Reply #27: Yes, but look at early footage of Reagan. The Alzheimer's improved him.

[Bucky]

Really. He got increasingly less austere, less stern, less caustic and smug in his delivery during his White House years. His policies remained destructive, but as a person and as a screen presense, he became friendlier and more avuncular with age--and apparently with senility.

Bush has only gotten to be a worse dumbfuck. Of course as the boss loses his marbles, the advisors' input becomes increasingly important. Reagan had Howard Baker and David Gergen--men who with age and wisdom have evolved steadily leftward in their politics. Bush has Karl Rove, whose only evolution is to go from young snot to sharp hardened booger.