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Column: Reagan gave Americans hope. Trump offers venom and lies
Los Angeles Times ^ | 09/24/2023 | GEORGE SKELTON

Posted on 09/24/2023 11:16:11 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

SACRAMENTO — The Republican Party will hold a presidential candidate debate at the Ronald Reagan library Wednesday. It’s a bad fit. The GOP’s modern idol is exactly the opposite of Reagan in personality and character. For upbeat Reagan, America was a “shining city on the hill.” For whining Donald Trump, it’s a waste bin for venom and lies.

Reagan’s soaring rhetoric made people feel good about themselves. There was “always a bright dawn ahead” — “Morning in America.”

Yes, maybe that was a tad naive and corny, but it brought a collective smile — and won over many Democrats.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: americans; california; fakenews; georgeskelton; hope; losangelesslimes; losangelestimes; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; nevertrumping; reagan; smokybackroomforum; tds; trump
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Wrong!

TRUMP OFFERS HOPE!

81 posted on 09/24/2023 12:56:02 PM PDT by Savage Beast (There is no limit to the heights to which we can rise. To be your best is the secret of happiness.)
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To: DesertRhino

Reagan was fighting Liberals, Trump isfighting reds.


82 posted on 09/24/2023 12:56:31 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: DesertRhino
Another steaming pantload of “we miss Reagan” and explaining that Reagan was just a sunny personality and that carried the day. And all of this is coming from people who hate everything he stood for.

I think the Left is sincere. In their eyes, Trump makes Reagan look good.

I understand how they feel. For me, Obama made Clinton look good. And Clinton made Carter look good. The Democrats are getting worse and worse.

And I'm sure that's how they see Republicans.

83 posted on 09/24/2023 1:01:29 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: ChicagoConservative27

George, you hate Reagan. Stop lying.


84 posted on 09/24/2023 1:15:06 PM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: Angelino97

The latest one is always the worst.


85 posted on 09/24/2023 1:15:07 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Desperation is setting in because they are even praising Reagan now.


86 posted on 09/24/2023 1:15:42 PM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: KamperKen

What a joke, these people hated Reagan.


87 posted on 09/24/2023 1:19:59 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Thank you for playing, Skelton.

Vanna has some lovely parting gifts for you.


88 posted on 09/24/2023 1:21:08 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....!)
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To: DesertRhino

You forget that Reagan started his fight in the 40s after 9 years in the military, first as an FBI informant against the Communists, then 5 terms as Hollywood union boss and having to carry a gun because of the Communists and the left, then being called back to union boss for a 6th term and then campaigning for Republicans during the “Red Scare” 50s, making the great speech at the Goldwater convention, followed by 8 years as California Governor during the peak of the radical bombing leftists, and gun carrying Black Panther and Black Militant shoot-outs and racial riots of the 1960s and racial Indian uprisings, and then the 8 years of the presidency when he destroyed the Russian empire while fighting off the American democrat left.

He did all that without talk radio, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and right-wing internet or a GOP congress (a congress most of us had never seen or thought possible).

During Reagan’s time in politics and leadership, we saw incredible violence and turmoil with cities burning, troops in America, and mass arrests on record-breaking scales.

Think of a terrorist bombing every week on average, 13,000 demonstrators arrested in one city, 82nd Airborne Paratroopers and Marines flying into DC by the thousands.


89 posted on 09/24/2023 1:23:44 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: KamperKen

More information warfare from the democrat party.


90 posted on 09/24/2023 1:31:34 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
82-year-old no-name neckbeard. LAT fossil. Here's hoping some pendejo carjacks him...
91 posted on 09/24/2023 1:34:57 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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Skelton looks like a cross between Red Forman and George Carlin, and has none of the humor of either. (I know what Forman would call him.)


92 posted on 09/24/2023 1:38:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: gibsonguy

“What a joke, these people hated Reagan.”

That was my very thought.


93 posted on 09/24/2023 1:41:04 PM PDT by KamperKen (u)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

LOL. That’s not what the LA Times or any of the old media said in 1980.

Reagan is safe now that he is dead. So they can say anything nice about him that they want.


94 posted on 09/24/2023 1:45:06 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: DoodleBob
We need to force people to get shots any way we can.

That's all you need to read of everything this dweeb ever wrote to know he's a creepy little Nazi.

95 posted on 09/24/2023 1:49:03 PM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: KamperKen

“Always consider the source,” my Dad’s constant reminder.


96 posted on 09/24/2023 1:49:46 PM PDT by BatGuano (2020 = Stolen Election. Believe it! Molon Labe.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The same Libs we’re calling home Ronnie Ray Gun and saying he’d start a nuclear war.

Screw ‘em.


97 posted on 09/24/2023 1:54:09 PM PDT by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

To put this drivel out there means, to me, that the left does not know how to regain their initiative of controlling the narrative.

To even consider this tripe would have any measurable effect on anything whatsoever screams of desperation.


98 posted on 09/24/2023 1:54:31 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And Trump is ‘orange man’!!!!!! Sheesh!

DT had/has a terrible makeup artist and I use the word ‘artist’ very loosely.


99 posted on 09/24/2023 1:56:16 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (MURDER IS MYRDER)
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To: Right Brother

The LA Times, together with the rest of the propaganda media, was completely stunned at the outpouring of affection for Reagan when he died. I was in Washington DC to watch his casket on the way to the Capitol. Constitution Ave was lined with people paying their respects to Reagan. The same happened when his casket went up to the Reagan library in California.

The legacy media lived in a bubble of elite leftism way back in the 1990s. Now they are even more isolated from reality than ever.


100 posted on 09/24/2023 1:57:42 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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