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Trump vs. DeSantis-Not Really an Option with TDS Surging
American Thinker ^ | May 22, 2023 | Alicia Colon

Posted on 05/27/2023 8:33:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Several months ago, I wrote a column, “Why do you still hate Donald Trump?” and asked readers to give me a good reason why they felt that way. Over 99% of the responses to my query came from those who agreed wholeheartedly with the column. Only one response criticized Donald Trump, yet the writer did state that if Trump ran in 2024, he would vote for him again. Not one genuine, Never-Trumper or Biden supporter contacted me, and I found that rather puzzling.

Of course, the poor response could have been because I’m basically a nobody in the leftist environs and not worth their interest. But the column was published in American Thinker which gets a million users a month. The column was also posted on lucianne.com which also gets big traffic. In addition, the link to my column was inserted in an email campaign ad for the 2024 Trump campaign but I have no idea how many received that correspondence because the campaign never bothered to contact me for permission. If they had, I would have gladly approved it.

Posts on Facebook and Twitter also did not trigger any TDS minions to vent at me with a heartfelt defense of their opinions. Thus, I can only conclude that they cannot debate Trump’s negatives without resorting to juvenile personal insults. His tweets, his name-calling insults, his braggadocio personality do not count as oratorical substance in a debate about his presidential qualifications. To ponder on the worthiness of a presidential candidate, one must vet the candidate’s past performances at previous occupations.

The recent release of the Durham report that clearly exonerated Trump has actually not made any difference in the minds of the TDS cult. They still hate him and the syndrome is still powerful and...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: desantis; trump; trump2024
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1 posted on 05/27/2023 8:33:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Interesting…Trump didn’t get permission to use her column.

My cemetery org apparently worries more about permission to reprint small local news blurbs than Trump org does.


2 posted on 05/27/2023 8:41:32 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.e)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is not verified, yet Desantis apparently has received a large amount of money from a Soros organization. Don’t have time at the moment, but you with keyboards and some time... Look into this and be blessed!

Side note but important: looking for Chicken Soup. Her FR tagline. Is she still posting? Class and thanks for the help.


3 posted on 05/27/2023 8:46:15 AM PDT by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things! )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Alicia Colon has not much to say and takes a long time saying it. Boring.


4 posted on 05/27/2023 8:47:34 AM PDT by devere
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Was Trump a better choice than Chris Christie or Hillary Clinton? Yes.

As President did he explode the deficit and sign legislation that paid hospitals to mistreat and kill hundreds of thousands of Americans? Yes.

Did he do some great things to try and curtail the government and restore liberty? Yes.

Does he appear childish and narcissistic? Yes.

Will I vote for him again? I don't know.

5 posted on 05/27/2023 8:51:22 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: foundedonpurpose

think i saw her post a few days ago- look up her profile page, and check to see her latest posts


6 posted on 05/27/2023 8:52:44 AM PDT by Bob434 (question )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The last paragraph:

“The knives are out to do everything to stop Trump in 2024. They’ll indict him, sue him and endlessly persecute him, but Trump supporters will still back him. The media will call us a cult and ask us why we keep harping on the 2020 election, but if we don’t find out what went wrong, how can we prevent the fraud from happening again? Liberals do not understand common sense so they dismiss our skepticism about election results rife with blatant fraud.”


7 posted on 05/27/2023 9:00:03 AM PDT by euram (allALL)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Thus, I can only conclude that they cannot debate Trump’s negatives without resorting to juvenile personal insults. “

Exactly.

Satan is running the anti-Trump campaign. He reduces his followers to gibbering mindless angry frothing at the mouth idiots


8 posted on 05/27/2023 9:00:24 AM PDT by CottonBall (“Fascism should be called corporatism because it is a merger of state & corporate power" – Mussolini)
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9 posted on 05/27/2023 9:01:16 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: foundedonpurpose

All never Trumpers are pushing desantis.. with lots of money.

Look folks.. what is there to hate Trump for?
He’s been and did a masterful eork for the people and for the country.

What..why.. the hate?
They are afraid of him!!!!
They are globalists and not working for we the people.
They dont want Trump doing a great work for the country.
Think of it!! They want America to become less and go global.
They want power to control what you do and how
They are in this for the deep state, the ones with clout.. YOU are nothing.

