Reply #30: Way I figure it, he was packaged and presented

[madamesilverspurs]

to be the public face of the White House. The real power rested in the veep, a scenario repeated with W's squat in the Oval Office. In essence, Poppy was in charge for 8 years while RR did his buck-and-wing; RR was an entertainment device, produced for the purpose of seducing attention away from the treasons of Iran-Contra forward. Replete with the faux patriotic fervor that still holds sway within his party, his canonization epitomizes the worst possibilities of advertising; implicit in making him sacrosanct is the 'permission' to do as his administration did without regard to consequences, always deflecting any devastation onto others. The irony of the rank idolatry seems to be completely lost on the party that claims to hold the religious moral force of the country. We can be thankful that their numbers are diminishing, but we dare not assume that they have been eradicated.