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Should it be Trump or DeSantis in 2024?
American Thinker ^ | November 29, 2022 | Edward Mike

Posted on 11/29/2022 9:58:49 AM PST by SoConPubbie

Should it be Trump or DeSantis in 2024?  The answer lies in these four words: Form Always Follows Function.  For example, if you’re shopping for a new vehicle, you must consider where the vehicle will typically be driven and for what purpose.  If you would buy a new rifle, you must consider what you plan to shoot with it.  The form must be matched to serve the function.

A classy Corvette wouldn’t be a good choice in the northern mountains.  Given the likelihood of blizzards and rocky back roads, a four-wheel-drive pickup will suit you better. Sure, they aren’t as classy looking and don’t get good mileage, but they are many times over more likely to get you where you need to go.

In a story about elephant hunting, the hunter reported that the tracks he followed were two feet wide.  Think of a large tree, two feet in diameter, thumping down every elephant step! That trusty deer rifle wouldn’t do if you’re planning to hunt elephants.  Elephant-hunting merits the biggest caliber you can find.  Sure, that ammunition is very expensive, and your shoulder will remember the kick.  But an elephant at 30 feet dictates a powerful gun.  Form always follows function.

Apply those two examples to managing a functional society.  What do we mean by a functioning society?  Instinctively, we know what that implies for us.  It works smoothly and allows every individual citizen to pursue his happiness.  These values are expressed in our Declaration of Independence (the sacredness of individual lives and the liberty that allows everyone to fulfill their potential), and the Bill of Rights in the Constitution (matching the laws of nature and of nature’s creator).  A functional society rests on the individual family unit, which is the cornerstone and model of society.  Individuals contribute responsibly what they

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: desantis; trump
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To: SoConPubbie

Considering DeSantis has not declared as a candidate, this seems like an easy choice.


41 posted on 11/29/2022 10:31:59 AM PST by GulliverSwift
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To: SoConPubbie

Trump!!!!


42 posted on 11/29/2022 10:32:38 AM PST by ontap
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To: SoConPubbie

I have responded to similar questions such as this for some time, now.

When it comes to thinking about 2024 or any other election cycle, I will not be at all concerned unless and until such time comes where the very serious issues that happened in the 2020 and now 2022 “elections” have been fully addressed and resolved.

If these issues continue go unresolved, then thinking about voting is a pointless waste of time and energy.


43 posted on 11/29/2022 10:34:32 AM PST by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Your right - If Biden can win Georgia and Arizona, Texas is next and then game-over. No other Republican will ever be elected. The fraud needs to be cleaned up and that starts at the state level.


44 posted on 11/29/2022 10:35:47 AM PST by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: central_va

TRUMP/LAKE 2024!!!

President Trump should be serving his second term in the Oval Office right now!!!

And I do NOT trust the current Florida governor whatsoever.
He is constantly forced down my throat from both “sides” and has already stepped over the line in being disloyal to our greatest POTUS more than once.

Wish my fellow Freepers etc could actually see through DeSantis’ phony facade!!!


45 posted on 11/29/2022 10:37:04 AM PST by edie1960 (7)
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To: Drew68
Can DeSantis flip WI, AZ, NV, and GA?

No.

Neither can Trump.

If either one can be President in 2024, it will be accomplished by totally unexpected events.

46 posted on 11/29/2022 10:38:04 AM PST by flamberge
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To: SoConPubbie
The FBI raid at Mar-A-Lago crystallized two things for me:

1. I’m going to vote for Donald Trump in 2024 even if he’s not on the ballot.

2. I will never vote for a lawyer again.

47 posted on 11/29/2022 10:38:31 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: SoConPubbie

We know Trump can’t get it done.

Too soon to tell about DeSantis.


48 posted on 11/29/2022 10:41:54 AM PST by FarCenter
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To: SoConPubbie

Trump 2024 - DeSantis 2028. Pretty clear road map.


49 posted on 11/29/2022 10:42:16 AM PST by larryleo
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To: SoConPubbie
The left fears Trump and the populist energy he generates. DeSantis, for all of his ability, has not yet faced the flame throwers that will be trained on him- if Trump is not on the scene. I'm supporting Trump as long as he continues to drive the uniparty snake$hit. IMO, this is absolutely critical.

Trump's policy comments in his announcement for 2024 were superb. If concerns in suburban circles for the crises facing this country are not enough to overcome the ballot challenges facing MAGA candidates, it won't matter who the GOP candidates are.

