This is another memorable Trump attack ad, in a campaign which has produced Oscar quality pieces.
Donald Trump was supposed to be the second coming of Ronald Reagan but he’s actually the second coming of George Wallace. Listening to Reagan’s words underscoring images of Trump’s disasters is sobering. Reagan was supposed to represent the safe Republican daddy. Trump, by glaring contrast, represents the worst elements in the GOP gone batshit and then squared.
Reagan’s son Michael said, when Trump was elected, “My father would never put up with this. And Nancy would have voted for Hillary.”
I like their commercials. But I don’t trust them.
For the moment, we’re allies in a common cause. Let’s just get our number one job done, and get rid of Cantaloupe Caligula.
I trust.them the same way I trust center left Democrats.
I dont.
Actually that center left has done more damage.to black communities. The crime bill and charter schools are two of the main reasons these communities were devastated. Sold by the center left.
Biden Clinton and Obama.
won’t work, keep it. Peace
We welcome lively discourse here, but trashing our leaders is not discourse at all. If you want to provide an informed opinion, with facts and specifics and what could have been done better by whom, that will be welcomed. But not this blanket trashing.
But this is all someone of this ilk has: trashing and revisionist blather. Which is why I inveighed against him or her–discourse as you say is welcome, but BS opinion attempting to masquerade as fact and history, with concomitantly trashing then of past leaders? Nonsensical and stupid.
Were you alive at the time and really understand the issues at the time ? There was a reason that many members of the black community who were looking for help in slowing the crime in those communities down. Of course it’s a lot easier to see the errors made 25-30 years later.
Welp, apparently you didn’t take the advice of Burke, 18th century; and Santayana, 19th century; and Sam Cooke, who sang “don’t know much about history……….” , and my fave, Bob Marley, who said famously, “ya gots to know ya history.” Because clearly your information came out of some revisionist reading you’ve been doing. Go back and look up all the info on the crime bill and charter schools……..not just the cherry-picking you appear to be doing here. Frankly it makes you appear to be quite uninformed, even anti-intellectual. Go get better informed please. As Patrick Moynihan famously said, “You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.”
A quote I use quite often. Read a half dozen Pulitzer prize-winning 10lb historical books, and one quickly realizes very few people really know the historical subjects they are so passionate about. Maybe the Catholic church should have gone with the truth in 1633 instead of telling Galileo to shut the hell up. We’ve been lost in space ever since.
I always trust people to be true to their nature (which means I wouldn’t get close to Geo Conway). I get a big kick out of some of these guys. And I admire them for doing this. That they do it so dang well is icing on the cupcake!
I’ll be sorry when they return to the dark side. I was surprised by their ad on Senate GOP. I hope they do one on the House as well. They DO seem to understand the problem. And I will NEVER have a problem with honest opposing opinions.
Are these ads just on line or do they run on TV too???…..I have seen a couple of Trump-O ads on TV, but never one from the anti-Trump Republican PACs. In fact, I haven’t seen them on line anywhere but here when you post them. If you didn’t, I’d never see them.
Like the world’s best athlete sitting on the bench, not playing, if it isn’t getting enough exposure, it isn’t effective.
Maybe, they are running on FOX. I would think that would be the best placement. Otherwise they are just spending their money preaching to the choir.
Thankfully I am an over the air antenna guy and not subjected to the whole Faux and Fiends schtick, so that may well be the case.
WE haven’t even owned a TV since 2008.
Excellent advice. We will see if they heed it, or if any of this occurs to them, since I don’t know if they read your blog………..livejumps.com
This ad is on the internet many places besides here and I’m not sure where the group has released it for television, but I dare say swing states are the target.
That’s might work on some old Republicans who haven’t been totally brainwashed by their Reich wing propaganda networks.
But as far as todays Reich wing is concerned Reagan was a leftist.
Um, it’s the old-time Repubs this ad is aimed at Power Up……..they are the ones who voted mightily last time for Trump. But seem now to have some very serious regrets about having done so.
“Donald Trump was supposed to be the second coming of Ronald Reagan but he’s actually the second coming of George Wallace.”
Okay. I warned everyone I was going to go ballistic and here it is.
GEORGE WALLACE REPENTED FOR HIS RACIST BEHAVIOR FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE IN 1972.
