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2004-06-05 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-06-05 1:17:03 AM|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 DU is in full party mode over this. Damn them. Devils truly walk the Earth.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-06-05 1:22:09 AM|| 2004-06-05 1:22:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The next Dem ex-president that's gonna croak is ol' Peanut Man himself. Take note of what's going on at DU and remember it well when Jimmeh is laid to rest.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-05 1:44:00 AM|| 2004-06-05 1:44:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I too, use to admire 'Jimmy', but since the war, i've had a belly full... of him. He now reminds me of Les Aspen, right after the "Black Hawk Down" incident. Remember HIS funeral...did any body go?

Posted by smn 2004-06-05 1:53:49 AM|| 2004-06-05 1:53:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#4
Any so-called 'liberal' which is gleeful concerning the current reported health situation one of America's greatest leaders, President Ronald Reagan, is not an American in my eyes.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-06-05 2:02:36 AM|| [http://www.presidentreagan.info/] 2004-06-05 2:02:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 If Reagan does die and Kerry compliments him as a great President, what would be the reactions at DUmmy HQ?

Posted by Charles 2004-06-05 2:15:04 AM|| 2004-06-05 2:15:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Anybody who slams Ronnie should have a big can of Whoop Ass opened up on them. If my children grow up to be 5% of a Ronald Reagan, I will think that I have done an incredible job as a parent.

Posted by Long Hair Republican 2004-06-05 2:21:56 AM|| 2004-06-05 2:21:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I would love to see the Military honor Reagan, by lining up 3 battle ships outside his hometown, with they're big guns out to sea, firing in unison, in his memory!!

Posted by smn 2004-06-05 2:45:21 AM|| 2004-06-05 2:45:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Re #4: Such a person who gleefully responds to Reagan's death is not only not an American, but not a human being. This disease is a terrible thing, and a really bad way to go. But then, I have given up thinking of liberals as humans since they proved themselves more worried about American power than Saddam atrocities.

Liberals and Dems in particular claim to care more about the little guy than Republicans. Yet they could not get behind the war in Iraq, despite the liberation its people would enjoy from Saddam's bootheel, (and plastics shredder, acid baths, offical rapists, etc.) Shows me what frauds they have always been. Here was a really good war, one that would liberate 24 million people from a man almost as bad as Hitler, and they were against it from the start.

Posted by Anon 2004-06-05 4:55:42 AM|| 2004-06-05 4:55:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 sad to hear this. come from the democratic side. but Reagan was my president growing up. took me reading Schweizer's "Reagan's War" to realize his comittment to advancing the cause of freedom. domestic politics aside, that always enobles a politician in my book. from SAG to Berlin, freedom.

Posted by Anonymous5125 2004-06-05 5:46:49 AM|| 2004-06-05 5:46:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 I think I know how people felt when Lincoln and Roosevelt died. The world will be a lesser place without him. Because of Ronald Reagan it will always be Morning in America.

Posted by RWV 2004-06-05 10:29:45 AM|| 2004-06-05 10:29:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 I routinely pass Reagan's birthplace (Tampico, Illinois) and the land-locked town where he was raised (Dixon, Illinois). smn, if anybody could get 3 battleships in Dixon, Illinois, it'd be The Gipper. I can see him exhorting the people to push 'em up the Hennepin Canal now. And they'd do it to. Because Ron thought they could.

Posted by Zpaz 2004-06-05 11:17:44 AM|| 2004-06-05 11:17:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Correction. Make that the Rock River. It flows through Dixon before emptying into the Mississippi at the Quad Cities.

Posted by Zpaz 2004-06-05 12:21:19 PM|| 2004-06-05 12:21:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 You mean despite the fact that there haven't been any battleships in the Navy for at least 10 years now?

They named an aircraft carrier for him, that's enough.

Posted by gromky 2004-06-05 1:26:03 PM|| 2004-06-05 1:26:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Do you guys remember me saying that in the People's Republic of Cambridge (MA) they actually had parties when Nixon died? I guarantee a disgusting repeat performance.

Posted by Raj 2004-06-05 2:38:16 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-06-05 2:38:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Thanks Zpaz, I thought his hometown was on the west coast, somewhere close to the ocean, and I didn't know there were no more battleships! I was hoping for something far more grander and LOUDER than 4 fighter jets overhead. Appreciate the corrections.

Posted by smn 2004-06-05 4:36:15 PM|| 2004-06-05 4:36:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 No, really. I'm stone cold serious, gromky. I started a non-profit organization 20 minutes ago. I just got back from Arlington National Cemetary where I got Chester Nimitz to sponsor the whole project. He said he knew where we could get an old, slighlty abused, rusting, oil-leaking battleship. Back in the lower 48 states, there is practically a flea market of old battleships.

Once bought, we'll mosey on up the Mississip. While the Arizona sits a little deeper in the water, the Wisconsin only draws 29 feet, even less if we throw the the main engines over the side. Since the river is only 9 feet deep around St. Louis, we may have to get a little dredging done. Not to fret, if needs be we'll just cut 'em up, put them on flat beds and send them overland to Dixon. Reassembly should be a snap. I would budget 2 weeks tops.

This is just the sort of whacked out impossible project Ron would love. I'd say it's a go. Let's win one for the Gipper! Who's with me?

Posted by Zpaz 2004-06-05 4:54:09 PM|| 2004-06-05 4:54:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 It's 15:55 central time and the radio has just announced that Reagan has died. So passes a giant of the 20th century.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-06-05 4:55:55 PM|| 2004-06-05 4:55:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 On a related note, I can't fly my flag at half mast because it mounts in a porch bracket. Is casing the colors appropriate for mourning?

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-06-05 4:59:26 PM|| 2004-06-05 4:59:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 I concur wholeheartedly with your sentiment, smn. A flyby is not enough. He deserves much more.

Posted by Zpaz 2004-06-05 5:52:06 PM|| 2004-06-05 5:52:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 plan is to have him lie in state at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley for a Day, the nourney to lie in state in Wash DC Capitol for a state funeral. Damn...I'm getting teary just remembering the difference he brought from the Carter malaise. If Jimmy's got the guts to show, he should thank Reagan for fixing his F-Ups. America stands where it does astride th eglobe today because Reagan had a vision for America, and didn't let the Donk ankle-biters bring him down a la Gulliver. Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Pelosi, Tom Thumb are not fit to appear at his funeral

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-05 6:14:39 PM|| 2004-06-05 6:14:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 The Flag Rules I can find do not say. You will have to use your judgement.

Posted by Zpaz 2004-06-05 6:15:59 PM|| 2004-06-05 6:15:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 The highway to get to the library is about 30 yards from my house.

Posted by Chris Smith 2004-06-06 1:24:17 AM|| 2004-06-06 1:24:17 AM|| Front Page Top

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