Remembering history the way they wished it had been
Not Happy 
Reagan progeny Patti Davis despairs at the Republican Presidential field’s efforts to all look like true sons of Ronnie. She seems particularly upset at Mike Huckabee’s fashion choices 
for bird slaughter, then closes with this send off:
“…imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery; it’s just an indication that the imitator is going through a serious identity crisis.”
Face Facts 
Powerline forum participant “G. Will” [because the bow-tie pulls the babes?] has nailed the real trouble with Mike Huckabee:
“Only Problem: Huckabee Looks Like Nixon!..He is a no-winner due to this sorry quirk of Nature.”
Huckabee’s not alone.
Signposts on the Nixon Trail include vegetables: 
Trees: 
Rock formations: 
More rocks: 
And the great state of Montana: 
Is there a more stirring locator in American journalism today? The New York Times’ Patrick Healy tags along as Hillary Clinton trolls the frozen Iowa wastes – and you are there!
The dutiful Lyndon Johnson/1948 Texas Senate race analogies have been made.
Johnson’s in the news more legitimately in Supreme Court filings over Indiana’s Voter ID law. Ballot Access News reports that the Texas Attorney General gets the election year wrong in part of his filing. He also uses this fairly clear case of ballot box stuffing to justify forcing ID requirements on voters – the remote in service of the unproven.
Happy Feet 
He’s taking on a sitting President. After that the parallels kind of trail off, but Reagan is where you seek Him.
Jacob Zuma is expected to win a convention vote for African National Congress party president Monday, defeating South African President Thabo Mbeki, and almost assuring that Zuma will succeed Mbeki in South Africa’s next election.
For some the segue from “California Here We Come” 
to “Bring Me My Machine Gun” is hard, but a South African Business Day writer can’t resist the infectious optimist 
of the Southern Hemisphere.
“Zuma will probably be okay. He’s our Ronald Reagan, a good ol’ boy, at home in a suit in the corridors of power or sipping home brew out of a paint tin with his cousins in the kraal at Nkandla. Reagan was arguably the most successful postwar US president. He didn’t so much energise America as relax it. We could do with that here, too.”
If Reagan doesn’t work for you, take heart. Zuma’s also been called the Comeback Kid.
From BAGnewsNotes, “a prgressive blog dedicated to the political, psychological and media analysis of news images..”
