Ron Reagan, son of the former president of the United States, is set to write an editorial piece for Esquire magazine urging the end of the Bush administration...
Reagan has always been a vocal opponent of his father's political party, but never as much as he is now. He told me he will write an article of undetermined length for Esquire explaining why George W. Bush should not be re-elected.
One reason, I inferred, was that Bush has blocked stem-cell research for diseases such as Alzheimer's. Reagan is extremely clear about his feelings on this subject, since his father, who will turn 93 next month, has been felled by this insidious illness.
The only thing shocking about this is seeing anti-Republican sentiments coming from somebody named Ronald Reagan. The junior Reagan has been a critic of the GOP for a long time now, so its not surprising that he wouldn't be a Bush supporter. If you didn't already know this, however, you could have been mislead by the headline which leads one to believe that a major Republican was against Bush.
Rest assured, junior is not a Republican.
So Ronnie Jr. doesn't share his father's political views. At least he's being his own person, and I can respect that.
He goes on to talk about The Reagan's, which would have aired on CBS had it not been the worst kind of liberal slander:
"I saw it on tape," he said. "Someone sent it to me. I think my mother saw some clips from it. It looked to me like a 'Saturday Night Live' sketch. I mean, it was just so bad. And who cared? James Brolin did a terrible imitation of my father. Judy Davis is a good actress, but she's not my mother. The problem is that people made such a big deal out of it, but in the end it was nothing."
I think he just doesn't want to be on the record agreeing too much with Republicans. That movie was crap. If somebody had depicted my father that way I would have been angry.