Posted on 10/06/2023 3:48:10 PM PDT by conservative98
opps...
it should be .0274 percent...
But of course, desantis says he can still beat Trump, and it begins with Iowa.....
Ron is somewhat like Nelson Rockefeller; excitement at announcing but little mobility among voters thereafter.
DeSantis’s governorship was all about auditioning to run for president. Once he entered the race, Florida became an afterthought for him. The sad thing is, once he drops out and heads back to Florida, the GOPe will have no more use for him, and all the co-operation he got from the Florida legislature will start to wither away.
The opposite of the way Richard Nixon handled his mid career. In Patrick Buchanan’s excellent book The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority he chronicled the steps of Nixon sincerely working to promote the other GOP candidates and speaking up for them. Later he had support from Reagan and others when he tried for his comeback. Lots of insiders had become his friends and some owed him favors. He was back.
He made choices. Every single choice he has made within say the past two years is kicking him to the curb now.
Interesting. Nixon is very hard to pigeon-hole. He was intelligent and I think he had a genuine interest in policy matters. He did business with what we would now call the deep state, but that was next to impossible to avoid for anyone aspiring to the presidency, just as today. But yes, I see a more genuine interest in the welfare of the country from Nixon than I see from DeSantis.
all the co-operation he got from the Florida legislature will start to wither away.I think it was the other way around all along.
I think he was the tool the legislature needed for their agenda.
Sorry, but that is just not possible.
If Trump believed these BS polls, he'd be ignoring DeSantis. Yet, he's paying Tony Fabrizio to conduct more polling!
Maybe Trump just likes burning money?
Maybe Trump just likes burning money?
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I would ask why Desantis likes burning money. He cleary can’t win the nomination. Look at how much money he could save by dropping out. Yet he is still burning through money.
Why should he drop out before a single vote has been cast?
Or is DeSantis supposed to believe the same BS polling that even Trump himself doesn't believe?
And at least DeSantis is spending his campaign money on actual campaigning, and not lawyers.
Could be.
Your reasoning makes no sense. For starters, if you’re Trump, you keep pounding your opponent until he publicly submits to you. And you do that for a number of reasons.
For starters, an intelligent person takes nothing for granted. And Trump’s public bashing of DeSantis sends a strong message to anyone else who might think of crossing him.
The message is that he will destroy you if you cross him. What better way to convey that than to relentlessly humiliate a guy like DeSantis? Plus, it’s a lot of fun, well deserved, and the crowd loves it. And it demonstrates to them that they’re backing a winner who’s up for the fight.
All the more reason DeSantis should stay in the race.
>>”All the more reason DeSantis should stay in the race.”
?? Okay. Let him stay in the race so he can lose the few remaining supporters he has.
Well, he's not going to lose me. I don't care if I'm the only voter he has left. At the end of the day, I didn't need to abandon every conservative principle I've ever held to support him.
Plus, it's good for DeSantis to get a primary race under his belt. Trump isn't going to live forever. We need a good back bench.
Right, yet he continues to go after DeSantis (and not the other candidates.) I wonder why.
Which conservative principles would you be abandoning to support Trump?
Then we'll probably lose in 2024. So we'll have to regroup in 2028. But it's not looking good because they're going to have Gavin Newsom by then. I don't think we have a chance in beating him because he has an unique appeal to women.
That was always the case, I don’t think DeSantis has ever once polled above Trump in the Florida primary polling.
He’ll likely be out of the race long before the Florida primary, but at the very least he will drop out before 3/19 when Florida votes to avoid the humiliation of losing his home state, as the sitting governor.
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