No more "steady leadership in times of change". We're now talking "dead leadership ripped from the 80's".
Faced with the stark reality that even a deceased former president who had suffered from Alzheimer's Disease for the last 15 years can handle the presidency better than George Bush, the Bush-Cheney campaign has morphed into an attempt to win a third term for Ronald Reagan.
Word is that George Bush will be undergoing plastic surgery to take on the likeness of Reagan. And the campaign says it's now found a new rationale for Bush's repeated stubborn refusal to change policy course on multiple issues
†, despite clear evidence of failure: since Reagan is dead and obviously cannot change his policies, George Bush is acting as the True Reagan Heir by emulating him. "At one time, you might have noticed some difference between Bush and Reagan, since Reagan obviously did change course when things didn't work out", the campaign said. "We feel that Former President Reagan's death, long anticipated by his admirers, brings Reagan in line with George Bush, meaning the President can now take up the mantle."
The Bush/Reagan campaign plans to make Reagan's recycled speeches and "win one more for the Gipper" the new campaign theme. There has been no word, as of yet, as to whether Reagan's old campaign commercials would be recycled. There has been some speculation, however, that Dick Cheney might change his name to Bush, to make the transformation more complete.
†Unless a policy became a PR disaster, of course.