Posted on 09/22/2022 1:29:44 PM PDT by Drew68
When Ron DeSantis is consulting renowned experts about whether or not to run for president in 2024, the man he is most likely to listen to is President Chris Christie. Well, not literally listen. He’ll instead learn from the potential prezzy who ended up presiding in network green rooms instead of the White House because he declined to run when he had his big – well, everything about him is big – chance in 2012. The Gov will also look to the lessons of President Mario Cuomo. These two guys hesitated and missed their window, just like there are some folks – Mitt Romney, John Kerry, Felonia Milhouse von Pantsuit – who never actually had a window at all yet still tried to dive through one and ended up defenestrating themselves.
Remember a decade ago when we had Christiemania, when he was a breath of fresh air blowing away lib pieties after an improbable New Jersey governor win? And instead of striking while the presidential iron was hot, he failed to go for it, and now he will never be president of anything except maybe the International Society to Prevent Cardio. Mario Cuomo similarly blew it in the 80s. He was the Dem candidate who sped up the Dems’ heartbeats with his unapologetic defense of liberal values. He had his shot, and played Hamlet, and never became president. Today, he’s remembered only for being the father of two big creeps.
The 2024 cycle is undoubtedly Ron DeSantis’s moment. He won a first election that everyone expected him to lose as the governor of the Free State of Florida. He will win a crushing victory over secret lizard-person Charlie Crist this November. And he has set about owning the libs hard not merely by humiliating them for their hypocrisy with awesome moves like sending illegals to Martha’s Vineyard but with substantive conservative policies that are sucking the remaining productive people out of hellscapes like New York and California.
He has governed like a conservative, and he has the receipts. Florida works. Its kids went back to school while blue state bosses were still sacrificing their own kids’ futures to the garbage teacher unions. He is fighting wokeness and its poisonous CRT ideology. He treats the media like what it is – a pack of flunkies. And when he picks fights, he wins them. The base loves him. The polls bode well, to the extent polls are not mere onanism.
If Donald Trump was not still in the picture, he would be the unquestioned frontrunner. But Donald Trump is in the picture.
And he has every right to be. Let’s cut the baloney the regime media keeps serving up. This was a great president who made huge substantive improvements to the country. By defeating Bill Clinton’s wizened baby oven – maybe – Trump literally saved the Constitution. And he would have done even more but for an indisputably questionable election and the unprecedented, fully-fascist attacks of the Establishment and their media and bureaucratic allies.
There are good reasons for Trump to run, and good reasons for him not to, and none of them matter because the decision is Trump’s. The smart money says he will go for it.
So, does Ron DeSantis step up to the 800-pound Gorilla Channel fan for a clash of the titans?
There are rumors that he has promised not to run if Trump does. Do not believe them. There is wishcasting to the effect that he would take the veep slot. It won’t happen.
The fact is that this is DeSantis’s time to score the Big Enchilada.
He is never going to be better positioned than right after his smashing reelection victory. He will have the momentum, he will have the excitement, and he will have the bully pulpit as governor of America’s most vibrant state.
He’s young (44) and he could wait, in theory. But why? Youth is part of his sell, and that applies both to the relatively youthful Trump and especially to crusty Grampa Badfinger should he run again (which he seems to want to do). And after getting the nomination, some Democrat is going to have to spend the campaign explaining how inflation, foreign defeat, and an open border are actually good things. With potential competition like Crusty, Kamala, or that supply chain superhero/scourge of “racist roads” Buttigieg, DeSantis would have to try to lose.
But most of all, he has to consider the fact that things can only go downhill for him from here. An economic downturn. A hurricane the regime media will blame on his personal carbon footprint. A terrible heath crisis (thankfully, his wife recently beat cancer and is back by his side). It could be anything. And it could change everything. Chance is a fickle and cruel dominatrix, just the way the Dispatch guys like ‘em.
The problem with being on top is that there is nowhere to go but down. That’s the position Ron DeSantis would find himself looking at in 2028.
Sure, Trump has the poll numbers right now, but right now the 2024 race is a hypothetical. Republicans generally like Trump, except for the Never Trump sissies no one cares about anyway. But the midterm flogging of the Dems is not even complete and no one being polled is thinking deeply about 2024 yet.
“Who do I like? Haven’t given it much thought. Trump, I guess. Now stop calling me during supper.”
But soon, they will have to think about it. They will have to start weighing the alternatives. The GOP base loves only one thing more than Donald Trump, and that’s winning. Ron DeSantis is a proven winner. Donald Trump has the entire axis of evil gunning for him. The GOP could very well offer The Donald a gold watch and a handshake once they think it over.
