As I've said repeatedly on this forum, I live in the real world and not in fantasyland.
Well, here's the real world slapping us all in the face. The GOP nomination belongs to Donald Trump.
That's just how it is.
“Ron DeSantis is the better man. But the nomination now belongs to Donald Trump”
If this is what you need to say to stop doing Jack Smith’s work and start focusing on the bigger picture, fine - welcome to the fight for the survival of America.
Ronnie has proven he is not the better man either. He is beholden to change his views or policies based upon what his big donors demand of him. That is utter weakness and just makes him like all other RINOs.
How is RD the “better man”? It’s easy to say that depending on the criteria you use. But if you choose other criteria, he isn’t.
Loyalty comes to mind. (But maybe that’s just me.)
RDS is a man of action. He was my preferred candidate going in. Two thing turned me back to Trump.
RDS sold out to the neocon establishment for funding. For me, that made RDS just like Nikki Haley sans skirt.
His campaign influencers on social media made Trump voters the opponent and attacked the very people they needed to persuade to vote for RDS. They affectively pushed any Trump wary voters right back into Trump’s lap. I am one of the people they did this to.
Maybe the next MTS will show everything getting sane?
https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/reports-statements/mts/current.html
I’m not holding my breath on this :(
9.7 trillion annual wages
32.9 trillion national debt
Short-term interest rates 5.50% and Long-term over 4%
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BA06RC1A027NBEA
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny
https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/TextView?type=daily_treasury_yield_curve&field_tdr_date_value_month=202309
Unfortunately, America is past the point of hoping you will win if the RATs stay home.
The Democrats have come up with so many ways to rig the elections. They have been doing it to some degree for many years. But now, they really do not even bother to campaign which should be an obvious tell to anyone with a brain that they no longer spend any time trying to appeal to voters to win.
You can tell these silly polls put out that have Biden still in a dead heat with GOP opponents is a big pile of.
Biden is a disaster and everyone knows it, yet he can still get many more votes in record voting?
I don’t think so and the time has come to quit pretending that we can follow the rules as usual and expect the other side to do the same. They aren’t going to do that.
“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.”
Can you inform us how his accomplishments of executive leadership, with a friendly legislature, which is how he accomplishes his objectives, compare to Donald Trump and his accomplishments in D C with a hostile legislature and the simultaneous hostility of the deeep state and the Federal government and the MSM?
And how do you explain the complete blindness of these forces who seek to destoy Trump, all the while not knowing that their real enemy is DeSants?
Or that DeSantis is backed by people, like Murdoch, who hate MAGA with a passion?
It seems to me like Ron D is just Trump lite…. Thats why his campaign is stuck in the mud. Ethically and philosophically they’re the same…. Trump however is a business man and outsider and DeSantis for all intents and purposes is not. He is establishments version of Trump. People are sick of the establishment.
“The primaries are over before they even begun.”
When do they began? LOL!
The truth is, Trump's allure is that he a giant middle finger to the media and to Washington DC, and people love that. They are not ready to give that up. But the truth also is, Trump will not beat Biden and we will be worse off for it. The only positive is that Trump will be gone once he loses in 2024. I just hope we can somehow hold Congress until 2028, but I don't know how likely that is either.
First of all - this is a great thread/post. Honest opinions and good discussions.
“But Florida has a booming economy as well, with a record $22 billion surplus last year.”
I’m a Floridian. Florida has some major problems that Ron has not addressed. Ask someone in FL what they are paying for insurance. If the state has $22 billion surplus, maybe that should be used to help the people in FL to pay for their insurance.
Ask someone in FL about the traffic here. Wait till there is another mandatory evacuation of the state due to a hurricane. It won’t end well. And again, ask about vehicle insurance rates.
DeSantis was a congressman for 5 years. Did he do anything to stop the spending? Did he do anything to take a stand? He was pretty much an unremarkable congressman.
As a candidate, he is “stiff” (bobblehead). His wife is a detriment to his campaign, which is unusual. She’s very attractive but hard, very hard, to listen to or watch. She comes across as too “eager” to be 1st Lady (sort of like Jill Biden).
Others have mentioned that DeSantis requested that the legislature change the rules so he could run. That really was a slimy thing to do.
DeSantis PROMISED the voters in Florida he would serve out his term. That was a lie.
I read recently that their “pollster” has worked for Trump, receiving big bucks from him. So, I’d take their poll with a grain of salt.
Put down your crack pipe.
The checks on your pants are showing. If DeSantis has a twenty-two billion dollar surplus, where is the sales tax reduction?
De Santis is the Bench.
De Santis on the bench is more candidacy than the democrats presently have
He has no one to blame but himself. I’ve said it before, running against Trump for the nomination at this time was the most politically bone headed move in modern American political history.
Saying it doesn’t mean I hate the man, it’s simply an observation. There’s no way anyone other than Trump is going to win at this point.
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Desantis is the better husband. But Melania is the better wife.
The claim of “better man” needs definition - just like what does “good” mean?
IMHO - I liked him but now question him and his judgement, along with whom is influencing him. I no longer believe we have effective ‘representation’. We have ‘taxation without representation’ (which can only have the same result as last time). It shows very poor judgement to even think he could pass PDJT. He seems to have the establishment behind him, which really bothers me - it’s a huge red flag.
...similar for all the other candidates too. It’s “Trump or the status quo”...which isn’t tenable.
DeSantis, so good nobody will vote for him. 😆