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The Hard Realities Facing Ron DeSantis
National Review ^ | December 28, 2023 | By JIM GERAGHTY

Posted on 12/28/2023 12:10:51 PM PST by conservative98

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1 posted on 12/28/2023 12:10:51 PM PST by conservative98
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https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-hard-realities-facing-ron-desantis/


2 posted on 12/28/2023 12:11:20 PM PST by conservative98
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Lol, even if Christie dropped out and endorsed Haley she wouldn’t gain much.


3 posted on 12/28/2023 12:19:48 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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Ron to staff -

Look. Here’s some things we can focus.

We tried real hard and we’re still dear friends.


4 posted on 12/28/2023 12:21:07 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (Wake me up when somebody tells the truth.)
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To: conservative98

Cripes, this guy is finished. Why waste a minute thinking about him?


5 posted on 12/28/2023 12:32:48 PM PST by Fido969
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It does seem a bit heavy on the ink.

Everybody can read the writing on the wall. But the candidate can’t very well drop out before the caucus. What would he say? He will probably hang in past New Hampshire too. Not long past.


6 posted on 12/28/2023 12:48:06 PM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: conservative98

If Ron suspends his campaign anytime between now and right after NH, he will have a political future. If he tries to ride it out too far afterward, he won’t. Someone with better credentials than I needs to get him to understand this.


7 posted on 12/28/2023 12:56:08 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: conservative98

Ron DeSantis is like a vice president or a backup singer at the Metropolitan Opera, waiting for an opening.

No opening is guaranteed, but if you aren’t on call, you won’t get the call.


8 posted on 12/28/2023 12:58:12 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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Biden tried to become President quite a number of times.

Perseverance can pay off.


9 posted on 12/28/2023 1:01:19 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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There is a desperate, utterly desperate desire by a gazillion GOPe journalists to refuse violently to accept that politics is changed forever by Donald Trump.

It is forever. It is never going back. Those who have spent a career in politics will be rejected. They are Swamp Filth and there is nothing they can do about it. Their lives are over.

The future candidates will have to be from business or the military. The Independents won’t accept anyone with a political career.


10 posted on 12/28/2023 1:02:01 PM PST by Owen (.)
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To: conservative98

Bottom Line, Both Haley and DeSantis should drop out and get behind Trump if they truly believe the GOP should govern.


11 posted on 12/28/2023 1:06:20 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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This loser POS and his GOPE carer are OVER!

Hit the bricks azzhole.


12 posted on 12/28/2023 1:10:13 PM PST by R0CK3T
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To: conservative98

In Europe and Argentina the Leftists running for office have at least been instructed to ACT conservative, since Leftism is now so discredited.

Apparently with most of the other GOP candidates the hatred of Trump is too much for them to overcome and so they look like idiots they are, even before the voting begins...which, of course, is a good thing.


13 posted on 12/28/2023 2:13:51 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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Biden tried to become President quite a number of times.

Ya, but biden and his supporters weren't total assholes to MAGA back then. desanctomonious is finished, he'll never be elected to anything above the county level ever again.
14 posted on 12/28/2023 3:35:40 PM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: conservative98

The article was funny because the National Review went from DeSantis is the future of the GOP to this guy is terrible and Ron’s name shall not even be mentioned for 2028, move long.


15 posted on 12/28/2023 4:04:46 PM PST by conservative98
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Remind me. Has anyone ever gotten the nomination without winning the Iowa caucus?


16 posted on 12/28/2023 4:36:28 PM PST by csn vinnie
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DeSantis is probably going to get demolished in Iowa in about three weeks.

He can only blame himself for the implosion. It was mismanaged from the start. Remember the lame twitter announcement and his failed UK/Korea/Japan tour.

17 posted on 12/28/2023 4:56:04 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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18 posted on 12/28/2023 4:56:51 PM PST by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: conservative98

This had to kill Trump-hating Geraghty to write.

Even a spoogie like he can see the writing on the wall.


19 posted on 12/28/2023 5:26:11 PM PST by LS
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I disagree. Unlike Cruz, who stepped in it big time but after the convention came to Trump’s defense from time to time, the DeSoros machine has so poisoned the well-—far worse than the Cruzers-—that I think he is finished.

Think Doug Douchey in AZ. Same year as DeSoros won by 18, Douchey won by 14 in a much more competitive state. Then he locked the state down and stabbed Trump in the back.

In 2022, when he left office, his reputation was so horrible he couldn’t even run in the PRIMARY for the GOP senate nomination. To be specific, he was polling below Kimberly Yee, who dropped out due to . . . low polling. I think this is where DeSoros is at.


20 posted on 12/28/2023 5:28:51 PM PST by LS
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