Posted on 02/24/2023 4:04:40 PM PST by conservative98
We are only 20 months away from the next Presidential election, and at this stage, the Republican party should be starting to whittle down its field of contenders. Yet here we are with most of the people expected to run still sitting it out, silent.
It’s true that Nikki Haley has started her campaign, as have a few outriders like Vivek Ramaswamy, to whom I wish much luck. But the serving or former officials who should have started their campaigns by now are still sitting it out. Leaving the ground open for Trump to do stunts like his Ohio trip this week.
We all know why they are still holding back. They fear the battering they will get from Trump when they step into the ring. And they hope that if Trump can concentrate his energies on savaging one of their rivals the former president may have run out of steam by the time he turns on them. There are lots of personal tactical reasons why someone might hold this position. But for the sake of the GOP and the country as a whole the Republican contenders have to break their silence. They have to stop the omerta. It is time to come out, guys.
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Ron DeSantis is the most obvious contender who still inexplicably keeping quiet.
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Anyone who makes it all the way to the White House is going to face a lot meaner and nastier people than Trump out there. Trump is a schoolyard bully... it remains inexplicable, to me at any rate, that the former President still has such a bully-hold on the Republican party. And the impact of this selfish strangle-hold is felt everywhere.
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the field cannot be left open for Donald Trump. It shouldn’t just be him out there making opportunities from Biden’s errors. There should be other candidates out there too. Perhaps they could also be highlighting what has been going on in Ohio and speak for the people of the state who seemed to have been overlooked by DC..
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Douglas Murray is a Senior Fellow at National Review Institute
TDS. Infects so many.
National Review……’nuff said.
Trump didn’t announce till June in 2015. It’s very early.
Frankly, I’d like a little rest...
Or they could do the right thing and get behind Trump and support him for his second term. But we cannot have that at the National Review.
Bring em on. I want some Trumpertainment as he Yebs! these poseurs.
another annoying Brit.
This RINO is repeating Democrat talking points when he says Trump going to Ohio was a political stunt.
Why should Murray care? They’re not gonna let Trump win.
And the NR schmucks tend to prefer it when the Dems win. Then they can engage in their favorite pastime of wringing their hands over how awful Conservative voters are. And how it’s our fault that the Dems are in power.
I guess he wants GOP voters to nominate someone who the Deep State will allow to win. Because the Swamp is getting nervous over having to steal so many elections in a row for the same fake party.
It looks better if both fake parties take turns sharing power.
Senior “fellow”.
Pity someone that has such a sharp mind devolves into this.
The pro-liberal-world order crowd speaks.
I don’t think he’s a RINO.
Someone must have slipped a peyote button into his margarita.
We’re they concerned when Biden spent 20 month in his basement?
On the bright side, One more presidential theft should knock some sense into those still clinging to the quaint notions of days gone by.
Dougie wears his underwear backwards for Chuck Schumer.
So many nails hit on the head.
It does. And Murray has some good articles and views, and yet infected with clown syndrome.
gay
Senior Fag
Yea, the Donald is well known for running out of steam.
Keep dreaming, metro boy.
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