[quote=paramount]In light of the death of Mrs. Reagan I feel this thread should be deleted in the interest of dignity.[/quote]
Not sure what this thread has to do with Nancy except all those being discussed are Republican. Other than that her name wasn’t brought up until you did it. Sorry to see her go, I think my wife and I would have been friends with the Reagans had they not been famous and we met them socially. Their politics weren’t ours, but then I could say the same of most of the friends in our circle.
I wish Colin Powell would run. I’d vote for that man for sure. But in today’s environment he wouldn’t win anyway since he wouldn’t pander to the extreme voters.
I love what he said today:
Referring to the “civility” and “lack of any nastiness” he saw in Ronald Reagan, Powell, who served as Reagan’s national security advisor, decried the tone of the current Republican presidential campaign. “To stand there and do junior high school tricks on one another is belittling the country and belittling the office to which they are striving,” he said.
Powell added, “Even Jerry Springer thinks it’s gone too far, and when Jerry Springer thinks you’ve gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.” He was referring to recent remarks in the Financial Times from Springer, who served as the Democratic mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the late 1970s.
