Originally Posted By: L. Brown
Reagan is pretty much the polar opposite of Trump. He was unfailingly polite, even to his political enemies. Was it Mondale who made the remark about Reagan's age, to which Reagan replied that he'd promise not to mention Mondale's youth and inexperience if Mondale would refrain from mentioning his age? He was polite even in the debates.

Getting Mexico to pay for a wall may sound good, but I can't imagine it will ever happen. Deporting 11 million illegals also sounds good to some people, but simply isn't practical. It'd be like turning the country into a police state.

Re Muslim immigration . . . "zero tolerance" policies make little sense to me, whether it's suspending little Mary from school because she took a plastic knife to spread her Peanut Butter or whether it's keeping ALL Muslims out because a few of them might be terrorists. How about the ones who've served with our military or intelligence organizations in Iraq and Afghanistan and have saved American lives?

There are good reasons for the middle class to dislike free trade, no question. More jobs for the Chinese, fewer for the Americans. On the other hand . . . where does Trump have his line of clothing made??


Larry, you are changing the subject. Who was talking about polite? But back to the subject at hand....

Deporting 11 million people may not be practical but politicians of all stripes say all kinds of bullshit to get elected. What we get a glimmer here from Trump is that he plans to address a serious problem in a serious way, UNLIKE EVERY PREVIOUS FEDERAL POLITICIAN. The exact details are....appropriately....still to come. In the meantime he has our attention on the subject. This is what EVERY elected politician tries to do. Why judge Trump differently?

On Islamic immigration, you conveniently obscure the salient points of Trumps position, like the MSM and Washington insiders. He is talking about stopping it, UNTIL BETTER VETTING AND CONTROLS ARE IN PLACE! What do you see as a problem with that?

As Ed Good so eloquently put it, Trump is an entrepreneur, not all ventures succeed and Trump is playing by the rules of the game as a businessman. What he is talking about as a politician is changing the ground rules. See the difference?

The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia