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Junior Chimp
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« on: December 14, 2008, 08:48:02 PM » |
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I'm going to go on a limb here and say that Ronald Reagan's death had as much to do symbolically with Bush's descent into the depths of unpopularity (at least among his own base) as anything else. While Reagan was alive, the Republican President could prop him up on a stick and rally a diverse coalition of competing interest groups around his memory. With Reagan out of the way, and Bush II taking up the mantle of senior-most Republican, it became much more difficult almost instantly for him to have that same effect.
With the greater populace, of course, it's different: either Katrina or Abu Ghraib might have done the trick.
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