16 Nov 2022 7:13 am
I expect your opinion isn't widely shared. Maybe mine isn't either but I thought he looked old, tired and bitter. Used up. I understand even Hannity left him after thirty minutes. Milbank's column in the Washington Post this morning saying "the magic was gone" says it about right.DeplorablePatriot » 15 Nov 2022, 10:59 pm » wrote: ↑ I think he did much better than expected and hit it out of the ballpark. He touched on most every issue and then some. He did what I hoped he would do. He tamed himself, and presented himself in a more reserved, less taunting, but very powerful and thoughtful manner. IMO, he couldn't have done better.
This most likely will never happen, but if DeSantis ran as VP under Trump, and Trump continued to behave himself, they would make an unstoppable team.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... a-milbank/
"Trump aide Jason Miller promised a 35-minute, “very forward-looking” speech. Instead, it was interminable, meandering and, well, low-energy, as Trump kept departing from the teleprompter into gibberish.
He was defensive. He said the “fake news” is “trying to blame me” for the disappointing election showing, but he had an “unprecedented success rate” (!) with his endorsements.
He spoke nonsense: “I’ve gone decades — decades — without a war, the first president to do it that long,” he said of his four-year term. He renewed old grievances. “I’m a victim,” he complained, moaning about the “fake dossier” — of six years ago.He lashed out anew at immigrants undertaking an “invasion” of America for "very bad and sinister reasons.” And he voiced more election conspiracies, saying voting in the United States is worse than in a “third world country” and suggesting “China played a very active role in the 2020 election” to defeat him. His demand to return to paper ballots and ban early voting earned one of the biggest cheers of the night. As for “forward looking”? Trump saw a “failing nation” beset by “festering rot and corruption,” run by “radical lunatics” who are “leading us to the brink of nuclear war.”It was desultory and random..."