What next for Ron DeSantis?

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[DIRTYSECRET]

At the end of this year, Gov. DeSantis will be term-limited out of his job. What better way to spend his time than by traveling the country, promoting a Balanced Budget Amendment using Article V? He wouldn’t be running against Vance, or Rubio, or Newsom or any Democrat. He’d be running against Congress.

If we get five more states, for a total of 32, Congress may propose an amendment itself.

[Vermont Lt]

I don’t think he could beat Vance or Marco in the primaries (unless the whole administration is thrown into chaos. )

DeSantis will probably be running for VP with Vance. He is a fairly young guy. That would make him the front runner in ‘32 if Vances loses. It would make him the front runner again in ‘36 if Vance wins.

If not VP, then hope for a high level spot in a Vance administration.

Or he could just run for the Senate and hang out there for a while. Although I think that would be tedious for him.

I think we see him take a year off…like an NFL coach that has been fired.

[Nateman]

A total of 44 states have submitted applications for a balanced budget amendment, at some time in the past. However, they were not all at the same time.  Some have expired or been rescinded. On 24 February 2017, Wyoming became the 29th state to call for a convention to pass a balanced budget amendment.

This effort has stalled but it would be a good place to start. 5 states more are all that is needed and it would finally shut up all the Chicken Littles who have prevented the Convention so far.

[chickenlips]

Or is DeSantis really politicking for Balanced Budget Amendment to get himself into Oval Office so he can continue uniparty unconstitutional federal taxing and spending?
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Oh, please stop. One has to keep his arm above his head to keep from losing a wristwatch in this BS.

DeSantis is also working on getting congressional term limits as well as a balanced budget amendment. Having one of both limits may not solve the problem, but it can certainly aid in doing so.

If DeSantis can get the elimination of Florida property taxes on primary residences enacted he’s going to be a more formidable POTUS candidate with a hugely impressive track record. One who actually got a lot done for his constituents in every category. Florida has flourished under DeSantis and conservatism has reigned supreme. Other than DeSantis and Rubio the rest of the potential 2028 GOP POTUS candidates are just talkers.

[Wallace T.]

The man for the job is Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. He is courageous but unfortunately has a Bill Clinton type problem. He is running for the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate against John Cornyn, part of the moderate faction. Now he would have the same problems with Murkowski, Collins, et. al. However, if the moderates will protect one of their own, they may vote to get Paxton out of the GOP primary.

[MinorityRepublican]

For all intents and purposes, running against Trump in 2023-24 was the equivalent of running against an incumbent President in your own party. DeSantis had every right to do that, but he must also face the consequences of running an awful campaign and looking like a jackass in the process.

Before Trump, only one President won non-consecutive terms and that was Grover Cleveland. Had the Democrats left Trump alone, it was unlikely that he'll gain momentum he needed to get back in.

Trump got back in the White House due to TDS basically lol.

[DIRTYSECRET]

**For all intents and purposes, running against Trump in 2023-24 was the equivalent of running against an incumbent President in your own party.**
Coronations are wrong. All primaries should have competition. A poor campaign so DeSantis learned something from the experience. Plus if anything had happened to Trump DeSantis would have been on deck without a big discussion.

**DeSantis will probably be running for VP with Vance.**
Waste of talent. 4-8 years checking permits on the WH elevators making sure they’re up to date-no.

**Or he could just run for the Senate and hang out there for a while. Although I think that would be tedious.**
Correct. Why be one of a hundred when you’ve been the big kahuna?

[1Old Pro]

If he wants to stay in politics, Vance/DeSantis

[Amendment10]

Thank you for replying chickenlips.

DeSantis is also working on getting congressional term limits as well as a balanced budget amendment.

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Post-16th (16A; direct taxes) and 17th Amendment ratification qualified citizen voters beware!

Regardless what DeSantis wants to do in the Oval Office, that office is NOT the most constitutionally powerful peacetime office in the land as corrupt mainstream media wants everybody to think. State governors actually have incredibly more 10th Amendment power to serve the people than the Oval Office and Congress have.

The reason that states are now so dependent on funding from "the most powerful office in the land" is that the very corrupt uniparty Congress keeps stealing state powers, and uniquely associated state revenues, to buy votes to stay in power, state revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxing and spending.

More specifically, post-17A federal lawmakers long ago discovered that they could promise voters who evidently had never really studied the fed's constitutionally limited powers every unconstitutional federal social spending under the sun to get themselves elected. Constitutionally naïve voters eventually took the bait and elected these crooks, and then reelected them.

Then once in office, crook lawmakers abuse their 16A powers by simply fulfilling their campaign promises for unconstitutional federal spending, ignoring Section 8 spending limits by doing so despite the example of Madison's veto.

Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature. —Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)

If it weren't for Congress's ongoing abuse of its 16A powers, again direct taxes, the states wouldn't need unconstitutional federal funding in order to do their 10th Amendment duties to serve the people.

The ill-conceived 16A is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for organized crime, front-ended by deep-state Congress imo.

• "Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with [all emphases added] the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws of the states. —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.

• The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.

  Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen [all emphases added], under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country. —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)

• From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]. —United States v. Butler, 1936.

So DeSantis needs to support Trump47 in leading the new, Trump-supporting Congress that voters give him in 2026 elections to successfully propose to the states a new amendment to the Constitution to repeal 16&17A.

Once unconstitutional federal taxing and spending is stopped by a repeal of 16&17A, the states will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues that they probably won't know what to do with imo, healthcare, including taking care of the poor, and federal government interference-free education, on the short list of priorities.

[TBP]

He may do that. He’ll probably also campaign for a lot of GOP candidates.

[TBP]

I’d like to see him do a podcast, similar to Ronald Reagan’s radio commentaries in the 1970s.

[blackberry1]

Rubio will run circles around Vance in the primaries. DeSantis could be a VP choice. If the House goes democrat the next cycle all bets are off.

[bigfootbob]

I think that’s a very good idea.

[dfwgator]

Keep your eye on him to replace Pam Bondi as AG, if she continues to drag her feet on prosecutions of the deep state and mishandling the messaging on deportations.

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Definitely should be AG, if not now, down the road.

[bigfootbob]

Rubio is doing a good job as Secretary of State. However, his past actions around the 2nd Amendment renders him unsuitable as POTUS.

This administration has made decent progress restoring our God given 2nd Amendment protections, Rubio has shown with his past actions he would either stall or reverse the positive directions being made on 2A issues. There’s still a lot of work to be accomplished.