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.
I am still forever indebted to DJT. I became “Trump or Bust” the moment he came down the escalator. In that instant PC was over and Christmas was restored. We were in deep deep doodoo and he pulled our a** out of a ringer.
Laz thanks for posting this!
Like all families or close groups, often we avoid discussions on issues like
This one.
Maybe you and I can run a fundraiser for FR and beat the record we set decades ago.
This thread might end up being a “Dead thread.”
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Might be. :^)
You’re almost perfectly right.
The only real flaw I can find for Reagan is he did not do as good a job on his own kids as Trump’s - at least, Ivana’s kids.
Perhaps Reagan was too fully devoted to society at large to ensure his own do well.
At 500+, I doubt it.
Congrats! Over 500 and still going.
I won’t disagree that he was the right President for the time and we definitely need another one with strength and business acumen to once again pull our a**es out of a sling. But...after the Ron Desantimonious comment, I’m put off with the narcissism
oops.. didn’t think the first one went through..
Laz, you got 2 for 1 ;^)
Thanks for what you have done re this thread!
“Undead thread.”
Someone stole the “un.”
I think it was the Russians.
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Two devastating body blows against our country. And then he picked CIA vermin GHWB as his VP.
I know, I heard that when he said it and felt like you did. But I owe him the benefit of the doubt and as many times as he’s put his foot in his mouth, he has come up smelling like a rose and I’m hoping that will again be the case when we know the rest of the story. I can’t imagine he would stoop to sniping and besmirching Desantis without a very good reason. I think time will tell. I’ll give him another chance. And truth be told, I don’t know Desantis from a hole in the wall, except he seems “too good to be true”.
No worries.. we need some relaxation time.. well deserved.
Great job all around!
See post #498
You probably meant Reagan not Trump.
Maybe the mod will cancel it for you if you ask them.
I think we know what you mean.
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