Posted on 02/15/2023 4:49:45 PM PST by conservative98
Since President Trump left office, many of the “trustworthy” media outlets have created a talking point that is now held by a minority, yet noticeable number of Conservative Americans. The belief is “DeSantis is Trump, without the baggage.”
If DeSantis chooses to run for president, whether that is in the next election or sometime down the road, his opponents (from both parties) and leftist media will have no shortage of ammunition to create baggage specific to him.
1) As Governor of Florida, DeSantis image as a protector of school children and being “anti-groomer” has gone unchallenged. His press secretary Christina Pushaw (more on her later) took to Twitter to categorize his signing of the Parental Rights in Education act as an “Anti-Grooming Bill.”
2) Recently, he has been accused of partying with his own female students when DeSantis was a 23-year-old teacher in Georgia in 2001. Photo evidence shows DeSantis surrounded by 3 girls holding what looks like an alcoholic beverage.
3) DeSantis began a military career where he was a Judge Advocate General (JAG) officer.
4) hich means accusations of DeSantis greenlighting cruel and inhumane forms of torture on detainees at Guantanamo Bay, including force feeding detainees through a nasal feeding tube pushed down their throats while DeSantis allegedly watched in amusement, will eventually be addressed.
5) DeSantis GOP opponents will undoubtedly question him on his Press Secretary, Christina Pushaw, who recently had to register as a foreign agent because of her paid work with, of all people, a Ukrainian politician named Mikheil Saakashvili.
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you’re acting like a triggered looney leftist...
You’re acting like someone who wasn’t around for 2015/16 campaign..
Triggered by Campaigning Trump.
Fans of the likes of Kasich,Cruz,Rubio,Bush,Carson,Christie,Santorum, Paul, Fiorina, Gilmore, Huckabee, Graham,Jindal,Walker,Perry, Pataki, etc, had to put up with Trump..
Many of those had fans here and around the country.
Trump was kinder to some than others, but he was in it, to win it..
That hasn’t changed. Maybe some of the names will change.
Donald Trump has always been handsome. He can’t help getting older.
I think we may have to agree to disagree there. Even when young, Trump was never my type.
After all he has done for you and for us I think he deserves loyalty and support.
What exactly has he done apart from appointing 3 pro-life Supremes? Has he fired Fauci? Do we have a big, beautiful border wall? Did he balance the budget? I'm not saying he's done nothing, but he has definitely underperformed relative to what he promised he would do. Just like a career politician.
Whether Trump, DeSantis or Cruz is the nominee to hold the fort against marauding Communist barbarian woke trash we have to unite behind them someday.
Agree. As you can tell, I prefer DeSantis because I think he has a better chance of winning over independent voters. But if Trump is the nominee I'll suck it up and vote for him.
please keep posting...
your willful ignorance is on full display...
Mastriano was running far right and strongly anti-abortion. The Democrats ran a campaign ad in the primary that made Mastriano look good, and so he ended up winning the primary. Mastriano is the one the Shapiro camp wanted to run against, so Shapiro proceeded to run as a centrist Dem, and he won the race easily.
Ignorant of 2015/2016?
Which of the 17 were you all in for?
Was it one from your home state of Florida?
Jeb Bush?
Marco Rubio?
Or were you all in for Trump but have since come to see the error of your ways?
I think the Democrats will want to keep as many flawed and out-of-step Republican candidates around as they can, and I think you can look for ads being run in these candidates favor in the Republican primaries in an effort to load up the GOP with the most unappealing candidates possible. That way the Democrats will stand a much better chance of capturing the center in the general election.
Furthermore, I think it’s going to work. Leadership is still pussyfooting around with Santos (who absolutely is a national security risk), and the magic lady parts lobby is still in the driver’s seat on messaging.
Does anyone else want to see an all- gal ticket?
Haley/ Noem?
I agree.
We ran some flawed candidates in 22, some crazy ones too. I can’t believe we defend the likes of Santos. We are destroying ourselves from within.
Infighting FR posts are ruining my last hope of some people to like and admire. I live in an 85% always all Dem region (SW Michigan).
As I binge watch crime shows daily I am exposed to the fine line between screenplay fiction and the really similar people around here. They just haven’t been caught yet. Here, though, the judges will let them go anyway (Mich.State U. killer was a one hour and 15 min. drive from here).
The Democrats are always united. The roughly 40% of us who are basically conservative are fighting like schoolboys in the elementary school playground.
We do not need Trump vs. DeSantis in a futile self destructive spite battle between two elks who will be found thawing in the spring, their antlers locked together as they starved to death.
Can’t there be more than my estimate of a few good people who will stop the Commie takeover? Commies control the news media, the social media, schools at all levels from K-12 through post graduate, pseudo justice system including the soft on crime courts, US House, Senate and President and many state legislatures.
As the criminal Rodney King said confronting the cops “Why can’t we all just get along?” Without sacrificing basic integrity and closely held beliefs, we can unite as much as possible battle the Dems in a common cause.
i was all in for 2022...
the year ron desantis was elected for his second term as florida governor...
get educated and updated with current times...
your willful ignorance is on full display...
Still sore about Jeb Bush, huh?
I feel like I’ve somehow entered DUmmie Land. What a bunch of losers.
worry about your governor, worry about your state, and worry about yourself...
i’m loving life in florida... 😁
Agreed. Look what Karen “Whoopie” Goldberg said about Nikki Haley the other day.
Absurd
FOR YOU: BIDEN
trump’s “operation warped speech” against florida governor ron desantis for his doing things right for us floridians pissed off a lot of trump supporters in my area of florida...
And you have every right to enjoy..
Be warned, though, since you obviously were in a coma for the 2015/16 campaign..
Whoever is perceived as the biggest threats to Trump, whether real or imagined, is a target for Trump to focus on.
Today, that’s your governor..
Well, not today.
Today. Nikki Haley is getting a little..
The more the merrier!
I agree being a neocon is absurd in light of the last two decades, yet here we are, with people praising clowns like John Bolton.
Don’t be confused about who those people are, they let you know.
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