My friend Pres sent me this.
“He’s been divorced and remarried. He can’t commit to anything.”
“He’s dangerously ignorant about international affairs. The Russian leaders will walk all over him.”
“He has no filter – doesn’t think before he speaks.”
“Until recently, he was a Democrat. He’s not a real Republican. He hasn’t paid his GOP dues.”
“He used to be Pro Choice. Now, suddenly he’s Pro Life?”
“That can’t be his real hair!”
“He’s a loose cannon. No one wants HIS finger on the nuclear button.”
“His opponent has the experience and political savvy to be president. He does not.”
“He’s just not presidential.”
“His temperament disqualifies him from ever being Commander-In-Chief.”
“He’s proven himself to be mentally unstable.”
“The military will never accept him as Commander-In-Chief. He’s not smart enough.”
“The GOP doesn’t want him to be the head of the party. He could never reach across the aisle to get anything done.”
“Most Republican voters will just stay home rather than go out and vote for him.”
“He’s almost 70 – much too old to be president.”
“Evangelicals will never support him.”
“He says ‘(Let’s) Make America Great Again’. How dare he say we aren’t still great?!?!”
“His intellect is thinner than spit on a slate rock.”
“90 percent of Republican state chairmen judge him guilty of ‘simplistic approaches,’ with ‘no depth in federal government administration’ and no experience in foreign affairs.’”
“His spontaneity with reporters and voters plays well but also gives him plenty of space to disgorge fantasies and factual errors so prolific and often outrageous that he single-handedly makes the word gaffe a permanent fixture in America’s political vernacular. He confuses Pakistan with Afghanistan. He claimed once that trees contributed 93 percent of the atmosphere’s nitrous oxide…”
“After all his gaffes, he doubles down on them instead of admitting he made a mistake.”
“He’s threatening to upend our treaties and relationships with our allies by demanding that they pay for their own defense!”
“Because of his gross factual errors, he might take rash action and needlessly lead this country into open warfare!”
“He’s racist, xenophobic, and fuels the fires of hatred!”
“You shouldn’t take him seriously. He has a penchant for offering simplistic solutions to hideously complex problems and a stubborn insistence that he is always right in every argument.”
“The rising turnout of his voters are not loyal Republicans or Democrats and are alienated from both parties because neither takes a sympathetic view toward their issues.”
“He wears the disdain he draws from the GOP elites as a badge of honor. Henry Kissinger’s championing the other GOP candidate and attacking him are actually helping him!”
“The fact that he could be deemed a serious candidate for president is a shame and embarrassment for the country.”
The New Yorker observed that his appeal “has to do not with competence at governing but with the emotion he evokes… [He] lets people get out their anger and frustration, their feeling of being misunderstood and mishandled by those who have run our government, their impatience with taxes and with the poor and the weak, their impulse to deal with the world’s troublemakers by employing the stratagem of a punch in the nose.”
“His unpopular opponent presided over the current Iranian crisis… and a reeling economy, yet surely the Democrat will prevail over him.”
“Is he Safe? …he shoots from the hip … he’s over his head … What are his solutions?”
“Voters want to follow some authority figure, — a leader who can take charge with authority; return a sense of discipline to our government; and, manifest the willpower needed to get this country back on track — or at least a leader from outside Washington.”
Sound familiar? You’ve heard this all about Donald Trump, right? Try again.
All this was said of Ronald Reagan in 1976 and 1980. Most of it was BY OTHER REPUBLICANS – and Reagan turned out to be one of the greatest presidents of the 20th Century, if not of all time –
I was alive back then in my early 30’s. I remember most of these quotes. Reagan was a cowboy. He was a loose cannon. He would start WWIII. George HW Bush who ran against him in the primaries called his economic plan “voodoo economics”. We sure could use some of that “voodoo economics” today! The press despised him as they did for most of his 8 years in office. During that time they never did quit calling him dumb. During a sound test for one of his radio speeches he jokingly said sumpin’ along the lines of the missiles are in the air and the Soviet Union will be destroyed in three, two, one, zero. The press went ballistic! He was trailing Carter up to the first debate. All he had to do we prove himself presidential. He not only did that, he wiped the floor with him. He won in a landslide. I know there are a lot of people who will deny this happened and that these quotes are not real but it did and they are. I lived through it. I remember it. The same goes for my friend who sent this to me.
