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Posted on 04/05/2011 12:07:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Throughout his remarkable political career, elites regularly treated former President Ronald Reagan as though he were a badly told political joke.
Reagan rankled the sensibilities of the polite political crowd when he fought the transfer of the Panama Canal during his 1976 campaign for president: “We bought it, we paid for it, it is sovereign U.S. territory, and we should keep it.”
That position simultaneously horrified the foreign policy community and revived the former governor’s political fortunes.
A decade later, Reagan’s support for a missile defense shield was ridiculed as science fiction, even as it brought Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s negotiators to their knees.
Presidential biographer Richard Reeves wrote that throughout Reagan’s political career, he “was dismissed as a lightweight with no strategy.” It was a misperception that the former actor exploited time and again.
During the 1966 Republican primary, supporters of California’s legendary governor Pat Brown sent money to Reagan because they were certain the aging actor would be chewed up and spit out in the general election. Reagan shocked Brown when he became a popular two-term governor.
“Hardball” host and Carter administration alum Chris Matthews remembers former President Jimmy Carter’s White House celebrating the night Reagan won the GOP nomination in 1980 — also certain that the doddering old actor would be destroyed by Carter.
But on election night, Washington was stunned as results poured in proclaiming the launch of the so-called Reagan Revolution. By the time ABC news anchor Frank Reynolds grumbled, “What the hell is going on here?” Reagan was on his way to winning more than 90 percent of the electoral votes.....
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I doubt the O wrote either book without major assistance.
Trump’s theme song will be, “Born in the USA”.
Trump doesn’t give a damn... but Joe does? LOL
I called Trump last Friday to see if he would back off his claim that the president of the United States might be constitutionally prohibited from holding his office.
Trump -
“I’m not finished with that issue by any stretch of the imagination,” Trump told me. “You mock me for that, but his own grandmother says he was born in Kenya and says she was there.”
LoL.
Can’t disagree about Trump, though - the dude’s a clown albeit a rich one.
Dr. jack Cashill told us before the Election that HUSSEIN was a Fraud and that Ayers wrote “Dreams” and that Hussein was too incompetent to have written it! It’s Wonderful to see that Mr. Trump has listened and is now calling Obama and the Media down on this major Fraud and Travesty Against America! Cash ill’s latest book just out, “Deconstructing Obama” shreds any arguments about this Fraud and focuses on many of the other Lies that create the HUSSEIN Myth! It is a Must Read!
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