yeah, ideologically and as a human being i despise him (he was - at least before the current era of republican slapstick - a picture of everything wrong with american politics) but he was not a phony

it's funny to me that as overtly uncaring and self-serving as he was, he'd surely be considered a flower-child by today's conservative standards

and even though he'll likely get his prostate checked with a fireplace poker for all eternity, i do have a soft spot for mean old fuckers who just wont die