And the end result was glorious. Just as it will be this time.
Damn, at first I thought I’d entered a time warp. Oh well...
"Given the triumph of populism in politics today, the notion a candidate can enter late and take the nomination away from a candidate like Reagan (Trump), in it from the beginning, must be questioned," Mr. Ranney says.
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Did they say populism? Shhhhh, don't tell Levin.
I remember Ronald Reagan. I remember 1980. Reagan was a gentleman, a class act and a principled conservative. The Donald is rude, crude, classless and is neither principled nor conservative. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, The Donald is practically Reagan’s clone and this is deja vu all over again. /s
No way Reagan can win. Have you seen the polls Carter vs. Reagan?
If the Republicans nominate Reagan it will be worse than Goldwater, 16 years ago. I can see Ford or Rockefeller or Scranton.
Reagan is a sure loser. You can bet on it.
I will go way, way out on a limb here and state that If Reagan were alive and in his prime, and running for the nomination, I would prefer Trump!
Trump has more ooompf than even Reagan had!
Incoming! [ducking and running]
[Reagan signed amnesty into law :-( ]
Why is this posted in “Breaking News”? It does not fit the category.
Re: “Can conservative Ronald Reagan possibly attract enough independent and Democratic votes to win in November?”
The key word in that sentence is “Conservative.”
In 1980, no one was speculating that old line, traditional Conservatives would refuse to vote for Ronald Reagan.
But in 2016, that is exactly the issue with Trump. Millions and millions of old line, traditional Conservatives, like me, scoff at the idea that Trump has suddenly become a Conservative Republican.
I have no doubt that Trump will attract millions and millions of former Democrat and Independent voters.
But he will attract them for all the wrong reasons - because he’s not a Conservative.
Facts are stubborn things. And Trump is no Reagan.
In fact, Trump was one of those who was against Reagan.
Well in to Reagan’s second term Trump called Reagan someone who talked a good game, but didn’t deliver. (Boy was Trump ever wrong).
Trump chose Jimmy Carter over Reagan (Carter returned the favor) and Romney in 2012. His judgement is awfully suspect.
Pg 60-61 Art of the Deal (1987)
But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.
I think of Jimmy Carter. After he lost the election to Ronald Reagan, Carter came to see me in my office. He told me he was seeking contributions to the Jimmy Carter library. I asked how much he had in mind. And he said, “Donald I would be very appreciative if you contributed 5 million dollars.”
I was dumbfounded. I didn’t even answer him.
But that experience also taught me something. Until then, I never understood how Jimmy Carter became president. The answer is that as poorly qualified as he was for the job, Jimmy Carter had the nerve, the guts, the balls, to ask for something extraordinary. That ability above all helped him get elected president. But then, of course, the American people caught on pretty quickly that Carter couldn’t do the job, and he lost in a landslide when he ran for reelection.
Ronald Reagan is another example. He is so smooth and so effective a performer that he completely won over the American people. Only now, nearly seven years later, are people beginning to question whether there’s anything beneath that smile.
I see the same thing in my business, which is full of people who talk a good game but don’t deliver
Nice find!!
There is an obvious attempt to create an equivalence between Reagan & Trump.
TRUMP = REAGAN? -— NOT to the dwindling number of us who are retaining their rationality.
But elsewhere the delusions grow.
CSM; reliably wrong for decades.
Donald Trump is no Ronald Reagan.
Y’all are demented. Trump ain’t Reagan. Reagan had been studying and speaking about the issues for over 20 years. He was a wise and learned man who could connect with people with reason. Trump is a know-nothing fool who can only insult those who disagree with whatever it is he is spouting out today, often different than what he said recently.
God, I hope to hell we don’t nominate Reagan, he will GET CRUSHED by Carter in November.
Reagan is simply UNELECTABLE, a TOTAL IDIOT, his negatives are THROUGH THE ROOF.
Reagan is the DREAM CANDIDATE for the Democrats. There is so much out there for them to ATTACK HIM with, in fact just his HATE-FILLED statements on the (Berlin) Wall alone are enough to DISQUALIFY HIM.
HE MUST BE STOPPED, or once again, REPUBLICANS WILL BE HUMILIATED.
But I know COOLER HEADS will prevail, and Gerald R. Romney will will step-in and take the nomination, and prevent us from a LANDSLIDE DEFEAT. Or my personal favorite, HOWARD BAKER, now that’s a man who’s name even excites the masses to GO OUT AND VOTE!
(it’s as if 1980 never happened)
Comparing a clown like Donald Trump to Ronald Reagan comes perilously close to blasphemy.
What we learn is the establishment never changes their mantra they don’t have too because the sheeples are bamboozled by the media. Reagan won a landslide and Trump is on the same path. This is an insurgency as was Reagan’s and it’s about time it happened again!
Save the Republic!
Freegards
LEX
What we learn is the establishment never changes their mantra they don’t have too because the sheeples are bamboozled by the media. Reagan won a landslide and Trump is on the same path. This is an insurgency as was Reagan’s and it’s about time it happened again!
Save the Republic!
Freegards
LEX
Exactly. This election season, stop Trump, #neverTrump, reminds me of nothing so much as 1980.
I just wish Trump had his class and his heart but Trump looks like the only one willing to salvage the idea that is “America”.