Look, I know Ronald Reagan is dead, but can't we at least get a candidate that's not a squish, a buffoon, or a tyrantess?
Trump may be a lot of things — good and bad — but calling him a “baffoon” shows clearly you seriously underestimate the man. Never a good thing to do, even if you despise the person.
They said the same stuff about Reagan that they are saying today about Trump. Someone posted some of these quotes this morning from when Reagan was first running........
• New York Times: Reagan’s candidacy is “patently ridiculous.”.
• New York Times: “The astonishing thing is that this amusing but frivolous Reagan fantasy is taken so seriously by the news media and particularly by the President (Gerald Ford). It makes a lot of news, but it makes no sense.”.
• New Republic: “Ronald Reagan to me is still the posturing, essentially mindless and totally unconvincing candy man that he’s been in my opinion ever since I watched his first try for the Republican nomination evaporate in Miami in 1968.”.
• New Republic: “Reagan is Goldwater revisited…He is a divisive factor in the party.”.
• Harper’s magazine: “That he should be regarded as a serious candidate for President is a shame and an embarrassment for the country at large to swallow.”.