Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Wins Coveted Paul Ryan Endorsement for 2024

The Last Refuge ^ | October 14, 2022 | sundance

[Bratch]

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Wins Coveted Paul Ryan Endorsement for 2024

October 14, 2022 | Sundance | 127 Comments

Folks, I’m not trying to bust on Ron DeSantis, I’m just highlighting the dynamic in the background to include the political players and deep connected GOP club operatives.  If the truth makes me a critic, then so be it; but I’m not going to play the pretending game.  Quite frankly, I’m tired of it.

Ron DeSantis is backed by the same assembly of political insiders, donors, corporations and financial backers that supported Jeb Bush.  The professionally republican class know what they have in DeSantis, and he is brand organized, packaged & managed to deliver on their intents.

Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is as dialed in to the GOP club system as it gets.  Ryan’s brass nameplate is rivetted to one of the select mahogany chairs at the club table.

Speaking Wednesday at the Robin Hood conference before billionaires Steve Cohen and Paul Tudor Jones went on stage, Paul Ryan noted the GOP 2024 nominee will be “someone other than Donald Trump.”

According to a recording of his talk, Ryan named Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, and South Carolina Senator Tim Scott as his three favorites. {source} DeSantis fighting Disney was “really good for him, from a political perspective,” Ryan said.

DeSantis didn’t raise $200+ million, with 94% coming from billionaires and multinational corporations, for a gubernatorial reelection race in Florida.  Keep in mind all of the major expenses (television ads, mailers, etc.) are coming from outside PACs and affiliated groups.

DeSantis has raised a massive war chest and he is not spending it.   He has willingly accepted the positioning for a 2024 nomination effort.  It is intellectually dishonest not to see what the Club is doing.

The DNC Club is doing the same thing with California Governor Gavin Newsom.

The both wings of the UniParty want a Newsom -vs- DeSantis contest.

The professional political approach is as clear now in 2022 as it was in 2014 when the clubs were organizing the Hillary -vs- Jeb contest for 2016.

[Bratch]

[Does so]

Suspicion.

[kiryandil]

I don’t vote Uniparty any more.

[cranked]

And I suppose you all threw a post by LuntzIdiot in for good measure? omfg lmao.

[Reddy]

DeSantis is awesome, but I totally regret my vote for Paul Ryan for VP.

GAG.

[SmokingJoe]

No conservative Republican coverts an endorsement from Paul Ryan.
DeSantis will win DESPITE this funny “emdprsement” from Ryan the snake.

[JonPreston]

The Kiss of Death.

[so_real]

Ryan is not supporting DeSantis. He is (trying to) sabotage Trump. The gambit has already failed. But Ryan is not smart enough to understand that ... yet.

[rockrr]

So, is the author intimating that DeSantis is bought and paid for? Seems like quite a stretch.

[GMThrust]

Another way to look at this, is the DS trying to tarnish DeSantis by them endorsing him. This is also another way to paint a rift between DJT and DeS.

[HamiltonJay]

Coveted?? By Whom? Oh that’s right the Never Trump wing of the GOP that keeps trying to push Desantis this cycle.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

Imho if governor Desantis can keep Florida free and prosperous during a pandemic and hysteria, then I don’t care who backs him.

5.56mm

[bankwalker]

DeSantis has no intention of running. Ryan is just being his usual asss.

[Jacquerie]

As if I care what Ryan and his fellow never-Trumpers have to say. Ryan is as pro-America as Liz Cheney.

If DeSantis remains in FL, FL wins.

If he runs for President, the US wins.

[combat_boots]

DeSantis fast tracked the TPP

[gibsonguy]

“Coveted”? That is hilarious. It’s about as coveted as a Schiff endorsement.

[antidemoncrat]

That’s like Jeffrey Dahmer endorsing someone for “Chef of the Year Award”.

[pollywog]

DING DING DING DING!!! You win the post of the day award!!!! Spot on!!!!!!

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Ryan is not supporting DeSantis. He is (trying to) sabotage Trump. The gambit has already failed. But Ryan is not smart enough to understand that ... yet.

[Vermont Lt]

You don’t get to be the Gov of Florida without those backers.

This is a story about nothing, from people who think politics should be a cult.

[Jacquerie]

Thanks to DeSantis, FL is known as the Free State.