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Ron Reagan Officially Supports Barack Obama: The Reagan Era Takes a Detour

Submitted by mark karlin on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 8:04pm.
MARK KARLIN'S EDITOR'S BLOG

November 1, 2008

Call it the final stake in the myth and destructive path of the Reagan era.  On the evening of October 31, Ron Reagan -- son of the Gipper -- officially endorsed Barack Obama for President.

Reagan now has an evening program on Air America (and is quite good), and had withheld an "official endorsement," he said, because he figured that listeners knew by now where he stood.  But you also sensed listening to him that he decided to make a clean break that began when he appeared at the Democratic Convention in 2004.  He didn't endorse Kerry then; he spoke on behalf of sickle cell research.

I was there in Boston when he spoke in the convention center and the crowd didn't quite know how to react to the offspring of the Moses of the kooky right wing.  Eventually, he received a warm but still restrained round of applause.

Since that time, Reagan -- as anyone who listens to his Air America program will learn -- has become a clear progressive, and if he had not formally endorsed Obama on Halloween Eve (on his radio show), you knew that he was going to vote for him.

But now it's on the record.  The son of Ronald Reagan who bears his name is officially backing Barack Obama for President.

What goes round, comes round.

MARK KARLIN'S EDITOR'S BLOG

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Go Ron

Submitted by ganana on Sun, 11/02/2008 - 10:37am.
I love this guy--he is so quick and bright. His support for Obama was no surprise. Go Ron! Obama should tap you for his press secretary.
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DO DO RON RON RON

Submitted by Matt P on Sun, 11/02/2008 - 10:41am.
Wonderful! It seems we tend to play down our victories ("Oh, big deal. Ron Reagan has been leaning left for a long time.") But think about what a blow this is to the right. Try to imagine how Dems would feel if in an alternate universe, Chelsea were to endorse McCain (I know, ouch.)

With every endorsement like this one (and Powell's, et al) the Repugs must be cutting out another little piece of their hearts (what little they have left). In the end, perhaps they will just end up with Sarah P, the winking, hunting, heartless whore from the upper 1.

"Isolation Is The Dream Killer" Barbara Sher
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Ron Reagan's Been Rachel Maddow's AAR Guest Host Lately

Submitted by drprodny on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 1:24pm.
So this is a surprise how? Ron Reagan broke w/his parents' conservatism long ago....
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While we're at it...

Submitted by revolution9 on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 1:04pm.

has Patti expressed a preference yet?

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Correction

Submitted by GregJL on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 10:34am.
That would be STEM cell research, not SICKLE cell. Way big difference. One might help black children, the other might have allowed a nutty old white man who was one of the major causes of the problems we have now to stay aware a little longer and maybe wreak more havoc. Don't get me wrong, I like Ron Reagan, and his father was his father and he loved him, but the man WAS a conservative, and if it weren't for his father's disease, Ron would be too.
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You don't know...

Submitted by VettaKing on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 7:07pm.
if Ron would have been a con if it wasn't for his father's disease. That's a presumptious comment.People change their political beliefs all the time. Arianna Huffington used to be a con for crying out loud.
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