Posted on 09/16/2017 2:21:57 PM PDT by conservative98
I served in the Reagan administration eight years, and I worked to get him elected in 76 and 80, Levin recalled. There were times we felt, some of us, that he was pulling in the wrong direction. There was actually a group of us that would get together I forget if it was Wednesdays, or whenever it was to try and figure out what to do about it. We would criticize our president, who we loved dearly.
People need to understand something: Everybody is imperfect, he noted. Were imperfect. Our presidents are imperfect. You dont treat them like deities. If you really want to help your president, you criticize him. It doesnt mean you trash-mouth him. It doesnt mean you sabotage him. Thats not what were talking about. We want him to succeed.
It doesnt help Donald Trump any more than it would have helped Ronald Reagan to pretend, or paper over fundamentals here, and the fundamental is that the president campaigned on building a wall, he argued. Now, it doesnt have to be brick-and-mortar every step of the way. We got that. Were not stupid. We understand he cant put a wall on a river. But its supposed to be physical barriers.
He also said a couple of weeks ago that he would shut down the government if theres not wall funding, and I said that hes figured it out. Reagan shut down the government six times, and he didnt back off. He wanted that MX missile Trident system, and he insisted on it. He wanted them to cut government spending, and he insisted on it. He went to the American people and he explained to them exactly what he was doing six times, Levin pointed out.
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This is BS. Trump is in the process of negotiating a deal. No final results have been accomplished yet.
Since the Republicans won’t stand up to them, the president has got to find something that will work.
His “I worked in the Reagan Administration” is as tiresome as Kerry’s “I served in Vietnam.” Somehow Levin seems to think that qualifies him as an expert on everything and as the last surviving TRUE conservative in the USA. I used to listen but now turn off the radio the second he comes on.
I see a lot of Trump fans saying “let’s just wait and see what happens”. I saw it in comments at Fox News and Breitbart. It could be organic, but it certainly seems like it’s a talking point designed to make amnesty easier.
The fact is that Trump could help himself with his base and help undercut his opponents in the MSM and Congress if he pushed a voluntary repatriation program instead of amnesty. He clearly won’t do mass deportations, and he’s probably never even heard of any other alternatives to amnesty. See fb.me/PatrioticAlternativeToAmnesty for the benefits of such a program. Why aren’t Trump fans working to present him with that or other alternatives?
Say what you want about Levin, but he’s 1000% correct about the Mueller witch hunt.
+1
Of course. That is a given.
. Yep
AMEN!!!!!!!
Blame the three Republican douche-bags!
I like Mark. I believe mostly as he does. But he is a notorious Never Trumper and has no ability to negotiate. My way or the highway so he would get nothing done.
There was no deal made. Period.
Nope. Trump is not stupid and we shouldn’t be stupid either.
NO. DEAL. WAS. MADE.
End of story.
Levin is upset with any action or words that do not magnify the importance of NRO, CR and Mark Levin his own self.
Something that diminishes the Conservative Orthodoxy is heretical to Mr. Levin.
And yet Levin goes ballistic if anyone criticizes Cruz.
I know there’s a lot of angst and lost trust in ML since the campaign, and I can certainly sympathize as I was one of those totally turned off by his rants against Trump.
But at this point we need all the conservatives who are willing to fight on our team. And we need them now. Levin is a fighter it seems to me.
Point being we should put aside our differences and past grievances and unite now - before it’s too late.
Trump says no deal was made.
But it sounds like you’re one of those people whose default mode is to call Trump a liar.
http://fortune.com/2017/09/14/donald-trump-no-deal-with-democrats-daca/
The vaunted Ronald Reagan gave away his own state of California, and we will never get it back, thanks to his unforgivable trust in DemoKKKrats.
With treacherous RINOs (the majority) and incompetent conservatives (the minority) “representing” us, we have no real hope.
Last time I scanned passed Medved he took two calls from Santa Monica, from self-described solid conservatives hah! - I think his audience has either shrunk or its liberals listening now.audieunce
I thought Medved would have been gone by now.
Some folks buy into Medved for his radio style vs content > IMO.
I think that’s why he’s still around. If someone is Conservative, they probably won’t stick around.
There are a lot of folks out there who don’t take politics serious. I think they tune in for the show, but not to tackle the big issues as much as you and I would.
I doubt he has rabid leftists either.
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