Dupe - please Lock

[RamboLiberal]

Bit of a dupe to this DU thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1736062

http://americablog.blogspot.com/archives/2004_06_06_americablog_archive.html#108656292205997614

You can always count on George W. Bush to say a stupid thing at the wrong time. The man who spent the weekend showing up late for the Pope and late for his D-Day ceremony, took time off today to diss Reagan in an interview with Tom Brokaw:

"Bush refused Brokaw's invitation to label himself a 'Ronald Reagan Republican.' Bush said he thinks of himself as 'a George W. Republican.'"

It's a small slight that you could easily have overlooked (I did, until my friend Joe pointed it out), but it's an important and telling one.

What could Bush have possibly been thinking? His response is arrogant (is he somehow better than Reagan, or at the very least ashamed or angered by being compared to Reagan?), and downright rude (considering the man just died 12 hours before). As my friend Joe pointed out, there were lots of possible correct answers to the question, including: