“What baffles me, though, is why he DID make such a public statement ... because what he’s saying is so verifiably false that it doesn’t even stand up to any scrutiny.”
He’s just pi$$ing on your leg and trying to convince you it’s raining! In all my 78 years, I have never had such an introspective view of our political system thrust in front of me as Trump has done! I can remember Presidents back as far as Eisenhower (when we first got a TV), Trump has made me completely reorder my view of the Republican Party and the people it has put into the White House. BT ( before Trump) I had a completely different view than he’s dropped in my lap. And I am forced to face the reality of what America could have been for all of my life had we had men in the Presidency with the consummate will to be the cheerleader, protector, and visionary that Trump has brought to the office. When I look back on Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, and the awful duo of the Booshes, and speaking locally, Pete Wilson and that sorry a$$ed excuse Ahnold Shickelgrubber, I wonder how we have survived. We had a small sample, both here and in Washington with Ronald Reagan, but for all those years, he was the only other shining example of a man who cared more for his country than he did for himself.
Amen to everything you said. I first voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 so maybe I was spoiled but I thought I could look forward to that kind of leadership during the rest of my lifetime. I’ve been making a nuisance of myself to the local GOPe for 20 years. I’ve told them that being a loyal voter since Reagan has only resulted in larger government, higher spending and less freedom. I’ll never vote for a Dhimmicrat, although I haven’t told them that, but when it comes down to a binary choice in the general election it always is has to be R no matter how dissapointing.