Posted on 09/08/2016 3:26:49 PM PDT by SMGFan
Thanks for posting those ratings. I would guess that Rush has dropped precipitously. He brags of 30 Million listeners. A far cry from reality!
Ditto
Lost all credibility with that
If the head of ISIS rapes an American in Syria and the kid comes to the USA when he’s 35, I guess Levin thinks he’s eligible too.
“Evidently you don’t remember how Reagan dealt with trade”
And you evidently don’t remember how Reagan saved Harley Davidson. Reagan would throw up protective tariffs in a heartbeat.
“And you evidently don’t remember how Reagan saved Harley Davidson. Reagan would throw up protective tariffs in a heartbeat.”
That was my point. Read the link.
Levin = fickle.
Levin also has a high pitched voice, just like a girl.
(Apparently his balls haven’t dropped yet)
“That was my point.”
I had to check back; you aimed your post at the wrong person.
I included you because you the other poster had been debating the point with you. It was a courtesy ping.
10. Mark Levin 7.0+ He just keeps heading downward. He has his Trump bashing #s. No Levin, now at tenth in ratings. His Trump bashing has cost him big time. Beck has the same 7.) rating as Glenn Beck! Well deserved, Mark. It’s official..4 quarters of downward slump.
10. Mark Levin 7.0+ He just keeps heading downward. He has his Trump bashing #s. No Levin, now at tenth in ratings. His Trump bashing has cost him big time. Beck has the same 7.) rating as Glenn Beck! Well deserved, Mark. It’s official..4 quarters of downward slump.
Amazingly, Levin is being far harder on Trump than Romney or Bush. They hit and run. Levin falsely smears Trump on a daily basis. How principled and conservative of him.
What a despicable post on Levin’s part!
I try to listen every so often—always disappointed!
No. I didn't. I said "Reagan-era" and stand by it.
Reagan was less of a dogmatic free trader than many in the conservative movement. He wasn't afraid to impose quotas on Japanese goods.
But the rhetoric of Establishment conservatism (National Review etc.) in the Eighties and Nineties was favorable to global free trade.
Buchanan was criticized for protectionism which conservative writers saw as closer to the Democrat than the Republican platform.
Those in the conservative Establishment who criticized or attacked Buchanan certainly didn't think they were attacking him from the right.
Maybe that's a Freudian slip.
My point was that who Reagan was and who people took him for, then as now, weren't always the same.
” No. I didn’t. I said “Reagan-era” and stand by it.”
That’s a fair point. I agree that Reagan’s position on trade as President differed significantly from what the conservative establishment was selling and people often conflate the two.
Ironically enough Buchanan was echoing the global free trade line at the very time when Reagan was far more protective of American companies that were coming under pressure from Japan, Japan being the only real threat to American manufacturers at the time. Buchanan didn’t change his tune until he challenged GHW Bush, when getting out into the hinterlands let him see what the widespread closing of factories was doing to small town America. For Buchanan it brought home the hard reality that adhering to dogma could inflict on little people, something I think that Reagan might have always known.
NAFTA, the emergence of China and the Asian Tigers as competitors, the collapse of the USSR all came after Reagan so we can only guess what his response would have been. But judging from his dealings with Japan it would seem that trade quotas would likely be part of it.
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