RIP NANCY REAGAN

I was no fan of the Reagans, but one thing that they had that is sorely lacking in modern American politics is class.
RIP Nancy

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Those were better times than these. As I just told my daughter, who shared the news with me, the Reagan era was a happier and more hopeful time than ours. The Reagans were dignified and gracious in public and obviously devoted and loyal to each other. Whatever faults, public or private, that they had, they were a cut above what we’ve been treated to since 1992. I hope that Nancy was spared the indignity of watching the last GOP debate in Detroit. The decline of America is mirrored in her own party, which would not nominate her husband today, no matter how much lip service they pay to his memory.

Rest In Peace, Ma’am.

I was sure that Nancy Reagan was a “Lady” in every way.

I am 100% sure that Moochell is NO LADY in every way. My how we have become the new Babylon.

RIP Nancy Reagan.

Definitely first-class. She was a Lady.

Good point, EL Coyote. Reagan utterly hated McCain because the first thing he did when he was released from the POW camp was to kick his faithful wife to the curb.

Stucky is right when he labels him: “Shitstain McCain”.

Yes, she surely helped the war on drugs along with her brilliant “Just Say No” strategy. I’ll bet you didn’t know It effectively stopped drug abuse in its tracks in the 80’s! Even the crack smuggled in by the CIA didn’t sell since no one was smokin’ crack anymore by 1990. /sarc

P.S. I inserted the /sarc on Stucky’s behalf since he wouldn’t know sarcasm if it bit him on his fat ass.

I was a youngster during the Reagan presidency, but for better or for worse, whatever mistakes Reagan may have made as president, one thing that really earned my admiration was Nancy’s constant class and decor, and how she so graciously complemented Ronald.

Her participation in a “Diff’rent Strokes” episode, in which she preached her anti-drugs message to children, was masterful.

Much later, when Ronald passed away, Nancy’s dedication to her husband, shown as she wept over his casket, was her final act of marital loyalty and faithfulness. Some may have thought the pageantry of the formal, full state funeral Ronald was granted was excessive, but even that paled in comparison to the deep reverence demonstrated when Rear Admiral James A. Symonds, then the Commanding Officer of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, knelt before Nancy to present her the flag that had draped Ronald’s casket.

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Military men of senior rank should never kneel – unless it is before God in prayer or to honor somebody of exceedingly great status, and Nancy most definitely qualified.

It is no wonder that Nancy’s death is generating so much sympathy. She was not only an exemplary First Lady, but she embodied values of traditional America – faithfulness, devotion, gentleness, and a genuine empathy for others – which are so rare nowadays.

Another great reminder of Nancy’s character: her compassion towards the family members of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s crew.

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America is worse off without her.

She consulted astrologers. She played her role. She stood by her partner. The photo of her resting her head on his lap is really poignant. A sign that we are all, from poorest to most high, just humans trying to navigate our way through life with the clues we are given. I take street photos, trying to capture the elusive nature of our lives. This photo says a lot more than a thousand words.

Westcoaster says: Yes, she surely helped the war on drugs along with her brilliant “Just Say No” strategy.

Westy, Prof. Pangloss said first ladies adopt some sort of innocuous public service campaign, Lady Bird had her “Keep America Beautiful”, Nancy had “Just Say No.”

In today’s backward Bizarro world, it’s the presidential candidates who offer the hazy “Make America Great Again” campaign.

I figure FLOTUS Melania will counter with an Open Seas in the Pacific Doctrine.

Echo Cdubbya. I agree with every word.

The kind of people the Reagans picked as friends speaks for them. Among Ronnie and Nancy Reagan’s Best Friends were the noxious Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos of the Phillipines, who led a brutal authoritarian regime while plundering the population to finance Imelda’s shopping sprees in Paris, with HER best bud, the wife of Baby Doc Duval.

Nancy never had the charm or manners of other famous White House wives, such as the saintly Mamie Eisenhower, who never was known to say a nasty word about anyone, and who made it her business to personally write a reply to every single letter a member of the public wrote to her- thousands of letters monthly. She never had quite the style or “class” that Jackie Kennedy had, or the refinement, niceness, or all round “class” of Patricia Nixon.

Reagan was a fake “conservative” in any case- a closet Keynesian who vastly increased government spending during his tenure, and started the financialization of our economy and degradation of our financial system.

I can’t weep for Nancy, no. Nothing special or elevated about her.