Barack Obama, the new Ronald Reagan?!

I kid you not:

The candidate is untried, inexperienced and charismatic. He is known as a great speechmaker, but his critics call him a celebrity. When he first runs for high office, he does so largely on the strength of an inspiring address he delivered.

The person in question is not Barack Obama, but the man John McCain and the Republican Party have lionized for three decades: Ronald Reagan. At last week's GOP convention, Reagan loomed large. Republicans showed a rousing video tribute to him, and speakers sang his praises - invoking his presidency more times than they did George W. Bush's. And at the very same time, Republicans lit into Obama's inexperience, and challenged his readiness to lead.

In the process, the party showed just how out of touch it has become with the original sources of Reagan's appeal and the forces that helped transform conservatism into a dominant political force in modern America.

In ripping Obama this week, Republicans sounded much like Reagan's former Democratic opponents. Echoing California Gov. Pat Brown and Jimmy Carter in 1980, who called "experience . . . the best guide to the right decisions" and said Reagan was a "risk[y]" choice, they claimed that Obama was too much of a gamble. "He is the most liberal, most inexperienced nominee to ever run for President," former Sen. Fred Thompson complained.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who also professes to revere Reagan, argued thusly: "He's never run a city. He's never run a state. He's never run a business. He's never run a military unit. He's never had to lead people in crisis."

What the McCain-Giuliani Republicans omitted, of course, is that Obama's path to high office bears an uncanny resemblance to Reagan's in at least this regard: like Reagan, Obama understands that inexperience can be an asset, not a liability.

There's more and all of it much less than worthy.  This kind of crap is a reminder of the length to which liberals will go to redefine terms.

Great, great, great lengths.

Freakin' shameless.

Comments

[Mommynator]

I guess being president of the Screen Actors Guild and GOVERNOR of California don't count.

Rewriting history again, are they?

[SpideyTerry]

Oh, like a governor ever accomplishes anything anyway. Everyone knows only community organizers ever get anything done. *snark*

"Obama understands that inexperience can be an asset, not a liability."

Yeah, cause his inexperience has really helped him so far - what with the stupid comments, the flip-flopping, the whining, etc.

Well, we'll see how much of an asset Obama's inexperience is in the debates, won't we? I think by the end of the first one, we'll see a triumphent McCain on stage right next to a crater where Obama used to be.