Posted on 09/11/2015 2:15:16 PM PDT by Steelfish
Michael Reagan: My Father Would Be Appalled at Trump
By Greg Richter | 10 Sep 2015
GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has compared himself to Ronald Reagan, but the Republican icon would be "appalled" at the way Trump acts, Michael Reagan told Newsmax TV.
Trump's personal attacks on fellow candidates, including the recent Rolling Stone report of him talking about Carly Fiorina's appearance, go too far, said Reagan, a radio talk show host and son of the former president.
Reagan said he hopes Trump's actions hurt him not only with women voters, but with all voters.
"What he's done is really appalling," he said. "My father would be appalled. On behalf of my father and the Reagan family to see someone like this who just personally attacks people time and time and time again is absolutely appalling to me and I hope all the voters start to see through Donald Trump and the kind of candidate that he his and the kind of president he may end up being."
Trump should instead be focusing on what he would do as president, Reagan said.
"It's nice to say, 'I'm going to make America great again,' but how are you going to do that? What laws are you going to pass? What bills are you going to pass? How are you going to work with Congress? What are you going to do?" Reagan said.
Trump's followers are equally troubling, Reagan said. He recently tweeted that one can be either a Reagan Republican or a Trump Republican, but not both.
There are four governors in the race who have made their state's great again, as Trump says he wants to do with America, Reagan said, and he is troubled they aren't doing better in the polls.
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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 hed 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 didnt leave my party, my party left me.
But unlike Reagan in the 1950s, we dont 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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