Dearest Jim!
Posted on 03/14/2016 4:32:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
I missed the part when he told anyone he wanted to punch the heckler.
I found him seriously annoying. His soft, smooth way of talking aggravated me to no end.
Mr. Rogers (the PBS "Neighborhood" guy) annoyed me in the same manner.
I can read Reagan's quips and speeches just fine, but I could never listen to them.
I remember that!
Also, I remember in the 1976 primary debates -Ford was boasting about football days and Reagan said “I played football too, but I wore a helmet”.
Thanks for posting this Jim.
Go Trump!
see post 35
Really? I loved listening to Reagan speak. I know what you mean about someone’s speaking style rubbing me the wrong way - Cruz does that to me big time.
Neither Cruz nor Trump have the personality or wit of Reagan. Ted is nasally and condescending; Trump is gruff and very brief. Reagan had a combination of quick wit, subtle humor, and oratory skills unmatched by most politicians. He was a statesman in every sense of the word. Unfortunately, I no longer see any of our politicians as true "statesmen." I believe Reagan had a real love for this republic - very deep contrast to the elite crowd today.
you know Trump would be smart to string together a 60 sec commercial of Reagan basically telling hecklers to shut the hell up...with the tag line at the end...Trump make America great again
Steve Dahl still rules! I listen to his hilarious show daily. Makes work much more fun!
I thought very much the same thing! Maybe end with "I paid for this microphone" (and maybe Trump should start using that line, with credit to Reagan.)
I remember the ‘there he goes again’ during the debates.
I remember ‘Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’
Ronaldus Magnus was the first president I voted for...
Oh, how I miss him!
I agree with everything you said about Reagan. A great tribute actually. I even agree with what you said about Trump. Gruff and brief. He is no Reagan. But, I submit that Trump in 2016 has a bigger challenge than RR in 1980: To destroy PC speech, which is now so pernicious and established as to cancell out all reason, accountability and critical thinking.
Go Trump!!
That’s a great response by Reagan. If Reagan had instead said he’d like to send the guy out on a stretcher or that someone should punch him in the face, it’d be a very different story.
Spring cleaning is NOT always a good idea.
Now that sounds like a Ted Cruz-style response, winning the argument with the facts, not with fists.
Instructing his following with words like "So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, just knock the hell... I promise you, I'll pay for the legal fees, I promise" you think these words aren't inciting violence? Why should anyone be surprised when his followers do what he's suggesting, and then some in the zeal of the moment?
The disruptors are leftist thugs who are trespassing and trying to start fights.
Indeed, some of them paid. If Trump and his people didn't know it then they've got a screw loose. I guarantee you the Secret Service did. He said just before the statement quoted above that this was in response to advice from his security people that the protesters had tomatoes. So at that point, shouldn't we call his choice of words premeditated? If they were, why wouldn't he be accountable for the consequences of following his instructions?
In fact, what you are effectively saying is that a violent response would be appropriate. In my judgement, while it is politically astute in terms of monopolizing air time, it is strategically damaging both to conservatism and to the Presidency.
If instead he'd said "Ladies and gentlemen, you have my permission to physically restrain these morons until we can get security there. If they fight you, please defend yourselves appropriately until we can get security there, no unnecessary violence please" nobody would have a beef, certainly not me. Even the police don't have permission to "knock the crap" out of the people they arrest unless they physically resist. Excessive force by a law enforcement officer is a crime.
So if Trump was prepared for this and he said what he did, I would call this deliberate. Given the disparity between what he said and my hypothetical, he must want the consequences. Why then is such so bothersome to you? HE WANTED THESE RESULTS. It controls what's on TV. Nobody is talking about his record or his policies. That would hurt him.
They deserve whatever comes to them when they trespass and or commit other crimes.
Death too? For trespassing and inciting a public disturbance? With the number of people who carry concealed these days, such rhetoric could easily get there in such a public scrum under less controlled circumstances.
Never knew you to be such a wimp. Defend your turf or lose it.
Oh please. There's handling confrontation with authority and then there's stupidity in letting things get out of hand, thus needlessly handing your enemies a weapon to use against you. You yourself Jim place limits on speech here at FR for similar reasons:
Nothing wrong with it. See post 77.
That’s right. Throwing a tomato (assault) deserves getting tossed out on your ass. Not going to read the rest of your crap.
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