RonReagan calling his father impaired during his presidency

[Luissa]

Ron Reagan isn't claiming to be a doctor, he merely mentioned his own observations and feelings along with facts


gawd, you people are pathetic in the extreme. since when has discussion of Reagan's diseased mind while in office become such a subject to hide and attack people over?

facts suck...Reagan suffered during his later years in office.

If he did, it would not been enough to effect is day to day life, or his job. If he did have it and he lived for almost twenty years with the disease. I doubt he could have been that bad, or Nancy kept him on machines for a few years.

 

[Political Junky]

I do not like Ronald Reagan, but I also know that would be a long time to live with the disease. I also think his son should respect his father.

Sargent Shriver died today, after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2003. That's eight years and he probably had symptoms before 2003.

 

[georgephillip]

all part of the historical lib campaign to call conservatives stupid.

"Did Ronald Reagan have Alzheimer’s Disease while he was President?

"Dr Larry Altman, who was a Senior Medical columnist for the New York Times, once looked into this question and was…

“…unable to find any evidence by any medical criteria that is known to the medical profession that Mr Regan had any symptoms or signs of Alzheimer’s when he was President.”

He did discover, though, in an interview he did with Ronald Reagan in 1980, that

“…his mother had been senile for a number of years before she died.

"The word ‘Alzheimer’s’ was not a household word at that time, and Mr Reagan interrupted the interview to ask me about that, and I explained the new knowledge of Alzheimer’s and senile plaques in the brain and the new findings that were going on, and I had asked him, given that family history, what he would do if he were found to be senile, or to have dementia or to have Alzheimer’s, as we know it today, as President, and he said he would resign.

"And when I asked him how he would know that, he said, ‘I’d expect my doctors to follow me and to tell me’. They did in their everyday examinations, interchanges with him, but they did no formal testing for Alzheimer’s.

"The first formal psychological test only occurred about I guess it was the year following, he fell off a horse, and that was the year following he left the White House.'”

 

[Mr. Shaman]

all part of the historical lib campaign to call conservatives stupid.

That's BULLSHIT....twice.

Ron Reagan never said that....or, you'd have posted proof o' that....right??

Ron Reagan (on Hardball) - HERE

Secondly.....there is no historical lib campaign to call conservatives stupid....no matter what you heard on the playground, today, Skippy.​

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

I was @ the spa waiting for herself and Chris Mathews had R R on and that is not what he said in the interview.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Yesterday's news.

Ron jr. is still a weasel.

....And, his Father was still a murdering son-of-a-*****.

(...In all his efforts to be some kind o' John-Wayne-style Hero.)​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Ike, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes were called stupid by the far-left.

Bullshit.

What're you some kind o' Jr. Dead-O-Head, or something....one o' Porky Limbaugh's Youth??

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[Mr. Shaman]

He's probably right about Reagan being impaired but he's lying about the good things he said about him. They didn't get along period. Now he's trying to sell books by lying on how great they got along.

Yeah....you really sound like someone who's heard him interviewed.


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[Mr. Shaman]

uhm, the man loved his father...he's just telling the truth

Nice way of showing love for Pops by throwing him under the bus.

Ron Jr. is a real piece of work, Im sure Nancy is busting with pride

In the Whacky World of Right Wing Lunacy, truth may be considered throwing under a bus, but for most normal folks...it's only truth.

One can admire Reagan with all his faults...as a matter of fact, it keeps him human.

you may want to live in a Fairy Tale land, but most people live in the real world...get a life

The fact ReRon lived in the World....the way he wanted-it-to-be (where communists are considered less-than-human)....is what made him so easily-manipulated by the NeoCons.

He "played" the President....and, the NeoCons played HIM!!​

"Like most people in Washington, Clinton understood that Ronald Reagan was a figurehead and that it was really the Bush Cabal, which was running things for all of those 12 years."

 

[uscitizen]

all part of the historical lib campaign to call conservatives stupid.

Conservatives? What conservatives?
I assume you mean Republicans?

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Ron Reagan Jr. Contradicts Alzheimer’s Revelations Described in His Own Book

I did not see symptoms of dementia or anything like that while he was in office… I wasn’t thinking, “Gee, I’m seeing signs of Alzheimer’s here.”

