I Was Wrong: looking back at POTUS election

[OH58D]

I anticipated a close election with a Hillary win. However, I was more than happy to vote for an outsider like Trump. In some ways I have always hoped for another Reagan. I worked his 1976 campaign and as a 16 year old had dinner with him in a private home 27 May 1976.

Trump is no Reagan, but they are totally different people. Reagan had a certain way of saying the right thing at the right time. He was a booster and cheerleader for America who could melt the political competition into ineffectiveness. On the other hand Trump is a street brawler, uncouth and unpolished; kind of the anti-politician who is just too much of an outsider to even function in the political establishment of D.C., or ever be accepted.

That's fine. D.C. is like a house filled with vampires and Trump is shooting holes in the walls to let the sunlight in (ala From Dusk till Dawn). We're going to have three more years of pure hell and chaos as the merchants of darkness and evil (Main Stream Media and the Swamp) fight everything Trump does. This could pull America apart and we could be in uncharted waters come the next Presidential election. I am not optimistic.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

I anticipated a close election with a Hillary win. However, I was more than happy to vote for an outsider like Trump. In some ways I have always hoped for another Reagan. I worked his 1976 campaign and as a 16 year old had dinner with him in a private home 27 May 1976.

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My God, I've been a huge fan of your's cowboy for awhile, but that just takes it to the next level. Did you have jelly beans for dessert?

[SeriousStudent]

...... I worked his 1976 campaign and as a 16 year old had dinner with him in a private home 27 May 1976.

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This website really needs a like button.

[kwelz]

I figured this election would make the threads in General Discussion even more angry, more bitter, and the personal attacks much more frequent.

Nailed it.

It is like you had a Crystal ball. Nobody else would have ever imagined that. LOL

[kwelz]

This website really needs a like button.

The only other forum I am on has a reaction option for posts. It is extremely useful.

[Firefly]

I love OH58D's stories.

Reagan promised us satellites and lasers.

If Trump can resurrect the space program, oh man. We'd be back in business.

I was promised space war now! Mech suits and lasers. Its 2017 (soon to be 18).

Defund welfare, give Swedish, Swiss, and German scientists all the immigrarion points. Lets get this party started. Earth is lame and full of people.

[austinN4]

The only other forum I am on has a reaction option for posts. It is extremely useful.

I am on 2 other firearm related forums and both have like buttons.

[austinN4]

Defund welfare, give Swedish, Swiss, and German scientists all the immigrarion points. Lets get this party started. Earth is lame and full of people.

Love it! Woulda hit the like button if there had been one.

[SeriousStudent]

The Like button has been suggested to the Jedi Council. It's under consideration.

But I'll probably get a purple lightsaber before that happens. So don't start holding your breath just yet.

[OH58D]

My mother was Reagan's campaign co-chair for New Mexico in 1976. Ronald Reagan was coming for a rally and fundraising dinner. The Young Republicans gave me a job of stapling 300+ signs to wooden sticks. The blue signs said: "This is Reagan Country". For that job I got the formal invitation card to the big rancher's house where the dinner was held. I dressed up in my finest big city 1970's clothing and it was a Lime Green Polyester Leisure suit. I felt out of place with all the adults there since I seemed to be the youngest one in the place, however I got to sit next to former Governor Reagan at the table on his right side. What I remember the most is how black his hair was. I was trying to figure out if it was dyed or not. I also remember the Secret Service and the helicopter circling the location.

After Reagan's loss to Ford for the nomination and in the latter part of the 1976 election season, I was visiting some cousins in San Diego, California. I was kind of a political radical at the time (still age 16) and I spent some money at a print shop on University Ave to have bumper stickers printed up. They were white with black letters. I went to downtown San Diego to some of the nicer hotels, including the U.S. Grant Hotel on Broadway, went into a couple of the Men's restrooms and placed my stickers on the stainless steel toilet seat cover dispensers. My stickers said: "Free Carter Campaign Hats"