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'Tallahassee Mussolini': Steve Schmidt says 'unfit' Ron DeSantis has even worse morals than Trump
Raw Story via MSN ^ | 31 May 23 | Matthew Chapman

Posted on 06/01/2023 12:32:39 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi

Former GOP strategist turned Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt ripped into Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in a new episode of his political podcast, "The Warning."

"There he is," said Schmidt, showing an image of DeSantis during his interview with Fox News in which he claimed he would "smash" leftism in the United States as president. "Governor Ron DeSantis. The Mussolini of Tallahassee, using a U.S. Navy war vessel as a visual prop just days after his disastrous launch, which spawned the fantastic hashtag, "#DeSaster."

"Who is it that he wants to smash?" said Schmidt. "Is he going to arrest Bernie Sanders? Is he going to send AOC to a rehabilitation and re-education camp?"

This moment, for Schmidt, encapsulated how DeSantis is unfit for office — and how his presidential campaign, hyped by numerous GOP donors looking for an alternative to Trump, will crash and burn.

"Ron DeSantis' campaign is going to be epic," said Schmidt. "As in, an epic debacle for the ages. He will raise more money against lower vote results than any presidential candidate in American history. He's going to make Texas Senator Phil Gramm look like Bill Clinton, when it comes to politics, by the time this is done."

"Let me just say this about Ron DeSantis, and his wanting to smash and break and hurt," he continued. "The job of the American president is to temporarily lead the American people, and to make the Union more perfect. Ron DeSantis doesn't understand that. He's as unfit at a moral level, at a character level, as any person has ever been, including Donald Trump, running for this office."

"He will fail," said Schmidt.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: desantis; enoughtds; evidencehesayslol; florida; giveitarest; mussolini; rawstory; schmidt; whineonandon
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To: Erik Latranyi

Sounds like DeSantis has exactly the right enemies. The left has the same laughable talking points.


21 posted on 06/01/2023 3:43:53 AM PDT by ScottinVA
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To: Erik Latranyi

Not surprising. Trump was never a conservative.


22 posted on 06/01/2023 3:44:22 AM PDT by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold.)
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To: Destroyer Sailor

No, because Conservatives have become losers. Trump is a Constitutional populist. That’s quite different. Ryan was a Conservative. McConnell is a Conservative.Maverick McCain was a conservative.


23 posted on 06/01/2023 3:56:32 AM PDT by steve8714 (Evidently the Oxford comma is racist, sexist, or homophobic. You decide which.)
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To: backpacker_c

ahahahaha....get outta here. Your Trump cult posters hog up this place like nobody has ever before. One of them alone posts 10 times as many as this. Get outta here......


24 posted on 06/01/2023 4:22:53 AM PDT by vespa300
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To: Erik Latranyi
Steve was a Dem Obama plant hired to sabotage that idiot MCCain along with Nicole Wallace .Her hubbie is a huge Dem bundler.
Isn't Steve a Pedo .
He is a big gay .
Why is he still relevant .
25 posted on 06/01/2023 4:23:29 AM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: Destroyer Sailor

Conservative(political): A politician who conserves nothing. A self-described voter who, believing America is still a functioning republic, elects and re-elects politicians who conserve nothing.


26 posted on 06/01/2023 4:34:27 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Why waste time posting this crap? Who cares what this lefty guy thinks?


27 posted on 06/01/2023 4:36:45 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: All

This Leftist and Nicole Wallace being against DeSantis equals:

Ringing Endorsements


28 posted on 06/01/2023 4:40:45 AM PDT by rbmillerjr
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To: nuconvert
Why waste time posting this crap? Who cares what this lefty guy thinks?

Because it puts egg on the face of the Trump cultists (not the same as Trump supporters) who constantly smear DeSantis as a RINO without evidence.

This is evidence that many RINOs do not like DeSantis because DeSantis is a true conservative with principles.

29 posted on 06/01/2023 4:53:37 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

And I’m sure that Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt is as pure as the new driven snow, which allows him to finger point and sit in judgment of Republicans.

And of course, he turns a blind eye to Biden and his family, pelosi and hers, and all the rest of the corrupt, immoral democrat politicians.


30 posted on 06/01/2023 5:02:29 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Pedo says what?


31 posted on 06/01/2023 5:04:05 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISvec M AND GLOBALISM!)
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To: steve8714

” Ryan was a Conservative. McConnell is a Conservative. Maverick McCain was a conservative.”

No they aren’t. They’re RINOs.


32 posted on 06/01/2023 5:08:14 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

If Steve Schmidt is against DeSantis, then I’m for Ron.


33 posted on 06/01/2023 5:09:55 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: sauropod
Schmidt is certifiable.

Ugly, too!

34 posted on 06/01/2023 5:11:28 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Erik Latranyi

“This is evidence that many RINOs do not like DeSantis”

How? This guy isn’t a RINO, he’s a Lefty.
I’m not understanding your argument, but maybe I haven’t had enough coffee yet. Or maybe you think he’s a RINO, when he’s really a Dem Lefty?


35 posted on 06/01/2023 5:15:09 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: vespa300; Backpacker
ahahahaha....get outta here. Your Trump cult posters hog up this place like nobody has ever before. One of them alone posts 10 times as many as this. Get outta here......

It's that obvious? lol

36 posted on 06/01/2023 5:15:44 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Monterrosa-24

Schmidt is a Democrat infiltrator.


37 posted on 06/01/2023 5:26:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Erik Latranyi
That's funny, you lied about me saying rove was advising desantis...

And still won't acknowledge it.

But, as I have said, lying is a pattern with some desantis supporters.

38 posted on 06/01/2023 5:29:02 AM PDT by backpacker_c ( )
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To: Night Hides Not

>>>ahahahaha....get outta here. Your Trump cult posters hog up this place like nobody has ever before. One of them alone posts 10 times as many as this. Get outta here......>>>>

>>>>It’s that obvious? lol>>>>

I’m telling you. One guy is like Trump spam.


39 posted on 06/01/2023 5:30:06 AM PDT by vespa300
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To: Erik Latranyi
"Is he going to arrest Bernie Sanders? Is he going to send AOC to a rehabilitation and re-education camp?"

I wish!

40 posted on 06/01/2023 5:42:12 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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