Huh?

Billmon linked to this Capitol Hill Blue article--making sure to mention the usual caveats--Capital Hill Blue should be taken with many grains, if not a shaker, of salt.

As the nation prepares to bury former President Ronald Reagan, Republican insiders fight among themselves over plans by the political team of President George W. Bush to use images of and speeches by Reagan in new television ads aimed at jump-starting a faltering campaign.

The ads, ordered up by Bush political advisor Karl Rove immediately after Reagan’s death last Saturday, use images of Reagan and excerpts from his speeches in what one angry GOP conservative describes as a “callous attempt to tie George W. Bush to the legacy of Ronald Wilson Reagan.”

One proposed ad even goes so far as to show Reagan saying “George, go out and win one for the Gipper.” The clip comes from Reagan’s speech to the 1988 Republican National Convention where the former President’s request was to Bush’s father, George H.W. Bush, in his successful 1988 run for President.

If this is true, what's next? Rove calling in a taxidermist to stuff Reagan so he can accompany the boy king when the latter "reaches out" to the carefully vetted, pre-screened audiences of true believer/more Kool-Aid please minions (or Spanish speakers)? Why not go all out and retool the Lincoln robot at Disneyworld--add Ron's face, program in a few speeches (I guess the "win one for the Gippet" snafu wouldn't make the cut--too bad, since it proved Reagan was better at reading teleprompters than hearts and minds).

Electoral politics is heading into the twilight zone.

Note: sorry for the slow and short posts--I'm having some elbow problems, and it makes typing a little painful. Hopefully, the problems will go away--and, if they don't, I'll go to a DIFFERENT doctor than the quack I've been seeing, who won't do anything except take my money and advise rest...I've changed my primary care physician because of this--wish me luck.