Chewin in the Chung

Brian said something kind of interesting about Bush in the comments below: "he is the true magik teflon man."

And that made me start to think. So I thought. And then my butt kind of itched, so I scratched it. And then I thought some more. Teflon¡KPolytetrafluoroethylene¡K Teflon President¡K Ronald Reagan! I'm not positive, but I think it was Jimmy Carter who coined that phrase to describe Reagan (if it was used previously to describe earlier presidents, I wouldn't remember. Because I am so young.)

And man, Reagan was so slick it was downright creepy. He'd say remarkably dumb stuff in a press conference, and the only people to get pissed off were pretentious lefty college students. He got 240 marines killed in Beirut, and smiled as he took his free pass from the press and the public. Budget and trade deficits, which should have infuriated conservatives, grew for eight years. His wife, Nancy Reagan, was heavily into Astrology to the point where she was using it to time important events and announcements by the administration. Did this cause any outrage from the Moral Majority (because they view Astrology as a form of witchcraft)? Nope. It just pissed of Skeptics. And Skeptics are ALWAYS pissed off about something, so nobody listens to them.

So, who is more Polytetrafluoroethyleneesque, Reagan or Bush?