Posted on 09/28/2023 6:33:23 AM PDT by backpacker_c
Donald Trump mocked his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday, saying none of them were worthy of being his running mate.
Most of his remarks focused on President Joe Biden but he did refer to the 'the job candidates' who were preparing to take the debate stage halfway across the country in California.
'You know we're competing with the job candidates - they're all running for a job,' he said. 'They want to be anything, Secretary of something, even say VP. I don't know. Does anybody see any VP in the group? I don't think so.'
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Well, people have said that desantis is a lying, manipulative, fraud committing, corrupt, uniparty supported politician.
Yet people like you wanted desantis to be president.
NUMBER TWO—AS IN BATHROOM TALK.
NONSENSE-—WHO WOULD EVER LEAVE MAR-A LAGO????
The REPUBLICAN PARTY doesn’t care about Trump-—WHY SHOULD HE CARE ABOUT THEM??
START THE MAGA PARTY IF NECESSARY
The “REPUBLICANS” have been without SPINES in EVERY state for years.
They want to play with “gentlemen’s rules & behavior”.
The Dems are always doing dirty knife fights.
IMO, the “lemming stampede” was standing up on that debate stage. 2024 Defeat? Yep, that’s what this country would get with one of those nitwits winning the nomination. If they are what it takes to ‘unite’ the Republican Party, then I want no part of it.
Pick any of these at your own peril Trump. You have shown a terrible habit of not recognizing the enemies of yourself and the country that infest the Republican party.
You need to hire an insider that you have vetted and trust and let them run by you cabinet and agency picks. Someone who is loyal to you and the conservative cause-—NOT the Republican cause, two different things and the Republican cause isn’t going to help the people or the country.
Day one you need to fire every BiteMe, Obama, Bush holdover that you legally can fire and leave the position unfilled until you find a loyal conservative for the position.
Trumps enemy recognition needs some serious work.
The RNC heads have been awful for many years.
I apparently sent back enough requests with nasty comments-—NOT getting any of that crap anymore.
Trump was naïve in his first term.
He won’t be in his second...................
And continue to push the swamp, GOPe rino uniparty endorsed and supported desantis..
You are blaming America in 2020 on Reagan (who was president from 1981 to 1988) and not on Trump (who was president from 2017 to 2020). Interesting that you jump back 40 years to blame Reagan and avoid attributing fault to Trump.
Regarding the defeat of the Soviet Union: You think this was due to Bush, as the Berlin Wall fell in 1991. Interesting that to not credit Reagan, you say cause and effect is instantaneous. Maybe you should explain why cause and effect used to be instantaneous and now takes forty years. The only thing that’s consistent in your theory of cause and effect is you denying Reagan’s greatness.
Now we’ll insert some reasoned judgment into this analysis:
1. The Fall of the Soviet Union - there is a sense in which all presidents from Truman through Bush deserve some credit, as well as all who served in our military (but not those who avoided service like Biden and Trump). But, Reagan stands out (1) for arming the Afghans during the Soviet occupation, (2) greatly increasing spending on conventional arms, such as the 300 ship navy, and (3) the Strategic Defense Initiative. The Soviet Union was bled dry in Afghanistan and then bankrupted trying to keep up.
2. The path to a balanced budget - Reagan’s plan to balance the budget turned out to be to slow the growth of expenditures and let the growth of revenue catch up. This had the name the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Bill. Reagan’s original plan was to cut spending (not merely slow the growth of spending) and balance the budget in four years. That didn’t pass in the Congress. Besides, we had fallen into recession. Leaders have or develop a sense of what can be done. They take steps that, over time, change what is possible. They don’t make lousy excuses for one failure after another after another. The budget was eventually balanced by President Clinton and Speaker Gingrich. Because of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings I give Reagan the credit for giving us a path to balance the budget.
3. What about that 1981 recession: according to small-minded people out to disparage Reagan, that was a case of instantaneous cause-and-effect. The recession wasn’t connected to the stop-go inflationary spiral that preceded Reagan (and also preceded Paul Volcker at the Fed). The recession was Reagan’s fault. No. The recession was the price we paid for embarking on the stop-go inflationary spiral of the 1970s.
4. What about Trump’s deficits? The deficit grow during Trump’s three years in office, which was a good thing because Trump. Then the deficit ballooned to $3 trillion in 2020 or 15 percent of GDP. That, too, was a good thing because Trump. For Trump followers the answer to every question is Trump.
The truth is Trump had a small negative influence on the deficit during his first three years; not big enough to constitute a major shortcoming in any assessment of his presidency. Then, in his fourth year, Trump along with almost everybody else in the entire world went crazy with the covid. To try to put that year’s deficit solely onto Trump would be unfair.
Hopefully, we as a nation and we as a world have learned our lesson about outbreaks of contagious disease; namely, (1) that these happen from time to time, (2) epidemiologists tend to exaggerate, and (3) given the cost of shutting down the economy (as opposed to quarantining the sick and the vulnerable), we need real evidence that we’re dealing with something like the bubonic plague.
Considering Trumps phenomenal job picks, we really should here who he might actually consider.
I have no problem giving Reagan and his administration credit for all the things you've posted -- and more.
My point was that most of those things you described in your original post would not have been known to the voters in 1984 -- and therefore would have played no role in his landslide re-election.
I don't blame Reagan for the changing face of America since he left office. Much of that has been the results of simple demographic changes -- coupled with the inevitable decline that comes with the "mongrelization" of any society.
How’s this: Reagan was re-elected in a landslide because it was rigged.
Trump might want to look at a VP from PA, MI, WI, GA,or AZ.
I’m going to jump in here and offer up Larry Elder as a possible VP for Trump. I don’t know anything about him that is negative. He seems to have a really good head on his shoulders, and he certainly seems to be conservative. I know the RNC is keeping him out of the debates although he says he meets the RNC criteria to be included. Anyone else think he deserves some consideration???
I think he does.
Use ExLax, you’re so full of it.
Why don’t you support the obvious candidate.
You’re the disuniter.
The RNC heads have been awful for many years.
I apparently sent back enough requests with nasty comments-—NOT getting any of that crap anymore.
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I cut them off during the first impeachment farce, they called trying to fund raise off it.
I told them to “F off” & never call me again.
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