A BUMP FOR THE BONEHEAD?

The trouble with the death of Ronald
Reagan is that, whatever else it means, it will give our White
House bonehead a ceremonial stage to play statesman in mourning for the rest
of the week until Reagan’s burial. Will that get the bonehead a bump in
the polls? We think so. When he pays blustering lip service to the noble ideals that Reagan
symbolizes for many (too many) Americans, the catch in his voice and the teary-eyed show of
sentimental patriotism are liable to score him undeserved points. Watch the
bonehead perform, in Shakespeare’s words, “… like a strutting player, whose conceit /
Lies in his hamstring and doth think it rich / To hear the wooden dialogue …”

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