Posted on 12/06/2022 12:52:23 PM PST by karpov
After Ron DeSantis’s smashing reelection victory in the Florida governor’s race, political analysts have debated whether he can beat Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican presidential primaries. DeSantis’s hard-edged culture-warrior persona appeals to many core Republicans and could help him secure the nomination. But attaining the presidency itself will depend on winning over Republican moderates and independents, groups increasingly turned off by populist displays. To reach those voters, DeSantis will have to emphasize a very different set of attributes: his wonky competence as an administrator and his ability to rally bipartisan support for his policies.
One of DeSantis’s biggest strengths in this respect is his record on environmental issues. In recent decades, most Republicans haven’t focused much on environmental policy. Many explicitly reject the Left’s preferred solutions to climate change but don’t offer their own alternatives. DeSantis is in no danger of being mistaken for a progressive climate warrior. But his administration has devoted considerable resources—and spent political capital—pursuing innovative environmental stewardship.
DeSantis calls himself a “Teddy Roosevelt conservationist.” The term suggests a throwback to an earlier era of Republican environmentalism, with policies that emphasize habitat preservation and outdoor recreation. (TR was an indefatigable advocate for national parks and famous for his love of hunting and fishing.) As governor, DeSantis has backed programs to protect the state’s threatened wildlife and preserve wild spaces. In the process, he has challenged some of Florida’s strongest interest groups, including the state’s powerful sugar industry.
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Go have a seat Ron and wait your turn.
The only issue in the Republican party are a handful of entitled elites who care more about their on power and positions that they do the country. They all know the election was rigged and they are in on it. They see Desantis as an offramp for their traitorous behavior.
“But attaining the presidency itself will depend on winning over Republican moderates and independents”
In Florida he has even won over some democrats.
Ron who?
The only issue in the Republican party are a handful of entitled elites who care more about their on power and positions that they do the country. They all know the election was rigged and they are in on it. They see Desantis as an offramp for their traitorous behavior.
Ron is Ken Griffin’s boy toy. Ron , you will never be President.Don’t be fooled by this guy. He is a complete made up deep state op.
Go back when he was Congressman and start there.
“Go have a seat Ron and wait your turn.”
It is his turn.
LOL!
A five-gallon bucket of bilge.
“Ron is Ken Griffin’s boy toy. Ron , you will never be President.Don’t be fooled by this guy. He is a complete made up deep state op.
Go back when he was Congressman and start there.”
DeSantis ... Our greatest conservative.
Know who else was a good Florida governor.
Jeb Bush.
DeSantis’s calling himself after Theodore Roosevelt is the one big reservation I have with him.
Every aspect of the deep state and big government today owes its existence in one way or another to Theodore Roosevelt.
We have a big problem here. There’s the Teddy Roosevelt that exists in everybody’s heads, and then there’s the Teddy Roosevelt that actually existed and was actually a terrible constitution shredder.
Constitution shredding hasn’t been a part of DeSantis’s record(thankfully), but all of this needed to be said. Teddy Roosevelt’s big government record is absolutely alarming and worth discussion with an alarming tone.
“Ron who?”
The one you post numerous fake slurs about.
Perhaps a strategy to attract Soccer Moms and Suburban women?
“DeSantis’s calling himself after Theodore Roosevelt is the one big reservation I have with him.”
His six years as congressman and four years as governor should remove all reservations ...
After Trump, I’m getting off the conservative chump bus, and bidding a fond farewell to The Backstab Party.
Bolton/DeSantis ‘24
AD ( After Donald ) years means the end of the GOP. They all look so plastic and phony now. Even Saint Ron.
It doesn’t take much right? You can be a solid and proven conservative and as soon as you are even seen through no fault of your own as a potential roadbump to Trump’s divine right to lead the Republicans to a fourth consecutive failure you’re instantly some wicked villain with no redeeming qualities among his groupies.
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