Rush knows what most people who know once they get to know the 'person'...that's he the hardest working SOB they ever met. Rush has played golf with Trump on more than a few occasions.
'You' see a man succeed like that, and the smartest thing to do is keep 'your' mouth shut. And watch.
And smile.
Jimmy Carter was considered one of the hardest-working presidents, too. How'd
that work out for everybody?
(Except for giving us Ronald Reagan, that is . . .) Never mind his in-office failures, Carter was also renowned as
a hopeless micromanager who proved that that much attention to every piddling detail wasn't exactly good for
the nation's health. (Aside: Carter did pretty decently for himself as a peanut farmer before going into politics.)
Anyway, since when does working that hard and making all that pelf equal the making of a good president? (Never
mind for a moment that Donaldus Minimus seems to make a fortune in spite of as much as because of his business
results.)
Think about it. Warren Harding was a successful newspaper publisher . . . and one of the worst presidents in
U.S. history. (Teapot Dome, anyone?) George W. Bush was pretty successful owning the Texas Rangers---
before he became the president who spearheaded the Republican't collapse into big government that ended up
bequeathing us His Excellency Al-Hashish Field Marshmallow Dr. Barack Obama Dada, COD, RIP, LSMFT, Would-
Have-Been-Life President of the Republic Formerly Known as the United States. Are you better off now than
you were eight years ago?
Herbert Hoover did well in the mining industry around the world before going into public service, was more or
less a circumstantial victim in the White House, practically when the last bit of confetti was swept up from his
inauguration. Though he did, among other things, sign off on one of the largest peacetime tax hikes in history,
not to mention the massive agricultural subsidies that proved the pilot fish for the early New Deal's Agricultural
Adjustment Act---paying oodles to farmers not to grow and to slaughter "excess" livestock. (After he departed
he remade himself as a philanthropist and lecturer against collectivism.)
Harry Truman flunked as a Kansas City haberdasher. How great a president he was depends on whether you
prefer to remember the man who ended World War II with a big bang or two, who stood up to Communism
at Berlin and in Korea; or, the man who would have gotten away with imposing the Great Society years before
Lyndon Johnson gave a similar round of programs the actual name, had it not been for Republican Congresses
that had twenty times the spine of the one we've got now.
And Mitt Romney was highly successful in business in his own right before he made a run for the White House.
Any eyewitnesses to
his inaugural parade?
