WTF Is It Now?!?

"I will vote for whoever the viable candidate is who can defeat George W. Bush"
From the Larry King interview of Ron Reagan:

REAGAN: Well, like I said, we were surprised by it. We got to the mortuary the first day, there were a couple of hundred people who were outside there and we were impressed by that. Oh, look at that, a couple of hundred people showed up! And then we started driving to the library and every single overpass on the 405 and the Simi Freeway, now the Ronald Reagan Freeway actually, was jammed with people. Fire trucks, with hook and ladders with the ladders up and flags between them, and standing and saluting and everything. And it just kept on and on and on all the way up to the library. And you got the feeling that this is something different, you know?

I don't think I have to say, that it was entirely about my father. I think a great deal of it clearly was. And all credit to his character that that was the case. But I think it came at a moment when Americans were particularly hungry for someone they could perceive as honest, upstanding, a hero.

KING: Heroic.

REAGAN: Yes. I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know? And now here's this guy who made you feel good about yourself. Made you feel good about your country. And you thought, he's -- this is a standup guy. When we were in Washington driving along the first day, I looked out at the crowd and there was somebody holding a sign, a picture of him, and the words said "Now there was a president."

And later:

REAGAN: Well, you know, there was that answer he gave to the question about, did you talk to your father about going into Iraq? 'No, I talked to a higher father,' you know, the almighty. When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the almighty, God, I get a little worried, frankly. The other guys do that a lot. Osama bin Laden's always talking about Allah, what Allah wants, that he's on his side. I think that's uncomfortable.

KING: Do you have thoughts on the war?

REAGAN: Sure, I have thoughts on the war.

KING: And what do you think?

REAGAN: And I think we lied our way into the war.

KING: You think it's a mistake?

REAGAN: Absolutely, a terrible mistake. Terrible foreign policy error. We didn't have to do it. It was optional. And we were lied to. The American public was lied to about WMD, the connection between Osama bin Laden and Saddam, which is virtually nonexistent except for fleeting contacts. But they're still trying to pull that one off now, Cheney and all are out there flogging that.

KING: Can I gather from that, that you will not support this president?

REAGAN: No, I won't.