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In 1988 I voted for Bush '41. It was a statement-I was happy with 8 years of Reagan and wanted it to continue. Expectations were tempered for the same reason Trump can't be replaced. While JD and DeSantis would be more conservative than '41 the 'it' factor could be lacking in both of them-no others to contemplate. The good news is they stand up to their detractors than the Bush clan did. Still the Trump coattails will only carry us so far.
1 posted on 10/05/2025 7:10:00 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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Trump may need to go more pedal-to-the-metal in the next 3 years. The pendulum swings both ways and results will have to be definite. No telling which way the economy swings. The rats are better at taking advantage of a crisis that can come along at any time-even the small ones.


2 posted on 10/05/2025 7:12:30 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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They’ll vote for his handpicked successor, JD Vance.


3 posted on 10/05/2025 7:14:08 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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Liberals will NEVER get it.

MAGA is forever.


5 posted on 10/05/2025 7:16:11 AM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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JD


6 posted on 10/05/2025 7:16:41 AM PDT by bgill
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This laughable.thehill.com can’t find anything abit more relevant then what is going to happen three years and one big election from now?


8 posted on 10/05/2025 7:18:26 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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Trump is a once in a lifetime , political personality / force of nature.

Someone will be the GOP nominee in 2028, but he or she will not have the personality and demeanor of Trump.

Our best hope is that the Republican nominees for president and vice president will be supportive of the policies of Trump. And will work to continue such policies.


9 posted on 10/05/2025 7:18:32 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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The Trump/MAGA voter has always been around at least since Pat Buchanan days but have been kept down by big money NeoCons.


10 posted on 10/05/2025 7:19:13 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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The Hill, STILL SUCKS!


11 posted on 10/05/2025 7:19:26 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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JD must continue the mission or MAGA will turn to one who will. this country cannot afford to go back to the leftist dogma.

trump must straighten out the voting irregularities before the midterm and depose the deep state before JD Vance’s beginnings.


12 posted on 10/05/2025 7:19:48 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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It’s nonsense on stilts. Trump garnered some of the smallest margins on record because he repels as many as he attracts. Bush lost the popular vote in 2000 by less than 1%. Trump lost by 5%. Dubya won re-election by over 2%. Trump won by under 2%. And both of them got the smallest GOP margins in a century. The GOP will do fine. Margins will normalize, as people get used to the idea that the left wing ratchet is over, that the GOP will now no longer simply act as a tax collector for the welfare regulatory state. Trump is definitely an effective president, but his vote-getting abilities are only so-so.


14 posted on 10/05/2025 7:21:37 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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JD Vance is a little smoother around the edges. We will lose some who say “Trump or Nobody”, but we will get more buy in for those who prefer Trump essential values minus the extreme trolling. Some women in particular may prefer the Vance persona. It is also hard to call him “Worse than Hitler II”. Vance will benefit from the slings and arrows that Trump took.


15 posted on 10/05/2025 7:23:36 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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JD is not as bombastic or larger-than-life as DJT.

But he has the same “don’t give a f**k” mentality when dealing with the media. He also understands the power of memes and ridicule when dealing with the opposition.

He’s quick on his feet, comes across as authentic and down to earth given his blue collar background, and doesn’t seem to be prone to gaffes.

Nothing against DeSantis, Rubio etc. but I’m riding with JD all the way for 28.


19 posted on 10/05/2025 7:30:00 AM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
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JD is not as bombastic or larger-than-life as DJT.

But he has the same “don’t give a f**k” mentality when dealing with the media. He also understands the power of memes and ridicule when dealing with the opposition.

He’s quick on his feet, comes across as authentic and down to earth given his blue collar background, and doesn’t seem to be prone to gaffes.

Nothing against DeSantis, Rubio etc. but I’m riding with JD all the way for 28.


20 posted on 10/05/2025 7:30:05 AM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
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The media didn’t create Trump so the media cannot tear him down. The LSM keeps forgetting Trump was a television icon with The Apprentice, a show that dominated the airwaves for reality TV.


23 posted on 10/05/2025 7:32:23 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Gary Gilmore the POS who murdered Charlie Kirk!)
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So is MAGA personality or principles and policies? If the latter, backers have already been conditioned for disappointment, though the hardcore excuse it away.


24 posted on 10/05/2025 7:32:26 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Assuming good health & a sound head, Trump will be all over the country campaigning for JD. Knock wood...


27 posted on 10/05/2025 7:34:49 AM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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Tulsi Gabbard.

She’s less Deep State than another Yale boy like Vance whose first political instinct was to play the Nazi/Hilter card on Trump.

First political instincts matter.

Vance’s was to go with the Deep State neocon wing of the uniparty.

Yale gave us the Clintons, the Bushes named George, and Frenchy Kerry.

Yale is the Deep State toolmaker.

Vance a high energy Jeb 2.0 although Jeb 1.0 didn’t go through the Yale finishing process nor did he make his bones in the greatest snake pit on planet Earth, the United Elites Senate.


30 posted on 10/05/2025 7:39:24 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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Vance and Rubio are first in my book.


31 posted on 10/05/2025 7:40:05 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Shumer Shutdown. The first step of Sandy Cortez's grab of Chunky Shoomer's job. LOL!)
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The Shrill wishes we’d all just go away and never vote again.


36 posted on 10/05/2025 8:06:35 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (They don't kill you because you're a Nazi, they call you a Nazi so they can kill you.--CFW)
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Trump won’t be on the ballot in 2028??? Well, that’s it, I’m voting for Gruesome Newsome....


37 posted on 10/05/2025 8:06:58 AM PDT by Vesuvian
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