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DeSantis Status As GOP Presidential White Knight Crumbles As Florida Backtracks On Disney Fight
Miami Independent ^ | December 3, 2022

Posted on 12/09/2022 10:00:05 AM PST by SoConPubbie

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To: Signalman
DeSantis would have to be an idiot to quit the governorship to accept the number two spot, and he's not an idiot.

DeSantis is extraordinarily careful with his messaging. He always says exactly what he means to say, and no more. Putting himself in a position that would require him to defend everything said by another politician is just anathema to who he is.

41 posted on 12/09/2022 10:55:43 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: SoConPubbie; Alberta's Child; Bratch; Joe Brower

This is the first I’ve heard of DeSantis backtracking on Disney. I did hear that the legisl00ture was apparently reconsidering reversing the end to the Reedy Creek District, but I heard nothing about DeSantis having a part in that.


42 posted on 12/09/2022 10:56:00 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: lee martell

Yep, it’s like my uncle said some years ago: for anybody to get into politics, it’s like they have to compromise or sell out some part of them to do so (paraphrased).


43 posted on 12/09/2022 10:57:16 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: SoConPubbie

I’ve read better articles in high school newspapers (that have been around a lot longer than this publication). FReepers will post anything these days.


44 posted on 12/09/2022 10:57:27 AM PST by thefactor
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To: srmanuel
If you read the article, the anonymous author explain that fact away by saying the unicarty deliberately let DeSantis win.

Like most conspiracy theorists, they have a quick answer for everything that conveniently requires no proof of its truthfulness.

45 posted on 12/09/2022 10:58:04 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

“Uniparty”


46 posted on 12/09/2022 10:58:26 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

I’m sure they allowed Republicans to gain super majorities in the State house and Senate and leave Democrats without a statewide office for the first time since reconstruction


47 posted on 12/09/2022 11:01:26 AM PST by srmanuel (I)
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To: SoConPubbie

I live in Florida and when I travel to other states I nearly always hear those state residents saying: “We really like your Governor.”

Why aren’t we hearing the same thing about the GOP Governors in the other 30 states?

It appears to me that the GOP bench of potential Presidential candidates is pretty slim.


48 posted on 12/09/2022 11:01:43 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
Sure, but you have four people to choose from. That's less than the number who write a typical NYT article.

-PJ

49 posted on 12/09/2022 11:02:36 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Tell It Right

Ditto.


50 posted on 12/09/2022 11:04:36 AM PST by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: SoConPubbie

I see you’re in charge of the circular firing squad here. Big surprise.


51 posted on 12/09/2022 11:06:44 AM PST by datura (Eventually, the Lord and the Truth will win.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Duck Fisney


52 posted on 12/09/2022 11:29:20 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: hillarys cankles
... the left will always win because they never attack their own.
53 posted on 12/09/2022 11:38:01 AM PST by A strike ("The worse, the better." - V.I.Lenin (& Schwab & Soros)
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To: SoConPubbie; All
DeSantis cannot take the vast 10th Amendment (10A)-protected powers that he has used to make Florida thrive with him into the constitutionally limited power Oval Office to likewise make the nation thrive. That misguided, constitutionally ignorant ideas is pure Hollywood.

The only way that leaders like DeSantis can serve the most people that they can under the Constitution is to keep their governor jobs.

In fact, after "street fighter" Trump 47 finishes draining the swamp, which hopefully includes working with the states to surrender state powers that the unconstitutinally big federal government has been stealing from the states since before the ink of the Constituiton had dried, then Trump can finish his 2nd term in office by spending more time on the golf course as the drafters of the Constitution had effectively intended for a peacetime president to do.

From the congressional record, consider this clarification by Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had left the care of the people with the states, not the federal government.
”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)

Also note that Justice Louis Brandeis had reflected on Bingham's words above when he introduced his "laboratories of democracy" metaphor to emphasize the 10A-protected power of the states to serve the people, ultimately depending on what state-based social spending programs 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.

But the states won't be able to do their 10A jobs to serve the people until Trump leads the states to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes according to the excerpt from Gibbons v. Ogden above.

54 posted on 12/09/2022 11:38:16 AM PST by Amendment10
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So says “The Miami Independent” which has a long history of investigative reporting and analysis dating back all the way to 2022, when it was established.


55 posted on 12/09/2022 11:42:51 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater 2024)
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To: A strike

Trump Bots will destroy their candidate if they keep this up.....


56 posted on 12/09/2022 11:48:58 AM PST by blackberry1
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To: SoConPubbie

Trump Bots will destroy their candidate if they keep this up.....


57 posted on 12/09/2022 11:51:22 AM PST by blackberry1
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To: Tell It Right

“As a Trump supporter I’ll refrain from judging Desantis based on something written in the Miami Indepenent.”
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You’re right.


58 posted on 12/09/2022 12:02:07 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta ( )
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To: SoConPubbie

Just another phony hit piece trying claim that veteran and self made man from a small Florida town DeSantis is somehow the picture of elite big business, but somehow not the son of a NY City real estate tycoon Trump who has spent his entire life building and frequenting lavish resorts and schmoozing with the rich and famous.

I’m nit putting Trump down for it, as I greatly admire the man and how he has furthered his father’s empire to much greater heights, and especially most of his term as President, but let’s be real between who is more likely to have cut a lot of secret back room deals between powerful elitists how about.

As of today, DeSantis is out front leading attacks against Disney, Pfizer, Moderna, and most recently any “woke” company promoting the homo or ESG agenda, which has forced Blackrock and Vanguard to take notice and even start stepping away from the agenda, if you haven’t been following along.

What has Trump been doing to fight the elites and their woke agenda?


59 posted on 12/09/2022 12:06:42 PM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBTQ indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who follows it.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Probably a waste of time for DeSantis...

The ballots for the 2024 election are already being printed and filled out in thousands of basements & storerooms in schools, churches, liquor stores, and industrial park facilities...

115 million communist votes are Soros’ 2024 goal...
He didn’t fail to reach his goals in the 2020 & 2022 elections...


60 posted on 12/09/2022 12:14:29 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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