Reply #1: Whatever

[MADem]

I say leave old Nancy alone. Hell, she was up the pole when she married Ronnie, so she was no choir girl. If she tooted a few horns in her youth, so what.

I didn't particularly care for her as First Lady, mainly because she wore expensive clothes and bought hideously gilded china for the White House during a time when people were losing jobs left and right and having a rough time making ends meet. She served as a convenient symbol of GOP uncaring; that "Screw you, poor folk, I've got MINE!" attitude that pervades to this day. As First Lady, she was a bit too "Let them eat cake" to suit me.

That said, in her dotage, she has done a good thing or two. She put her money where her mouth was, and dedicated herself to making sure her husband got the best care. She kept him at home, and even with help (and we know she had plenty) that still had to be a drain on her--she essentially retired from public life during a time when she had planned to kick up her heels a bit. She supports stem cell research, and she will not back down on that support. She behaved gracefully during her husband's funeral, despite the fact that Dick Cheney left her standing alone and unsupported at age 89 on a slippery floor in the rotunda (with glaucoma, she can scarcely see) and she could barely find her way to her husband's casket.

So, I won't bash the old dame--it's the kind of thing a Republican likes to do; shit on former First Ladies. And I think we're a bit better than that.