Remembering history the way they wished it had been
A Very Special Agent 
The Washington Post reports new material on Gerry Ford’s proud past as one of our FBI Informant/Presidents.
Ford’s leaking on the Warren Commission to troglodytious J.Edgar Hoover has surfaced before, but the Post FOIA’d Ford’s FBI file, and has new detail.
Friend To All
Ford’s fellow Friend of the Bureau was of course Ronald Reagan.
Name In Vain 
Hope Arkansas’s Second Son Mike Huckabee graced the stage at the Republican convention’s Wednesday session, offering up democrat and god fearin’.
Sadly the Arkansas Augustus has been caught out making up a Lincoln quote, the gist of which is to make Old Abe an enemy of big government. It’s been attributed to much of the Founders pantheon, but it’s really just a Gerry Ford line from the 70s.
The whitest Republican convention in forty years remains eager to drop Lincoln’s name, the latest being both Cindi and John McCain Thursday night.
 You’d think she might shy away from the word Lincoln.
Never To Be Forgotten  
Odessa Texas’s Presidential Museum is getting out while they can, trying to unload one of their inventory of former Midland-Odessa Bush homes.
This slice of rustic splendor and site of early Bush political disappointment 
 can be yours for the low, low price of $239,900!
Rocky Mountains, High  
Further up the food chain is this fab Ford property for sale in Beaver Creek Colorado. Only $15 million separates you from skiing like Gerry Fancypants. 
Sadly, the Bush property has knocked out one of the Ford home’s unique selling propositions,
“…. the even rarer distinction of being the only former president’s home for sale in the country.”
Your Bucks Could Stop Here! Â 
Mount Up & Ride  
It’s come to this: Vaseline-lensed Ronald Reagan nostalgia mobilized as the bridge between the today’s grim reality and yesterday’s failed successor, who spun tales about the Republican nominee to be.
Right Said Fred  
 President Bush managed to scrape up a satellite link to the Republican convention, Reagan weaved his magic from beyond the grave, and then spirits sank in the jowly presence of one of the party’s legion of New Reagan burnouts, Fred Thompson.
What was the source of Reagan’s special magic? He was a Maverick!
“…the media despised him, they called him an outsider.”
The convention video also pointed to President From The Future Reagan prophesying McCain’s provocative “Country First” slogan, as demonstrated by jaunty hat usage while serving stateside in the great war.
  CNN’s thoughtful John King swooned that “for any American watching it was a nostalgic trip back in time,” building on the great media tradition of getting all dreamy at the mention of Reagan.
Education Abroad  
Richard Nixon son-in-law and New York McCain campaign chair Ed Cox sees haunting parallels between Veep-To-Be Sarah Palin and Tricky Dick*. 
The secret of Nixon’s success? Near death experiences at the hands of foreign mobs!
“Eisenhower in 1952 was also old for a person to be elected president …He had this young senator from California named Richard Nixon. He sent him on an around-the-world trip. Because of his intellectual interest in it, and because of what he was, he was able to learn the way of the world very quickly.”
And it weren’t no book learnin.
*Somehow she’s also Fighting Harry.
