Playing By The Rules Didn’t Work
Over the transom:
My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.”
Here’s my answer:
We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency.
We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain?
We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney?
And the results were always the same. This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.
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Radio host Jim Quinn (www.warroom.com) used to say the Republicans fight under the Marquis of Queensbury Rules, while the Democrats know it’s really a street fight.
There has been much said about President Trump’s Twitter activity and the content thereof, and the discussions have centered on whether tweeting is fittingly “presidential”. As to that, I ask “may I see the Presidential Behavior Manual?”
– Daren M. Williams, American Thinker