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Posted on 03/17/2016 3:14:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
To put it another way, Trump is far from the best available candidate. But he may very well be the best we deserve and are capable of electing.
You’re getting it. Its just in New York flavor, that’s all. Reagan was a westerner. Trump is a New Yorker. The stereotype has been there in a thousand movies. Reagan and Trump are more alike than you will ever admit.
Quit whining and go in for the big win.
No, Trump IS the VERY BEST of America and the ONLY candidate who loves America, all Americans, and wants to inspire everyone to BE Americans and bring back Reagan’s idea of America as she should be again.
Reagan's critics, and there were a lot of them, never said a nice thing about him. After they found their insults did not work they called Reagan Teflon.
Reagan was regularly called extreme, heartless, cruel, a dunce, out of touch, just a B movie actor, a hater a fascist, a cowboy, reckless and other things that can't be printed.
Washington Democrats hated Reagan with a passion. The media hated Reagan. They tried to get him impeached.
And when they could no longer attack Reagan they went after Nancy. She was continually attacked.
And they went after everyone in his administration.
There is nothing wrong with Trump or Cruz. They inspire people. Trump particularly loves America and is doing so much to make things better.
Please don't fall into the trap of Reagan loved by everyone, Trump divisive.
The people who are divisive are Soros, Obama, Clinton, Moveon.org and the people trying to destroy America.
Trump is a patriot. He loves America. He is lied about but he will win.
“Where Hollywood?”
“You’re looking at him.”
“Where?”
“Right here!”
“Where?”
“Here!”
SPOT ON !
“Please don’t fall into the trap of Reagan loved by everyone, Trump divisive.”
Most recently, they want to remove his name from the DC airport they love him so much.
Andrew Jackson was not a statesman or a spit and polished politician.
But he was what was needed at the time he was elected as the 7th president in 1829. He served two terms.
He ran on a campaign, among other things, of “Route the Vipers Out,” of Washington.
He was profane, a brigand, and willing to crack heads.
But things had gotten to a point in the country at the time, where he was precisely what the people wanted to go in and make a difference.
It’s very much the same today.
You go to war with the army you have rather than what you would like, right? It’s not Trump’s fault the GOP could not produce another Reagan since Trump met the man in his youth.
Wonder what this writer would have thought of Governor Reagan and later President Reagan how he handled thugs.
How Governor Reagan dealt with the Berkeley protesters in 1969!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpg0UfpuUAs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCr3nL78qWs
Reagan handles a protester in 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEXOpm0H7QA
“Above all, Ronald Reagan — like a number of other truly great American political leaders from both sides of the aisle — had the ability to inspire Americans to see the best in themselves and their neighbors.”
What a lot of nonsense. I doubt that this writer is old enough to remember the political climate in 1980. The 80s were no golden age of harmony in the country.
The GOP establishment was solidly against Reagan. He was too inexperienced or too conservative to suit them. They never did warm up to him, witness GHW Bush’s veiled insult in his “kinder, gentler America” theme.
The Democrats and the press were even worse, they ridiculed Reagan throughout his entire Presidency.
This election is no worse than what has gone on before. The big difference this time is that a total amateur is destroying the political hacks who think that they own the country and they can’t believe what is happening.
A very accurate recounting of what happened.
No, they were not, but the difference is the staffers of the office holders got along and helped hammer out the deals over drinks and smokes. They got along with each other after the cameras were off, not anymore, we all hate each other.
Teddy Kennedy and his comrades were as nasty and vengeful a crowd as we have today, going as far as siding with the Sandanista communists while we were fighting them.
Tip O’Neill was a double dealing liar whose word was no good. He agreed to budget cuts when Reagan proposed his first budget, then reneged on them creating a mess in the nation’s finances.
Probably not, but there were enough moderate or conservative Democrats and enough moderate or liberal Republicans in Washington that the conflict between the two parties was more muffled than it is today.
It wasn't that Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan were friends, it was that neither could count on getting everything his own way, and they had to work maybe with each other, but certainly with people who didn't agree with them 100%.
The GOP establishment was solidly against Reagan. He was too inexperienced or too conservative to suit them. They never did warm up to him, witness GHW Bush’s veiled insult in his “kinder, gentler America” theme.
Really? They voted for him. He may not have been their dream candidate or president, but they generally supported him.
Who was in Reagan's cabinet anyway? Schultz, Baker, Schweiker, Brady, Thornburg, Peirce, Brock? Plenty of moderates.
Tax cuts plus a hard-line on Russia (at first anyway): that was acceptable to pretty much all Republicans and most Americans.
If you've sniped at other Republicans down through the years, you've done what you reproach the '80s Establishment for -- probably more -- so what's the problem?
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Thanks Kaslin.
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This is some of the revisionist history. Bob Michel was the weak minority leader for the Republicans, willing to roll over for the Dems. That’s the only reason there was a veneer of civility.
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