There’s Nothing Reaganesque About Donald Trump

The American Spectator ^ | 6/16/15 | Aaron Goldstein

[South40]

Shirley you jest! No part of Trump's announcement was fake, was it? lol!

Actually, we know the part where he said he supports the Second Amendment was fake as he is on record as saying he wants to ban guns.

Nice find.

[familyop]

There’s a rumble in the background, a rumble that may become a roaring voter stampede.

Donald Trump On the Issues
http://www.ontheissues.org/donald_trump.htm

Donald Trump on Foreign Policy
China is our enemy; they’re bilking us for billions. (Dec 2011)
When you love America, you protect it with no apologies. (Dec 2011)
By 2027, tsunami as China overtakes US as largest economy. (Dec 2011)
Criticized Buchanan’s view on Hitler as appeasement. (Jul 2000)
Post-Cold War: switch from chess player to dealmaker. (Jul 2000)
Support Russia, but with strings attached. (Jul 2000)
China: lack of human rights prevents consumer development. (Jul 2000)
Be tougher on China-we’re too eager to please. (Jul 2000)

Donald Trump on Free Trade
20% tax on all imported goods. (Dec 2011)
Fair trade instead of embarrassing deal with South Korea. (Dec 2011)
Repatriate jobs that China has been stealing. (Dec 2011)
Embrace globalization and international markets. (Jan 2008)
Renegotiate tougher & fairer trade agreements. (Jul 2000)
President should be nation’s trade representative. (Dec 1999)
World views US trade officials as ‘saps’. (Dec 1999)

Donald Trump on Immigration
Citizenship for illegal immigrants is a GOP suicide mission. (Mar 2013)
351,000 illegal aliens are in our prisons; costing $1.1B. (Dec 2011)
Anchor babies were NEVER the intent of the 14th Amendment. (Dec 2011)
Invite foreigners graduating from college to stay in US. (Dec 2011)
Triple-layered fence & Predator drones on Mexican border. (Dec 2011)
Control borders; even legal immigration should be difficult. (Jul 2000)
Limit new immigration; focus on people already here. (Dec 1999)

[Fledermaus]

He did 6 years ago.

[Fledermaus]

Sycophancy must be heaven.

[bubman]

Perot running as an independent gave the ticket to Clinton as a result of his ego. As a result changes the face of America and gave us the Clintons for the next 30 years. Never went back into politics.

[nickcarraway]

He ran in 1996 and was involved in the 2000 Reform Party.

[C. Edmund Wright]

and I’m sure he is using that 9 billion to PAY BACK HIS FOUR BANKRUPTCIES.....EVEN THOUGH HE INHERITED 27 THOUSAND RENTAL PROPERTIES IN NYC.

[C. Edmund Wright]

I see you’re mired down with the kool aid children......always intentionally missing the point and dodging the issues because they are in puppy love worship of an image that is nothing at all like the reality.

[mountainbunny]

If he mades it that long, Donald Trump will ruin and make a mockery of the Republican debates

[Nero Germanicus]

Perhaps you’re right but I have a feeling that Donald Trump’s primary election opponents WILL bring up a 12 year old connection to George Soros.
There is another thread posted today (and not by me) that details Trump’s donations to 23 Democrats including Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Harry Reid and Charlie Rangel.
Its called “vetting.”
I’ll leave it to Republican primary voters and caucus attendees to decide what is frivoulous and dumb, but you are entitled to your opinion.

[Nero Germanicus]

Thanks for pointing that out!

[bubman]

I stand corrected. thank you!

[dragnet2]

Trump builds a 90 story high rise 12 years ago and he’s supposed to turn down investors? BTW there were multiple entities who went in on that venture investment.

But feel free to refer to this as the, “12 year old connection to George Soros”.

It sounds very mysterious though. Of course Soros has invested in projects all over the planet. But if ya ever find something illegal or unethical here, ping me.

Thanks!

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Thanks for reminding me!

Truly our greatest POTUS!!!!!

[Hawthorn]

>> George Washington was actually what we would call career politician <<

Well, you may call him a career politician. But not me. I call him a tobacco planter, a land speculator, a surveyor and a militia officer who also happened to serve in the Virginia House of Burgesses before the Revolution. That latter service was, however, not a "career" -- not by any stretch of the imagination. It was more like an civic burden.

After the Revolution, Gen. Washington wanted nothing more than to go back to his plantation, live there permanently, and manage its transition from tobacco to other crops. But thanks to pressure from James Madison, Richard Henry Lee and other Virginia gentry, he very reluctantly agreed to preside at the Constitutional Convention.

