BZ Mr. Robinson
Posted on 04/17/2016 2:02:16 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Excellent! Thank for writing this, FenwickBabbitt and for posting it, Jim.
Ronald Reagan was a lifelong Democrat until he was over 50.
Wow! Maybe we should hope the server goes down more often if this is how you spend your off-air time! An excellent and very insightful analysis.
I have hoped for and waited for a “citizen president” for ages, one who would have already achieved success in business and how then turned to give back to his country. Donald Trump is a perfect example of that. Not a perfect man or a perfect conservative, but who amongst us is? (And who is qualified to judge?) But I truly believe that if Trump is elected he will tackle the right priorities and make enough positive change that it will trigger a rebirth of traditional America. I don’t need a President who preaches social policy or moral values - but if President Trump can set the nation on a path of economic growth and prosperity, all of those problems will be resolved by others, just as they have been in the past. Tom Peters is famous for saying that “Management is doing things right, while leadership is doing the right things”. Donald Trump is the leader we need at this point in history; he will do the right things.
I’m Hip
If it’s left to the convention, we’re screwed. They’ll change the rules, appoint a GOPe RINO and Hillary waltzes into the White House.
Cruz has no realistic shot at 1237 so Trump must get there.
Or, they should unite now for America and git ‘er done!
A Trump/Cruz ticket with supporters united would be undeniable at the convention and would steamroll over the godless America-hating democrats in November in a landslide with coattails to elect veto proof majorities in both houses of congress.
Then we’d really be set to restore America from the SCOTUS down and make her great again!
Vote Trump
Excellent post!
Thank you!
The anti-Trump crowd seems to have a bit in common with the “sufferers” of the so-called “Stockholm syndrome”. So damaged and betrayed by your typical politician, when offered a way to freedom, they reject it and cling to their oppressors. Namely, the political class cabal, like Cruz, who beat them, shocked them, lied to them, screwed them over, cursed them, maligned them, treated them like chattel. So damaged by the political class, they cannot comprehend any alternative way of living.
I am all in favor of this. Ironically, it is the same position Mitt Romney held in 2012. However, I find it deeply disturbing when Trump says things like "Everybody’s got to be covered" and "I am going to take care of everybody. I don’t care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now." This smacks of big government paternalism, which is the antithesis of Conservatism.
Repeal Obamacare? Hell yes. End the federal ban on interstate commerce for insurance? Even better. But when you tell me the government is going to take care of me? I know I am about to be screwed. Not even Obamacare goes this far.
I don't see Cruz's delegates abandoning him after the first ballot. Can't say that for Trump since he has no idea who his delegates are.
Hear, hear!
Thank you, saving this.
Well, if he’s opening it up for insurance companies to compete for business over state lines, that’s not government. It’s private.
He’s hoping everyone gets covered by private insurance, but on the other hand, he appears to be wanting government to cover the indigent. I’m not in love with the latter part, but we the taxpayers and consumers of healthcare services already pick up that tab anyway, through higher taxes, higher premiums and higher healthcare costs. Maybe he thinks it can be controlled better with an isolated program for the indigent and uninsurable? He’s stated many times that we shouldn’t want people dying in the streets for want of healthcare. At any rate, those kinds of programs should be handled at the state and local levels.
BZ Mr. Robinson
Between 1987 and the present, how many years were you a registered democrat?
Thanks for laying it all out for the Cruzers. They can’t ignore this, but they’ll try.
Bump for later
Ronald Reagan was a Democrat when Democrats still loved America and stood up for traditional family values. Trump was a registered democrat during periods when the democrat party was indistinguishable from the Communist Party. Ronald Reagan left the democrat party before it became the party of Marx and Lenin and gay rights and anti-Christian philosophies and abortion on demand.
A Keeper!
Incoming-
+/- 20-25 years before becoming a prominent conservative and eventual Republican presidential candidate, ___________began his political career as a Democrat. He joined numerous political committees with a left-wing orientation, such as the American Veterans Committee. He fought against Republican-sponsored right-to-work legislation.
He planned to lead an anti-nuke demonstration and only his employer's intervention prevented it. He was elected president of a large, famous union twice--a union which had known communists among its members. He appeared ONSTAGE to endorse the Democratic presidential candidate, who subsequently won.
19 years later, as a governor he signed into law a liberalization of abortion that led to an explosion of abortions in his state.
Almost 20 years later, as president, he signed a law that legalized all illegal immigrants who had arrived in the US during the first almost 200 years of the existence of our nation.
I'll fill in the blank for you: our greatest president of the 20th century, known as Ronaldus Magnus, RONALD REAGAN.
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