that the GOP banner should contain "no pale pastels" and "only old colors" was never a fan of George Romney and would not have thought as much or much at all of the likes of the utterly unprincipled Myth Romney.
When Reagan ran against Ford, Bill Buckley expressed to a gathering of Young Americans for Freedom his absolute disdain for Betty Ford (another fashionable airhead of the liberal persuasion, pro-abort, "peace" lover, etc.). Questioned by Morley Safer as to what sort of young man she might favor as a paramour for her very attractive teenaged daughter Susan, Betty Ford totally embarrassed herself and the nation. Buckley asked various impertinent questions to skewer her (What qualifications was Betty seeking in a lover for her young daughter? Was Betty seeking a "moderate" Republican for young Susan? Someone rich? Surely Susan would be a better judge on superficial qualities like looks? Etc.) Then Buckley, observing that Betty Ford had not thought the matter through and probably was incapable of thinking it through. He also observed that she was apparently presumed to be some sort of fount of wisdom because she had achieved her high position in life only by a "concatenation of circumstances romantic (with Gerald) and felonious (Nixon's misbehaviors)".
Let's not get carried away with the likes of Nancy as some sort of political guru much less as a spokeswoman for her late husband. Romance and politics are quite different things. Unlike the ill-fated Tsar Nicholas II, Reagan knew when to resist his wife's political nonsense and when to ignore it. She has not become more qualified since his death. But for her marriage to Reagan, no one would have a clue as to who Nancy Davis was or is.
Nancy should go all right---into a dignified and very silent and permanent retirement from matters far beyond her capability and particularly from the hilarious notion that she speaks (or has ever spoken) for her late husband.
Am I being mean? Yep, because sometimes it is necessary especially when those too young to have been there might otherwise be misled.