Posted on 11/11/2022 2:32:24 PM PST by FarCenter
On a disappointing night for Republicans, Governor Ron DeSantis crushed it in the free state of Florida, lapping his challenger, Congressman Charlie Crist, by close to 20 points. Before DeSantis’s emergence, Florida used to keep us wondering whether it would turn blue or red until the wee hours on Election Night or, in the case of the 2000 election, for weeks thereafter. But it was clear well before midnight on Tuesday that Florida had turned solid red. From Portsmouth to Puget Sound, Republicans interested in replicating DeSantis’s “win for the ages” should learn from these eight rules.
Stay on offense.
You can create your own majority with the right approach.
Competence matters.
You don’t necessarily have to move to the center to win over independents.
You can redraw the political map without pandering.
Create a culture where wokeness cannot thrive.
Deliver a policy-driven approach that works.
Court the moms.
Add it all up, and Florida voters liked what they saw. Surely other Republicans will seek to replicate the way he’s been able to fight the culture wars and govern effectively at the same time.
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I haven’t seen leadership like this in a long time.
Ron’s Rules — Eight reasons why the Florida governor had a big election night.......OR...
Ron and the Florida Legislature’s(the folks writing and passing the bills) Rules — Eight reasons why the Florida had a big election night
Fixed it.
When Trump called out DeSantis as "De-Sanctimonious" he excited huge numbers of Democrats, Independents & Never-Trumpers who want nothing more than to see Donald Trump brought low -- therefore vote for & elevate DeSantis.
All this bi-partisan enthusiasm for DeSantis will end the very second if/when Trump is removed from Republican leadership.
At that instant, all those wildly enthusiastic DeSantis fans will suddenly discover that his is, after all, not just De-Sanctimonious, but also guilty as h*ll of all sorts of despicable crimes.
DeSantis will get the same treatment as Trump, if ever Trump is removed from Republican leadership.
Count on it, 100%.
Like what?
Nothing about cleaning up the election process, especially in Miami/Dade? Weird.
“When Trump called out DeSantis as “De-Sanctimonious” he excited huge numbers of Democrats”
OK, now THAT is 4D chess.
Since Reagan.
Some of those assume that you can get elected to begin with. They also assume that wokeness doesn’t already thrive in your state.
Let’s not forget to thank California and many of the northeastern states who saw a mass exodus of their more conservative citizens to Florida. lol
This is the most important one:
* BAN ALL MAIL-IN BALLOTS EXCEPT FOR TROOPS SERVING OVERSEAS AND BUSINESSMEN ASSIGNED OVERSEAS
* VOTER ID
That is why, unlike Arizona, Florida was able to complete counting 5 hours after the polls close.
DeSantis does something and makes it stick. Every time Trump tried to do something good he got told he couldn't do it by either his cabinet, lawyers, or a federal judge. It usually went no further after that, instead of just doing it and daring them to challenge it like DeSantis does, he'd defer to them and the issue would get sidelined. Trump fired Comey but why were Wray, Rosenstein and the ilk still drawing a federal paycheck? Trump campaigned on crooked Hillary, why is she still walking around after all the con jobs she and Bubba have ran over the years? Obamacare wasn't repealed as it should have been because of McCain, but Trump could have effectively shut it down by executive order, he deferred to his cabinet who didn't want him to do it. Trump surrounded himself with bad people (which was his fault) who then proceeded to hamstring him at every turn. He didn't effectively use the power he had and tell them no, do what I say anyway, I don't care if you don't want to. How does some minor federal judge from bumfugg nowhere consistently shut down the elected President of the United States? It happened time after time, Trump basically wasn't allowed to be president during most of his term.
DeSantis seems to do better at issuing orders and having them stick. For example, the Tampa state's attorney that said he wasn't going to enforce the anti-grooming law that had been passed. DeSantis had him escorted out of his office, he went to the press and declared he was going to have a judge reinstate him, he'll sue, etc. Guess what? He's still out of office and out of power. DeSantis has made his decision stick. It's the same when Disney went up against him with their pro-homo/child grooming stance. Everyone said Disney would win but DeSantis made his decision to pull Disney's self governing status stick and it hasn't been overturned. Likewise with the Miami election official that DeSantis bounced out of office, he made that stick. Redrawing the state election districts to be less democrat friendly, that stuck too.
I know it's apples and oranges comparing president to governor, etc., but Trump allowed himself to get shut down on far too many issues where he should have bulldozed ahead dared them to challenge them. How often did Obama's BS executive orders get shut down by federal judges? Hardly ever, no one shut him down like Trump.
1) Charlie Crist, a graduate of one of the lower-30 tier law schools, and taking three attempts to pass the bar, was defeated as GOP State Senate candidate in 1986, losing in a runoff.
2) In 1992, Crist won as a GOP State Senate candidate in the Florida 20th.
3) In 1998, Crist lost as the GOP sacrifice to Florida Senator Bob Graham, losing by 26 points.
4) In 2008, Crist endorsed McCrisis and supported Florida's moving their primary to January.
5) In 2010, Crist left the GOP. He ran against Foam Boy for the Senate seat as an unaffliated candidate, losing to Rubio by nearly 20 points.
6) In 2012, Crist endorsed Obama.
7) In 2014, Rick Scott beat Crist for Governor of Florida, and as wiki notes: "Crist holds the rare distinction of losing a statewide general election in Florida as a Republican, a Democrat and an Independent"
8) Aug. 2022, Crist resigned from Congress.
In other words, RDS beat Crist The Tomato Can, Florida's perennial toe-tapping, down-low, also-ran man.
Also, it's become more and more obvious lately that Crist is a closet homosexual. When he was governor he married a woman shortly after taking office to act as his "beard". They quietly divorced a few years ago. Crist hasn't admitted to being gay, but the gaydar flashes pretty hard when you look at him. That might play in California, but not in most of Florida.
Whoever reformed Florida’s election system deserves a great deal of the credit. Substantially curtailing the ballot-harvesting operations made the election reasonably honest. If DeSantis made that happen, give him amssive credit.
States that allow harvesting will never have well-run, honest eections.
dems running the fix the other way to create a challenger for a Trump?
I assume that's Portsmouth, NH, which is further east than Portsmouth, VA.
Lizavetta: "Like what?"
Anything, it doesn't matter, they'll invent whatever they imagine sounds worst and people will buy.
For Trump it was Russian prostitutes, or attempted coup, for DeSantis... who knows?
You can be certain whatever they concoct will be imaginative and entertaining.
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