Posted on 09/24/2023 11:16:11 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
SACRAMENTO — The Republican Party will hold a presidential candidate debate at the Ronald Reagan library Wednesday. It’s a bad fit. The GOP’s modern idol is exactly the opposite of Reagan in personality and character. For upbeat Reagan, America was a “shining city on the hill.” For whining Donald Trump, it’s a waste bin for venom and lies.
Reagan’s soaring rhetoric made people feel good about themselves. There was “always a bright dawn ahead” — “Morning in America.”
Yes, maybe that was a tad naive and corny, but it brought a collective smile — and won over many Democrats.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
As one sees it’s an article from the LA Times one just laughs and moves on.
Throw us a bone then whammy.
Is this comedy?
And just what has Biden offered?
Venom and Lies? Sounds like they are looking in a mirror.
Reagan had no respect for blowhards and egomanics, regardless of party. He would have shuddered at Trump’s caustic rhetoric.
The left is trying to distract us with the focus on rhetoric.
As if Skelton was a Reagan supporter in the ‘80s.
At its best.
During the Reagan administration, this same LA Times incessantly attacked him. Ironically, many of the criticisms were directed at his age and mental fitness.
To author George Skelton:
Sit down and shut up. You can move from the children’s table to our grownup table when you can act like one.
Media reporting about Trump offers venom and lies
I’m sure when Reagan was in office, this little twirp was behind him all the way. ~sarc
Another journalist on the left with helpful advice to Republicans because he wants them to defeat his Biden and his allies in the democRAT party.
You would think they would have some to b*tch about with what’ happening at the White House nowadays.
You hated Reagan too you POS.
Column: Mandate vaccines for all. It’s the only way to end our COVID-19 nightmare
George Skelton
August 19, 2021
And I have no patience with muddled minds and conspiracy theorists who adamantly protest being inoculated, sometimes for reasons that seem just as nutty as those held by Afghan anti-vaxxers.
“People are dying. And not only are people dying, but the people who are vaccinated are being held hostage. And we need to live,” Azizza Davis Goines, president of the Sacramento Black Chamber of Commerce, told the Sacramento Bee.
Goines advocated mandating that everyone be vaccinated.
I’m all for that. Require everyone who’s medically able to get inoculated. Grant exemptions for medical reasons, but not for religious beliefs.
Spare me arguments about invasion of privacy. Privacy was surrendered when we decided to band together and become civilized. Public safety comes first. That means protection from disease.
The problem with a blanket mandate is that, for practical purposes, it’s unenforceable. Anyway, it’s probably impossible to pull off politically. So, forget that.
We’re starting to do the next best thing: State and local governments, public universities and schools, restaurants and business are denying jobs, access and service to people who don’t show proof of vaccinations or periodic testing.
Polio was beaten only by vaccine. And that’s what will conquer COVID-19. We need to force people to get shots any way we can.
I didn’t read the article. But both men are right. In 1980, America was still, to a large extent, a “shining city on a hill.” Today’s America is a cesspool of venom and lies. (Trump doesn’t offer that; he merely recognizes it.)
George Skelton is a longtime piece of Democrat pond scum.
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