“He's been divorced and remarried. He
can't commit to anything.”
“He's dangerously ignorant about
international affairs. The Russian leaders will walk all over
him.”
“He has no filter – doesn't think before
he speaks.”
“Until recently, he was a Democrat.
He's not a real Republican. He hasn't paid his GOP dues.”
“He used to be Pro Choice. Now,
suddenly he's Pro Life?”
“That can't be his real
hair!”
“He's a loose cannon. No one wants HIS
finger on the nuclear button.”
“His opponent has the experience and
political savvy to be president. He does not.”
“He's just not
presidential.”
“His temperament disqualifies him from
ever being Commander-In-Chief.”
“He's proven himself to be mentally
unstable.”
“The military will never accept him as
Commander-In-Chief. He's not smart enough.”
“The GOP doesn't want him to be the head
of the party. He could never reach across the aisle to get anything
done.”
“Most Republican voters will just stay
home rather than go out and vote for him.”
“He's almost 70 – much too old to be
president.”
“Evangelicals will never support
him.”
“He says '(Let’s) Make America Great
Again'. How dare he say we aren't still great?!?!”
"His intellect is thinner than spit on a
slate rock.”
“90 percent of Republican state chairmen
judge him guilty of 'simplistic approaches,' with 'no depth in federal
government administration' and 'no experience in foreign
affairs.'”
“His spontaneity with reporters and
voters plays well but also gives him plenty of space to disgorge fantasies and
factual errors so prolific and often outrageous that he single-handedly makes
the word gaffe a permanent fixture in America’s political vernacular. He
confuses Pakistan with Afghanistan.”
“After all his gaffes, he doubles down
on them instead of admitting he made a mistake.”
“He's threatening to upend our treaties
and relationships with our allies by demanding that they pay for their own
defense!”
“Because of his gross factual errors, he
might take rash action and needlessly lead this country into open
warfare!”
“He's racist, xenophobic, and fuels the
fires of hatred!”
"You shouldn't take him seriously. He
has a penchant for offering simplistic solutions to hideously complex problems
and a stubborn insistence that he is always right in every
argument.”
"The rising turnout of his voters are
not loyal Republicans or Democrats and are alienated from both parties because
neither takes a sympathetic view toward their issues.”
“He wears the disdain he draws from the
GOP elites as a badge of honor. Henry Kissinger’s championing the other GOP
candidate and attacking him are actually helping him!”
"The fact that he could be deemed a
serious candidate for president is a shame and embarrassment for the
country.”
The New Yorker observed that his appeal
“has to do not with competence at governing but with the emotion he evokes...
[He] lets people get out their anger and frustration, their feeling of being
misunderstood and mishandled by those who have run our government, their
impatience with taxes and with the poor and the weak, their impulse to deal with
the world’s troublemakers by employing the stratagem of a punch in the
nose.”
“His unpopular opponent presided over
the current Iranian crisis... and a reeling economy, yet surely the Democrat
will prevail over him.”
"Is he Safe? …he shoots from the hip …
he's over his head … What are his solutions?”
“Voters want to follow some authority
figure, — a leader who can take charge with authority; return a sense of
discipline to our government; and, manifest the willpower needed to get this
country back on track -- or at least a leader from outside
Washington.”
Sound familiar? You've heard this all
about Donald Trump, right? Try again.
All this was said of Ronald Reagan
in 1976 and 1980. Most of it was BY OTHER REPUBLICANS – and Reagan turned out
to be one of the greatest presidents of the 20th Century, if not of all time –
