I was ready to be on-board for DeSantis in case Trump had a health crisis or got beat fair and square in the primaries.
Trump may not exactly be a Constitutional Historian, but DeSantis is misrepresenting Trump, the election, and especially George Washington and the Founding Fathers. Nixon, who was likely robbed in 1960 would be a better comparison to how DeSantis thought Trump should have responded.
But while I didn’t “know” JFK, Biden was no JFK.
Between this move and his maneuvering on Ukraine, I don’t see myself being able to support DeSantis. He is a pol, and a pol who doesn’t understand HOW to read polls for a nationwide contest.
Bye-bye.
“I was ready to be on-board for DeSantis in case Trump had a health crisis or got beat fair and square in the primaries.”
I assume Vivek is taking note?
My litmus test for a politician is whether they look like they are seeking office more for themselves, or so that they can actually serve and improve the country. Until recently, I held DeSantis in nearly as high regard as I do Trump, but not anymore. It’s becoming crystal clear now that as was reported, DeSantis has the RINO establishment backing him and whispering in his ear, and he seems more gleeful by the day in spouting the RINO party line about various issues, especially anywhere that Trump is involved.
We were all shocked at first when Trump seemed to start attacking DeSantis for no apparent reason recently, or some chalked it up to Trump’s ego running amuck, but we should have taken a breath and realized that Trump never does anything without a good reason, and even in what appear to be his most erratic moments he is nearly always proven right later, and proven to have had a solid reason for acting as he did. I think he had early info that DeSantis was considering running, and that his backers and financiers were vermin like the Bushes, the Kochs, and Paul Ryan, among others. That is likely what set him off, because he could see that they were now going to try to use DeSantis as just the latest weapon in their never-ending crusade to get rid of Trump. And it’s looking like DeSantis himself is fully onboard with their psychotic nonsense, just because it may benefit him personally. Incidentally, I don’t think the RINO cabal even cares whether DeSantis wins the presidency, just so long as he knocks Trump out of the primary. They have always seemed to be perfectly happy to have a democrat in charge. What they won’t tolerate is an outsider who seeks to disrupt their cozy little D.C. club.
What a tragic fall from such potential heights, but he’s done. There’s no coming back from such a breach of trust. Trump was right yet again.
I believe RDS’s political handlers thought that if it looked that Trump was down, then Ron should attack.
Those GOPe handlers have never been good at reading people. Most of them end up on MSNBC or CNN when nobody hires them anymore.