50 posted on 11/29/2022 10:42:32 AM PST by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. - Mencken)
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To: SoConPubbie

Trump....


51 posted on 11/29/2022 10:43:16 AM PST by silent majority rising
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To: SoConPubbie

It won’t matter if the cheating continues.


52 posted on 11/29/2022 10:47:08 AM PST by larryleo
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To: SoConPubbie

It’s actually too early to think about this. More candidates will emerge.

I think Trump announced way too early, but that may have been a legal device to get around the Dem’s lawfare.


53 posted on 11/29/2022 10:50:08 AM PST by livius
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To: ncfool

Unless mail-in voting is stopped, a Republican will never again be elected President.


54 posted on 11/29/2022 10:51:55 AM PST by macrahanish #1 (STARSET-Transmissions)
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To: SoConPubbie

Trump

The old Trump...


55 posted on 11/29/2022 10:53:33 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Safrguns

LOL


56 posted on 11/29/2022 10:53:45 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

The TV tells them so, although Faux News seems to really want Tim Scott.


57 posted on 11/29/2022 10:54:17 AM PST by macrahanish #1 (STARSET-Transmissions)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

“The more Trump was visible, the more people hated him.”

Trump received more votes in 2020 than in 2016.
From memory....Trump rec’d more votes than ANYBODY to date, except....Biden.

Biden was sworn in due to the Soros, Facebook, Wall Street funded vote fraud in a dozen+/- counties in just 4-5 states...and complete control of DC and it’s apparatchiks.

It was a well thought out and well executed combined arms operation made possible by complete on-”air superiority” and a relentless propaganda campaign.

Biden is a total life loser. A vacuous spear carrying empty suit...never center stage....never an original thought..lies when his lips move...a punchline even among the Left.

He did not even campaign and received 81mm votes? Really?

Trump did not lose because he “was” hated by the voters.
He is loved. He turns out more people than a Beatles reunion....even if the two dead ones showed up.

He was not installed because the DC Imperium hate him.

Trump would not go to guns and they ran him out of town.

DeSantis is a handsome FL Quarterback. Quick. Fast. Loved. Decisive. Like a QB, he can win a fight verbal or physical in any college bar near a FL campus....BUT, he is not indestructible like the NYC cut-nut billionaire that never gives up and does not give a crap anymore.

Good bold management can no longer save us.

We need a ruthless pissed off head chopping war leader.

I would rather have someone more effective, but Trump at 76 is the best we got....a shame Musk is not natural born.

I just hope Trump learned that without dropping bridges and coms into DC and running the Reformation through a new Constantinople and not the old Rome....the Republic falls.

Small consolation that soon thereafter the rotted currency debased Empire that the Sodomites created, collapses as well.

But heck. What do I know? And I do not feel that strongly about anyway.


58 posted on 11/29/2022 11:02:21 AM PST by Lowell1775
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To: central_va
Drew you are on here 7x24. Who is paying you?

I could ask the same about you, n00b.

59 posted on 11/29/2022 11:02:46 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: SoConPubbie; All
Thank you for referencing that article SoConPubbie. Please note that the following critique is directed at Edward Mike article and not at you.

Respectfully to Mr. Mike, he is evidently another journalist that was probably never taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers.

From related thread...

Patriots are reminded that, regardless that pro-unconstitutionally big federal government FN wants everybody to believe that the Oval Office is the most powerful peacetime office in the land, the Founding States had intended for state governors offices to have the lion's share of government powers to serve the people, not the feds.

The bottom line about serving the needs of the people is this imo. The idea of DeSantis, or any governor who has proved up to the job of making a state thrive with vast 10th Amendment powers, then getting elected to Oval Office to make the nation thrive under constitutionally limited (think about that) federal government powers, is pure Hollywood escapism imo.

Again, governor's offices are the best place for anybody who is up to serving the most people that they can under the Constitution imo.

So DeSantis should be happy with governor's office imo.

In the meanwhile, "street fighter" Trump 47 needs to not only finish draining the swamp, but also make Congress surrender state powers that the feds have been stealing from the states back to the states.

Once unconstitutional, unaccountable federal taxes are stopped, many crook politicians will loose interest in getting elected to DC imo.

60 posted on 11/29/2022 11:05:01 AM PST by Amendment10
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