I took a trip through the Blogs for Bush blogroll, and I've found that I'm not alone on the Reagan dime issue. Various statements:
Matthew J. Stinson writes:
[P]utting Reagan's face on the dime strikes me as excessive Reagan-worship on the part of some conservatives.
I'm with the Democrats on this one. The coin is fine the way it is. If you want to play politics, do it with on your own dime. Don't so it with mine.
I agree...that the idea of replacing FDR with Ronald Reagan on the dime is true, unadulterated idiocy, which—given some Republicans’ worship of all that is Reagan—borders on idolatry.
These may or may not be representative of Republican sentiment as a whole, but at least I'm not like John Anderson in 1980, off in my own little world and wondering what's going on. I do, however, apparently remain alone on the question of booting John Kennedy off the half-dollar and replacing him with Ronald Reagan. If President Reagan's already out of communication, then the appropriate time would be the first issue year after his death, I would reckon.
Suburban Blight has a poll on the subject; check it out if you're inclined.
Posted by Country Pundit at December 6, 2003 11:42 PM