Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin may have delivered the keynote speech at President Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday tribute event Friday at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, but one of the late president’s sons, Ron, doesn’t hold her in particularly high esteem.
“Sarah Palin is a soap opera, basically,” Ron Reagan, a liberal political pundit and former radio talk show host, told the Associated Press. “She’s doing mostly what she does to make money and keep her name in the news.”
“She is not a serious candidate for president and never has been,” added Reagan.
But Palin isn’t the only famous political figure viewed as a magnet for drama. Ron Reagan himself has recently come under fire for claiming in his new book, “My Father at 100,” that his late dad suffered Alzheimer’s disease during his presidency. This created a rift in Ron Reagan’s immediate family, causing brother Michael to speak out against him via Twitter.
“What a way for Ron to say Happy 100th Birthday Dad. Ron, my brother was an embarrassment to his father when he was alive and today he became an embarrassment to his mother,” Michael Reagan, a west coast conservative political consultant, wrote, adding that Ron’s statement was merely an attempt to “sell out his father to sell books.”