Posted on 01/03/2024 9:48:20 PM PST by chickenlips
The GOP primaries and caucuses have not actually started, but Donald Trump appears from the polling to be way ahead. I prefer Ron DeSantis, but if you are betting, you would probably put your money on Donald Trump being nominated again. So be it. That’s what primaries are for—to find out what the base wants and to do that. And if that’s what the base wants, that’s what it should get. I’m going to support the nominee whether it is Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump or… well, it’s going to be one of those two. And I am still going to continue to support the nominee even if it is Donald Trump and he picks Nikki Haley as his vice presidential running mate, which I totally see him doing. I am a Republican, and my party winning is what matters first.
An upset victory by Ron DeSantis in Iowa would probably end all the ridiculous commentary about how Ron DeSantis is somehow running a terrible campaign.
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The reality is that Ron DeSantis has a real challenge in this election in the form of a popular, at least among Republican voters, ex-president who is running again. Republicans like Donald Trump. No one else does. Independents don’t like him, and Democrats positively loathe him to the extent that he would generate huge turnout numbers even for the senile, desiccated old pervert he will be running against (unless they trade Crusty out for Governor Hairstyle). The only path for Ron DeSantis is to somehow get around the fact that Republicans still like Donald Trump. And they should still like Donald Trump. He can be very annoying, but he was also a pretty good president overall and would probably be perfectly acceptable if he won reelection.
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It’s all conjecture on Schlichter’s part. He wants to be “for” RdS (having already committed himself) but not be viewed as a weenie by Common Sense Normal America that KNOWS Trump is the right choice for all the right reasons.
Sucks to be Kurt right now. But sucks even worse to be Ronnie-boi.
Sky is blue.
Grass is green.
Water is wet.
“Sucks to be Kurt right now. But sucks even worse to be Ronnie-boi.”
It sucks to be us if the butthurt DeSantis supporters stay home for the general. If Trump lost the primaries, DeSantis is a decent alternative. I won’t be a sore loser.
no disagreement from me. the guy has the analysis right on. and i’ve been a DeSantis supporter on this site (like the author) since 2021.
This is a politics writer who is writing about things he does not understand.
Politics is forever changed. Independents don’t hate Trump. The writer wants that to be so because he has a deep, instinctive desire to keep Trump’s populist message denied, and he suspects the Independents like that message.
But he will fail. The change is forever. Drain the Swamp is far more important than governance.
I really like Kurt, but this article is rather thin gruel for him.
No one cares about that nevertrumping screed.
desanctimonious exposed himself as a lying, manipulative, corrupt, swamp uniparty rino supported person that no one likes, the more they get to know desantis.
Why mention all this? Because Trump has been calling out the evil the entire time. The way that evil has focused on Trump only proves he is the man we want. Sorry Kurt. I want the evil exorcised and Trump is the man to do it.
You undermine your own team.
De Santis must be thought of as the bench. To see reality, one must take a wider view
A team of only himself can’t be undermined
DeSantis’s campaign was irrelevant before it ever kicked off on Twitter.
You can see right now he’s learned nothing. He’s even more gullible than before.
.............I will continue to read Kurt but I am terribly disappointed in him suggesting Haley becomes the future president of the United States. OMG............what a disappointment Kurt is on this.
>> You undermine your own team
What, in your view, is “my” team?
And how exactly did you acquire the authority to decide it?
Well, I totally disagree with Kurt’s claim “no one else does.” Quite the contrary, now over 50% of polled voters like him, and in almost all polls people like him better than Rutabaga.
Well since you’ve been on FR sice 2004, I consider myself, by default, on your team.
But I’ll admit, it doesn’t always feel that way.
Taken together, your two posts to me make no sense.
FR isn’t a “team”, but even if it were, how did my first post “undermine” it?
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