I remember all of that! I voted for Ronald Reagan in the primaries in Navy boot camp and was proud to do so. My vote was exactly right and I agree with you that he proved to be one of the best, if not the best, presidents this country has ever had. We need someone like this now and I’m willing to take a chance on Donald Trump to try and shake up the establishment in Washington. Almost anyone would be better than Hillary!
I’ve thought about the missiles are on the way comment, at this point I’m of the opinion it was planned. RR was around microphones his entire life and knew to be careful, in my opinion he knew what the dems and media thought of him and knew the foreign leaders considered him a “cowboy” and not stable – he played to this thinking, think of his acting skills – play to the audience and use that skill to forward his programs – which he did.
I never thought of him as the “Saint Ronnie” that some Repubs present him as now, but I’d sure be happy to see him in office again.
I remember all those statements very well, too. If you were in industrial construction, and I mean heavy equipment rental business in Michigan, during 1980, times were horrible. Some may not be aware of the fact or, have forgotten that Ford Motor was teetering within weeks of filing bankruptcy while Chrysler already had in 1979. Other than being a government employee, those in the private sector were tightening belts just to survive. I lived it and, it was that bad. Carter sucked just like every Progressive dimwit before and after him. “America Held Hostage” did not just apply to the hostages in Iran, it applied to e-v-e-r-y-o-n-e in Carter’s floundering America, of which, his policies brought on Stagflation.
I also agree with Inbredredneck, that President Reagan was no saint, which some have romanticized in their minds – no one is perfect, however, Ronald Reagan, was a good, decent man, and a very competent leader who loved this nation and its people. Perhaps, Reagan’s biggest flaw was leaving too much on the table when negotiating with Leftists at home because he sure was uncompromising when negotiating with Leftists abroad. His biggest flops were Simpson-Mazzoli, which he admitted later was a regretful decision, never holding Democrats accountable for agreed to spending cuts and, EMTALA, which paved the way to Romneycare tried in the state level, then moved to all as Obamacare. Some may or, may not agree and that’s fine, but I could add to the list the creation of MLK Day to mistakes Reagan made if one cares to be honest about that too. Read: http://www.vdare.com/articles/time-to-rethink-martin-luther-king-day
Now, with all that said, there is nothing I despise more than all those in the Never Trump movement. The dumbed-down indoctrinated herd who are led around by Soetoro, Sanders, Hillary/Kaine, are nothing more than the dregs of society and/or the mentally ill that are no longer housed in asylums – all Useful Idiots. Those in the Never Trump movement, Mitt Romney, Bill Kristol, Erick Erickson, George Will, Evan McMullin, Gary Johnson, George H. W. Bush, George W. and, Jeb!, et al., are treacherous, evil cocksuckers, of which, Mitt Romney is the lowest cocksucker of them all. The Bush family and Clinton family are in bed together. Mitt Romney has wanted to be one of the dynasty families that was in the White House ever since his loser father George Romney was best friends with Nelson Rockefeller, and both George and Nelson shit square in Goldwater’s face handing the White House to LBJ.
Nothing has made me happier than voting NOTA in 2012. I cannot imagine being faced this election with the choice between Romney and Cuck Ryan or, Hillary and Kaine – Democrat-lite globalism or, unadulterated corruption globalism. Fuck that.
It’s no secret here that I’ve been a Trump supporter since the day he announce June 16, 2015. Is he perfect? No, no one is. Do I believe he will be a competent leader? Without question. Donald Trump, has been a winner at the game of life all his life. America desperately needs to win again. Americans desperately need Law and Order, again. SCOTUS hangs in the balance this election. This is where Lyin’ Ted has finally distinguished himself from all the Never Trump cocksuckers. I thank him for that.
Bottom line. Any man of Donald Trump’s wealth and power who is willing to sacrifice a life of ease on what is going to be an incredible task of rooting out entrenched political elite pay-to-play corruption shows me his true character. He is a man with a big heart and truly loves America and its people. I will be proud to cast my vote for Donald Trump, on November 8.
I remember Reagan well! I remember being a young mother and wife with two young children who depended on us for a future. My husband and I were Reagan Democrats! Since voting for Reagan we are conservatives for life. He changed the world. He saved America. The press and the congress hated him. The American people believed in him. They over-ruled, the press, the establishment Republican, and the, Democrats. The rewards were historic. History could repeat itself, it up to us and our adult children with struggling young families. Take a leap of faith! Vote Trump!