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Trump Flashback: Reagan Was A "Con" Man Who Couldn’t "Deliver The Goods"
Townhall ^ | April 10, 2011 | Greg Hengler

Posted on 04/19/2011 5:42:57 PM PDT by ejdrapes

Trump Flashback: Reagan Was A "Con" Man Who Couldn’t "Deliver The Goods"

Greg Hengler
Posted at 2:25 PM ET, 4/19/2011

Anyone shocked? Me neither.

Furthermore, are you shocked that on Hannity the other night, Trump expressed how much he liked Reagan. Below the video, you will see an excerpt from his 1989 book, Art of the Deal.



TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; perot2point0; reagan; trump
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To: TheBigIf

“Anyone who falls for Trump is going to be disappointed. He is not a conservative.”

Exactly. He’s a shrewd businessman, looking out for number one. I do, however, enjoy him sparring with the MSM, like George Step on op u lus...lol


21 posted on 04/19/2011 6:09:31 PM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: ejdrapes

I keep visualizing Trump saying “Hillary, you are fired” and “Salazar, You are fired” ...


22 posted on 04/19/2011 6:11:30 PM PDT by mountainlion (America land of the free because of the Brave.)
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To: ejdrapes

No, he’s not. He states a generality without names. Again, the part at the bottom about Reagan is cut off before it actually gives an example of how Reagan fits the generality.


23 posted on 04/19/2011 6:14:27 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: ejdrapes

Trump reminds me of a carnival barker at the state fair.

I remember in 2007 every political pundit was saying Clinton vs. Guilianni in 2008. We know how that played out, so at this point we can let the candidates jockey, those in front today will more than likely fade as the election gets closer.

If Republicans are looking for a successful businessman Herman Cain is a much better candidate than Shecky Green aka Donald Trump.


24 posted on 04/19/2011 6:14:34 PM PDT by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: ejdrapes
The DT's.

It's our new Ross McCain...

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25 posted on 04/19/2011 6:19:02 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: mountainlion
Like, I'm all, like, ya know?

Like, dude.

;-\

26 posted on 04/19/2011 6:28:36 PM PDT by Gargantua (Palin 2012 ~ "Going Oval")
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To: ejdrapes
Question for all the Donald lovers here.

Who do you, "Love"?

28 posted on 04/19/2011 6:31:45 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
What we admire is someone with the cajones to call a constitutional fraud what he is, unlike any of our GOP "leaders" except for a handful in the House who supported the Posey bill. A man who bases his career on fraud does not know any other way of doing things. It's about time someone said so. It is difficult to sse how harm comes from calling fraud in the highest office what it is. On the other hand great harm is coming from not calling it what it is.
29 posted on 04/19/2011 6:43:03 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: choctaw man

I also very much enjoy seeing Trump raise the issues that he does and take on the MSM also.

I also wondered today whether or not he could help the conservaitve movement by distracting the left-wing.

As long as he is taking shots from the left then conservatives are free to wait in the wings until right before the primaries and suprise.

If Trump runs as a third party candidate though then he is obviously trying to hurt the conservative movement. Right now though he may be helping by taking on all of the attention and pushing the issues that he does.


30 posted on 04/19/2011 6:46:04 PM PDT by TheBigIf
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To: AmericanVictory

I would not bother with that poster .
That poster trashed Meg Whitman non stop .
He advised people not to vote for Meg to stop awful Moonbeam Brown !
He never said a single unkind word about Moonbean but worked real hard to help Meg Whitman lose.


31 posted on 04/19/2011 6:54:52 PM PDT by ncalburt (Joy is watching Barry and his Soros media spin machine freak out)
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To: ejdrapes

But — someone like this can be swayed.

An ideologue cannot.

And let’s face it, I don’t think we have a good hand for the election. The good ones have been eliminated by the media attack machine.


32 posted on 04/19/2011 6:57:39 PM PDT by MrInvisible
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To: dragnet2
I've stated this on other threds and I'll say it again: I like Michele Bachmann. I like Herman Cain. I wish Paul Ryan would get in. I could totally support him.
33 posted on 04/19/2011 7:05:26 PM PDT by ejdrapes ("Trump is NO conservative." - Jim Robinson)
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To: AmericanVictory

OK, people are following the direction of the mainstream media agenda this week to attack Trump because he’s not reading off the media’s dictated cue cards and going off track recently. He’s a threat to those who control the news message.

This clip is from his 1987 “Art of the Deal” book which I have right here.

This excerpt of the book above is from the 2nd chapter chapter “Trump Cards: The Elements of the Deal”.

This chapter contains 11 tips of advice to consider when making business deals.

Here are the 11 subheadings in the chapter:
Think Big, Protect the Downside and the Upside Will Take Care of Itself, Maximize Your Options, Know Your Market, Use Your Leverage, Enhance Your Location, Get the Word Out, Fight Back, Deliver the Goods, Contain the Costs, Have Fun

In “Deliver the Goods”, he’s questioning (in 1987) Reagan’s ability to deliver after 7 years as president. We all know looking back now when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, that Reagan did deliver on the goods. Trump today admits it himself the same looking back, as he said so himself that Reagan was a great president recently several times.

As I’m looking through the chapter, I noticed a somewhat relevant quote from the “Fight Back” section. This may apply to some who are critical of Trump today. Here’s Trump’s quote back then:

“Even if I never went on the offensive, there are a lot of people gunning for me now.

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow.

There are people - I categorize them as life’s losers - who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others.

As far as I’m concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn’t be fighting me, they’d be doing something constructive themselves.”


34 posted on 04/19/2011 7:08:27 PM PDT by jq2
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To: ncalburt; Jim Robinson
See post 13 above. You want to ask this of Jim Robinson too? Btw, Bachmann and Palin were attacking Obama long before Trump. I think what you say is an insult to both women.
35 posted on 04/19/2011 7:10:33 PM PDT by ejdrapes ("Trump is NO conservative." - Jim Robinson)
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To: TheBigIf

Who'd have ever imagined Trump to be a Perot wannabe?

36 posted on 04/19/2011 7:13:23 PM PDT by sayfer bullets ("...and if it stops moving, subsidize it." - RR)
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To: ejdrapes

The Donald ...as always is out for himself.

Somebody forgot about The Donald when they were handing out tickets down at the Fed for the New Yorkers at the bailout trough the last coupla years. He’s gonna remind them of it from now until the election.


37 posted on 04/19/2011 7:13:42 PM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you do not, no explanation is possible")
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
I am so waiting for The Donald to get the Romney treatment here. People aren't allowed to push Romney here, they shouldn't be allowed to push Trump either. He's no conservative. He's whatever he needs to be depending on who he's pandering to. As someone else pointed out the other day Trump figures roughly 25% of the GOP base are birthers and he's pandering to them. He knows they're not fond of those candidates who have dipped their toe in the presidential waters. So he tells these people what they want to hear and voilà he's atop the 2012 primary polls.
38 posted on 04/19/2011 7:16:10 PM PDT by ejdrapes ("Trump is NO conservative." - Jim Robinson)
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To: sayfer bullets
Trump Flashback: Reagan Was A "Con" Man Who Couldn’t "Deliver The Goods"

The more he talks, the better we know him...

39 posted on 04/19/2011 7:23:01 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: ejdrapes

Thank you. Seems I miss alot of the action around here! :O


40 posted on 04/19/2011 7:28:23 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;..." Hosea 4:6)
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