Posted on 02/15/2016 6:04:17 PM PST by Hojczyk
As Yogi Berra said, "It is deja all over again."
The 2016 campaign is becoming more and more reminiscent of the 1980 campaign when the establishment threw everything it had at Ronald Reagan. Reagan was characterized as a crackpot, b-grade movie actor whose foreign policy would cause World War III; his economic policies were "madness" and the tax cut proposal was "voodoo economics."
Trump is in the same situation as Reagan was in 1976 and throughout the 1980 campaign until the convention in Detroit. And then, inexplicably to some conservatives, Reagan decided to put George H. W. Bush on the ticket as his vice president instead of Kemp.
Thus the political elites, inclusive of the impudent snobs, were able to salvage what would have been a near catastrophic situation -- not having access and leverage on the presidency and the business of Washington.
Needless to say, politics is a very big business and, as the New York Times recently reported, Donald Trump is a nightmare for the political consulting business. The digital media buy alone for 2016 is estimated to be nearly $1 billion. Jeb Bush has paid one firm over $40 million for advertising through December. Additionally, $3 billion is spent annually to lobby Capitol Hill and the White House.
Donald Trump, like Ronald Reagan, has interjected a positive dynamic into the U.S. political lexicon -- an anti-political correctness that resonates with voters. It is healthy for our country and severely needed within the Republican Party.
Americans are embracing Trump's vison of making America great again, just as they embraced Reagan's vision of America as that shinning city on the hill. Trump is very much a disciple of Ronald Reagan, contrary to what the impudent snobs say.
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Only thing is, Reagan was a class act who exuded integrity, and Trump is a sick man.
There really is not much comparison. It is a reach to say they are alike. It does a disservice to both of them.
Trump iz no Reagan.
I would love to see Ronald Reagan debate Trump. He would clean The Donald’s clock the way Reagan did Robert Kennedy.
No, it’s only a disservice to Reagan. tRump is a self centered, big mouthed, creepy old man.
Reagan was none of those things.
Trump has the potential to be better then Reagan. If he builds the wall and deports all illegals, he would be the president that saved America and the greatest ever. Worthy of his own Mt. Rushmore monument.
Their campaigns are alike, eh? I don’t believe Reagan ran a campaign that the government’s job was to “take care of everyone” and blast “you conservatives” who disagreed.
It’s a sacrilege to see the Great Ronald Reagan’s name in the same sentence as low-life Trump.
You sound like a cultist with your projection of your own ideals onto Trump, just like the Obots of 8 years ago. To me, Trump sounds more like a Code Pink lunatic.
No Jo, not at all.
Trump damned sure doesn’t speak correctly, but the wall would have come down as Reagan had demanded .... and it will be a wonder WHAT will happen ... somewhere in the world ... on the day Trump is inaugurated
Cruz is no Ronald Reagan
I agree, and no one who thinks you are crazy will be able to refute the point you made.
The best they are going to be able to do is say that they don't believe Trump will do what he has spent the last 40 years doing.
Bwwwwwwaaaaaaa!!!!!!! Fantastic satire.
C”Only thing is, Reagan was a class act who exuded integrity, and Trump is a sick man.”
Correct. Reagan was calm, cool and articulate. He was warm, funny and clear and detailed in his plans for the country.
Trump is a loose cannon, insultive, crass, obnoxious and offers no details on his plans.
Stone: hack for hire.
Hear, hear!
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