Posted on 09/22/2022 1:29:44 PM PDT by Drew68
When Ron DeSantis is consulting renowned experts about whether or not to run for president in 2024, the man he is most likely to listen to is President Chris Christie. Well, not literally listen. He’ll instead learn from the potential prezzy who ended up presiding in network green rooms instead of the White House because he declined to run when he had his big – well, everything about him is big – chance in 2012. The Gov will also look to the lessons of President Mario Cuomo. These two guys hesitated and missed their window, just like there are some folks – Mitt Romney, John Kerry, Felonia Milhouse von Pantsuit – who never actually had a window at all yet still tried to dive through one and ended up defenestrating themselves.
Remember a decade ago when we had Christiemania, when he was a breath of fresh air blowing away lib pieties after an improbable New Jersey governor win? And instead of striking while the presidential iron was hot, he failed to go for it, and now he will never be president of anything except maybe the International Society to Prevent Cardio. Mario Cuomo similarly blew it in the 80s. He was the Dem candidate who sped up the Dems’ heartbeats with his unapologetic defense of liberal values. He had his shot, and played Hamlet, and never became president. Today, he’s remembered only for being the father of two big creeps.
The 2024 cycle is undoubtedly Ron DeSantis’s moment. He won a first election that everyone expected him to lose as the governor of the Free State of Florida. He will win a crushing victory over secret lizard-person Charlie Crist this November. And he has set about owning the libs hard not merely by humiliating them for their hypocrisy with awesome moves like sending illegals to Martha’s Vineyard but with substantive conservative policies that are sucking the remaining productive people out of hellscapes like New York and California.
He has governed like a conservative, and he has the receipts. Florida works. Its kids went back to school while blue state bosses were still sacrificing their own kids’ futures to the garbage teacher unions. He is fighting wokeness and its poisonous CRT ideology. He treats the media like what it is – a pack of flunkies. And when he picks fights, he wins them. The base loves him. The polls bode well, to the extent polls are not mere onanism.
If Donald Trump was not still in the picture, he would be the unquestioned frontrunner. But Donald Trump is in the picture.
And he has every right to be. Let’s cut the baloney the regime media keeps serving up. This was a great president who made huge substantive improvements to the country. By defeating Bill Clinton’s wizened baby oven – maybe – Trump literally saved the Constitution. And he would have done even more but for an indisputably questionable election and the unprecedented, fully-fascist attacks of the Establishment and their media and bureaucratic allies.
There are good reasons for Trump to run, and good reasons for him not to, and none of them matter because the decision is Trump’s. The smart money says he will go for it.
So, does Ron DeSantis step up to the 800-pound Gorilla Channel fan for a clash of the titans?
There are rumors that he has promised not to run if Trump does. Do not believe them. There is wishcasting to the effect that he would take the veep slot. It won’t happen.
The fact is that this is DeSantis’s time to score the Big Enchilada.
He is never going to be better positioned than right after his smashing reelection victory. He will have the momentum, he will have the excitement, and he will have the bully pulpit as governor of America’s most vibrant state.
He’s young (44) and he could wait, in theory. But why? Youth is part of his sell, and that applies both to the relatively youthful Trump and especially to crusty Grampa Badfinger should he run again (which he seems to want to do). And after getting the nomination, some Democrat is going to have to spend the campaign explaining how inflation, foreign defeat, and an open border are actually good things. With potential competition like Crusty, Kamala, or that supply chain superhero/scourge of “racist roads” Buttigieg, DeSantis would have to try to lose.
But most of all, he has to consider the fact that things can only go downhill for him from here. An economic downturn. A hurricane the regime media will blame on his personal carbon footprint. A terrible heath crisis (thankfully, his wife recently beat cancer and is back by his side). It could be anything. And it could change everything. Chance is a fickle and cruel dominatrix, just the way the Dispatch guys like ‘em.
The problem with being on top is that there is nowhere to go but down. That’s the position Ron DeSantis would find himself looking at in 2028.
Sure, Trump has the poll numbers right now, but right now the 2024 race is a hypothetical. Republicans generally like Trump, except for the Never Trump sissies no one cares about anyway. But the midterm flogging of the Dems is not even complete and no one being polled is thinking deeply about 2024 yet.
“Who do I like? Haven’t given it much thought. Trump, I guess. Now stop calling me during supper.”
But soon, they will have to think about it. They will have to start weighing the alternatives. The GOP base loves only one thing more than Donald Trump, and that’s winning. Ron DeSantis is a proven winner. Donald Trump has the entire axis of evil gunning for him. The GOP could very well offer The Donald a gold watch and a handshake once they think it over.
