Early Adopter Ed Rollins Abandons ‘Flawed Candidate’ DeSantis.

The National Pulse ^ | August 3, 2023 | JAKE WELCH

[Eva]

I thought that DeSantis was avoiding the foreign policy issues on the advice of the Uni-Party Republicans, like Paul Ryan. He couldn’t fight both Trump and the Uni-Party at the same time. He made a huge mistake by listening to them at all. He should have stayed out of the election and waited until 2026. They rope-a-doped him into running against Trump.

[Eva]

I thought that DeSantis was avoiding the foreign policy issues on the advice of the Uni-Party Republicans, like Paul Ryan. He couldn’t fight both Trump and the Uni-Party at the same time. He made a huge mistake by listening to them at all. He should have stayed out of the election and waited until 2026. They rope-a-doped him into running against Trump.

[BlackbirdSST]

Nobody likes a blowhard,

Yet you persist...

and what was previously thought to be just an exaggerated persona for entertainment is now turning out to be the real Trump. If he keeps this up, only an isolated fringe will continue to support him, to the point that when he is convicted and loses the nomination, the GOP nominee who wins the White House won’t even pardon him, and that omission will actually elevate his/her approval rating.

[Zhang Fei]

[Keep flailing around, you’re bound to find something coherent to post.]

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I wouldn’t invest too much emotion on Trump this election cycle. His sleazy drive-bys won’t win him the nomination, let alone the election. That’s the thing about popularity - it’s fleeting.

[JonPreston]

Are all NeverTrump, vaxxine supporters, Ukraine war supporters?

[Zhang Fei]

[Are all NeverTrump, vaxxine supporters, Ukraine war supporters?]

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I’ll vote for Trump in the general, if he’s the nominee. I like the Trump who killed hundreds of Russians in Syria, and threatened to nuke Moscow.

[FreeReign]

Trump supporters coming out in favor of Ed Rollins,...

I'm not in favor of Ed Rollins. Ed never should have supported Ron in the first place.

[FreeReign]

Nobody likes a blowhard, and what was previously thought to be just an exaggerated persona for entertainment is now turning out to be the real Trump. If he keeps this up, only an isolated fringe will continue to support him, to the point that when he is convicted and loses the nomination,...

Trump gained 12 million voters in 2020.

[thefactor]

Maybe Rollins is going back to supporting Trump, which he did BIGLY in 2020. He ran Trump’s PAC. They were buddies!

[FreeReign]

Trump supporters coming out in favor of Ed Rollins, the libertine who appears to have no issues with genital mutilation for minors, and preaching gay sex to schoolchildren. Not a good look.

BTW, Rollins, the one you tell us is "libertine who appears to have no issues with genital mutilation for minors, and preaching gay sex to schoolchildren" originally coming out for DeSantis is not a good look.

[Zhang Fei]

[Are all NeverTrump, vaxxine supporters, Ukraine war supporters?]

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While I wasn’t in favor of the lockdowns, I think the vaccine will be remembered as Trump’s signature achievement. He’s had his ups and downs, but his decision to allocate the funding where other governments quailed is a fine example of taking an unpopular decision under fire from every corner of the ideological spectrum that turned out to be right thing. Between that and his very aggressive foreign policy (killing Russians and Iran’s #2 guy, providing lethal aid to Ukraine where Obama and Biden balked, quashing Nordstream 2, levying personal sanctions on Russia’s oligarchs), he’s earned another chance. I’m voting for anyone but Trump in the primary because I think he’ll lose in the general.

[Alberta's Child]

I think a bigger story here is that if DeSantis was truly as conservative as his supporters claim he is, then why would a liberal GOP operative like Rollins ever have hitched his wagon to DeSantis in the first place?

[wiseprince]

This is just another play because thry know culture wars play really well in Iowa. Desanctimonius is just another Repuke

[nopardons]

BTTT

[Alberta's Child]

That’s the thing about popularity - it’s fleeting.

July 2015 was an important time in the history of the Republican Party.

Jeb Bush led Donald Trump in the GOP primary polls published in the middle of that month.

That marked the last time a GOP politician ever led a poll of prospective GOP presidential candidates. Every poll since this has had either Trump or (for a brief period in late 2015) Ben Carson as the leader.

“Fleeting?” That was more than EIGHT FREAKING YEARS AGO.

[Zhang Fei]

[Trump gained 12 million voters in 2020. ]

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So? Biden gained 15m voters over Hillary in 2020. Democrats are lower propensity voters. When you make it easier for low propensity voters to do so, they vote in larger numbers. That’s why the GOP has worked assiduously to prevent people from voting except in person, and to limit voting to election day. Heck, if it could, voting would be restricted to land owners. I don’t disagree with those efforts, but the horse is out of the stable.

Will we ever get back to in-person voting on election day? I have a feeling we are done with that.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

—> That’s the thing about popularity - it’s fleeting.

I suspect that’s what is driving his historical dominant poll numbers across the USA.

No, wait.

[Truthsearcher]

The thing is, DeSantis’s culture war fight is the only reason I would have to support him.

It’s clear the deep state is trying to co-opt DeSantis and turn him into their candidate against Trump, but they want to keep pushing our culture in a certain direction.

This is their ultimatum to him. Stop with the culture war stuff or we stop supporting you.

[Zhang Fei]

[I think a bigger story here is that if DeSantis was truly as conservative as his supporters claim he is, then why would a liberal GOP operative like Rollins ever have hitched his wagon to DeSantis in the first place?]

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Because he thought DeSantis was, like Trump, and you, basically a libertine, like the bulk of GOP pols when they’re among people they can trust. Whereas DeSantis is, unlike Trump, truly what-you-see-is-what-you-get.

[chiller]

I heard Rollins on Kilmeade, but my speculation remains.

Rollins urged RDS to drop the social warrior stuff, but trans issues, boys in women’s sports, etc. seem like strong common sense campaign issues which morph into soft on crime issues.

IF Rollins couldn’t move RDS off of social issues in his campaign, and that WAS the cause, then Rollins was correct, but I’m not convinced