[lbo-talk] Ronnie's very timely death

[dano]

At 10:21 AM -0400 6/10/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>Above all, Reagan's death lures the troublesome paleo-conservatives 
>>back into the Big Tent.
>
>Not necessarily. Reagan's political genius was in part about 
>finessing all these divisions within the right - traditionalist vs. 
>libertarian, religious vs. market, paleo- vs. neo-. (Since a lot of 
>people on the left don't understand these divisions, that's yet 
>another reason they underestimate RR's importance.) Bush can't do 
>that. If anything, he's opening up the fissures. After all the 
>misty-eyed crap clears, people will be able to see that Bush is no 
>Reagan.

Very true. GWB could not even keep Brent Scowcroft and James Baker 
inside the tent *before* the fertilizer went into the propeller.
Pat Buchanan doesn't think much of him these days, and hasn't ever 
since Buchanan took a big part of the vote in West Palm Beach.

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