The Dower Power Hour

I think the entire country has collectively decided to forget all about the Iran-Contra Affair.  Hearing the Republican candidates talk about Ronald Reagan, you’d think they were talking about the second coming of Christ.  The guy went behind Congress’s back to sell weapons to Iran so that he cound illegally fund a right-wing insurgency group.  Let me rephrase that using the modern political jargon: he sold weapons to the most unpredictable member of the Axis of Evil so he could give money to terrorists.  And this is the Republican they want to replicate?  Couldn’t they cite Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, or Thomas Jefferson like a normal person?  At least those Presidents’ imperfections are far enough back in time that we can politely ignore them or dismiss them as a product of their era.  Anyway, that’s been bothering me ever since the first Republican debate so I had to get it off my chest.  Thanks for listening.