After Reagan Comes Trump?

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After Reagan Comes Trump?

http://townhall.com/columnists/emmetttyrrell/2016/09/15/after-reagan-comes-trump-n2218171

Emmett Tyrrell
Sep 15, 2016

Norman Podhoretz, the former longtime editor of Commentary Magazine, is no longer an Inadvertent Conservative for Hillary, or ICH. He is voting for Donald Trump for president. The prospect of Clinton in the White House is too grisly for Podhoretz. It probably also is for his wife, Midge Decter, the gifted essayist. Both are reasonable neoconservatives, which is to say erstwhile liberals who moved over to conservatism sometime in the 1970s. I have known them for years.

In the late 1970s they made a similar calculation. They were two of only four neoconservatives to attend a dinner I held for the Republican candidate for president. That would be Ronald Reagan. (For those millennials in my audience, Reagan was elected president in 1980, and he did pretty well for a guy over 30.) Other neocons would not attend the dinner. Even Irving Kristol would not attend. He found Reagan "vulgar." As I recall, the dinner was a great success. Reagan had mastered eating with a knife and a fork, and he could tell a pretty good story. He even listened attentively to my guests. Doubtless Trump would do equally well today, but it apparently will not happen this year. The rest of the neocons have calculated that he is at one with Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini. They have a sense of history, though at times it is a bit melodramatic.

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Now it is up to all of us to cast a vote that will be meaningful, or cast a vote that will be onanistic.

Sorry, Bob, but the math is against you.  Each individual vote has little meaning.

But a vote for a third-party candidate is far more powerful than one for one of the NY libs.  You raise the vote count of that third-party candidate a greater percentage, and it sends a message that you don't want any of the libs (Trump, Clinton, Stein, Johnson).

No matter how much you rail, I won't join you and vote for Onan the Vulgarian.

[skeeter]

Usually like Tyrell's stuff.

But this Reagan = Trump stuff completely blow the credibility of anyone claiming its an apt comparison. Its childish. There's just way too much evidence that the two are worlds apart ideologically.

Go ahead an support Trump. But stop with these silly pretenses.

[INVAR]

And after Holy matrimony comes homosexual marriage...

And after Christianity comes … Chrislam…

That Tyrell says that we do not need any more congenital liars in the White House, and insists we all vote for a guy who says that Ted Cruz' father was an accessory to JFK's assassination - is pretty delusional.

But thus are the fruits of those whose principles have no anchors and are carried by every single current that comes along.