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Of Course Ron DeSantis Will Run…and He May Very Well Win
Townhall ^ | 9/22/2022 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 09/22/2022 1:29:44 PM PDT by Drew68

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To: miserare

It’s leftist media that pushes the notion of DeSantis 2024, that’s what, and not the man himself. Schlichter is reiterating their narrative.


141 posted on 09/22/2022 3:13:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: PghBaldy

I won’t vote for Desantis if he primaries Trump. I will sit it out or write in Trump.


142 posted on 09/22/2022 3:13:49 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: wiseprince

Trump has already bragged about DeSantis, saying he taught him everything. I don’t know how DeSantis would be on foreign policy, I would like a Trump/DeSantis ticket, but we need a strong man in Florida too.


143 posted on 09/22/2022 3:14:23 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: central_va
Desantis is a shoe-in for ‘28...

I see it that way. Sure he will have a 2 year gap in 2026 but that’s campaign time.

144 posted on 09/22/2022 3:15:04 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: nbenyo

That’s funny. You sound like President Trump is off in lala land waiting to be crowned rather than in the trenches fighting for other republican candidates and continuing to make the case that he is our leader. He is doing rallies weekly, drawing tens of thousands, committing to his path if re-elected, committing to deal with the injustices done to our armed forces, to our citizens to the Jan 6th targeted innocents.
Where do you dream up this stuff?


145 posted on 09/22/2022 3:17:15 PM PDT by JayGalt (For evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing.”)
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To: MinorityRepublican
he will lose in 2024.

So brain dead Joe will beat (steal it) Trump? LOL. You are so worng it is almost funny....

146 posted on 09/22/2022 3:18:00 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: broken_clock

It’s all set up. The skids are greased. Desantis walks into the WH in ‘28 no heavy lifting needed.


147 posted on 09/22/2022 3:20:11 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: bigdaddy45

I am tired of all the drama too. I also know that anyone else who isn’t a major RATlike RINO running would be treated the very same as Trump. The leftists are already attacking and suing DeSantis.

This is what the left does. Constant attacks and constant smears over any opposition.

The stakes are too high and they aren’t going to play nice just because a candidate isn’t Trump.

Why do so many blame the guy who has been treated so terribly by the left in this country for the way he has been treated. Did Trump ever make any speeches to the nation like Biden’s nazi speech? A speech that encouraged hatred and violence toward political opponents?

Trump made mistakes, all leaders do. The fact he was attacked from day one was because he wasn’t an entitled one approved by the deep state. And for that, he had to pay for getting in their way.

When he said he was all that was standing between them and their horrid plans for us, he was spot on.


148 posted on 09/22/2022 3:20:26 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Drew68

DeSantis would be well advised to NEVER listen to Chris Christie.

Christie can never get the Oval Office on his own.

He can ONLY ride some very strong coat tails.


149 posted on 09/22/2022 3:22:26 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: JayGalt
He is doing rallies weekly, drawing tens of thousands, committing to his path if re-elected, committing to deal with the injustices done to our armed forces, to our citizens to the Jan 6th targeted innocents.

What he isn't doing is spending any money. Trump is sitting on over $150 million in fundraising and he hasn't spent a dime of it getting his handpicked people elected.

Blake Masters is begging for money. Thiel cut him off. McConnell cut him off. Where's Trump?

150 posted on 09/22/2022 3:24:12 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Jim W N
Who are these people on this thread that deny this?

Two steps:

1. Convince people that DeSantis must be the nominee now, rather than Trump;

then

2. Then redirect support for DeSantis to a great blue RINO.

151 posted on 09/22/2022 3:24:21 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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To: Osage Orange

A guy who has been around a long long time


152 posted on 09/22/2022 3:24:57 PM PDT by Warriorposter
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To: nbenyo
If Trump wants to be nominated again, he has to go through the primary process and make his case. Conservatives believe in competition.

Right now DeSantis is making a better case. Trump may be our first love but we are going to marry DeSantis in 2024.

