Posted on 09/22/2022 4:36:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Before Donald Trump descended the golden escalator at Trump tower in June 2015, the GOP had gone more than a quarter-century without a rock star. Now, it has two, and that is the challenge.
Fresh from his deft Martha’s Vineyard gambit, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew into Kansas on Sunday to rally support for Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, now running for governor against incumbent Democrat Laura Kelly.
Saul Alinsky, the acknowledged master of forcing poseurs to honor their own policies, could not have done better than DeSantis. No political stroke in memory has succeeded in exposing liberal hypocrisy quite so effortlessly and effectively. Had the Islanders taken the 50 illegal aliens in, they might have checked DeSantis’s move and saved a little face, but they didn’t. They lived up to their most ludicrous stereotypes, calling in the National Guard and deporting the hapless Venezuelans to some sterile Army base on the mainland. It will be years before “Martha’s Vineyard” is anything but a template for a meme or a punch line to a joke.
Both Schmidt and U.S. Senator Roger Marshall had fun with Martha’s Vineyard in the speeches they gave preceding DeSantis’s. The SRO crowd at the Olathe (O-lay-the) Civics Center ate it up. When DeSantis took center stage, the thousands in attendance were primed. They surged to their feet and roared their appreciation. If it wasn’t clear before this past week, it was clear to everyone in Olathe. Ron DeSantis has arrived.
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That said, he did not mention Trump in his speech. Schmidt has also been tagged as something of a moderate, but one would not have guessed that from his intense and impressively disciplined speech. He did not mention Trump either.
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I worked my way through college. It took me seven years to get it done -- as a student who commuted to a state school.
Keep in mind that people like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Zuckerburg all eventually attended/graduated from Ivy League schools.
1. They all work in the private sector, not in government.
2. Interestingly, they all work in companies that are de facto arms of the U.S. government right now.
As I stated earlier Desantis got an athletic SCHOLARSHIP to play baseball for Yale.
Has Trump made a statement supporting Gov Ron's great MV move?
The silence is deafening.
( or whatever other silly things were said about Ron after ML. )
How many voices are in that head of yours?
Where did you get that information? Ivy League schools do not offer athletic scholarships.
Actually, there are Three.
Better include Kari Lake in that grouping, and actually, she is better than DeSantis.
Better slightly in policy, and a step up in Communication abilities than DeSantis.
I asked GOOGLE:
Does Yale give baseball scholarships?
Yale University does offer athletic scholarships for Baseball. Need-based and academic scholarships are available for student-athletes. Athletic scholarships are available for NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NAIA and NJCAA. On average, 34% of all student-athletes receive athletic scholarships.
Is it easier for athletes to get into Ivy League schools?
While tough to quantify, studies have claimed that athletes are up to four times more likely to be accepted at Ivy League schools than their non-athlete counterparts.Jan 1, 2019
Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders drew thousands of people to events.
He was captain of the baseball team in his senior year at Yale. His batting average was 336. A record for the school.
While studying, Ron worked as an electrician’s assistant as well as a baseball camp coach.
Quote: Ivy League schools provide financial aid to students, including athletes, only on the basis of financial need as determined by each institution’s Financial Aid Office. There are no academic or athletic scholarships in the Ivy League.
That’s the difference between Trump and DeSantis supporters. Every DeSantis supporter on this site, including myself, has pledged to vote for Trump if he secures the GOP nomination, while so many Trump supporters are going to stomp their feet like petulant children and throw their away their votes to the Democrat.
And, God help us, should President Gavin Newsom find himself sitting in the White House, turning America into California, you all will be here posting, “Don’t blame me! I wrote in Trump!”
DeSantis supported the vaccine. DeSantis never came out against the vaccine. Both he and Trump were against the mandates. Their positions vis a vis the vaccine seemed pretty close. Trump pushed the vaccine partly because he didn’t want to lose the election and have America end up where we are now. They were beating him up very badly about the so-called pandemic and even delayed the release of the vaccine until after the election because it would’ve helped him win. He also trusted like most people, myself included, that the vaccines were safe and 95% effective.
Oh shut it Drew. Soon the mid term election will be over and Trump will announce and henceforth shut up the DeSaintUs idiots.
Oh this is the same group of fools that had to have Cruz in ‘16. Same sh!t different year.
Yes.
More than 2 as well.
The silly posturing of GOPe people of putting up RDS as a competitor to Trump exposes them for who they are.
RDS has been a good gov. But he has yet to repeal red flag laws; he had to be dragged into a favorable redistricting; and his statements on the unconstitutional/illgal Mar-a-Lago raid were tepid at best.
He has a 100% compliant legislature and courts-—virtually no opposition in the state and no one to veto his appointees as a president would. Outside of immigration, he has taken no national or international stands of note, except to back the Uke War (which absolutely does NOT play well with the populist base). In every poll Trump not only beats him, but beats him badly (20-40 points). I understand because he doesn’t have Trump’s money he has to beg from rich donors, but some of these people you do NOT want on your side.
I want to see him as governor for four more years, but I think that Trump’s real MAGA successor, assuming she a) gets elected and b) governs well is Kari Lake.
Yes
More importantly we need gop leadership that reflects their constituents
I disagree
Trump made us
DeSantis is young
Okay, so he got a NEED BASED Scholarship. It probably helped that he was a great baseball player too. If he was not a great baseball player, he probably would not have gotten into Yale much less got a NEED BASED scholarship.
That was good babble
Several rock Englishmen are common sense oriented
Bryan Ferry too
Imagine the album Avalon at campaign events
The women would be all bedroom eyes
Dave Mustaine but he’s ill
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