Posted on 09/11/2015 2:15:16 PM PDT by Steelfish
I forget about Scott Walker! He’s not my first pick, but he is light years better than Christie, Pataki, and Kasich.
I try to forget about Pataki and Jebbie, and in my post, I succeeded.
Not as appalled and shamed as he was of you, Snarky. And who rattled YOUR chain, anyhow?
What Trump said is mild compared to John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who ran against each other. Here’s some of the mud slinging that went on:
pair that, for the first and last time in U.S. history, a president found himself running against his vice president.
Despite their bruising campaign, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams became friends again.
Despite their bruising campaign, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams became friends again.
Things got ugly fast. Jefferson’s camp accused President Adams of having a “hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.”
In return, Adams’ men called Vice President Jefferson “a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.”
As the slurs piled on, Adams was labeled a fool, a hypocrite, a criminal, and a tyrant, while Jefferson was branded a weakling, an atheist, a libertine, and a coward.
Even Martha Washington succumbed to the propaganda, telling a clergyman that Jefferson was “one of the most detestable of mankind
Sorry. My bad. I had a senior moment. I was thinking Ron, Junior, the lacy panties ballet dancer.
What happened to Michael? He used to be a voice for Conservatism. I haven’t seen him or heard his name for a long time. And who gives a hoot what he THINKS his late, honorable father would think?
It’s a completely different world from 35 years ago, so who knows how Ronald Reagan would have handled this media and the Corrupt Bastards Club? As I recall, the Rats lied their souls to a clinker and suckered RWR into a tax increase with a bunch of promises they never kept. In light of that, I think he’d be a lot like Trump; only more softspoken, maybe.
I forgot to post the link for the above information. I wish we had an edit button here. There are some very interesting things in this article:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/08/22/mf.campaign.slurs.slogans/
LOL...Wrong son
Ronald Reagan never had a Republican House of Representatives and a Republican Senate. If he’d had that, he could have cured AIDS in his spare time while he was whipping inflation, getting the country going again, staving off the energy crisis, and transcending communism.But with the track record of this Republican Congress, he might have said of the Republicans what he said of the Democrats: ”I didn’t leave my party, my party left me.”
But unlike Reagan in the 1950s, we don’t have a major party to defect to. We are reduced to supporting Trump as a digitus impudicus to the political establishment, root and branch.
He would also be dissapointed in his two sons. Oh he was! :)
Wrong son.
No problem. Your pics are still great.
LOL
;) Irish
Thank you.
Sorry, Michael. Times were different then. Your father tried his best to keep the enemies outside the gates. Unfortunately, those that followed let them in.
Any and every arrow in the quiver is, unfortunately, now required.
Poor Michael. Trump doesn’t care what you think.
Come to think of it, neither do it.
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