Or not.
But one thing is undeniable. Ron DeSantis is the best positioned to beat Trump of any Republican who might run. And, unlike Trump, he has no firm ceiling for votes in the general. If Trump wins it will be a squeaker – it’s just a function of how many losers hate him. DeSantis has no such baggage.
And DeSantis knows all this. He’s not dumb, and neither is Trump, who sees the governor of New Alligatoria as his only real competition. The libs are dumb, but even they see it. That’s why we are already getting the inevitable “Trump is literally Hitler, but DeSantis is literally Hitler²” articles and tweets.
The stars have aligned. All the pieces fit. The time is now. Ron DeSantis really has no choice but to run if he ever wants to be president – he will never have a better chance. Just ask ex-President Christie.
I hope DeSantis does not have to make that decision. I am hoping for a Trump run. IF Trump does not run, then yes, I would vote for DeSantis.
I had it explained to me very early in the 2016 primary season by someone who was an ardent Trump supporter:
I saw a TV news report about the Republican candidates arriving at the city where a debate was going to be held. When the chartered jets arrived at the airport carrying losers like Jeb Bush and John Kasich, the first question I asked myself was: "Who paid for those airplanes?" When the jet arrived with 'TRUMP' in giant letters on it, I never had to ask myself that question.
Wow. Bookmark.
Support Stacey Abrams? Are you on drugs?
The cowards never started. The weak died along the way. Only the strong survived.
“You are looking like the first group. We lost already why bother.” So others with more grit will have to carry on and save those who don’t have the grit. We vote, we get involved in safeguarding the validity of the votes and we call out the corruption. We keep doing those things until we are dead.
I can’t go there with you Mayflower Madam. Your analysis is flawed. Those people would never have helped Trump because his success would have put an end to their graft and parasitism. Calling them out was Trump’s greatest gift to America. It was uncomfortable but as the scales fell from long dimmed eyes Americans have awoken & pushed back.
You can’t go along with the old boy network without betraying the American people. It’s not a question of how nicely you point out the cheating and double dealing. The cheaters & double dealers will still move to destroy you.
If you are being mugged (and the American people are and were being mugged) you yell as loud as you can and speak up about what’s being done. This is truly a fight to the death. Anyone not up to speed on that has not been watching the left trying to destroy the America way of life & Americans.
I AGREE!
Sounds good to me. Trump was a wonderful president, but is now loaded up with so much negative publicity, I’m not sure he could win again. Doesn’t matter whether the negatives are true or not.
The “American media” never destroyed anyone and their family this bad before in the history of America. This is a Snowflake and Baby Killers Gone Wild “historic” first.
I only said that because you complained about Kemp stealing the election. Stacy Abrams has always said that as well. And I believe Kemp better steal the election this time or get it out right legally. I honestly don’t care which.
You think Trump has bad publicity? Wait until the Dems and the MSM train their sites on DeSantis. We’re already starting to see some of the rumblings. He’s starting to get pushback for using Florida tax payer money to fly illegals from TEXAS to Martha’s Vinyard, not from Florida as most had assumed. That was an unforced error on DeSantis’s part. But the point is, when the media decides to create a scandal, they’ll create a “scandal” whether something wrong was done or not. When the media decides to focus on DeSantis, he won’t stand a chance.
But they’re likely to go relatively easy on him until he either beats Trump for the nomination or loses to him. If he beats Trump his usefulness to them will be over and they will attack him relentlessly. He won’t stand a chance.
**Where would we escape to?*
We are it! No other place.
I want the younger generation to get up off the couch..lay the phone down..look at what is happening!!
My young Asian dentist fled with his parents from Cambodia when he was 8.
He sees what is happening here..
If we sleep thru it. We will wake up to a nightmare.
They seem to live in never never land... not coming to grips with reality.
I’m sure you’re correct. And so goes the dismal state of politics today. Big sigh.
So it's your determination that no other politician makes statements one might interpret as inappropriate or inaccurate?
IBTZ!
I think DeSantis is more valuable as governor than president at the moment.
He’s a bigger thorn in the left’s side by being a rogue (not part of the system) politician at the state level that at the federal.
He has the backing of the FL legislative branch, which, unless we win the House and Senate at the federal level, he would not have. That would effectively hobble DeSantis. Sure, he could do the EO thing to a degree, but unless the legislature is on board with his, he will be fighting an uphill battle at the federal level, just like Trump did.
I like having DeSantis setting the example to the other 49 governors of what a politician with integrity and manhood is like. It sets the bar high, where it should be.
;-)
Fake news.
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