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.
Propaganda Of The Victors? 
Who was Richard Nixon’s doctor?
Controversy has flared in Whittier California, where Nixon’s Alma Mater hopes to destroy a local home despite it’s newly asserted historic significance.
A grandson of the owner has surfaced, claiming his grandfather was Nixon’s personal physician, and that this somehow demands saving the house.
His story contradicts the glorious legend of Dr. John Lungren, father of US Representative Dan Lungren and usually described as filling the role with Nixon.
Where’s His Wedding Ring?  
Not content with periodic sightings of “New Reagans, ” Michael Reagan has pronounced victory in the search for Ronald Reagan’s Celestial Soul-mate.
Overcome with excitement at John McCain’s fresh faced choice Sarah Palin announcement, the Reagan offspring rounded up the usual icons:
“Now we’ve got our Maggie Thatcher.“
Communism Point & Click 
So little is left of the Berlin Wall that Reuters reports authorities have resorted to handing tourists a GPS powered device if they want to recreate that closed in feeling.
We know where the Wall went: vast chunks carried off to America for victory displays. Prime offenders are Presidential Libraries, which are cluttered with the stuff.
Let’s review:
George H.W. Bush has a cheesy salute to Berlin 
and all things Texan outside his museum, and indoors 
Wall as well. And Bush Secretary of State James Baker got a 
chunk for his Rice University Institute.
Ford has a piece, 
although the Wall rested undisturbed throughout his presidency.
Nixon too.
Kennedy saw it built on his watch. 
The Hoover Library has a Wall piece, 
although he barely lived long enough to see it built, three decades after his presidency.
Truman hosted Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech at Westminister College in Fulton Missouri, and the campus now hosts both a plain chunk 
and a Wall “sculpture” – a piece with holes punched in it by Churchill’s granddaughter. 
She also sold one of these horrors to the Roosevelt library.
The greater glory of Ronald Reagan requires the most concrete, with Wall samples at his Dixon Illinois 
birthplace, alma mater 
Eureka College, at the federal Reagan 
office building in Washington, aboard 
the USS Ronald Reagan, 
at the Reagan Ranch Center, and at the Reagan Library indoors 
& out. 
And they used to sell bags of chips.