This has been coming down since the first Bush. You who are younger.. listen up.. you would have liked the years before this frog was put on the burner. You wont like what they are doing to fundamentally change our nation

Dont give the United States of America to the world!


10 posted on 05/27/2023 9:04:59 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: foundedonpurpose

The only reason Soros or any of the other anti-Trump oligarchs would be pouring money into this campaign by Ron DeSantis is to permanently impair their eventual electability, in 2024 for Trump, and in 2028 for DeSantis.

If both of them can be sufficiently tarnished, allowing either a dismissal of each of them from national consideration, or to further embolden the various anti-Trump and/or anti-DeSantis partisans into even more daring feats of election fraud and questionable vote tallies, the “threat to democracy (actually the Democrat Socialists)” will be turned aside, mission accomplished. The fact that the entire union of the United States will be balkanized is only incidental, but considered by these same agents of “change” as a worthy goal also.

None dare call it treason. Barry Goldwater was issuing that same admonition in 1963, some sixty years ago.


11 posted on 05/27/2023 9:07:13 AM PDT by alloysteel (Fiction has to be at least plausible, while reality obeys no such constraint.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I had a conversation with a liberal acquaintance:

Me: Which of Trump's policies do you disagree with? (I really wanted to know).
Him: Well, he's just not presidential.
Me: OK, but which of his policies do you disagree with?
Him: Well, he's just not presidential.
Me: Ok, I understand your position, but which of his policies do you disagree with?
Him: He's just not presidential.

And no, I am not making this up.

12 posted on 05/27/2023 9:09:15 AM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: euram
The media will call us a cult and ask us why we keep harping on the 2020 election, but if we don’t find out what went wrong, how can we prevent the fraud from happening again?

Ron doesn't want us harping on it. That's not a good sign, about him.

13 posted on 05/27/2023 9:12:27 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Yep it’s democrat money spending loop hole chart shot to hell


14 posted on 05/27/2023 9:16:26 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: sima_yi

Does anyone here or anywhere think that Trump’s successor to the Oval Office behaves in any way remotely presidential?

No presence, no eloquence, and pretty largely devoid of any critical thinking or sound judgment about ANY aspect of national policy. Joe Biden makes Barack Obama appear both highly competent and capable of clear vision, and THAT is a feat difficult to envision before the actual experience.

Makes me miss both Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.


15 posted on 05/27/2023 9:19:03 AM PDT by alloysteel (Fiction has to be at least plausible, while reality obeys no such constraint.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Church ladies don’t like Trump.

Church ladies like their own so they like Mike.


16 posted on 05/27/2023 9:20:36 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Pan_Yan

Will I vote for him again? I don’t know.


For the nomination, I understand, for the general election?


17 posted on 05/27/2023 9:20:49 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The left wants to cause a rift between DeSantis and Trump supporters. Split the vote. We won’t let them. DeSantis has supported Florida very well, but no one who is reasonable thinks we will not vote Trump first and always if he is the candidate, and it is expected that he will be the candidate.


18 posted on 05/27/2023 9:27:42 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Not one genuine, Never-Trumper or Biden supporter contacted me, and I found that rather puzzling.”

Why? The liberals are scared to death of Trump. He is that one variable they can’t threaten legitimately and get by. So they release the kraken media with 1/4 truths, spelling, try to cram manure down the public’s throat to mislead them to vote liberal. The never trumpers and the pro Biden group are in hiding while the media does their work for them and the fools that vote are not thinking for themselves. Simple formula.

wy69


19 posted on 05/27/2023 9:32:31 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Not one genuine, Never-Trumper or Biden supporter contacted me, and I found that rather puzzling.”

Why? The liberals are scared to death of Trump. He is that one variable they can’t threaten legitimately and get by. So they release the kraken media with 1/4 truths, spelling, try to cram manure down the public’s throat to mislead them to vote liberal. The never trumpers and the pro Biden group are in hiding while the media does their work for them and the fools that vote are not thinking for themselves. Simple formula.

wy69


20 posted on 05/27/2023 9:32:31 AM PDT by whitney69
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