Posted on 12/20/2021 5:18:58 PM PST by RandFan
Names from the article:
IN:
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds
Florida Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez
Ric Grenell
Mike Pompeo
Mark Meadows
OUT:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
Nikki Haley
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem
Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign staffer who worked in his administration, said it’s hard to forecast whom Trump might pick because there’s so much time to go. Whomever is chosen “will have to be loyal, and they’ll have to denounce what happened in 2020. If they don’t, they’re disqualified.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Ask yourself why Frank "Fat F@g Bruni at the NYT has this right, and you have it wrong:
"In no sane world and by no sound reading did Youngkin run without or away from Trump, though that’s one of the spins being applied to his election in a state that President Biden won by roughly 10 percentage points just a year ago. Youngkin simply chose Trump in spirit over Trump in the flesh, a Trump Lite tack sure to be mimicked by Republican candidates in the 2022 midterms and beyond.Political observers who say that Youngkin was a Never Trumper — proving the viability of that movement — are deluding themselves. He was a Stealth Trumper and Sorta Trumper who took pains not to offend or alienate Forever Trumpers.
I promise you that Ron DeSantis took note of how Youngkin used it. I promise you that every Republican governor, senator and House member who is up for re-election next year in a purple state or district paid heed.
They are testing the same proposition, which is that you needn’t choose between Trump sycophancy and Trump apostasy. There’s a halfway posture, a middle ground, and it can look to voters not like moral cowardice but like political prudence.
Trump allowed it. The former president was uncharacteristically even-tempered and restrained. Instead of taking offense at the distance that Youngkin kept from him, instead of taking the bait when journalists pointed that out, he professed to be unbothered. He claimed amity and mutual respect between the two of them.
Don’t interpret Trump’s absence from Republicans’ campaigns with an absence from their calculations. Don’t overlook the homage to Trump in DeSantis’s flamboyant us-versus-them, own-the-libs theatrics: offering cash bonuses to unvaccinated police officers who relocate to Florida from blue cities or states, challenging cruise lines’ insistence that passengers be vaccinated. Trump has educated Republicans, and one of the lessons is to be more like him."
Yeah, Tulsi. Because she is sensible on most things and maybe a benefit in pulling the country together. I think Trump would insist that she say the election was stolen and that would be the test. She got a bum deal from the Democrats and realizes the corruption, cronyism, and extremism of the party. Her time with the Democrats are pretty well over because they will always choose the ideological extremists over her. Look at what they are saying to Manchin, and you’ll see the state of the party. So Trump should get to know her and if things look good, put her on the list for VP, if she even wants to. It might be seen as a gesture to help pull the country together.
Gabbard or no Gabbard, Trump is no more capable of pulling the country together than Biden is.
Yes, and if he does this symbolic gesture I think it would have pull because the Democrat middle America is just reeling with hatred for Joe Biden.
He'll have my vote. Ron DeSantis is superior to Donald Trump in every measure.
Extreme wishful thinking on your part then. Trump is the last person I'd think could unify the country, regardless of VP. A very close second would be Biden.
This country is split, and will remain so for a very long time. Nobody is going to unite anything.
He’s not on the list because this is Pollutico assembling it. Only back-stabbing RINOs need apply.
The 2024 Republican candidate for President should be DeSantis.
Rand Paul would make an excellent running mate for him.
““DeSantis as VP would be a great transition for the 2028 race.”
Exactly. Hope it comes true. DeSantis is the best governor in my lengthy lifetime and has all the attributes needed to lead a country. His personal and military profiles are impeccable.
If for some reason Trump would decline to run, DeSantis should be president in 2024. Trump, tho has well earned another 4 years and DeSantis is young enough to wait.’
““DeSantis as VP would be a great transition for the 2028 race.”
Exactly. Hope it comes true. DeSantis is the best governor in my lengthy lifetime and has all the attributes needed to lead a country. His personal and military profiles are impeccable.
If for some reason Trump would decline to run, DeSantis should be president in 2024. Trump, tho has well earned another 4 years and DeSantis is young enough to wait.’
“He’ll have my vote. Ron DeSantis is superior to Donald Trump in every measure.”
I’ll be supporting Trump in 2024, but I have zero problem with Freepers who feel differently.
Its your vote to do what you want with it, its your right to support people you believe in.
However, there is one area where Trump is superior to DeSantis. Trump is a superior President of the United States, its an unique & exclusive club. DeSantis hasn’t been President and may never get there.
NY Times... how amusing
you often use enemy propaganda as your go-to for information?
DJT doesn’t play second fiddle to anyone. He’s a “my way or the highway” kind of guy when it comes to this kind of thing. Not so in negotiations, but that’s a completely different animal.
Quelle dommage, aussi.
If you have some magic control over JimRob to stop the shitposting triplets from posting NYT and have the moderators truly enforce a ban on all NYT posts, great.
Never happen. There are no moderators anymore. WTFU.
Sun Tzu all day, every day.
PS: Bruni -- a blind-fat-pig-finding-an-acorn-inside-a-stopped-clock-twice-a-day -- was right about this, and you are still wrong, all day long...
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