The Veteran has run his flag up the mast
as an anti-trumper. Good for him. What you see is what you get and that's fine. Adolf makes no secret of the fact he is a pro-trumper. Likewise, what you see is what you get.
I think Veteran is wrong and I'm sure he thinks I'm wrong. Some call it agreeing to disagree.
It appears most of Veteran's stance is due to some of the things President Trump says, how he says them, when he says them and where. No doubt in this particular regard this president is unpresidential in any traditional sense. (But in many ways, so was Harry Truman.) The last straw for Veteran was president Trump's off the cuff remarks in Helsinki with Vladimir Putin at the podium. I did not see them but when Newt Gingrich says they were a mistake and a gaffe then I'll take his word for it.
It has always been my preference to judge people by their actions rather than their words and that is why I am a fan of this president and completely despise his predecessor.
From the start it must be recognised not one of The Veteran's alternative Republican 'presidential' candidates stood a show in hell of winning the 2016 election. He or she would have been destroyed by the combined weight of Hillary Clinton's illicit $billions, the Obama administration's spying and espionage complex, millions of fraudulent votes from California. the Democrat/ Media propaganda conspirators - rigged TV debates included.
Secondly, it seems to me almost any other Democrat candidate would have won against Trump.
In a nutshell, Trump was the only Republican who could win and Clinton was the only Democrat who could lose.
The world dodged the Clinton/Obama bullet when Donald Trump was elected. Whatever this president's faults may be, they pale into insignificance compared with those of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Obama was big on mellifluous vacauosity and short on action. Among other things, he and Hillary prematurely withdrew troops from Iraq, effectively creating ISIS. They wrecked Libya and turned it over to ISIS. They screwed up Syria and turned it over to Russia. They effectively created the migrant crisis which has overwhelmed Europe. Then they refinanced Iran and gave it the green light to go nuclear. Some legacy!! Did otherwise sane people want four or eight more years of that?
On the home front they presided over a stagnant economy, strangled by over-regulation. I still laugh at the brainless Nobel winning economists who declared solemnly 'it is not possible for GDP to exceed 2.0% annually.' Obama is the only American president in history to have presided over eight years in which annual GDP growth did not for even one year exceed 3%.
If one wants to look at the significant achievements of the Trump administration one can go no further than yesterday's retort from S o S Mike Pompeo to a hapless Democrat senator- 'You'll need to back a truck up and we'll load them on.'
The US economy is roaring - tipped by some to be heading for 5% GDP this year; unemployment is at record lows; black employment is at record highs; large income tax reductions are in place; military spending is boosted; the Democrat/ Media conspiracy is exposed; the flood of illegal immigrants has declined to a trickle; the real friends of the US, shunned by Obama, are remade welcome and the enemies of the USA are reminded they are indeed enemies.
Just as the 'trade war hysteria' from the left reached fever pitch last week, a sort of free trade agreement with the EU was announced. Along with a mutual goal of zero tariffs (excluding motor vehicles), an interesting aspect includes increased sales of soybeans and gas to the EU. (Wasn't it just last week that the Media and all lefties were demonizing the President for insulting the leaders of the EU? Wasn't it just last month they were denouncing Trump for the loss of soybean exports to China?) And so much for the Russian collusion hoax. Trump just undercut Putin's European gas strategy. Wait til all those oil and gas fields closed off by Obama start producing. Trump is going to drown Putin in American oil.
Best of all, when Legbut cooks his 'oeufs et bacon du matin' he can kneel and thrice thank President Trump. Once for the genetically modified soybeans used to feed the hens producing his eggs, second for the same soybeans used to feed the pigs he eats and third, for the low cost American gas he uses to cook his dejeuner. Quelle domage!
I prefer a doer who is verbally clumsy from time to time rather than some smooth talker who smooches around the world, studiously avoiding any issue which might ruffle a few feathers, while sucking up to his country's enemies.
Ruffle ruffle, I say.