“Three years into his first term as president, though, I was feeling the first shivers of concern that something beyond mellowing was affecting my father. We had always argued over this issue or that, rarely with anything approaching belligerence, but vigorously all the same. He generally had the advantage of practiced talking points backed up by staff research, but I was an unabashed, occasionally effective advocate for my own positions. ‘He told me you make him feel stupid,’ my mother once shared, to my alarm. I didn’t want my father to feel stupid. If he was going to shoulder massive responsibility, I wanted him to feel on top of his game. If he was going to fulfill his duties as president, he would have to be.” Pages 204-205
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This passage alone makes me ill - implying that his father was intimidated by his vastly superior intellect and the only reason that he could win arguments was because he had a paid research staff?! Spare me, please little Ronnie! Only in your fantasy world (or your mother’s fantasy world) did you have any chance of winning an argument with your father! And to imply that you backed down so as to keep his confidence up is an insult beyond belief! If you’re SOOOO brilliant, why is it that you have never made a success of anything in your entire adult life? The only reason the Lefties keep giving you a job is because you talk trash about your own father - what a pathetic excuse for a son! I’m so glad that your dad is not here to see this travesty and I wish your mother would finally administer the spanking that you obviously needed and never recieved as a child!
I had the same thoughts. Since Ronny is so intelligent that he made the Great Ronald Reagan quake in his riding boots...why hasn’t Ronny made something of himself? Why hasn’t he been able to live off his own intelligence?
What a stupid thing to say. I think Ronny has an inflated sense of himself.