I SO called it! I was at a party last night, said we should get Ron, Jr. to speak at the convention, and everyone said I was nuts. He he he... Major embarrassment for the Bushies. What are they going to do, try to attack Reagan's kid now? But they can't do that because Ron is just a child of a politician, like Mary Cheney, and the Bushies have already told us that Mary is off-limits.
"The Republican Party now is not the Republican Party of my father, not that it would be of great concern to me, one way or the other," he said. "I'm not a Republican and I never have been.
"My father wouldn't expect me to be a Republican just to emulate him. He raised his kids to be independent thinkers. ... I'm not terribly popular, apparently, with a lot of Republicans. I imagine some of them are pretty angry about what I've said about the Bush administration."
Should he be asked, Reagan said he would not attend the planned tribute to his father at the Republican convention, which is Aug. 30-Sept. 2 in New York.
"I don't think, in good conscience, I could take the chance that somebody could read that as an endorsement of this administration," he said. "I'll support any viable candidate who can defeat Bush."
