A befuddled Republican veteran of the St. Ronnie of Hollywood and Poppy Bush assministrations is searching for answers:
“Republicans in general tend to be a group of people who like to view themselves as serious, having decorum, being orderly, being thoughtful,” said Roger Porter, who served as a senior policy official in the White Houses of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and who is now a professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
But, he said, Thursday’s debate “was the culmination of a long process of the people running for president this year finding themselves drug [sic] into a maelstrom in which they look anything but serious and calm and thoughtful and responsible. That’s very distressing for most Republicans. How did we get to this situation?”Since a picture is worth a thousand words, we would offer this to Mr. Porter, who apparently was comatose while performing his functions under St. Ronnie and Poppy:
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