In the Name of the Father…

MSNBC should be ashamed that it reprinted this drivel. She even evokes the word imitate and says her father never imitated. What an obtuse person? Doesn't she know he was an actor before he was a politician. Heck, just what is it that actors do? Let me see. Could it be imitation????

What schtick? She's got brass. But, Newsweek should know better than to print this garbage.

my apologies, all those question marks were quotations and the author is surely Patti Davis (not a he)

I agree with the article. It is a pity the Republican party is now defined as the conservative religious evangelical (read holy roller) party. However, this is the brand recognition the candidates chose embrace. Once I was a Rockefeller-Reagan republican. I can no longer relate or associate with a party that is marketing politics and religion in a very hypocritical way. During the sex scandals we saw starting with Foley and Reverend Haggard, I personally began refering to the GOP as the Gay Old Party.

I always think it is strange that Patti Davis seems to know so much about her father. Wasn't she the one who stood against everything he believed in and was embarrassed by her father and was an embarrassment to her father. The only time I saw her standing up for her father when she did her New Age speech at his funeral (my impression was that she was on something). Let me remind her, her father used the word God more than any recent President I can think of and appearred at every possible religious meeting while he was campaigning.

I agree with author but I think he is totally wrong.
Twice our great country elected a ???good man, good christian, and good ???merican??? over arguably better Americans, better Christians, and better men. (If that doesn???t prove the failure of democracy I don???t know what possibly could.) Now cometh Mike Huckabee another ???good man, good Christian and good ???merican??? God help us.
The truth about Ronald Reagan is that he dismantled crucial civil programs while allowing outrageous pork-barrel spending by his congressional allies. He claimed he was making the federal government smaller while he increased federal spending and created a federal deficit we now take for granted. He allowed his wealthy base to become even wealthier so all that wealth could ???trickle down??? to the middle class. (Unfortunately, it trickled down and right and out of our country.) Ronald Reagan may be the most contradictory figure in our history. But the truth is that, he won the presidency by misleading and lying to the American people; just like our next president surely will.

i think your father is rolling over in his grave. Knowing that you are a Commyfornia Democrate.

i think your father would roll over if he knew what a Deomcrate you are.

2007 "Bloodiest year ever in Iraq" so much for less, is more!

"Can't we go back to respecting the privacy of religious faith and stop using God as a campaign tool?" Thank you! At last, someone has the sense to step up and state the obvious. Faith IS a private matter, and it belongs in a private, NOT a public, setting. It has no place in public life. It belongs in churches and homes, NOT in public schools, government discourse, or political debate. A person's worthiness to be President has nothing to do with their religious belief system (see current occupant of the White House), and everything to do with their intellect, judgment, temperament, humility, openness to ideas, knowledge of history, respect for societies and cultures other than our own, and political skill in advancing America???s interests in the world. America, and the world, will be better off when religion resumes its rightful place in church, mosque, synagogue, and private homes, and recedes from domestic and international politics, public schools, governments, and fueling of international terrorism.

Why would anyone care to envoke Ronald Reagan's name. We are still suffering from the ill effects of his "Trickle Down" economics. For that matter, How did he get elected in the first place, when he couldn't even get star billing next to a Chimpanze in Bedtime for Bonzo. Just shows you how really stupid the American public is!
From an American that desires a stateman for President, not the bumbling oafs that are currently running.

Patti,
Your father would be proud of you. You have stated the case so clearly. Don't preach to me Mike, I know my religion. As for Mitt, which answer to you want today? The entire choice this year is so sad. No one on the republican side is worthy on the position, and the democrats can't get past Hillary's past. We need a real leader and there are none out there. Abortion and gay rights are personal choices, not to be legislated by a government that gets into wars over trumped up reasons and lies. Bill Clintin might have been a womanizer, but so were many other president's. At least he didn't lead us into a war over lies and he left office with a sizable surplus in the treasury, something the current moron from Texas can't lay claim to.

You are your father's daughter .... written well with great feeling and a some humor. I love it will be reading everthing that I can that you write. O'by the way run for the office and give the Clintons some fear of Reagan again. Just joking who want such a poor paying job for all the suffering one has to experience at the hands of the press looking for headlines. That job only ages one fast and you never can be right for half of the people do not agree with you some of the time. And the interview process for the position cost a lot of money. WOW!

You are your father's daughter, greatly written I plan on reading more on what you say. When are you going on the campaign trail it would be a good added item to the times now. Thanks for your opinion.