Trump did a lot for us. So I am grateful for that. But is it possible for him to win in 2024? I don't see it. The election will be another repeat of 2020.

153 posted on 09/22/2022 3:26:14 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: ridesthemiles
DeSantis would be well advised to NEVER listen to Chris Christie.

Not literally listen, as Schlichter wrote, but rather observe what happened to these men when they passed on their best chance to run.

154 posted on 09/22/2022 3:26:49 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Jim W N

I think the RNC told Trump they’d only throw their support behind him if he picked someone “sensible” (AKA Deep State) as his VP to keep him in line. Pretty sure Pence was on the short list.


155 posted on 09/22/2022 3:27:11 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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To: Drew68; All
Thank you for referencing that article Drew68. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

Whatever Gov. DeSantis's presidential plans are, he hopefully understands that most so-called federal domestic policy is based on stolen state powers, the states having vastly more 10th Amendment powers to serve the people when compared with the relatively few powers that the states have expressly constitutionally given to the feds.

In fact, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, had clarified that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had left the care of the people uniquely to the states, not the feds.

”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. 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)

In other words, regardless what the very corrupt media wants everybody to think about the Oval Office's powers, the Oval Office is not the highest office in the land in peacetime imo.

"The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign nations." --Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 1800.

Consider that Justice Louis Brandeis had seemingly reflected on Bingham's words (above) when Brandeis volunteered his "laboratories of democracy" metaphor to emphasize the unique power of the states to serve the people, ultimately depending on the kind of state social spending programs that the legal majority citizen voters of a given state want.

"[...] a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." —Justice Louis Brandeis, Laboratories of Democracy.

The problem is that Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters must first support Trump-endorsed MAGA candidates for state government offices in putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes according to the excerpt from Gibbons v. Ogden above.

Once unconstitutional federal taxes are stopped, each state will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues (imo) that can be used to increase teacher salaries, also salaries of police and fire departments for starters.

Let's also include new state funding for infrastructure maintenance in that list. Undoubtedly many other state social spending programs as well to replace former unconstitutional federal social spending programs.

Additionally, no more forced compliance with Democratic politically correct and unconstitutional federal gender-related civil rights protections in order for school kids to eat likewise unconstitutional federal lunches paid for with stolen state revenues for example.

The next step in putting the country back on its constitutional foundations is for Republican and Democratic Trump supporters to vote Republican in November 2022.

Corrections, insights welcome.

156 posted on 09/22/2022 3:30:53 PM PDT by Amendment10 (5)
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To: Drew68

Regrettably you are correct.

The site won’t survive unless it attracts new folks, especially younger ones.

Right now boomers are the financial resource keeping things afloat but as we well know that won’t continue forever. And you can tell from the reaction of the olders to anything the least bit unorthodox they don’t like or welcome any ideas that don’t fit their idea of a FR poster.

The reality is that FR used to have many real interesting and provocative folks, most whom have moved on. There are many reasons for this which will be saved for another day. But you are absolutely correct in your analysis.

I ignore the YOU NOOB comments. Those are merely unperceptive folks.


157 posted on 09/22/2022 3:30:58 PM PDT by Warriorposter
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To: Warriorposter
The site won’t survive unless it attracts new folks, especially younger ones.

You have to know a little html to use this site. Yeah. Not user friendly for young folks. But that's a good thing. We are off the radar. Which is where we want to be.

158 posted on 09/22/2022 3:34:57 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Drew68

You are a great micromanager. It’s a shame you aren’t running the show.
Have you looked at some of the loser moves Blake Masters has made lately. In August, Masters changed his campaign site to remove references to anti-abortion. He is covering up election theft. When you try and be everything to everyone you fail & no amount of $ will fix the candidate behaving like a windsock.


159 posted on 09/22/2022 3:36:38 PM PDT by JayGalt (For evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing.”)
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To: kabar

Kemp won his primary race 73 to 21. And you’re suggesting he stole it?


160 posted on 09/22/2022 3:43:43 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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