Jeffrey Lord: The Blanding of Ronald Reagan

Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.

What a lovely, lovely man.

Never a pointed word. Always soothing. Just one big kumbaya lug of a president.

Can’t we all be as civil and wonderful and eternally non-radically sweet in our political dialogue as Ronald Reagan?

Um….excuse me.

Snap out of it!

For reasons that appear unfathomable other than the clamor from GOP consultants selling their how-to-attract-Independents-Minorities-and-The Women’s Vote sure-fire soap suds  -- and that would be for a pretty penny not to mention in vain -- a strange fate has befallen the former president.

Ronald Reagan has been bland-ed. By the Right....