He could have appointed his horse as a minister. It could be worse!
The New Republic bit seems by far the hardest part to believe, to me.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/did_reagan_call_gw_bush_a_neer_do_well
Hoax? I want to believe it, but look what happened to Dan rather.
Alas.
Or is it a coverup? A fake debunking website?.....
The New Republic bit was the funniest part, and far too wry for Reagan to have thought of.
Well, "funny," anyhow. It is so exactly a joke you would find in a New Republic article.
It would have been genuinely funny if Reagan had actually written it. So funny that we can be assured he didn't. Coming from Kinsley, yeah, "funny."
Oh noes! Hoaxed!
Sigh. I knew it seemed too good to be true.
damn you, ogged. I read the "OMG hoakz!" ;before i got to read the actual quote, thus keeping me from forming my own opinion.
You people actually fell for that? It's too cheeky to be real, and, in fact, to be too funny. Ne'er do well? shiftless? He wasn't *that* old.
I thought to entertain myself and hopefully one or two of you by writing what Reagan really wrote about Bush fils. Everything I could come up with was along the lines of "George's kid Junior needs to learn to use his hand a little more and his teeth a lot less," and apo had always already done it better.
Dude, the original was linked by Yglesias like a month ago. Do you not read Yglesias?