Posted on 11/09/2022 4:56:41 AM PST by Lazamataz
Donald Trump is my favorite President, even more so than Ronald Reagan.
However, I think I’m moving on from him.
I like him in the role of a clarion-calling standard bearer, and his presidency was the best I have ever seen.
I don’t like him in terms of his failure to be a team player. I’m not even sure I like him as a kingmaker. Calling out numbers to make him look good, in a severely-disappointing election shows me he doesn’t care about the boots on the ground, but only how he looks.
Reagan faced the same Establishment hate and Media mocking, but he had a great way of playful rebuttal, with a twinkle in his eye and a little smile. America loved that. All the attacks mustered against him, failed, because he was able to gently turn it around on his attacker with a witty quip or a well thought out fact.
Reagan was also the author of the phrase, the 11th commandment, which was “Thou shall not attack a fellow Republican.”
Trump, on the other hand, has a serious ego problem. He cannot resist getting into a public verbal fight with anyone who criticizes him. While this was fresh and new in 2016, and propelled him into the presidency, it doesn’t work in 2022.
Also, the way Trump fights back is not nearly as good as Reagan’s style. Trump hasn’t got the charm of Reagan, and it’s beginning to hurt our side.
It is for these reasons that I must move on from Donald Trump. Sir, thank you for your incredibly wonderful service in 2016 through 2020. You made those years prosperous and sane. But it is time to move on.
I’m likely to get a ton of flak for this post. That’s okay, I can take it.
1. I agree with you.
2. There’s a time to just SHUT THE F!@# UP, and he is blind to that.
Agree. Thank you Laz.
Go ahead and be a quitter.
Good for you. Don’t let the door smack you in the @ss when you go.
Bikkuri already called you out, retread.
I’ll fly in your formation.
Let the flak fly.
Nobody’s indispensable.
For everything, there is a season.
I’m likely to get a ton of flak for this post. That’s okay, I can take it.
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You’ll take no flak from me. Your analysis is spot on.
Thanks for your thoughtful post.
I will never again vote for a neocon… happy trails
They spit on the Republican-conservative coalition, and use it to get their "piece of the political pie", while the Dems secure the actual power.
Agree
1. any defeateed democrat is one less to gripe about!
2. 2 more years and more representatibes to vote out.
3. democrats are still blaming Trump for things unreal , so why should hr not defend hiimself??
4. AOC escaped, this time.
... great, now Laz has turned pussy and run...
Reagan had a team from CA that had his back and Trump got the DS Rinos that fought him at every turn including his managed lawyers. It’s amazing he got done what he did, and hell yes he wants revenge given the sacrifices, but he is doing it for the country and you haven’t gotten big enough cajones to fight with him. May your chains rest lightly...
Agree. That is all.
Endorsing the likes of McCarthy shows it’s only about his king maker record. It was already decided since Jordan said he supported McCarthy so Trump endorsed just to pump up his numbers.
Yep. He just endorsed the status quo in a Kevin McCarthy speakership. We’re all in for a painful future, a future without conservatism. All I can say to everyone is prepare yourselves and take care of your families as best you can. Enjoy what time you have left and forget about having political influence. It doesn’t matter what average Joe says or even how he votes, the deep state gets their way.
100 percent with u buddy..
I read about Trump saying (on election eve no less) that he’d start dumping secret dirt on DeSantis if DeSantis ran.
If it’s true, it’s just LOW. As a Floridian, Trump can just go pound some sand.
Sick of his unnecessary, unforced distractions everything being all about him.
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