You’re basically making excuses for Scott for betraying the two most fundamental issues that any conservative cannot betray the base on, mass immigration and gun rights. I get that governors have to be flexible sometimes and take different positions on some issues, but there are some core issues where any politician calling themselves a conservative absolutely cannot betray the base. The two key issues are gun rights and the amnesty and immigration issue, and Scott has betrayed us on both.
If a “conservative” claims to be conservative on other issues but then supports mass immigration, then all his other conservative stands mean utterly nothing because the demographic change will soon overwhelm the democratic process, turning the USA into another Venezuela. That’s what Rick Scott wants.
It’s also why I’m unimpressed with the defense that “at least Rick Scott has run a business”, that depends on the kind of business he has run and what he’s actually done. Most of us in business in Florida have to work hard and run an actual business where we don’t depend on government contracts and support. Rick Scott is the opposite of a true businessman, he’s a crony capitalist just like the anti-American traitors who run the Chamber of Commerce and push for amnesty and the h1b visa, and thus no friend of the people. Scott’s “business” basically depended on massive taxpayer supported subsides and payments through Medicare and other government programs that Scott got favored access to. And it shows, because Scott’s actual policies in Florida have hardly been business-friendly, esp. to small and medium businesses that are the true backbone of Florida’s economy. If he tried to work in import-export or other businesses where we have to depend on our actual performance in the free market, not on government programs or subsides, Rick Scott would get eaten alive. He has not idea how to run a real business, and that’s probably part of why, just like other RINOs, he has no understanding of the importance of loyalty, commitment and being true to the conservative base.
I still support the guy. Not 100%, but the Reagan rule applies.