There are lots of things that Reagan could have done better, but nobody called him an amiable dunce. In fact he knew when he said “We will not negotiate with terrorists”, that it was only for public show and that he didn’t really mean it.

The other thing about having movie stars run for office is that they are already heroes of one generation or another, so they can do no wrong. I could never stop myself from voting for Arnold for instance. That wouldn’t make him fit for office. (Please don’t modify the constitution to allow him to run for president).

well said, time to get crow on the fast food menu!

Thanks, Grant

I think it’s arrogance of the bleeding heart variety.

I returned to the US Sunday night and watched the news wondering if in fact I had landed in the US I had grown up in. My recollections of the liberal left’s position on Reagan seemed to have been replaced and a new character had emerged.

I can in some way (optimistically?) attribute this phenomenon to human nature and the way in which time often has its way of adding a patina to our past, or, similarly, hands us a pair of rose-colored glasses that we willingly lift to our faces.

Time is the great neutralizer, the one thing in life we can count on to provide us with perspective and the chance to allow our experiences to find their meaning. Only time allows us to look back on an ordinary day and see it as extraordinary – it can dim the memory of pain and add luster to any object or experience. How else can a day at the beach as a ten-year-old be the best day ever spent, or Bordeaux tasted fourteen years ago forever be unsurpassed?

We subscribe meaning to contextualize our lives and remind ourselves that we can live vividly and fully.

Either that, or all the left wing libs finally wised up. I wonder what crow tastes like.