Exactly my thoughts a couple of days ago.

[novapsyche]

Reagan's presidency coalesced around two big ideas. Cut taxes massively and defeat a global evil. On the surface, George Bush's presidency pivots around the same ideas. He's hoping that if his surrogates say it enough, people will absorb it as the truth. But just as Lloyd Bensen once told a presumptuous Dan Quayle, "I knew Jack Kennedy ... and you, sir, are no Jack Kennedy," the American people knew the great communicator and they know George Bush is no Ronald Reagan.

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