WOW! "Reagan's son"...HATED by Nancy like an incurable STD...campaigning for NEWT! USA! USA! USA!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/26/republican-debate-florida-gop-debate_n_1235260.html#119_newt-reagans-son-will-campaign-in-florida

6:30 PM – Today

Newt: Reagan's Son Will Campaign In Florida

@ AlexNBCNews : Newt says Michael Reagan will be campaigning with him here in Florida... #decision2012 #fldebate

[baldguy]

1. This is the adopted one - who Ronnie didn't recognize when he saw him & couldn't remember his name.

[Neue Regel]

7. Wow...taking a shot at adopted children and people who suffer from Alzheimer's, all in one post

Classy

[tanyev]

11. Except that it really happened.

According to Michael in his autobiography:

Picture this. The year is 1964. It`s a lovely June day. We`re on the campus of the exclusive Judson prep school outside Scottsdale, Ariz. The commencement speaker is Ronald Reagan. There he is with that grin of his, standing with several of the seniors who have been invited to pose for pictures with him. They stand proudly in their caps and gowns.

Ronald Reagan, always good with crowds, chats a little with each graduate.

``My name is Ronald Reagan. What`s yours?`` he says to one young boy.

``I`m your son Mike,`` the boy says.

``Oh,`` says Ronald Reagan. ``I didn`t recognize you.``

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1988-04-17/features/8803090826_1_michael-reagan-four-reagan-children-maureen

[Neue Regel]

12. I never heard about that

My apologies to the poster to whom I snarkily replied! I assumed it was something that had taken place in the early 1990's.

[tanyev]

13. Hard to believe, I know.

Even harder for me to believe that Michael went uber-conservative after all that. Still trying to get Daddy to notice him, I guess.

[baldguy]

14. Reagan was an evil bastard long before he got Alzheimers

And too much of that rubbed off on to Michael.

[gateley]

2. He's insufferable. I hope Ronnie didn't leave him a cent. nt

[southernyankeebelle]

3. You don't hear much about him anymore. Is he still on radio? I had a feeling the family

weren't crazy for him. He is a creepy guy.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. Not sure if he still has a radio show...

...but he apparently still makes the rounds on Fox.

My most vivid memory of him came during Saint Ronnie's funeral. Nancy and Ron Jr. were standing there and Michael kind of "inserted himself" into the situation...getting shoulder to shoulder with Nancy. Can;t remember if he put his arm around her or not, but all of a sudden she looked up and GLARED at him with this "What the HELL do YOU want" look. It was a chilling moment, and her feelings were pretty damned obvious.

[southernyankeebelle]

5. I noticed he looked like a fish out of water. In a way I feel sorry for him. He doesn't seem to

be excepted by Nancy and the kids. His adopted parents both have died. Who does he have left? I feel bad for him. But he still is a jerk.

[white_wolf]

6. I could be confused, but isn't Regan's biological son fairly liberal?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. Ron Jr. is, yes. Michael's adopted and a "Fox News Contributor." n/t

[Raine]

10. Yes, that's Ronald Jr. he guests on MSNBC often

he's TERRIFIC!

[Raine]

8. Ronnie & Nancy thought "so much" of Michael that they didn't

even think to tell Ron Jr. and Patty that he existed till he showed up one day as a teen-ager needing a place to stay.

[kskiska]

15. He slept on their couch

then after a while he noticed some construction going on in the house. He thought, "they're building me a room." When it was finished, the maid came to Michael and proudly showed him HER new room. Michael was given the maid's old room.

Reagan began calling Michael "Schmuck." Michael was so proud, thinking his dad gave him a nickname, till he found out from friends what it meant.

Michael's first autobiography is worth reading - "From the Outside Looking In"

[Raine]

16. Patty's book is the one I read. It's pretty good

too. Nancy is much like Mommy Dearest while Ronnie is pretty much oblivious to what is going on. I'll have to get Michael's, sounds interesting.