Posted on 09/08/2023 9:20:57 PM PDT by Drew68
It is highly unlikely that Governor DeSantis will win the GOP nomination. The recent Wall Street Journal poll has cemented this into my head.
Yet, I'm sticking with DeSantis until he's out of the race, whether that be on Election Day (unlikely) or he ends his campaign during the primaries (as of now, quite likely).
I'm sticking with him because nobody else has the record of conservative accomplishments and stalwart executive leadership that he has repeatedly demonstrated. I look for action, not words.
This being said, Governor DeSantis has showed himself to be poor campaigner. He just can't close the deal. And as much as I enjoyed the victories, I think his "war on woke" has hurt him.
The best chance he has now is to pivot to economic issues, which are Trump's strong points (at least for the first three years of his administration). But Florida has a booming economy as well, with a record $22 billion surplus last year.
This pivot will be a long shot and is unlikely to be successful because he would be going up against President Trump's strongest attributes.
This will be an election on the economy and when gas prices at the pump exceed $6-7/gallon next year (and I believe they will), Trump will remind us all that we were paying under $2/gallon for much of his first term. This is going to be a big selling point. If Trump screwed up everything in 2020, he had a booming economy with plenty of jobs and low interest rates prior to that. This can't be denied.
I am resigning myself to the reality that the primaries are essentially over and Trump will be the GOP nominee. And if he is, I will vote for Trump because at the end of the day, Trump is better than Biden. Hell, Nikki Haley, Chris Christie, Tim Scott, and Vivek Ramaswamy are better than Biden!
It's a shame though. GOP primary voters would rather be led by a cult of personality than a true executive leader with a record of accomplishments. It is what it is though.
I hope Trump can pull it off. His victory will depend on Biden voters staying home.
I hope that Trump can learn from his many mistakes and not repeat them.
I hope Trump can reconcile his disastrous record on COVID.
I hope that Trump can beat back against the myriad of unjust charges that he is currently facing.
Still, Ron DeSantis is the leader that Trump tries to be and that's the truth.
And when he keeps bashing DeSantis with lies, it only shows Trump as the sad, little man that he has become. He should as of now, stop being be this sad, little man.
I hope Trump can rise above this. As of now, he will earn my vote, but he needs to become a better man.
“Trump DID present those facts!”
Could you please help us with a trial transcript or news stories that cover that?
“I also doubt that you 1) live in, or have EVER lived in Manhattan 2) have even been in close proximity to Bergdorf’s 3) have EVER been INSIDE that store or any similar one 4) or can imagine what any of that is actually like.”
Curiously you are wrong on all counts. I went to college in Manhattan, have been to 5th Ave near Bergdorf a lot, have bought clothing at Nordstrom & Bloomingdales, etc.
Has anyone ever told you that you might be more persuasive if you stop posting in capital letters? LOL
Have you considered why you are beating this dead horse?
Your posts are inflammatory making the assumption that Trump is a multiple rapist on no evidence, where even the hearsay is vague and purposely unable to be confirmed and is based on various incidents purportedly occurring 20-30 years ago and sententiously opine that where there is smoke there must be fire.
When nopardons posts very pertinent information on Bergdof’s dressing room you try and snow him with “why wasn’t that presented”. Then when he gets annoyed you try the “superiority game”.
Your posting on this topic is intellectually dishonest less a real analysis of the situation than a partisan attempt to gaslight I presume because you want to turn people from supporting Trump.
It ain’t working.
“I am not afraid of Trump as nominee and believe the left has succeeded in getting you to buy their narrative.”
Actually my narrative comes from Senator John Kennedy La(R).
I agree that Trump did a very good job as President, until he failed badly in 2020 with the Cares act, the Fauci lockdowns, and the deadly warp-speed vaccines.
The question now is who can take the best of Trump’s policies and move them forward as President, and while I believe that the best available Republican is Ron Desantis, any Republican is better than any Rat.
Kennedy...LOL
Your opinion on Trump’s “failures” is ill informed. Since I have posted the facts & context many times I will not repeat myself.
Anyone looking honestly at DeSantis track record in Congress, the bills he supported & cosponsored should not mention him in the same breath as President Trump.
Additionally there is his poor showing on Ukraine, his announcement in Israel of a bill that interferes with freedom of speech in Florida and the desperate way he made so many visits abroad in the beginning of his second term before announcing for the POTUS election. Flailing around where he had no legitimate business, trying for street cred.
Now the fool has stated that on day one he is going to authorize armed invasion of Mexico, crossing the border and attacking cartels & drug factories. What a maroon. Do we need to start a war with Mexico by invading their sovereignty?
Trump was able to work with them and had a much more efficaciosus border policy.
Nordstroms? You might as well have said KLEIN'S BASEMENT, which I doubt you've ever heard of.
You've NEVER, by your own admission, ever been INSIDE Bergdorf's, let alone bought anything there.
I use CAPITAL LETTERS to highlight certain words/give them more emphasis. And FYI, n00b, I've been posting this way for TWENTY-FIVE YEARS HERE, so just stuff it !
Re your puerile request for me to posy a transcript of the Trump trial in Manhattan is patently ridiculous; not to mention absurd in the extreme!
If you want to see it ( which I doubt is public/available on line ), do your own scut work!
LOL...so you went to college in Manhattan, did you? WHICH ONE?
