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Ron DeSantis climbs another rung up the presidential ladder
American Thinker ^ | 3 May, 2021 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 05/03/2021 4:51:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber

With his latest pronouncement about Critical Race Theory, DeSantis shows the kind of political courage every Republican politician should have.

It’s currently unclear whether Donald Trump wants to run for President again in 2024 or whether he’ll content himself with playing kingmaker. In the latter case, lots of people are looking at Florida’s Ron DeSantis, whose refusal to bow down to leftist shibboleths is catching conservatives’ attention. His latest pronouncement that Critical Race Theory is “a bunch of horse manure” will only raise his profile with all sensible Americans.

Most people living outside of Florida weren’t paying attention to Florida governor Ron DeSantis before 2020. However, in 2020, DeSantis showed himself to be a different kind of leader. While governors across America, especially Democrat governors, were turning their states into totalitarian dictatorships with broken economies, DeSantis increased protections for the elderly and other vulnerable people in Florida, and then allowed life to continue pretty much as usual – no masks, no lockdowns. (I should add that many conservative states successfully resisted the extreme COVID mask and lockdown madness that Democrat governors showed. None, however, were as large as Florida or as entirely resistant to masks and lockdowns.)

DeSantis’s constitutional, liberty-oriented approach to dealing with COVID has driven leftists around the bend. What’s been especially irritating for them is that mask- and lockdown-free Florida had significantly better COVID outcomes than states with comparable populations, such as California and New York. That’s why outlets such as 60 Minutes have been reduced to using blatant dishonesty to attack DeSantis’s competence and honesty.

Not only did DeSantis manage COVID in his state with courage and intelligence, but he also has willingly signed or promised to sign legislative bills protecting citizens in his state from physically or ideologically dangerous leftist policies and practices:

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: crt; desantis; fl; florida; freedom
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To: mylife

Cubanadians are not natural born citizens.


21 posted on 05/03/2021 8:09:47 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

tell me about obama


22 posted on 05/03/2021 8:54:53 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Democrats may elect ineligible candidates, but Republicans never will.


23 posted on 05/03/2021 9:06:34 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

debatable and self defeating


24 posted on 05/03/2021 9:08:56 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: MtnClimber

If Trump runs VP will be as far as he gets for 4 years if Trump elected.


25 posted on 05/03/2021 9:23:57 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: mylife

Undermining the Constitution is self defeating.


26 posted on 05/03/2021 9:36:24 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Harpotoo
If Trump runs VP will be as far as he gets for 4 years if Trump elected.

I would be OK with that!

27 posted on 05/03/2021 10:01:50 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screeen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Me too!


28 posted on 05/03/2021 10:21:46 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: MtnClimber

Bttt.

5.56mm


29 posted on 05/03/2021 10:23:49 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho ain't my president.)
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To: Deplorable American1776

Former Navy Seal. Former JAG. Yale AND Harvard graduate. Successful state representative. He’s got the chops AND the pedigree. I fear DC will eat him alive, but he’s got what it takes to move the needle. It’s terrifying that there aren’t more like him.


30 posted on 05/03/2021 12:04:16 PM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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