What do you think about President Trump saying that the GOP is saving Medicare and the Democrats are destroying it?
I think it's just another political ploy, a desperate attempt to try to smear Democrats. Look, real Democrats believe that, since they are progressives, that every single American should be able to go to the doctor when they are sick, to not be discriminated against for pre-existing conditions, to not be forced into financial ruination when they do get sick, and to be able to get treated for shit like one of the HUGE PROBLEMS in America right now, opiate addiction. True progressives believe that no one in America should have to suffer and possibly, eventually, die, because they are too fucking poor to get treatment for an illness. Republicans can try to somehow flip that around on us, I can see them in their war-rooms eagerly asking one another how they can spin the above statement into something bad and it's just so patently false and complete bullshit, it's almost laughable, except that there's probably some people out there who'll read that garbage and actually think it's true! For God's sake, it's Medicare for ALL. We're not trying to get rid of Medicare, we want it for every single damn American!
If Ronald Reagan ran for president today would he win the GOP nomination?
No, because he can't run again. Term limits.
Questions on Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents by Richard Neustadt?
I couldn't understand this that well, I know that Neustadt contends that the "power to persuade" is the most important presidential power. However I couldn't figure out the following: Was this an example of the type of power discussed by Neustadt? And if it wasn't how would you characterize the nature of the power exercised by President Bush? Also, if President Bush was effective in attempting to demonstrate his powers of persuasion?
Is Zig Zackowitz the Gop frontrunner in the 2012 presidential elections?
Zig Who? More like Mitt Romney.
Your opinion..."The next Republican President has not been born yet?"?
Joe, the lost every demographic group but for the white vote, he got the same percentage of the white vote as GWB did and Romney got something like 300 less electoral votes! They have 242 locked in electoral votes(same las 6 presidential elections). They should now have Virginia, George is changing, and Florida looks close to blue....and look for my home, Texas to turn into a swing state...remember Arizona was close to becoming a swing state as well....what we have going for us is that..."we may not be perfect, but we are not nuts!" and the RP is definitely "NUTS!"
Has President Obama ever called the GOP "The enemy"?
On various occasions. Pat Buchanan: Obama Slamming Republicans Instead of ISIS By Todd Beamon | Wednesday, 18 Nov 2015 08:20 PMConservative commentator Patrick Buchanan told Newsmax TV on Wednesday that he questioned "the mindset of the president right now" because he has lashed out at Republicans calling for barring Syrian refugees instead of expressing outrage over the Paris attacks."He didn't really show what he should have shown, which was American leadership in the time of a real crisis for our ally in France," Buchanan told "The Steve Malzberg Show," referring to President Barack Obama's remarks Wednesday in the Philippines. "He really seems to be letting Republican criticism get to him."The president has not handled this at all well, there's no question about it," Buchanan added. "This was a massacre, a perpetrated massacre, the largest hit on France militarily, lost more casualties than any single incident since World War II."He's focusing on the Republican Party — and he's calling it a setback in the war on terror. You have to ask yourself about the mindset of the president right now.Buchanan, who served Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, told Malzberg that he would halt all immigration into the United States and would ban anyone from Muslim countries with deep terrorist ties."We know that the Christians in Syria have been persecuted and attacked and singled out as like the Yazidis have — and if you're going to bring in folks from Syria, you ought to give first priority to those who you know really can't survive a victory by ISIS."Buchanan also slammed Secretary of State John Kerry for his controversial comparison of the Paris attacks to the assault on the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January."I'm not a fan of Charlie Hebdo and their cartoons, but that does not justify mass murder," he said. "John Kerry is very tired and there's nothing legitimate about mass murder or terrorism against innocent civilians — I don't care whether they write nasty cartoons or not."
Was Dwight Eisenhower the last good Republican President?
Yes, I think so as well. Eishenhower himself was, in a moral perspective, is contreversial, though. For example, when the U2 spy plane with Gary Powers was shot down over the USSR, Eishenhower was very angry at Powers becuase he didn't commit suicide. CIA agents are supposed to commit suicide if faced with capture (I'm not sure whether they teach that today, still, though). He was deeply disturbed at the build up of nuclear arms. He noted that the WWII and the Cold War had the unintentional effect of creating the true multinational corporation, and the much more powerful lobbyists it brought with it. Nuclear arns, as he wrote in his diary, had became an end to themselves. There were more than enough for mere deterrent by the time he left office. He realized that it was more about how to make the defense contractors more profits (and acquire a first strike ability at the USSR in the process), rather than deterrent. Ike was an interesting guy. I think that he was perhaps the best US ground commander in WWII, and certainly better than McArthur, who was too arrogant for me. As for his successors, not a single president that has suceeded him has not gone through office without breaking US law.
Is Trump the most extreme Republican president?
Sort of.Trumpism is the extreme form of what the Republican Party has been becoming since roughly the Goldwater campaign.Monied elites convincing the working class that said monied elite is their champion. (At least Yale alum and President’s son Bush the Younger cleared his own brush at Crawford. Can you imagine the Donald doing manual labor?)Despite the aforementioned, actual policies that are intended to protect only the monied elite. The tax cut bill being exhibit one.An ever-increasing reliance on ideologically-motivated alternative narrative framing, which has bloomed into a full-blown rejection of factual reality.Coded or at least plausibly deniable appeals to racism and sexism have given way to quite blatant sexism and racism. No other American President has referred to neo-Nazis as “some very fine people.”Anti-government rhetoric that has been amped up into the outright attempt to destroy key sections of the Federal government through sheer incompetence and neglect.Mainstreaming authoritarianism. Post 9/11 appeals to patriotism have been amped up to the idea that not applauding the President is treason.Republican Party grandees were pretty damn scared during the election because they feared Trump might actually follow through on some of his more populist promises - health care coverage better than Obamacare; protecting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; getting America out of foreign wars; and all that jazz.Turns out, policy wise the Trump administration is just an extra-incompetent version of Reagan and Bush the Younger. Fortunate for them, if unfortunate for the 99% of Americans.Original question:Is Trump the most extreme Republican president?