In the liberal commentator’s new book, he says it’s fact that the his father had Alheizmer’s while still in office and vividly describes seeing signs of “something beyond mellowing” affecting President Reagan as early as three years into his first term. An excerpt from his description of Reagan’s first debate with 1984 Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale: “My heart sank as he floundered his way through his responses. He looked tired and bewildered.”

Given this passage from his new book, it’s safe to say Ron Reagan was being somewhat dishonest in this interview.

....And, Breitbart's still got a few-too-many marbles rollin'-around, inside his head.

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[Sallow]

Ron's probably a little embarrassed his father commited 2/3rds treason and couldn't for the life of him remember doing it.

 

[Ragnar]

Ron Reagan on Alzheimer’s allegations: Mom told me she loved the book Hot Air

... but that wasn’t the only possible factual error Bedard flagged. Apparently, contra Ron’s assertions, there was no visit to the Mayo Clinic in 1990 after Reagan left office that confirmed the Alzheimer’s diagnosis; in fact, according to Reagan’s doctor, that wasn’t confirmed until three years later. And watch how cautious Ron’s language becomes when being grilled by the “GMA” team:

“Occasionally I would notice and I would wonder “Gee, why is there a little hitch in the giddy-up?” as I put it to you. And I had no idea what it was and I don’t know to this day. I can’t say definitively that I was seeing a sign of Alzheimer’s. It could have been anything,” Reagan said.

“I have little worries that may in retrospect have been very early inklings of this, but I can’t say that for sure. You’re right, I’m not a doctor. I’m just trying to deal with this in sort of an open and honest way as I experienced it,” Reagan said.

And here’s what his book says, as quoted by Bedard:

“I’ve seen no evidence that my father (or anyone else) was aware of his medical condition while he was in office. Had the diagnosis been made in, say 1987, would he have stepped down? I believe he would have. Far less was known about the disease then, of course, than is known now. Today we are aware that the physiological and neurological changes associated with Alzheimer’s can be in evidence years, even decades, before identifiable symptoms arise. The question, then, of whether my father suffered from the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s while in office more or less answers itself.”

From “he would have quit if they’d diagnosed him properly” to “it could have been anything.” Wow.

Ron Reagan Admits He Got Facts Wrong - ABC News

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Shame he'd go to that length to sell a few books.

However, if it were true, it just goes to show that an impaired conservative makes better decisions than a normal liberal

Yeah....he was a regular financial-genius.

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[Luissa]

I do not like Ronald Reagan, but I also know that would be a long time to live with the disease. I also think his son should respect his father.

Sargent Shriver died today, after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2003. That's eight years and he probably had symptoms before 2003.

Ron Reagan would have had to have it for 20 years. Average life span for alzheimers is 9 to 12.

 

[The Infidel]

Ron Reagan would have had to have it for 20 years. Average life span for alzheimers is 9 to 12.

 

[MarcATL]

all part of the historical lib campaign to call conservatives stupid.

That's BULLSHIT....twice.

Ron Reagan never said that....or, you'd have posted proof o' that....right??

Ron Reagan (on Hardball) - HERE

Secondly.....there is no historical lib campaign to call conservatives stupid....no matter what you heard on the playground, today, Skippy.​

Excellent link. I didn't expect such pleasantry considering all the hubbub around the book.

 

[Political Junky]

I do not like Ronald Reagan, but I also know that would be a long time to live with the disease. I also think his son should respect his father.

Sargent Shriver died today, after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2003. That's eight years and he probably had symptoms before 2003.

Ron Reagan would have had to have it for 20 years. Average life span for alzheimers is 9 to 12.

Average being the key word.

 

[GOP_John]

I think the myth that the Republican party is for big business and the Democrats are for the little guy died when it was the Democrats in the Congress in 2008 who bailed out wall street and the Republicans voted to let them die.

Face it, you socialists may hate corporations but obviously it is people like you who serve them. Big corporations really hate us Republicans, we like to see what they hate; competition. Face Socialists and Democrats, the Fat Cats are Fat Cats because of people like you, not us.

With that being said, Ron Reagan did a much better job under much worse conditions than Obama is doing today. Even if he was suffering from Alzheimers.

 

[ginscpy]

There was a parody in Mad Magazine in 1968

RonRum.

A rum to help one forget.

When Ronald Reagan was talked about as a GOP presidential candidate, while a sitting Calif gov.