That’s what Roadsideamerica.com is saying. In Covington, Louisiana:
World’s Largest Reagan Statue To Be Unveiled - Trunkations
World's Largest Ronald Reagan Statue, Covington, Louisiana
Perhaps ironically, the Reagan statue will likely be the most memorable feature of Covington, Louisiana.
So this Patrick Taylor is one of the 400 richest men in the world, and the biggest statue he could possibly finance is only 10 feet tall? Big enough to be tasteless, yet not colossal enough to be really expensive or impressive at all. I guess Taylor figures that Reagan didn’t make the world safe for rich folks just so they could blow all their money on public statuary.
It’s not a bad likeness actually, in a terminally rigid sort of way. Reagan always had a certain inanimate quality that seems to translate well to sculpture. Nonetheless, I foresee a lot of nightmares among the smaller children of Covington in the future.
I also sort of envy the town’s high-school kids, come Halloween.
I was half-expecting something this size.
Reagan looks gay in the statue. Slight curtsey and swivelled just a little too much at the hips.
A deep and subtle testament to the Republican poor who worship the party that dryholes them at every opportunity.
Whoa! I only clicked on the second link that shows the head and torso. Yeah, he is sort of prancing along there, isn’t he? What’s that about?
Yeah, he does kinda have a “Hello, sailor!” look.
Add me to the list of people who thought the world’s largest statue of Ronald Reagan would be … larger.
Pretty underwhelming.
Article says 15 - that’s with the base.
Must be a tribute to his Alzheimer’s years. He seems to be saying, “I’m this tall.”
It looks like Liberace. Sorry but it does. I hate Reagan and like Liberace.
That looks totally gay and I don’t mean in the homosexual sense. He looks ridiculous (of course, he always did with that little pompadour going on).
What IS it about this man that makes so many people cream in their jeans? I just don’t get it–he was not a good communicator, he wasn’t even very bright. He wasn’t good looking and he did not hold to the sacred “family values” that he espoused so virulently. It will always baffle me.
Oh, fine. Well if you want to include the base as part of the statue, then I could throw together an even larger statue of Ronald Reagan by myself. All I need to do is go down to the Home Depot and buy a 20-foot flagpole, and then stick a Ronald Reagan action figure on top. Presto, instant World’s Largest Reagan Statue. And I could even hang a flag on it too. Bite me, Covington, Louisiana!
Granted, the “Reagan” part of the statue might not last long. I’m in Florida, and we get a lot of lightning.
I like this idea. Drill a hole in Reagan’s ass for a pole, and he can grow.
That statue is really intended as a joke, right? Right? Seriously, not a joke? That’s even funnier.
Well, in comparison to those that came before him, you’d really have to go back a generation to Kennedy before you get someone with as good of an oratory capacity, and further back to good old Ike for a Republican who didn’t come off like a clown. (Personally, I think Gerold Ford, in retrospect, was underrated but he came in dragging the dead camel of Nixon’s foibles.) Whether by circumstance of luck or action (I tend strongly toward the former) Reagan presided over the collapse of Soviet communism and the Cold War, and one must legitimately award him points for contributing to the upswing American morale in the post-Watergate, post-Vietnam, post-oil crisis era. That he was also something of an absent-minded, unhip buffoon–his attempt to hijack Springsteen song titles into jingoistic campaign slogans was particularly laughable–and his either involvement in or inexcusable ignorance of explicitly criminal arms dealing operations conducted by the CIA and private intelligence contractors directed by his top advisers are generally glossed over. Heck, I bet you couldn’t get more than one person in twenty that have more than a vague clue about what the Iran-Contra hearings were about, anyway. (Then there’s the October Surprise…but I digress.)
I’d have to disagree that he wasn’t a good communicator, per se. I think he had something of a gift for speechifying, and he seemed to come off as very personable in one-to-one interactions. He just wasn’t all that clear, or indeed, interested, in the actual details of policy. Not being all that bright or living by one’s values has rarely been an issue for executives of either party and the adherents that champion them; good thing because most Presidents can’t begin to live up to those standards, and the few that have (Carter comes to mind) was almost completely useless in action.
Or you could put it in his nose and make it extend out while a loop recording says, “I don’t remember…I can’t recall…I…I…I don’t remember…I can’t recall…”
It’s a really stupid statue of him, anyway. This is a joke, right? It looks like a Village People parody of Ronald Reagan. A joke, surely?
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This cracked me up.
Ronald Reagan !
On a stick !!!
Looks a little like a Gay, happy smiling Stalin, too…
fml
If I were one of the 400 richest men in the world, I’d pay Jeff Koons to re-work Michael Jackson and Bubbles into Ronnie and Bonzo.
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A bit of a ummm… Nancy boy?
In other news, the progress on the construction of the Nixon Monument continues apace.
