PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS Archive
Ronald Reagan: Live The Fantasy!
1 Comment Published by mr.president September 1st, 2010 in PLACES & THINGS NAMED REAGAN, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, PRESIDENTIAL GRAVE, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, JACOB ZUMA, ALL PRESIDENTS, JOHN MCCAIN, MIKE HUCKABEE, FRED THOMPSON, PRESIDENTIAL GHOSTS, PRESIDENTISH, NEVER WERE'S, US PRESIDENTS, RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORYRepublican Tinkerbell
The thoughtful press peepers at Media Matters For America [just typing it gives a tingle!] have detected a pattern in Republican affairs: free-floating New Reagan naming, often not tied to any visible speaking skill or charisma.
Christie On A Stick!
They run down the usual names named, your Palins, Rubios and the like, but […]
A New Deal For Dead Presidents: Everything’s Better After All
0 Comments Published by mr.president July 1st, 2010 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, BARACK OBAMA, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, JOHN F. KENNEDY, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, HARRY S.TRUMAN, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORYNo Middle Ground
Having already incorporated Truman and Kennedy into the conservative pantheon, reactionaries are now critiquing Barack Obama for being just not FDR-ish enough
Portly torture enthusiast, former Bush speech writer and stain on the Washington Post op/ed page Mark Theeson is out with an exciting new line of pretend argument: […]
Republicans Eat Their Own
0 Comments Published by mr.president March 4th, 2010 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PLACES & THINGS NAMED REAGAN, ALL PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, ULYSSES S. GRANT, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, RONALD REAGAN, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS, GEORGE W. BUSHReagan Inflation
The echos of Tim [who?] Pawlenty’s heartfelt tribute to Ulysses S. Grant had barely faded when eager young Republican cubs sprang forth to re-seal Grant’s Tomb.
Small but perfectly formed North Carolina Representative Patrick McHenry has introduced legislation to banish Grant from his perch on the $50 bill, replacing him with a fellow all […]
We Don’t Like You And Your Friend Too
0 Comments Published by mr.president February 24th, 2010 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, PRESIDENTIAL PARDONS, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY Beck Banishes
Awakened from their slumbers by patriot/seer Glen Beck, conservatives across America rush to join the antic showman in tossing Teddy Roosevelt over the side.
Until now, who knew that TR’s hysterically masculine crackpot vision of a white man’s world had some problems? Evidently not Jonah Goldberg.
Wonkette peers under the hood of Teddy’s […]
Tim Pawlenty, Buried In Grant’s Tomb
1 Comment Published by mr.president February 21st, 2010 in PRESIDENTIAL WANNABEES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, MARGARET THATCHER, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, BARACK OBAMA, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, ULYSSES S. GRANT, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, CHURCHILLIAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORYGrant Me This
It was a gathering of the conservative faithful at CPAC this past weekend, and the search for novel political analogies reached strange new heights.
Among the oddities was Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, whose doomed Presidential campaign took its first tentative steps off the cliff by reminding the assembled Neo-Confederates of a past […]