Posted on 02/27/2023 4:03:57 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis released a new digital ad Sunday night rallying conservatives to fight for freedom ahead of a potential 2024 presidential run.
“When the world lost its mind… when common sense suddenly became an uncommon virtue… Florida was a refuge of sanity, a citadel of freedom for our fellow Americans and even for people around the world,” DeSantis said in the nearly two-minute video.
The ad features numerous major figures at Fox News — including Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Dana Perino, and Lisa Boothe — touting DeSantis’ repeated successes while serving as the governor of Florida.
“Florida’s success has been made more difficult by the floundering federal establishment in Washington, DC., an inflationary spending binge that has left our nation weaker and our citizens poorer,” DeSantis says later in the video. “It has enacted pandemic restrictions and mandates. It has recklessly facilitated open borders. It has imposed an energy policy that has crippled our nation’s domestic production. This has caused many to be pessimistic about the country’s future. Some even say that failure is inevitable. Florida is proof positive that we the people are not destined for failure.”
DeSantis continues by highlighting the wins that his administration has secured in the state, including becoming the fastest growing state in the country, ranking #1 in education freedom, ranking #1 in economic freedom, and ranking #1 in higher public education.
“Decline is a choice. Success is attainable,” DeSantis concludes. “And freedom is worth fighting for.”
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I KNOW! You are still a NEWBIE.
No excuses, just facts. The timeline was that when C19 hit our shores, everyone did what the fedgov and CDC directed. It was the natural process of these things when the bell is first rung. However, Desantis, after getting some other advisement and seeing what the lockdown/mask madness was doing elsewhere, reversed those polices in short order, as did a couple other governors. That's it. I live here. I saw it.
But for that you would condemn the man. You like quoting the Bible... here's one for you: Matthew 7:1-3 -- Judge not, that ye be not judged.
You're over-the-top hystrionics are what I would expect to see on DU. Get ahold of yourself. We share the same goals -- to live as free people. Keep your eye on the bigger picture.
What you call ‘Truth’ I call knee-jerk negativity and bad judgement. Which is why I don’t agree with it.
I didn’t spin. You didn’t define which bill. Do you think he could have stopped this bill? They had the votes to over ride a VETO. Good try.
I am not at all sure that Trump could have removed Fauci from NIH or demanded a subordinate of his take over. You sidestep the fact that there was autonomy of the governors so Fauci was not in control of anything but his mouth. any folks used their brains and ignored him.
Seriously? Is that what official LP people and word are?
Crazy.
So?
Oh, and why are you always yelling?
Agreed.
Trump's instincts were (and are) entirely selfish.
Thanks to the plague of false fears manufactured by the Trump admin, the horribly misguided idea of Warp Speed not-a-vax was popular.
Trump is a populist politician.
So, Freedom got the shaft. America and the world got Devil Don's SwampJab.
desantis has done an outstanding job as florida governor with his war on wokeness and the grooming and indoctrination of floridians children in our education system...
desantis isn’t a coward...
educate yourself...
your willful ignorance is on full display...
I simply pointed out the duplicitous hypocrisy in the DeSantis political ad.
If Andrew Cuomo had come out and criticized the Federal government for the COVID deaths of all the elderly people in New York who had been sent back to nursing homes under Cuomo's own orders, wouldn't we stand up and point out that Cuomo is a lying @sshole?
We share the same goals -- to live as free people.
That's not how I remember it here on FR in the spring of 2020. In fact, I took plenty of scolding from FR Karens back then over my refusal to shut down my business and hide under my bed in those early weeks of the COVID fiasco. Republican governors issuing lockdown orders sure didn't make things any easier for us who were standing up even under pressure from other "conservatives" at the time.
No, they weren't. In fact, history will show that he had better instincts than just about anyone else in public office. Two things from the spring of 2020 stand out to me even to this day:
1. Trump's initial assessment that the health toll of COVID-19 would be comparable to a bad flu season. He was right about this.
2. The public and political outrage directed at him when he did one of the few things a U.S. President has the legal authority to do in a situation like that -- namely, banning travel from China in late January of 2020, while morons like Nancy Pelosi were encouraging people to go out and visit Chinatown in San Francisco.
That's nice. He was elected governor in 2018. Where was he on these things before 2022?
Oooo....zing!
He was. True.
Which makes his later disastrous cave to his populist politician instincts so disturbing.
desantis was running for reelection for florida governor in 2022...
desantis was just sworn in for his second term as florida governor last month (january 2023)...
educate yourself...
your willful ignorance is on full display...
Baloney. You don’t get to rewrite history. Trump publicly (on Twitter, of course) lambasted governors like Kemp who lifted lockdown too early in Trump’s opinion. He made an enemy of Kemp when he did that, so Kemp sat on his hands and let Raffensburger et al steel the 2020 election in Georgia. That was what Trump (and the rest of us) got for his being a dick.
Nobody was a bigger advocate for Trump in the 2016 primaries than I. I came here specifically to support Trump against Cruz. Feel free to check my posting history. But my feelings have changed.
Trump is a great idea guy, but he is not a leader. He never learned the basic leadership rule of “praise in public, chastise in private.” His ego and verbal incontinence is his downfall. He demands loyalty but he doesn’t give it in return. He gives every impression that he believes the Republican nomination is his by right and that others who are running are being personally disloyal to him. He is not the man to take the conservative fight forward.
I don’t think you bothered to read past my first statement.
Let’s just say, if this really was the BLACK PLAGUE (as in, 30% of total population dies - even today, there is a 10% risk you will die from Bubonic plague even if well treated), heavy measures would be justified.
IMHO 6 mos in we could see this wasn’t really worth the Chicken Little hysteria.
I say that despite not having had COVID to that point (I’ve now had it 2x), most of my family not having had it (some did that summer), and my MIL dying of it on THE Jan 6 (makes discussion of that nonsense extra painful for my husband) soon after the rest of us had it. Never mind my myriad experiences with the “heroes” of the medical world in that time and still today.
If some contagion is really that dangerous, it would be prudent to shut things down - including Trump banning Chinese travel, etc. We SHOULD have had travel ban from Africa and Europe during the Ebola upheaval.
But, acting in good faith requires honestly assessing the risks along the way. By 6 mos. we should’ve known it’s not worth all this childish cooties nonsense.
DeSantis opened up before that. I recall being shocked when in August my friend said their local schools were open already.
I actually blame the major sports leagues (along with the NCAA) for a lot of this stupidity. They didn't even cancel professional sports seasons, NCAA basketball tournaments, etc. during World War II. I said at the time that a lot of the public hysteria was driven by this kind of unprecedented cowardice in business and academia -- and the government response at all levels was mostly driven by a reflexive reaction to the public panic, not by any kind of rational measures that would do anything to stop the spread of COVID.
It's hard for me to criticize Trump for anything he did at the time for two important reasons:
1. I would have done almost everything he did.
2. To reinforce Point #1 ... I was posting right here on FR at the time, advising him to do exactly that.
Excellent post!
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