GEORGE WALLACE REPENTED FOR HIS RACIST BEHAVIOR FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE IN 1972.
GEORGE WALLACE REPENTED FOR HIS RACIST BEHAVIOR FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE IN 1972.
GEORGE WALLACE REPENTED FOR HIS RACIST BEHAVIOR FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE IN 1972.
GEORGE WALLACE REPENTED FOR HIS RACIST BEHAVIOR FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE IN 1972.
GEORGE WALLACE REPENTED FOR HIS RACIST BEHAVIOR FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE IN 1972.
GEORGE WALLACE REPENTED FOR HIS RACIST BEHAVIOR FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE IN 1972.
GEORGE WALLACE REPENTED FOR HIS RACIST BEHAVIOR FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE IN 1972.
GEORGE WALLACE REPENTED FOR HIS RACIST BEHAVIOR FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE IN 1972.
GEORGE WALLACE REPENTED FOR HIS RACIST BEHAVIOR FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE IN 1972.
GEORGE WALLACE REPENTED FOR HIS RACIST BEHAVIOR FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE IN 1972.
GEORGE WALLACE REPENTED FOR HIS RACIST BEHAVIOR FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE IN 1972.
GEORGE WALLACE REPENTED FOR HIS RACIST BEHAVIOR FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE IN 1972.
GEORGE WALLACE REPENTED FOR HIS RACIST BEHAVIOR FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE IN 1972.
and, just in case you missed it
GEORGE WALLACE REPENTED FOR HIS RACIST BEHAVIOR FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE IN 1972.
Now. The NEXT time someone decides to bring up the “racist Wallace” card , they’d damn well better follow up with a reminder/footnote that he repented for his sin. We know Trump will NEVER do that so that automatically makes George Wallace the SUPERIOR human being, by a million-fold at the very least.
Your point is valid Joseph. And Judas Iscariot repented selling out Jesus but the man still died on the cross. I’m sorry, I can’t overlook the damage that George Wallace did. He’s not going to be remembered as a repentant sinner. But I do recall all this. And certainly his terrible injury caused him to rethink his life, and as a compassionate person (I hope) I regret deeply that it took that kind of brutality to wake him up.
Oh. One other point. Let’s all remember that Ronald Reagan decided to visit the Neshoba County (Mississippi) Fair and state his absolute support of “states’ rights.”
As Washington Post columnist, William Raspberry, wrote after Reagan’s death, “It was bitter symbolism for black Americans (though surely not just for black Americans). Countless observers have noted that Reagan took the Republican Party from virtual irrelevance to the ascendancy it now enjoys. The essence of that transformation, we shouldn’t forget, is the party’s successful wooing of the race-exploiting Southern Democrats formerly known as Dixiecrats. And Reagan’s Philadelphia appearance was an important bouquet in that courtship.”
And just a few days after Reagan made his speech, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert wrote (mainly in response to a pro-Reagan column from David Brooks), “Reagan was the first presidential candidate ever to appear at the fair, and he knew exactly what he was doing when he told that crowd, “I believe in states’ rights.” Reagan apologists have every right to be ashamed of that appearance by their hero, but they have no right to change the meaning of it, which was unmistakable. Commentators have been trying of late to put this appearance by Reagan into a racially benign context.”
I find this DESPICABLE on your part Ursula for showing an “ad from Republican voters against Trump” that mentions Reagan in a “favorable” (ie, “anti-Trump”) light when you had the audacity to equate Donald Trump’s LIFETIME of racist behavior (full page ad calling for the Central Park Five to be executed and never apologizing after the truth came to light?) to what was actually a decade of politically motivated racism on Wallace’s part (his first race for Governor in 1958 was endorsed by the Alabama chapter of the NAACP, in no small part because Wallace’s opponent was OPENLY endorsed by the KKK–and won by a very handy margin; it should be noted, though, that the NAACP wouldn’t have endorsed Wallace solely because his opponent had that KKK endorsement since Blacks in Alabama faced many obstacles to voting at all but the NAACP knew there were many fair-minded whites in the state).
