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Ron throws a left at right wing BY CORKY SIEMASZKO DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Ronald Reagan must be turning in his grave. In a scathing new critique, Reagan's rebellious son, Ron, calls President Bush a liar and rips the Republican Party for kowtowing to religious bigots and corporate crooks.
"George W. Bush and his administration have taken normal mendacity to a startling new level far beyond lies of convenience," Ron Reagan writes in a 4,100-word screed for next month's Esquire magazine. "They traffic in big lies."
The son of the GOP icon said Bush's Republican Party is not his late father's Grand Old Party - and says Bush is not fit to wear the Gipper's boots.
"My father, acting roles excepted, never pretended to be anyone but himself," Reagan writes. "His Republican Party, furthermore, seems a far cry from the current model, with its cringing obeisance to the religious right."
And Bush, Reagan writes, "is ineloquent not because he cannot speak but because he doesn't bother to think."
The blistering broadside appeared just days after Reagan slammed stem cell research opponents - but not Bush by name - at the Democratic Convention. It came amid reports that Nancy Reagan will boycott the upcoming Republican convention - to the dismay of Reagan's adopted son, conservative commentator Michael Reagan.
The Bush administration has lied about why they invaded Iraq and "even as of this writing, Dick Cheney clings to his mad assertion that Saddam [Hussein] was somehow at the nexus of a worldwide terror network," Reagan writes.
The Bushies are in bed with "Fortune 500 fat cats," "rascal evangelists," "homophobic bigots," and "assorted purveyors of junk science."
While Reagan's son did not endorse John Kerry at the convention, he appears to do so in his article. "We can choose, as a bumper sticker I spotted in Seattle put it, Someone Else for President," he writes.
But Bush remains a formidable opponent because he has a solid right-wing base that views his critics as "agents of Satan," according to Reagan.
"Bush could show up on a video canoodling with Paris Hilton and still bank on their vote," he writes.
Originally published on July 30, 2004
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