Reagan's Family Criticizes Use Of Reagan In Anti-Kerry Ad

[Robbien]

Family Says Group Does Not Have Permission To Use Reagan's Image

POSTED: 10:28 am EDT June 16, 2004
WASHINGTON -- Ronald Reagan's family is criticizing the use of the late president's image in a conservative political ad endorsing President George W. Bush.

The ad comparing Bush's war on terror with Reagan's battle against communism is being run by the conservative interest groupClub for Growth starting Wednesday. It shows footage of Reagan at the Berlin Wall, and Bush at ground zero. The ad also said Democratic presidential contender John Kerry was "wrong then, wrong now" on national security.

A Reagan family spokeswoman said the group does not have permission to use Reagan's image in the ad because doing so implies his endorsement.

Club for Growth said it wants to show how similar Bush and Reagan have been "in terms of fighting evil." A Kerry spokesman said it's "pretty sad" that Bush supporters are already politicizing the nation's farewell to Reagan.

http://www.wxii12.com/news/3424816/detail.html

[htuttle]

1. One of the bigger ironies of this...

...is that Bush is 'fighting' the very groups that Reagan created to 'defeat Communism'.

:eyes:

[cease_fire]

11. That's an EXCELLENT point!

I swear, this administration's penchant for comparing it's decisions to other leaders NEVER survies the first encounter with the truth!

I love the Irony. Let's compare a man who ended the cold war with the same guy that threw it into the microwave and warmed it all back up!

[Thor_MN]

25. Close, but no cigar...

Mr. Reagan perhaps hastened the demise of the SOviet Union by out-spending them to death, but he almost broke us as well. If they had been just a little more successful at fooling us that their rusting heaps of parts in flooded missle silos were operable weapons, we may have gone bust as well.

The Regan administration nearly tripled the national debt and shrubby 1 spent like there was no tomorrow. The Soviet Union most likely would have collapsed under it's own weight in any case, saying that Mr. Regan ended the Cold War is just slightly more accurate than saying I'm a genius if I win a cake by ending up standing in the right place when the music stops.

[montanacowboy]

2. In the end, the Reagan's are going to

end up ENDORSING Kerry if the wingers keep it up - these idiots never know when to stop shooting themselves in the foot...hahaha

[Timefortruth]

The family asked for this by making the funeral a

Bush love fest.

They could make their feelings known by doing a spot for Kerry.

[Malva Zebrina]

27. Nancy always was a little over the top

and a little overly dramatic .

She wanted it this way, thinking, perhaps, in her pathetic old and bent over age, complete with all of her pathetic bo- toxed, weird looking alien type face, that was truly bizarre for a woman in her eighties, would forever emboss her and her husband's exclusive historical image as the young survivors.

Compare to Rosylyn and Jimmy Carter. Two real human beings who accept life the way it is.

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[jukes]

4. amoral assholes

everyone involved w/this administration.

i've been subconsciously distancing these people from the GOP for some time now; i don't approve of any republicans, but this gang is an entity unto itself.

CAN we ever rid ourselves of them?

;(

[never cry wolf]

5. They just wallow in death, don't they?

Not just raygun, but how about a lil exploiting of 3000 dead at ground zero, have they NO shame?

[Proud2BAmurkin]

6. Ha ha! THWAP!!

NT

[wicket]

7. These people have no shame

Club For Growth was also the group that put out that ad telling Howard Dean to "take his left-wing freak-show back to Vermont where it belongs".

[KittyWampus]

10. That Anti-Dean Ad Was SOOOOO Bad It Seemed Like Parody

hard to imagine it was meant to influence anyone in any way except to provoke laughter.

[wicket]

12. exactly

It was really bad, and a cheap shot, and it completely backfired on them.

[Mike Daniels]

8. Freeps are already turning against the Reagan family because of this

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1154704/posts

These people just continue to sink lower and lower into the slime they came from.

[HawkerHurricane]

13. Freeps turning on Reagan's family?

They eat thier own young. Or are the young eating thier parents?

[koopie57]

28. good, maybe

we won't have to talk them out of putting his face on mt. rushmore then.

[Piperay]

15. Geesh, last week they

couldn't praise him enough... Bwahahahahahaha! :eyes:

[ronnykmarshall]

16. They are sick fucks

They are slamming Patti and Ron.

Can't wait for this to bite them in the ass.

[2Design]

9. this is really sorry.....these people are so sick...

Bush couldn't get away from that casket fast enought... the way he brushed his hands....it was like saying......ok I did that public thing....stood long enough for pictures....but no heart.....

he uses caskets as props......but won't go near one of a service member returning from his illegal dead war.....

these people are all very sick....

[Miss Marmelstein]

14. Reagan was barely even cold....

when the repugs started planning to use his image for the benefit of the party. Nancy will not stand for this and she really doesn't like the shrub at all.

[janx]

18. I just thought of something. How long did it take to produce

the ad?

They had to have been planning this before the burial--maybe when they heard he was about to die!

How perfectly awful!

Nancy Reagan must be angry. She certainly has every right to be.

[newyawker99]

21. Hi Miss Marmelstein!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Miss Marmelstein]

26. Why, thank you....

how sweet. :hi: I'm quite happy to be a part of the DU family...been lurking for too long.

[RamboLiberal]

17. Rove needs to call these Aholes - they're hurting boy king

Poll on South Florida NBC6 website with 15,000+ votes 66% say No to Do you think it is OK for a conservative group to be using Ronald Reagan's image in an ad for George W. Bush and against John Kerry?

And to Would seeing this ad make you more likely or less likely to vote for George W. Bush? With 13,000 + votes 16% say More Likely while 41% say Less Likely.

Ha - be funny if these idiots turn off voters to the *.

Poll at http://www.nbc6.net/news/3424816/detail.html

[Rowdyboy]

19. Look for many polls on this question

and I'll bet they all come out like these: lopsided majorities against Bush for exploiting Nancy Reagan less than a week after her husbands death. Hows that for family values?

[bluestateguy]

20. Did I call it or what!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=625862&mesg_id=625872

This is one for a Top 10 Conservative Idiots award.

[SmokingJacket]

22. Sue them!!! /nt

[Tight_rope]

23. The Bushco image is so bad that they will use anything...

to try make them look good. Damn, was the body even cold before they released the ads. Stupidasses! Fucknuts! :spank:

[mondo joe]

24. Love the Free Republic response -

They know Reagan better than his own family, apparently.

And they feelentitled to use him because it's in the "public domain" - which might be true, but they don't even have the decency to take into consideration the feelings of the mourning family.

What freaking pigs.