“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. He claimed once that trees
contributed 93 percent of the atmosphere’s nitrous oxide...”
· “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 –
