Posted on 04/19/2023 10:44:59 PM PDT by RandFan
@mattrg45
This is a final warning message for @RonDeSantisFL
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If Trump is so inevitable as some here claim than DeSantis should be a nonissue. Just say the best man win and then proceed to crush him. No need to throw a tantrum unless he actually is afraid of DeSantis.
Yes, it is both embarrassing and destructive.
I think its idiotic for Trump to be able to cakewalk into the General Election contest. It would be like eliminating the Regular Season and first rounds of the playoffs and sending a team into the World Series being rusty and unprepared for the final contest. What is needed is a healthy respectful debate of issues, management styles, and policies/views by several strong candidates in the GOP.
Also telling DeSantis to not run now is akin to telling Reagan to not run in 1976 & saying that if he ran that he’d be destroying his politics future. Reagan did lose in 1976 to Ford. But look what happened in 1980 and 1984. If Reagan hadn’t run in 1976 then he likely never would’ve been President.
The whole idea of having DeSantis not run seems to be an effort to make sure the Democrats win the 2024 presidential election. I’ll have respect for those with this idea if they’ll be honest that this is their intent.
That’s nonsense. It depends on how DeSantis runs, if he runs. If he runs in a crusade to destroy Trump then yes your assessment is correct. If he runs with the intent for the GOP to win in 2024 and make the case on why he’s the right person then no it won’t hurt Trump because all those people who voted for DeSantis are only going to be more fired up to vote to make sure the Dems don’t win in November 2024.
That’s why the real Trump supporters and those who want the GOP to win in 2024 do want DeSantis to run a clean campaign for the GOP nomination. The rest are obviously supporting the efforts of the Democrats.
We don’t want him in the People’s Republic of Californistan either!
It’s a nickname. Not a slur. We all like Meatball. But he’s acting like a meathead.
Here is a big problem with Ronny
Also, I suspect the Dems orchestrated DeSantis’ landslide gubernatorial victory in 2022 to advance him to the next level by sacrificing their pawn Crist. I’m not saying he wouldn’t have won without the Dem’s help, but the margin of his victory seems too good to be true.
So, by creating an illusion of invincibility, they’re baiting DeSantis and his supporters into a premature run for the presidency.
If he waits, he will be term limited out of office in 2025, and he will have plenty of time to organize for a serious run in 2028.
All the useful idiots on this forum who have grown tired of Trump, love Desantis, and want a robust primary to unseat Trump, fail to prove to me, that Trump has the same ambitions as the two-bit politicians we’ve seen in this country since attending grade school, and no one better portrays them than Desantis.
Why does virtually the entire Republican delegation from Florida support Trump? Because they know Desantis is a disloyal, dishonest and mealy-mouthed loser.
Maybe I’m naive, but I truly believe that Trump knows, that we, as a country, are at a crossroads, better described as a war, and that to defeat the evil that engulfs us, we as a party need to be united.
Trump does NOT want a coronation. In my mind, I don’t think he’s ever walked away from a fight, but he’s telling Desantis to knock it off. Quit being the lackey of all the GOP elites out there.
The NY Times, Karl Rove, Jeb Bush, Romney, Paul Stinkin Ryan, the Lincoln whatever, et al are for Desantis. Tell me why? I’M SPEAKING TO YOU ANTI-TRUMPERS ON THIS FORUM.
Trump is telling him, that his actions risk bringing us all down.
We need Desantis and his followers to win this thing. Desantis is not the guy for now, and maybe not ever. He’s a great governor. So why not stay and finish the job you started?
Trump lecturing others on self destruction is moronic.
Or ironic?
DeSantis needs to read the room.
The room wants Trump.
If he upsets everyone it is not going to help him or the party.
Meatball is one of several slurs for Italians. As a native New Yorker in the real estate/construction business, Pres. Trump would be highly unlikely to not know this.
This is Trump at his best.
Re # 6: perfectly stated!
With respect, Trump SHOULD be coronated!
Re # 14: you know people are not stupid, correct?
Preferring to consider it a term of endearment, but YMMV (and apparently does).
Trump's zero tolerance attacks on Desantis (yet who I do not think should not be running now, and should focus on Florida for the time being) right out of the block testify to ego over ethos, immaturity over superior integrity. Instead, Trump would commend himself by stating his combat experience and policies, while affirming Desantis as being good for Florida, and a possible VP. Why act paranoid of competition? Trump's absolute intolerance here, which is hardly much competition in this case, is beyond normal playing politics - as bad as that is - and those who engage in egotistical elitist politics only impugn their own worthiness, even if they remain the best choice, all things considered.
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