But Isn’t “Zombie Reagan” Kind of Redundant?

December 1st, 2009 by TRex @ 7:20 pm| Posted in GOP Cargo Cult |

Zombie Reagan Raised From Grave To Lead GOP

Above is a pretty funny video about the GOP digging up the corpse of Ronald Reagan and reanimating it.  It becomes less funny and more sad when you realize that if they actually could manage that, they absolutely would.  Never mind that anyone who’s paying attention knows that Uncle Ronnie was actually an awful president, a bumbling nincompoop whose handlers began the now time-honored pattern of Republicans sacking the government, bankrupting the national coffers, and leaving a trail of dead for a Democrat to come into office and mop up later.

But of course you’d never know that watching the usual parade of cable news stooges, “Democrats” and Republicans who they pull from their formaldehyde-filled tanks each week and prop up for a few hours on the Sunday talk shows.  Nobody ever questions the notion that Reagan was some kind of All-American avatar of grace, strength, and purity, never mind the fact that he was an empty-headed B-movie actor who never had an original thought in his life.

See, Reagan was lucky enough to have the last pre-Information Age presidency.  The bulk of his dirty tricks and policy failures remain mostly under the radar of the American public.  Can you imagine the fun that TPM would have had with Fawn Hall and her paper shredder?

But of course, there’s a whole Reich Wing cottage industry devoted to the preservation of the Legend of St. Ronnie and apparently their high priestess is Peggy “Thousand Points of Shite” Noonan, whom the RNC has clearly agreed to keep in Liquid Valium spritzers and Hermes bags forever and ever, cos she’s still out there spewing rancid pabulum like this:

It is hard to be president, and White Houses under pressure take refuge in thoughts that become mantras. When the previous White House came under mounting criticism from 2005 through ‘08, they comforted themselves by thinking, They criticized Lincoln, too. You could see their minds whirring: Lincoln was criticized, Lincoln was great, ergo we are great. But of course just because they say you’re stupid doesn’t mean you’re Lincoln.

One senses the Obama people are doing the Lincoln too, and adding to it the consoling thought that this is only the first year, we’ve got three years to go, we can change perceptions, don’t worry.

But they should worry. You can get tagged, typed and pegged your first year. Gerald Ford did, and Ronald Reagan too, more happily. The first year is when indelible impressions are made and iconic photos emerge.

Oh, give me a break you old delusional hag.  CAN you get to the end of a column without burying that painstakingly surgeried mug of yours in the cold, rotting taint of Dead Ronnie?  Pathetic.  Let it go, woman.  Even his son and namesake doesn’t vote Republican anymore.

God, is there any more morbid, obsessive relationship than Conservatives and their panoply of hopeless illusions?  Kind of makes you sick, doesn’t it?