WTF Is It Now?!?

Thanks to Emersonian, who sent in the MSGOP transcript of the interview with Ron Reagan Jr:

BUCHANAN: Now, let me ask you about your criticism of the president of the United States. Now, I obviously - I ran against him, and I thought - there was a point that maybe he was not mature enough to be president, but now since 9/11 I think he’s done a tremendous job in the war on terror. In Afghanistan he got a tremendous coalition together, and while I may have disagreed with this war, I mean, the way it was planned and the way it was fought certainly is a tremendous success. Do you want to take back some of the things that were very, very rough that you said about him at the time of the convention...
REAGAN: No...
BUCHANAN: ... in the year 2000?
REAGAN: No, he’s a big boy. He can take it, and by the way, Pat, he wasn’t over there carrying a rifle. The military did a tremendous job in Iraq. They did as good a job as any military can do against admittedly a very weak foe, but George W. Bush wasn’t over there fighting. He was just the one that, you know, was insisting that the war take place.

PRESS: All right, Ron, here’s the White House spin. The White House spin about President Bush is that he is Ronald Reagan redux, you know. He’s a likable guy...You may not like his policies, but you got to like him because he’s such a real guy, right...
REAGAN:Yes.
PRESS: Do you buy that?
REAGAN: Well, I can tell - no, I don’t. I can tell you on behalf of my family-I think I can speak for them-that we’re getting a little tired of the White House pretending this is the second coming of Ronald Reagan. I mean, you put Ronald Reagan next to George W. Bush, it’s like putting a grown man next to a garden gnome. I mean, this guy just doesn’t fill the chair. I’m sorry, I don’t care what kind of P.R. he’s getting.
PRESS: But doesn’t he have the same sort of get-tough attitude in foreign policy that your father had it in not taking any nonsense if there’s trouble going in and fixing it? Look at Grenada.
REAGAN: I don’t know the man personally, OK, and these are my personal views about him, but I don’t hang out with him, so I don’t know him personally. I’m reacting to what I see of him in public, but he strikes me as thin-skinned and insecure. He strikes me as a guy who despite what everybody says doesn’t really know his own mind, and, frankly, doesn’t know what he is doing.