What species is it that eats their elders? Tom Smith

They’re called politicians.  It may not look pretty, but it’s just part of the circle, the circle of life.  Which in this case lasts about eight years.  Glenn is absolutely correct about the last 2 years of the RR administration.  I was present at the whatever the opposite of creation is, in the last year of the Reagan WH, and the distancing by the Bushies then was something to behold.  It is one reason why I have always had a hard time getting too enthused about anyone named Bush, as I remember quite clearly the let’s throw the old man over the side sentiments of Bush Sr. and his band of lackies.   Remember “kinder and gentler”?  A phrase that still makes me unable to eat as heartily as I like.  It is interesting to contemplate how history would have been different had the Gipper chosen someone besides Bush Sr. to be his VP.