Posted on 09/27/2021 4:03:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
And Jeff Sessions. And Reince Preibus. And James Mattis. And Tom Price, Ryan Zinke, Elaine Chao, William Barr, Rex Tillerson, and on, and on. I agree with Schlichter that Trump's choice of team members was terrible more often than not. Second term has to be better.
And Trump also needs to mend fences with Mitch McConnell and that wing of the party.
Not going to happen. The rift between the two is way too deep to be patched, even temporarily.
2024 seems so far off with the current monkey playing with his ass in the white house.
Very good analysis of the problems, particularly Trump’s lousy staff picks and his tendency to let personal grudges (for someone not having been sufficiently adoring) get in the way of his agenda.
I think his biggest strength was that, when he wasn’t doing “mean tweets,” he was very positive and happy. He had a plan for the future, and surprisingly he actually managed to get a lot of things done (much of it thanks to McConnell, like him or not). And he had a couple of great people, particularly Pompeo, so not all of his picks were bad.
Also, the author is right: he shouldn’t focus on 2020. That’s over and done. Focus on cleaning up voter laws and getting more honest procedures in place, which certainly nobody could object to, but don’t go back to replaying 2020 all the time.
A lot has changed in the world since then. Whoever is thinking about running has to realize that the true challenge is going to be rebuilding the US economy and society after the devastation wrought by Fed and state government Covid policies. Being happy and positive is a good model, but there need to be proposals for doing this and also proposals for rolling back the insane levels of government interference and control in the lives of citizens…in other words, freedom.
For the most part, government bureaucrats are not really good at their jobs. Not all that smart, not all that hard-working. Think of John Kerry or AOC. You can be in charge of “big things” but that doesn’t mean you are competent.
So, when it comes time to choose people to be AG, or head the FBI, or whatever, why bother to choose an experienced person, a government insider with 30-years experience, who is now “on our side”? I say that’s going to turn out badly 100% of the time.
Instead, a Republican president should hire plumbers from Indiana who have loyalty to the Constitution and a working BS detector. That’s all you need to be a government bighsot, IMO.
Trump should run... and all of us should work to get him elected. He’s the best person to clean out the deadwood in Washington DC
Schlichter writes the most clear-minded sober article about Trump. He writes exactly how it should be. I like Trump and would back him again if no better entered the race, but this is about saving the country and not about allegiance to a single person.
I’ve got my eye on DeSantis.
So do I.
We all need DeSantis right here in Fla for the time being.
No Republican will win the general as of right now. Why? Because. Irving has been done nation-wide about this voter fraud. AND. Mail-in ballots, no ID required will continue to push left wingers over the finish line.
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This is true. I hate it, but it's true.
Sorry....as much as I would LOVE to see this happen, I have absolutely no trust in our election system anymore.
The left is so fully entrenched. They’ll never let this happen. They have three more years to make sure of that.
Is he president? I’ve not seen him give any official White House speech at all in 9 months.
I didn’t see it mentioned, but I put his #1 or #2 mistakes as the Pence-Fauci show. By not nipping that in the bud he enabled a bioweapon to thrive.
At every team press conferences you could see in his eyes and body language he wanted to pull the plug, but he never did.
Trump did not lose the election. It was stolen from him and us in a 2nd silent Coup.
I did not say he was the President.
The battle is not yet over on the election fraud.
I didn’t but will look for it.
And I agree with Kurt. There’s too much at stake in both 2022 and 2024 for Trump to repeat the mistakes he made. And he did make mistakes, some of them very, very serious mistakes.
If he does run again, and I hope he does, I will vote for him again, that’s a given.
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Plummers from Indiana might be fine.
I don’t want another plummer from Oklahoma.
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