Posted on 04/23/2023 7:42:11 AM PDT by nikos1121
One of the few reliable truths in electoral politics is that voters like tall presidents. The average U.S. president is about two inches taller than the average U.S. man, who is 5’9”.
Recent presidents have skewed even larger: Every president since Jimmy Carter (5’9.5”) has been 5’11.5” or taller. We haven’t elected a president smaller than the average man in nearly 130 years, when short king William McKinley won his election. “We are a species that equates larger size with maturity, leadership and sex appeal,” wrote Jay Mathews in the Washington Post in 1999.
“If we were like some insects, where adults are smaller than larvae, we might not think this way. But we do.” So it stands to reason that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is thirstily gunning for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, would want to, let’s say, amplify his stature. Rumor has it that the governor is around 5’9”. His expected closest competitor in the GOP primary, Donald Trump, was, at 6’3”, our third-tallest president, a fact he repeats to himself five times in the mirror every morning before taking a deep, restorative breath and going on to face the day. And the man DeSantis would have to face in the general election, Joe Biden, clocked in at 6-foot-even at his 2023 physical. (Biden measured just 5 feet, 11.65 inches in 2021, an enduring mystery that suggests either some kind of supernatural yoga practice or a White House physician with poor attention to detail.)
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So I figured. So now you have to ask yourself a question, and answer it honestly — where do your loyalties actually lie?
It’s with Trump. My loyalty is with Trump getting a chance to finish the job.
Until someone comes along better in my mind. I’ve waited too long for someone to come on stage and make me proud of our president again.
He’s a tough act to follow.
I think if he really worked on it, he’d get the vote of his enemies too, but he’s a free thinker.
Like today.
Don Lemon gets fired. He could either say nothing, or say something somewhat supportive, but he trashes the guy, mind you a guy we’re all happy to see go.
But on the same day, Tucker is sacked. If Trump defends him, it will be construed that he is a racist.
My loyalties are no longer with the GOP even though I’m a registered republican.
I think we can agree, that it’s not about Desantis.
“I think we can agree, that it’s not about Desantis.”
It’s meaning, I have nothing against Desantis, but Trump or no one else.
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