I am, in no way, attempting to apologize for Wallace’s actions but I am beyond sick and tired of the way people choose to remember that one moment in time and tar Wallace with it as though he never changed. It’d be interesting if all the good that FDR did in his lifetime–as well as his Presidency–were to be forever ignored because of his horrific decision to imprison thousands of AMERICAN citizens whose sole crime was having Japanese ancestry. Or if all the good that Margaret Sanger did to improve women’s lives by getting them information about birth control (which was ILLEGAL at the time) was wiped out solely because of her misguided views on eugenics. Or if all the good that Obama did as President were to be wiped out based on his horrid attitudes towards the LGBT community prior to his election–notably, the Donnie McClurkin incident and his refusal to get involved with California’s Proposition 8 issue; oh, people get all weepy about how he was so great in opening the military to openly gay and lesbian personnel and fully endorsing same-sex marriage but they also ignored his previous record on the issue (as a state legislator in Illinois, he initially refused to take any public stance on the matter and then supported it before opposing it). (Incidentally, in 2008, Hillary Clinton gave an interview to the LGBT magazine, “The Advocate” but, candidate Barack Obama refused to do the same thing, leaving that to Michelle.)
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This site has gotten the attention of spammers, so I guess that is one measure of the increasing reach. 🙂
Reagan is a murderous war criminal who subverted resolution of the hostages being held by iran. Then orchestrated a covert war, led by murderous rapists in central america, trained in ga. Criminalized millions on a phony drug war started by rich white boys to enrich themselves, culminating in Nixon ignoring science, and scheduling cannabis as the most dangerous ‘drug’ in america. This conveniently was his plan to get protesters & black folk off the street. The list of EVIL hypocrisy is long. Oh, & let’s not forget Barr’ s help in getting these traitors free of responsibility for their crimes. Of course, Reagan couldn’t remember a goddamn thing. Right….
And there’s more: do you know about The Panama Deception? You probably do–but for anyone who doesn’t, it may be available still on YouTube……….go look it up………it ain’t a pretty picture of Bush the elder either.
Every damned time we get this sort of stuff, aka this time around its Trump and his totally bananas shit, we Dems have to rush in where angels fear to tread and clean up the slaughter, both actual sometimes and metaphorical others. I’m not saying we liberals haven’t made mistakes, we have; but crikey we didn’t trash Guatemala or El Salvador or Panama; we didn’t eff over the Kurds in Syria; we didn’t leave behind our translators in Iraq and Afghanistan; we didn’t create much of the post-colonial and imperialist distress and economic savagery the world struggles to fix even today. And even if one of our nascent “fathers,” Andrew Jackson, turned out to be a cold-blooded SOB who thought the Trail of Tears et al was a grand idea, still, at the heart of even our early beginnings as Democrats was that we’d be more inclusive.
I’m wid ya Scott–these folks my view only, have a lot to answer for.
Didn’t see this anywhere on this comment thread. This political spot is although seemingly pretty far-reaching, with especially its repeat of the shining city on the hill trope, at the heart of it is this: “I didn’t leave my party; my party left me.” Said by Reagan about why he became a Republican. And why Charlie Crist became a Democrat. And there are others. It is a pretty sophisticated appeal to older Republicans to remind them of their hero’s ability to switch. Regardless of the foaming at the mouth Republicans many of us seem to think is all the party is, there are I’d bet millions of them who are “not so much.” I come from a Republican stronghold, and a Republican family, became a very liberal Democrat, but I have a huge extended family all over the USA who are most of them decent folks who just happen to be Republicans. And who are right now feeling as if their party has left them. This is likely being repeated over and over again in Republican households.
I was fortunate enough to have taken classes from Professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson, recently the author of Cyberwar……….who pounded into our heads that all great political spots are both incredibly simple and necessarily if you think about them, very, very nuanced and deep. This spot is both is simple and complex in triplicate and kudos to the creators of it, regardless of their RVAT affiliation.
I’ll take it on faith that this is an effective spot for the intended audience. It absolutely doesn’t work for me, but hey, I’m not the intended audience. I have never admired Reagan, so the syrupy emptiness of this speech (Ã la Peggy Noonan) is merely jarring when set against current events and has a kind of sickening, surreal effect on me. But like I say, this wasn’t meant for me. If for some folks this translates into a vote for Biden, then God love ’em.
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