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  History On Horseback

Dynamic Gal-On The-Go Meg Whitman may run for California Governor, somehow transjiggering her eBay CEO experience into the state’s salvation. How better to communicate prosperous just folksiness than to pose with a horse, resembling a previous governor.

Tragically, it isn’t her horse.

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Cool Place?               

The George W. Bush Presidential Library home-to-be at Southern Methodist University sees the facility as a boon to fund raising and prestige boosting, and of course removing the stain of JFK’s assassination.].

But it may not help on another front: SMU has always had a reputation as a comfortable place for the comfortable, and now the SMU Daily Campus reports the university has gotten steadily whiter over the last decade.

“Enrollment of black students declined by more than 40 percent. Hispanic enrollment fell by 20 percent.”

Slacker!  

The always in the know Mike Allen reports former President George W. Bush has settled on a format for his upcoming memoirs.  Allen reports that:

“…his book will revolve around 12 tough decisions he made as president. Planners for his presidential library in Dallas are considering a similar format.”

Making Richard Nixon’s Six Crises look like nothin!

Bush spoke in Canada, giving us a little taste of the torture apologetics to come:

“I want people to understand what it was like to sit in the Oval Office and have them come in and say, ‘We have captured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’ — this mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, the alleged killer of a guy named Danny Pearl [who died] because he was simply Jewish — ‘and we think he has information on further attacks on the United States.’ I want to draw people in to that environment and let them determine what they would have done if their most important job was to protect the country.”

In the same appearance Bush claimed he’d be quiet about the Obama administration, but apparently “drawing comparisons” does not count as criticism.

Closing Time?  

Sad news as America recovers from another St. Patrick’s Day.

The Alexandria Virginia pub where Ronald Reagan lifted a beer glass [unclear if he drank any of it] is for sale. The visit launched a thousand “who would you rather have a beer with” presidential polls, climaxing with teetotaler George W. Bush’s win.

Mission Critical  

The fate of the Republican Party lies in the hand of a novice museum head, but John Heubusch does not lack confidence. “I’m about to rescue the cause of Reaganism from the jaws of Obamaism,” he vows to the tattered on-line remains of US News & World Report.

Heubusch is the dynamic new honcho of the Reagan Library Foundation. He’s the caretaker of what he calls the “most important Republican brand.”

His sacred cause? “We want to take the principles that Reagan searched for and make them relevant today.”

There’s a new sheriff in town, or the old one is back, Reagan lives…something.

“Ronald Reagan is walking back into town. We want to be the ones who answer the question: What would Reagan do?”