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Is Trump the next Reagan? (vanity)
August 21, 2015 | me

Posted on 08/21/2015 6:29:21 PM PDT by Leaning Right

I just finished watching a streaming video of Trump's rally in Alabama. And I gotta tell you, the guy spoke like Reagan would. Trump doesn't quite have Reagan's sense of humor, but otherwise, yep, Trump reminds me of Reagan.


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Ronald Reagan was genuine, the real deal. Trump, I'm not so sure of. And I know it's early in the campaigning season. But what I saw of Trump tonight reminded me of Reagan.

Your thoughts?

1 posted on 08/21/2015 6:29:21 PM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

He doesn’t have to be Reagan. His whole campaign is a giant FU to Washington, DC.

Love it.


2 posted on 08/21/2015 6:30:18 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Leaning Right
Is Trump the next Reagan?

No.

3 posted on 08/21/2015 6:31:42 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot ("Telling the government to lower trade barriers to zero...is government interference" central_va)
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To: Nachum

exactly


4 posted on 08/21/2015 6:31:47 PM PDT by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: Leaning Right

Reagan was a lot easier to follow — when he gave a speech.


5 posted on 08/21/2015 6:31:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Leaning Right

I thought Trump was funny. His stump speech was a bit of standup comedy, but not in a bad way.

Regardless, I haven’t seen anything like this in politics since I can remember.

40,000 turning out to hear a candidate 14+ months before an election?

And 40,000 Southerners to hear a New Yorker?


6 posted on 08/21/2015 6:31:56 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (I stopped drinking the Trump Kool-Aid July 25th and will support Ted Cruz for POTUS)
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To: Leaning Right

Nobody will be the next Reagan.

But Trump can create his own legend.


7 posted on 08/21/2015 6:32:43 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Bush [the 90s rock band] for POTUS 2016!!!)
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To: Leaning Right

I loved that speech..!

He’s a billionaire but speaks to the audience as if they were his absolute EQUAL —a WORLD of difference as compared with Hillary Clinton.

Inevitably she treats ALL as 5-year-olds.

He’s funny and he’s addressing exactly the topics that have so many of us deeply worried.

He will have my vote FOR SURE.


8 posted on 08/21/2015 6:34:11 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Leaning Right

I met Reagan years ago Trump is no Reagan


9 posted on 08/21/2015 6:34:13 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: Leaning Right

He comes across as some kind of Reagan / Patton hybrid.


10 posted on 08/21/2015 6:34:25 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: Rodney Dangerfield

John Roberts on FNC said maybe 15,000 were there.


12 posted on 08/21/2015 6:35:26 PM PDT by hsmomx3 (GO STEELERS!!!!!!)
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To: Leaning Right
Not even close.

President Reagan was known as "The Great Communicator".

Trump talks like a Third-grader

13 posted on 08/21/2015 6:36:25 PM PDT by South40 (Falling for Trump's rhetoric while ignoring his liberal past is incredibly foolish)
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To: Leaning Right

If you can keep your head about you, while all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you... (Rudyard Kiplings famous poem “IF”)


14 posted on 08/21/2015 6:36:31 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Hey, lets hurry and support someone rich enough and strong enough who will DO SOMETHING, (even if it)
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To: Leaning Right

Just can’t find myself trusting this guy. He may be elected President, I don’t know, the only thing I know is that my gut tells me not to trust him.

If he is nominated, I will vote for him ... only because the alternative would be worse.


15 posted on 08/21/2015 6:36:37 PM PDT by doc1019 (Out of my mind ... back in 5)
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To: Leaning Right
Reagan spent years refining his message at the GE plants, to the point that his daughter Patti commented on the stacks of 3 x 5 cards that he kept on every topic. But Reagan was a natural storyteller, a talent he inherited from his father. In short, they are very different and Trump will not be able to just learn some funny stories.

I think even as President he would not use written speeches. It will definitely be a brand new world.

16 posted on 08/21/2015 6:36:56 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Leaning Right
Trump is not Obama, Clinton, or Bush. Trump is closer to Reagan than any of them.


17 posted on 08/21/2015 6:37:27 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Leaning Right

Reagan was a proven conservative by the time he became President.


18 posted on 08/21/2015 6:37:32 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: Leaning Right

I don’t know Trump’s true values. However, I don’t view that as a negative anymore.

I heard a phrase on talk radio in the last week or two, I want to credit it to Hannity’s show, of politicians being campaign conservatives.

We’ve been lied to so many times by so many people with R next to their name that anyone that pisses off all those R’s that are supposedly the R’s that matter... I like the guy.

How sad is American politics that you have to know the people pissing off the leadership in “your” party are perhaps your friend?

Screw every GOPe and the House and Senate leadership. If this makes them nervous in a bad way, I’m for it.

The cabal must crumble.


19 posted on 08/21/2015 6:37:38 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
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To: Leaning Right

Trump is no Ronald Reagan but Trump has an aura about him already. People see him as a man who gets things done and brother do we need a ton of things in this country to get done.


20 posted on 08/21/2015 6:38:54 PM PDT by dowcaet
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