Remembering history the way they wished it had been
Michael Reagan, lacking poetry on the 2008 field:
“On the Democratic side, there is no problem envisioning a future under their authority. Instead of envisioning a shining city on a hill, they see a Marxist municipality which on close inspection turns out to be just another one of those socialist slums which litter the garbage bin of history.”
Repetition: key to marketing magic!
Making Friends Wherever We Go 
Student Day in Iran, a chance for leftists to recall their people who died protesting Richard Nixon’s visit after the CIA installed the Shah in power, and a chance for the current regime to try and take credit for opposition to the Shah they took no part in.
“Prior to the Islamic Revolution these memorials always met with police interference. Since then, the government supported these annual events as an expression of the ‘nation’s strong disapproval of the US policy.”
Passed, Imperfect? 
The Ronald Reagan Centenary in 2011 looms, and Dixon Illinois is forming a commission to coordinate the celebration.
Where this leaves Tampico, the actual birthplace, is unclear. Reagan spent the bulk of his childhood in the Dixon. The town is bigger than Tampico and holds the Reagan “Boyhood Home.” It’s a house Reagan’s family rented for less than two years, yet the location of mawkish commemorations of the legend.
Brace yourself for a renewed Reagan Naming orgy as the anniversary approaches.
What Was I Thinking? 
Mitt Romney’s Must See Thursday has generated acres of ink.
A passing mention in an opinion piece on the build up recalls an earlier Mormon candidate, Mo Udall, and how he was done in by the sainted Jimmy Carter.
“Religion is neither a qualifier nor a disqualifier for public office, unless you are a Mormon, one of your opponents is a Southern Baptist and you are both running for the presidential nomination of your party…When former governor Jimmy Carter was in tight race with Congressman Morris “Mo” Udall for the Democratic Party’s nomination in 1976, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, a Carter backer, said to a large audience of black Baptist ministers: “I’m asking you to make a choice between a man from Georgia who fights to let you in his church, and a man from Arizona whose church won’t even let you in the back door.”…Udall, who had left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over its policies toward blacks, called on Carter, a Southern Baptist layman, to repudiate Coleman’s comments. Carter refused and won the Michigan primary.”
Glorious days of old! Carter, the man who split the vote and got Lester Maddox in as Georgia Governor, paired with a man who was at least friendly with the Stalinists to slander one of the more decent politicians Arizona ever produced. 
His billions may not have brought him happiness, but they have given right wing funder Richard Mellon Scaife the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review with which to pursue his enemies.
In the rag’s sights now: The Ronald Reagan Hall of Presidents.
Home is Where the Hall Is
Pittsburgh suburb Upper St. Clair’s [Go Panthers!] School Board voted to make a High School entrance hallway into Hall of Presidents after spending three years discussing how to honor the Dear Leader.
Now comes the complaint that the Hall won’t be Reagan enough.
The Kids in The Hall
This is a conservative version of the phenomenon Bill Clinton claimed to be always fighting: making the perfect the enemy of the good.
Disgruntled St. Clair resident Jay Lynch writes the PTR that Reagan would…
“…be upset at the USC school board for forcing local taxpayers — even those without kids — to pay for an expensive, extravagant high school where kids are taught by unionized teachers. …If “The Great Communicator” were here today, he’d be telling the school board to let the taxpayers keep their $10,000 and spend it on tuition at private schools of their choice.”