I did my graduate work at one in Manhattan, after getting my udergrad degree.
just because you claim that you "went to college in Manhattan", does NOT mean that you "KNOW" Manhattan, it's history, nor that you understand its dynamics. And that, of course, precludes your knowledge and understanding of its class system, which you do NOT know nor understand at all! But all of which I most assuredly DO know and understand!
In conlusion, I was NOT "wrong on all counts"! I was 100% correct on 98.8% of what I stated.
You really should refrain from posting on topics that you neither know anything factual about, nor understand. That way, others won't know what a fool you are.
“Have you considered why you are beating this dead horse?”
The horse is alive and kicking. Trump is due back in Judge Kaplan’s court next January for episode 2.
To my regret I observe that many if not most Trump supporters think the path to political success is by insulting their fellow Republicans. They seem to think that hysterical anger is a good substitute for facts and reason.
I am now more than ever convinced that Trump is leading the Republican party to defeat in 2024. It’s unfortunate, but out of my control.
I hope that the FACTS that I have posted is of some help/enlightenment to those who may not be familiar with Bergdorf's and E. Jean Carroll's history.
It is good to acknowledge what you can’t control. I can’t control misinformation being posted. You can’t control how people weigh & measure success and ability.
Ask yourself sometime why you change the goal posts every time you can’t rebut responses to your posts.
Enjoy your evening.
You are a typical Trump supporter, which unfortunately is no compliment. And that’s a major reason why Trump will lose in 2024.
* Bloomingdales, in the late 1960s, took on the new styles faster and with more advertising, than most of the other department stores, attracted a younger crowd, and was seen as "hip"; a "HOT" place to shop.
Sadly, many of the old, elite department stores ON FIFTH AVENUE, which Bloomies is not situated on and NEVER has been ( and they weren't even ever on THE LADIES' MILE, which I'd bet good money you've never heard of, so LOOK IT UP! ), began to close their doors, because they were still attracting just their old and growing older customers.
And any for REAL Bloomie's shopper doesn't call it "Bloomingdales"! Gotcha again, n00b!
And please, do NOT in any way, attempt to 1)make an excuse 2) wriggle out of this one...you'll only lose and I'll have to give you yet another history lesson, which will be off topic and the highjacking of this thread. Which IS against FR's TOS!
Listless vessels, every one!
Trump will ONLY "lose", IF there is another rigging of that election AND no other person, now or in the immediate future who is running as a GOPer shall win it either.
Not only do you NOT know any facts at all, you don't know nor understand politics/political history.
You are right to be proud of your own accomplishments, and your success illustrates the fact that IQ is a very imperfect measure of real life abilities. Richard Feynman’s IQ was supposedly measured in high school as 125, while his biography by James Gleick had the more accurate title “Genius”.
However, as we know all too well from the example of Bill Gates, great success in business is no guarantee of accurate opinions in other fields.
The New York law you mention was poisonous fruit of the “Me Too” movement. But I don’t think it was aimed specifically at Trump.
That’s an interesting take. The way Ron jumped into the race a little off balance like he was pushed? Maybe.
https://twitter.com/SenJohnKennedy
John Kennedy has a lot of good things to say about our Country and Biden’s disastrous presidency on twitter. Not a mention of Trump back as far as June on twitter.
This is the one interview I could find that includes a short segment about Trump vs Biden. It is the only interview on the subject I found.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6331455041112
The majority of the interview relates to Hunter Biden & his special treatment and whether Garland should be impeached.
Kennedy was asked about all the Trump investigations. He was asked if he believed Trump’s lead would hold. Kennedy said he has to wait to see like anyone else. He said the nominees will most likely be Trump & Biden.
The interviewers tried very hard to get Kennedy to separate from Trump but listening to the entire interview Kennedy was very measured and did not downplay Trump’s chances of winning at all. Kennedy says Biden wants Trump because he thinks he can beat him and Trump wants Biden for the same reason. Being as Biden is a delusional liar I’m not worried about what Biden thinks. His people are going to cheat whomever is the Republican nominee.
IOW if you just buy what is posted above (#219 & #223), rather than listening to the interview, you get an inaccurate impression of John Kennedy’s position suggesting that John Kennedy believes Trump is not the best Republican nominee to beat Biden or whomever the leftist nominee is when the dust settles.
New York State’s Adult Survivors Act (ASA), which was enacted on Nov. 24, 2022, amends the state’s statute of limitations for civil claims alleging certain sexual offenses—which may include any unwanted sexual contact in the workplace—committed against individuals age 18 or older.
Timing is much more targeted to Trump prosecution than mee too.
Me Too movement, awareness movement around the issue of sexual harassment and sexual abuse of women in the workplace that grew to prominence in 2017 in response to news reports of sexual abuse by American film producer Harvey Weinstein.
Most other people don’t see DeSantis as a clear choice. They see a guy owned by big donors and affiliated with the Bush clan and Paul Ryan. A guy who has the personality of a snail. Watching him is like watching paint dry. Please clap.
That dog don’t hunt and his polling proves it.
So apropos. Far better than being a listless Ronlim vassal like devere.
“GOP primary voters would rather be led by a cult of personality than a true executive leader with a record of accomplishments. It is what it is though.”
Verses the Ron cult of personality.
Sad how the small minded resort to name calling.
My guess is you are a democrat troll
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