"You're No Ronald Reagan"

Ouch, Rudy--how embarrassed are you? You don't understand the art of insult, do you? You should, if you've been listening to what other people say.

(Oh, whoops, I forgot--that was never your strong suit, was it? That, along with finding dentures that FIT, seems to have fallen by the wayside.)

Is somebody supposed to be offended when told, "You're no Ronald Reagan?" My reflexive response would be to say, "Thank you," and heave a huge sigh of relief...

Because I don't think Obama was saying he WAS Reagan and certainly not that he wanted to be Reagan (nobody ever wanted that, even when the old fool was president). He was simply using an example of an extreme right-wing conservative who negotiated with people he considered terrorists, saying that as doddering as he was, even Reagan wasn't so stupid as to underestimate the humanity and intelligence of adversaries the way our current Great Embarrasser does. (And perhaps reminding us that it's only said Great Embarrasser who declared we'd "never negotiate with 'terrorists'," as part of the absolutist, unblinking, unthinking dogma he built up from watching too many John Wayne flicks.)

But pulling a wise-ass one-liner out of his already-crowded ass was good enough to get Rudy a laugh. Will it be enough to win him an election?

Perhaps not if ALL New Yorkers vote.