Answering the Big Question: Ron or Don?
Posted By: FlyRight, 5/29/2023 5:46:39 AM
A very dear friend and a former Heritage Foundation associate responded to my last column on American Thinker with the following: Happy to tell you in a private email why the GOP needs to dump Trump (for whom I voted twice), but it requires too many bad words that would cause my dear late mother to go for the soap for use in a public forum. For starters, let's just say he's a thin-skinned, immature, undisciplined **shole who is ignorant by choice, erratic in his behavior, and disloyal. And those are some of his better points. Do I hate him? No. But I hate his type.
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The New York Times published the first 10 words and their definitions in late May.
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