Then even more reluctantly, he agreed to serve one term as POTUS. At the end of that first term, he was aching to retire back to Mount Vernon. But the looming danger that tensions between the Jeffersonians and the Federalists could tear the Union apart, plus naval threats to the USA from Great Britain and France, were enough to change his mind. So he agreed to a second term.

At the end of that painful second term, GW simply could endure no more strains of the POTUS position. He was truly relieved to be free at last from the life of politics, which he truly detested.

Sadly, he was able thereafter to enjoy only two years of blessed retirement at the old home place. The stresses of life as POTUS probably contributed greatly to his premature death, which happened when he was only in his mid-sixties.

Bottom Line:

Washington was anything but a "career politician." On the contrary, he was not only the leader who more than any other secured our independence and who then held our Republic together during its painful birthing process, but he was also a true statesmen who had a fundamental distaste for "politics."

[Nero Germanicus]

If it doesn’t bother you, that’s fine. To each his own.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

GW’s death at 67 cannot be considered premature.

In fact it was considered old age in the 1700s.

I wonder what life expectancy was in that century.

Certainly much lower than it is today.

[ansel12]

Another way to say it, is to say “George Washington was actually what we could call career, or lifetime politician, he entered elective politics in 1755 and didn’t leave his final office until 42 years later after serving more than a quarter century in various elective offices.

George Washington had vast political experience before he became President of the United States.
Fifteen years in Virginia House of Burgesses.

George Washington served in the Virginia House of Burgesses for fifteen years before the American Revolution. After a failed bid for a seat in December 1755, he won election in 1758 and represented Frederick County until 1761. That year he ran in Fairfax County, winning a seat which he would retain until 1775.
With its origin in the first meeting of the Virginia General Assembly at Jamestown in July 1619, the House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies.
“Three days later Washington joined the burgesses remaining in Williamsburg to sign a resolution calling for a meeting in August which would become the first Virginia Revolutionary convention. The membership of the five Revolutionary conventions was almost entirely made up of burgesses.”
Member of the First Continental Congress.

The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. Virginia’s delegation presented the most eminent group of men in America. Colo. George Washington, Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, Edmund Pendleton, Colo. Benjamin Harrison, Richard Bland, and at the head of them Peyton Randolph — who would immediately be elected president of the convention.
Member of the Second Continental congress.

Washington served as a Virginia delegate to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1775. Facing a fight for independence with Britain, he was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
Major General and Commander-in-Chief of the colonial forces against Great Britain.
Constitutional Convention 1787.

When the Constitutional Convention opened in Philadelphia in May 1787, Washington was elected convention president by a unanimous vote, just as he had been unanimously chosen to lead the Continental Army twelve years before.
Presidential election of 1789.

Washington was once again called upon to serve this country. During the presidential election of 1789, he received a vote from every elector to the Electoral College, the only president in American history to be elected by unanimous approval.”

[Hawthorn]

>> GW’s death at 67 cannot be considered premature.

In fact it was considered old age in the 1700s.

I wonder what life expectancy was in that century.

Certainly much lower than it is today<<

We've gotta distinguish between (1) life expectancy at birth and (2) life expectancy at some other stage of life. The numbers can be radically different.

There's no question that in the 1700's, life expectancy at birth was super-low as compared to today's statistic. That's because so many people died during infancy and childhood. Their deaths pulled the averages WAY, WAY down. It's just a matter of simple arithmetic.

On the other hand, somebody who reached the age of 60 during the 1700's was usually a very hardy individual. He had already survived a myriad of childhood diseases, not to mention adult-onset TB, smallpox, etc.

My main point is this: If we had the data to compute actuarial tables for the late 1700's in Virginia among white landowners, it wouldn't surprise me to find that a man in George Washington's age bracket could expect ON THE AVERAGE to live another ten years or more.

Moreover, I think it's pretty well accepted nowadays that Washington's death occurred prematurely due in no small part to the 18th century medical practice of "bleeding." Modern physicians have theorized that he had a virus infection, which his immune system could probably have defeated in a few days -- if only his doctors had not kept withdrawing his blood. Without that primitive treatment, it's a good bet that he could have lived as long as did Benjamin Franklin.

[Hawthorn]

>> George Washington had vast political experience before he became President of the United States <<

Of course. But that fact alone doesn’t justify calling him a “career politician.”

I would say, on the contrary, that he was “anything but.”