Saying The Things I Have Only Thought
This commentary by Cheryl Rhoads in the Washington Times is tougher on the Reagan children than I ever dreamed of being. I will have to admit that most of the things she writes are things I have at least thought to myself.
The baby of the Reagan family apparently can’t stomach folks who wear their religion on their sleeve, so he immaturely chose his father’s funeral service to make his contempt known.While wearing his own smugness on his sleeve, young Ron preached to us all that though his father believed God had a plan for him, his dad was certainly not like other politicians regarding religion. Ron assured us that “there is a difference!” That was the moment when I recalled Bonnie Hunt’s line about “What’s that supposed to mean?”
Yet, everyone knew that Ron Reagan didn’t mean Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton. No, it was clearly a slam at President Bush, even though he had been most gracious in his own remarks to young Ron and his family, earlier that day. So, Ron’s timing was both ungracious and unnecessary to say the least. I felt like his dad must have felt at that last 1980 campaign stop when soon-to-be President Reagan snapped at a persistent heckler” OH SHUT UP!”
— Lorie Byrd