Responding to Obama’s Win, Michael (Son of) Reagan Says, Go After Dems on Sex

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The Obama win is driving some conservatives crazy. On Tuesday, Michael Reagan, talk show host and son of Ronald, sent out an email announcing a new outfit called Reagan Action, which among other things, will seek to “expose” the sexual “corruption” of leading Democrats. And he was characteristically over the top:

Dear Conservative Friend,

My father wasn’t afraid to call evil what it was — and neither am I. He defeated the “Evil Empire” called the Soviet Union — but now we face a new “Evil Empire.” It’s called Socialism, and it’s taken over our once-free nation through the victories of Obama, Pelosi and Reid.

We MUST do this. Really — what choice do we have, except to fight back and WIN? As my father, President Ronald Reagan, once said, “We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow.”

It’s official: America has its first truly Socialist president… and it’s the Republican Party’s fault.

No, scratch that — it’s the so-called “leaders” of the GOP who are at fault for this humiliating defeat — and I say it’s time to name names and make heads roll in our party. Because, my fellow conservatives, we have been BETRAYED by the very people who promised that, if we would just elect them, they would get into office and vote OUR conservative values.

THEY LIED… THE GOP DIED.

Michael Reagan, who sure likes bold face and capital letters, notes that he is angry with President Bush and

the so-called “leaders” of our party, who promised us that if we’d just vote for who they put up for election, we’d finally get what we wanted: smaller government, lower taxes, dramatically lower spending, pro-life laws, pro-marriage constitutional amendments, pro-American economics… well, YOU AND I put them in power, and they gave us nothing but BIG GOVERNMENT, BIG DEFICITS, and LIBERAL COMPROMISES.

So what’s he going to do about it? Reagan is declaring “the NEW Reagan Revolution to bring Conservatism BACK!” And how will contributing to Reagan Action–yes, this was a solicitation letter–bring back conservatism? This new group, Reagan promises, will

EXPOSE LIBERAL CORRUPTION— With the Democrats back in power in both Congress and the White House, you KNOW that they’ll be falling right back into their habits of taking lobbyists’ money under the table, trading votes for campaign contributions, spying on and sabotaging Republican legislative plans, covering up their leaders’ sexual “flings,” and spending taxpayer money on personal expenses like never before. But this time, YOU AND I will be there every step of the way, making sure that no stone is left unturned, every dark corner is filled with light, and every illegal act is paid for with censure, impeachment, recalls, investigations, and jail time for every criminal we expose in Washington, D.C.

And Reagan will also be directing “Reagan Activists to “fill the news media with letters to the editor, guest editorials, and news articles detailing the socialistic and corrupt policies of the new liberal regime.”

This is some effort he has planned–mounting an army of Reagan-loving volunteers to go up against the “evil” Obama administration and take the country back from the socialists. And Reagan is even willing to probe the sexual “flings” of Democrats.

Reality check: is the United States now a socialist state about to be headed by a socialist leader? (Let’s leave aside the Wall Street bailout.) There are two explanations for Reagan’s letter. (A) He’s become totally unhinged by the Obama victory, and (B), he’s crassly trying to squeeze whatever cash he can out of conservative donors by exploiting their ideological paranoia. Maybe the correct answer is all of the above.

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