Reply #70: Those pictures are beyond priceless... [View All]

I haven't turned on the TV since Tuesday. But I think I took in all the feeling I would have received from watching Reagan's funeral, just from that first picture above of a very grief-striken Nancy.

Say what you will of the woman, or her husband and the legacy of his politics, but at this moment in time, I personally feel her pain and sorrow and give her my sympathy. She's lost the one person who meant more to her in this world than anyone or anything else, and there is now a void in her life where he once was that can never be filled. If only all of the people on this planet could know for themselves, the kind of love that the Reagans apparently knew for each other. How much better might we all be.

As others have remarked in this thread, that love has transformed Nancy, softening her views on an issue central to her party's ideology. With love, comes hope. With hope, comes love.