Reply #35: It's the Reagan image he's trying to grab on to [View All]

While he was President, Reagan would vacation on his ranch (outside Santa Barbara?), where he was often photographed clearing brush and doing other manual labor around his ranch. Of course the photo opps were designed to show that Ron was just a normal working class guy like the rest of us. The difference between Reagan and W, is that Reagan would put on jeans, denim shirt, work gloves, and actually do things like chop wood, and clear brush, because he knew how to do it, and actually enjoyed doing that kind of shit around his hobby ranch. Reagan cleared brush to make more riding trails on his ranch, because that's what he really liked, riding his horses. Why does W pretend to chop brush? So that he can pretend to ride a horse? He's just trying to invoke the Reagan legacy, but he's just such a complete phony that he looks like a dork when he tries it.