Ronald Reagan, back when he was host of "General Electric Theater."
The GOP needs an icon and, ever since his popularity crashed to unrecoverable depths in his second term, George W. Bush hasn't been available. Not that the right will admit that they ever saw W. as an icon: When his numbers went south, conservatives rushed to proclaim that he'd never really been one of them.
Which explains the right's elevation of Saint Ronald Reagan of Simi Valley in the middle of last decade. Lacking a present they could stand proudly behind -- even though they were ostensibly in power -- conservatives invented a glorious past.
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