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Flashback: George Will Trashed Ronald Reagan in 1979 – Just Like He’s Trashing Trump Today
Gateway Pundit ^
| 06/27/16
| Jim Hoft
Posted on 06/27/2016 9:37:15 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Too bad Trump’s no Ronald Reagan.
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posted on
06/27/2016 9:39:41 AM PDT
by
piasa
To: piasa
He’s the Reagan on this election.
To: Enlightened1
Patrician George. Fancies himself a blue blood.
To: Enlightened1
I’m not defending George Will, who defines elitist, but this hardly qualifies as “trashing” Reagan. I’m sure there are reams of text by Will doing just the opposite.
To: Enlightened1
Interesting article. Thanks.
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posted on
06/27/2016 9:42:21 AM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Enlightened1
Will history repeat itself?
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posted on
06/27/2016 9:43:49 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(How about investigating the donations to the Clinton Foundation)
To: Enlightened1
Yes, the elites hated Reagan almost as much as they hate Trump.
And the media-skewed polls in summer of 1980 had Carter beating Reagan in the fall by a convincing margin. It was socially unacceptable to confess support for Reagan, so a lot of people were keeping their own counsel. Not to mention the polling bias!
First Reagan had to beat the GOPe, then he had to beat the Carter-media axis.
Fast forward 36 years....
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posted on
06/27/2016 9:45:15 AM PDT
by
Genoa
To: Enlightened1
This is all theoretical to George. We wants to ‘grit it out’ for years of HRC, and then elect a conservative.
Gee George, how many SCOTUS and other appointments will she make while you’re throwing a tantrum?
Oh, and who is this great conservative hope, who would beat an incumbent HRC? Odds are 4 years really means 8 years...or a total of 16 years of Barry/Hillary control.
Oh, and George, what happens in 4 years...if Trumps runs in the primaries again...he’d probably win. Would you ‘grit it out’ for another 4 years.
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posted on
06/27/2016 9:45:19 AM PDT
by
lacrew
To: Enlightened1
It was good thing this was back in 1979 when George could still use the phrase “niggling thoughts”...
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posted on
06/27/2016 9:49:37 AM PDT
by
shotgun
To: Enlightened1
Good find. We need to expose the mountebanks who push devious courses, whatever their ultimate motives.
Trump is a true Conservative. Will is a self-serving attention seeker.
Trump: Metaphor For American Conservatism.
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posted on
06/27/2016 9:49:53 AM PDT
by
Ohioan
To: Enlightened1
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posted on
06/27/2016 9:54:17 AM PDT
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: piasa
Hey get over it. Nobody can be a Ronald Reagan but Ronald Reagan himself. Woulda, coulda, shoulda doesn't cut it in real life.
Trump is the Reagan of this election cycle.
I'm all in for the big hair ticket by letting my hair grow out until Trump is elected president.
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posted on
06/27/2016 9:54:43 AM PDT
by
HotHunt
To: lacrew
Gee George, how many SCOTUS and other appointments will she make while youre throwing a tantrum?
Oh, and who is this great conservative hope, who would beat an incumbent HRC? Odds are 4 years really means 8 years...or a total of 16 years of Barry/Hillary control.
Most likely 8 years of Hillary, and I doubt the Republican electorate will ever be as energized in off-year elections as they were in 2010 and 2014, so the Democrats will likely regain control of Congress pretty easily. But George can congratulate himself for standing on his principles.
To: Ohioan
What kills me these traitors is the term Conservative , as of anyone of them has ever been one from Romney, Graham, Paul " I do anything Obama asks, Ryan, Bill Kristal.
If they were Conservative or Reagan Republicans they would shut their mouth and use Ronald Wilson Reagan Thirteen amendment
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posted on
06/27/2016 9:58:40 AM PDT
by
scooby321
(o even lower)
To: Enlightened1
After years of being trashed by “Ol’ Frank” Roosevelt, the Republican leadership had been pounded into submission, comfortable as the “second class” political party, solely interested in big business, and happy with the crumbs tossed to them by the Democrats.
So with the rise of Eisenhower, the great split happened between the Barry Goldwater conservatives, and the new institution of “country club Republicans”, who controlled the leadership.
George Will is one of the last of the progeny of the country club Republicans. He was comfortable in being thought of as a conservative, but he never embraced conservative values.
As such, we should all give him a robust “toodle-oo”, thank him for at least nominal support over the years after recovering his locker room key, and be sure to validate his parking as we mutually bid farewell.
And in future, of course, be very careful to never refer to him as a conservative.
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posted on
06/27/2016 10:01:56 AM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: piasa
In truth, even Reagan himself wasn’t always the idealized Reagan we conservatives sometimes tend to hold in our minds (I’m often guilty of this myself). Though he was certainly way better than anything we’ve had since.
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posted on
06/27/2016 10:02:14 AM PDT
by
jpl
(Obama lied when Stevens died.)
To: Enlightened1
George Will not vote for Trump. OK, scratch one vote. He has no following. So flick him off your lapel like the ladybug he is.
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posted on
06/27/2016 10:08:48 AM PDT
by
Migraine
(Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
To: Enlightened1
Will is a pompous, egotistical ass overcome with his elitist sense of self-importance. He has trivialized himself beyond his prior exceptional capabilities to do so.
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posted on
06/27/2016 10:09:13 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(Donald Trump is the biggest threat to the New World Order since Barry Goldwater)
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