Posted on 08/04/2023 7:54:14 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Ed Rollins, responsible for the early adopter ‘Ready for Ron PAC,’ has abandoned the Governor of Florida’s collapsing presidential campaign, admitting that DeSantis has been a ‘flawed candidate’ unable to focus on anything else other than the culture war in an interview with the left-wing magazine, Rolling Stone.
Rollins admitted his frustration with DeSantis’s candidacy, and explained the Florida Governor only has himself to blame: “I know some of the people around him, and some of them are good, talented people.”
“Every time he opens his mouth, he has a tendency to — shall we say — think out-loud, and he clearly doesn’t understand the game… When you get into these culture wars the way that he has, the vast majority of people don’t understand what they are,” Rollins continued.
Rollins, in his own words, has spent the last 12 months running thousands of TV ads, creating tens of millions of online connections, and mailing millions of Americans on behalf of the Governor of Florida to little avail as DeSantis continues to slide toward single-digits in the polls.
“A top-to-bottom makeover and real accountability may be the only thing that saves Ron DeSantis, but even then you still have the governor at the top… And it is getting harder and harder by the day to see not just his people as the problem, but him as the problem,” he added.
DeSantis dismissed Rollins’ comments as “nonsense” during a recent appearance on Fox. He also doubled down on his culture war-obsessed campaign, calling it “central to the lives of tens of millions of people.”
WATCH:
WATCH: Brett Baier presses DeSantis on political consultant @EdRollins jumping ship and saying the Governor is a flawed candidate who takes culture wars too far pic.twitter.com/SDVXL8F5r7
— Brendon Leslie (@BrendonLeslie) August 1, 2023
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.
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.
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.
[Keep flailing around, you’re bound to find something coherent to post.]
Are all NeverTrump, vaxxine supporters, Ukraine war supporters?
[Are all NeverTrump, vaxxine supporters, Ukraine war supporters?]
I'm not in favor of Ed Rollins. Ed never should have supported Ron in the first place.
Trump gained 12 million voters in 2020.
Maybe Rollins is going back to supporting Trump, which he did BIGLY in 2020. He ran Trump’s PAC. They were buddies!
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.
[Are all NeverTrump, vaxxine supporters, Ukraine war supporters?]
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?
This is just another play because thry know culture wars play really well in Iowa. Desanctimonius is just another Repuke
BTTT
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.
[Trump gained 12 million voters in 2020. ]
Will we ever get back to in-person voting on election day? I have a feeling we are done with that.
—> 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.
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.
[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?]
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
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