That and all the favors he'd owe to swampy people
Posted on 11/12/2022 12:35:21 PM PST by conservative98
Now it's time to address the elephant in the room that is the rising "tension" between Ron Desantis and Donald Trump. Really it is more tension that is being astroturfed by the GOP establishment and by Democrats. The legacy media is all on board with this. They love it because it allows them to work out their TDS frustration while stirring up chaos in the Republican party..
(Excerpt) Read more at rumble.com ...
“Trump has demonstrated now three times in a row that he can no longer win elections.”
I think his win rate for this year, for his endorsed candidates, was something over 90%. That’s pretty good, if true.
Nobody cares about join dates.
For one, 99% of new accounts are re-treads who have been posting here for years under different names. FR isn't really attracting new blood.
For another, just because someone signed up last week doesn't mean they were born last week.
Welcome, Tom.
I would urge anyone who believes this to please go back to March and April 2020 and read the executive orders DeSantis signed as governor of Florida.
Some of them read like something I would expect from Andrew Cuomo, Justine Trudeau, or that dingbat in Australia ... like the one where he imposed a mandatory 14-day quarantine period for many out-of-state travelers arriving in Florida, complete with National Guard troops at the airports to enforce it.
The guy even had the nerve to claim that this was justified because air travelers from New York shouldn't be allowed to fly to Florida if air travelers from China or Milan weren't. Anyone who doesn't know the difference between a U.S. citizen on a domestic flight and someone flying to the U.S. from a foreign country is either an 'effing moron or a globalist @sshole. In any case, someone who conducts himself this way should be disqualified from holding any public office.
The repub presidential primary is already going on behind the scenes with money flowing to DeSantis and his and Youngkin’s name being talked about by people like Paul Ryan, Luntz etc. Trump knows all of this so he’s kicking into primary mode. It’s nothing personal. It’s just the way Trump campaigns. Remember the 2016 primary?
Your two-cents are, at least the first four points I read, mostly spot-on. Maybe you need to give Trump more credit in International Policy, though, he put China in its place pretty well.
However, the choice “Trump or DeSantis” is a false one. The answer is NEITHER. Not one more Republican president will ever be elected, and very seldom will we win a House or Senate race, much less capture either chamber.
Democrat cheating has become industrialized.
Because 93% of Trump endorsed candidates is “losing.”
That would be the whole point. It would be a well-deserved collapse.
Uh huh. And those 90% would've won without his endorsement.
It's his handpicked losers that cost us the Senate and several statehouses.
Well then he is an enemy of America, and should sl8nk off.
That said, I still wish Trump would stop expecting people to be grateful to him for jobs well done. It makes him look weak (unless perhaps you have a backstory on that as well).
Do you think Marco Rubio or Kevin McCarthy needed Trump's endorsement to get elected?
He's trying to take credit for the victories of candidates that faced zero challenge while his handpicked losers cost us the Senate and several statehouses.
Good luck getting election laws fixed in Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Arizona anytime soon.
The GOPe guarantees it, when the candidate is not to their liking. It's all an illusion. George Carlin was right...
“Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right.”
That and all the favors he'd owe to swampy people
In many cases the VP nominee is distasteful to all voters and is merely an insurance policy for the President. The POTUS is untouchable when the would be successor is a rotten SOB.
Examples: Pence, Harris, Gore etc.
The difficulty is there is no real cadre of former gopers waiting to snap up the chance. Most non dems are just bland, non combative, soft people. If the political culture is to change it will probably be as a result of pushing a minority of the non dems to direct action over something like attempts at civilian disarmament. Many of the resistence will not be goood people , they will be people who can shoot and will do so.
Interesting:
“Whether you like or don’t like President Trump, he fundamentally changed the way that diplomacy is conducted at the presidential level. He cut out a lot of the process. He would pick up the phone all the time and call a foreign leader and just riff with them the way you “What are you doing? What’s going on? What can we work on together? What can I do for you? And, more importantly, what are you going to do for us?” It really upset the bureaucracy because they didn’t have a role in that — “The president called who? Said what? Why weren’t we involved? Why didn’t we do a briefing on that?” He broke all of the norms, and now I think you’re going to see presidents on both sides of the aisle taking a page from that playbook.”
https://nypost.com/2022/11/12/ex-eu-ambassador-on-why-trump-made-career-diplomats-really-mad/
It’s possible. But impossible for Trump to win if the GOP runs a plausible conservative like DeSantis and Youngkin. We may think they are RINOs but much of the electorate does not. Trump’s brilliance was putting together a wide coalition in 2016. I don’t see that happening again, unfortunately.
Examples: Pence, Harris, Gore etc.
So we learned from the Romans after all.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.