Or not.
But one thing is undeniable. Ron DeSantis is the best positioned to beat Trump of any Republican who might run. And, unlike Trump, he has no firm ceiling for votes in the general. If Trump wins it will be a squeaker – it’s just a function of how many losers hate him. DeSantis has no such baggage.
And DeSantis knows all this. He’s not dumb, and neither is Trump, who sees the governor of New Alligatoria as his only real competition. The libs are dumb, but even they see it. That’s why we are already getting the inevitable “Trump is literally Hitler, but DeSantis is literally Hitler²” articles and tweets.
The stars have aligned. All the pieces fit. The time is now. Ron DeSantis really has no choice but to run if he ever wants to be president – he will never have a better chance. Just ask ex-President Christie.
This writer is very amusing.
I agree with much of what he says.
DeSantis has a lot going for him.
He’s young, vibrant, forward-looking, and unafraid.
He makes leftist heads explode.
He is also a good pro-life Christian.
What’s not to like?
SCOTUS was as much McConnells’ doing as it was Trump’s.
Wrong.
What a joke your post is. Take a little time to review what President Trump actually accomplished to avoid sounding like a total tool.
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/trump-administration-accomplishments/
That’s the difference between Trump and DeSantis supporters. Every DeSantis supporter on this site, including myself, has pledged to vote for Trump if he secures the GOP nomination, while so many Trump supporters are going to stomp their feet like petulant children and throw their away their votes to the Democrat.
How about a Trump/DeSantis Ticket. That would set up DeSantis for the election to come in 2028? Four years for Trump to set things right—then retire in grace and DeSantis continues the MAGA Revolution? Both are from the same state but Trump could move to another state—New Jersey? He owns a lot of places. The world in 2023 will be very different—the old order is on its last Green New Deal legs.
It would be incredibly naive to think that the left would not pull the same shenanigans on DeSantis as they have on Trump, regardless of how much baggage DeSantis may or may not have. A likely tag line would be DeSantis is Trump, evil incarnate.
Age weighs in favor of enjoying all the benefit of Trump’s remaining productive years rather first than going directly to someone younger.
I think that Trump himself is having Trump fatigue.
He is at an age when he should be more worried about his health than his political future.
Both of his brothers died at an age younger than he is now.
I wish him a long, peaceful retirement.
Your statements are only true, objectively, if you truly believe there was no fraud in 2020.
Furthermore, why you believe DeSantis would do any better in the Rust-Belt states, or any other states, with the possible exception of Florida boggle the mind. Especially with current state of polling that show President Trump wiping the floor with DeSantis.
And he is short - which will probably be enough to do him in with the shallow electorate...
And that my friend is both something you cannot prove, and a lie since I know of several loud-mouth posters who support DeSantis and have made it clear they are not voting for Trump.
You can argue that until the cows come home. If the democrats stole the election, it's because Trump let them steal it. And at the end of the day, Joe Biden is in the White House and Trump is living in Florida as a private citizen.
Trump knew they were going to steal it. Yet, he greenlit mail voting and then stupidly told his supporters not to utilize it but instead to vote in person during the middle of a pandemic.
And where was the army of poll watchers? He did nothing to stop the steal except whine about it on Twitter before he got booted off.
I think for the first time I agree with you on something. I love Kurt S. but he’s like most attorneys and places no value on loyalty. As “Darrell Royal famously said.....”we’re going to dance with who brung us”.
Americans owe Trump eternal gratitude for exposing the corrupt to the core American government and it’s partnership with the marxist media. AND, in the process, he put himself, his wife and his children through hell.
I like De Santis but he should wait to run for president if Trump runs.
JFK, Obama and Clinton all got elected. Both Obama and Clinton won two terms. JFK was on his way to his reelection....
Wishful thinking on your part.
If there truly any proof by his behavior or his words please provide that as supporting proof of your contention
Its been ages since the GOP had two conservatives worth voting for. Either Trump or DeSantis unless the GOP decides to throw another Jeb up.
That is a very shallow remark.
I fully agree, especially considering the fact that Trump will only get another 4 year span rather than an uninterrupted 8. The VP absolutely has to 1000% MAGA ongoing. We need 12 straight years of MAGA without liberal interruptions paying us back with KADA (Keep America Down Again) which is destruction back on schedule plus interest.
The cold truth is that if Trump runs (he will), he will lose in 2024.
DeSantis will probably win easily if he gets the nomination. He might even win Virginia and Colorado, states that are normally out of play.
Ron can’t run yet, he hasn’t been sued or indicted enough like Trump.
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