Reagan was an amiable meat puppet

[latebloomer]

He was Bush's predecessor in many ways, not least of which was that he was not the president, he just played one on TV. He was a second-rate actor who finally found the role of a lifetime. The masses bought his kindly, down-home, twinkly-eyed persona even as his strings were pulled by a cabal of fascist traitors who sought to dominate the world by any means necessary and to gut the social progress of the previous forty years-- a process which the Shrubbery is hell-bent on completing

[Straight Shooter]

1. "meat puppet"

Wow. I have got to remember that phrase. :)

[Moderator]

2. Locking.

This is redundant, given the number of Reagan-blasting threads currently on page one.