"President Trump: Is “Rob” just young, inexperienced and naive or, more troubling, is he a fool who has no idea what he is doing. We already have one of those in office, we don’t need another one."
If Trump read Free Republic, he'd be able to argue the following against any retired or incumbent governor who has sights set for the Oval Office.
First, the bottom line.
Before any other conservative wins the Oval Office, Trump is the best person that patriots can elect to Oval Office to finish draining the swamp imo, especially cleaning up the judiciary.
Next, regardless that FN wants everybody to believe that the Oval Office of the peacetime, constitutionally limited power federal government is the most powerful office in the land, that is simply not the case, shown by my emphasis of contradictory terms.
More specifically, retired governors, or incumbents like DeSantis, do not want to take the vast state powers that they used to make their states thrive with them to the Oval Office and use those powers to try to make the nation thrive.
Good-intentioned conservatives have already unthinkingly taken state powers with them into the Oval Office. But doing so is basically why we are now being oppressed under the boots of an unconstitutionally big federal government imo.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
From the congressional record:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Democrats Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
In other words, most federal domestic policy is now based on state powers, and uniquely associated state revenues, that the very corrupt post-17th Amendment ratification feds have stolen, and continue to steal from the states.
Based on the excerpts above, state revenues are stolen by means of unconstitutional, unaccountable federal taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional, Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
In fact, given that one of the very few powers that the states have actually expressly constitutionally given the peacetime federal government to dictate domestic policy is to run the US Mail Service, the key question that all Constitution-savvy voters need to ask themselves regarding who they're going to support for president is the following.
How many corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties and unconstitutional, unaccountable trillion dollar omnibus bills does it take to run the US Mali Service?
I say none, no political parties or massive omnibus spending bills needed to deliver the mail.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In other words, the drafters of the Constitution had intended for the peacetime federal government to basically be a lame duck 24/7 imo, Trump 47 at least able to do what he does best, getting satisfaction from making great trade deals, while he finishes draining the swamp.
In fact, after Trump finishes draining the swamp, he can start spending more of his second term on the golf course like Obama did.
And if DeSantis follows Trump into Oval Office then DeSantis can spend even more time on golf course than Trump did since the swamp will hopefully be long gone by that time, state powers stolen by the feds surrendered back to the states.
On the other hand, if DeSantis really wants to continue to serve the most people that he can under the Constitution, then evidenced by Rep. John Bingham's statement from the congressional record above, Bingham having been a constitutional lawmaker, DeSantis needs to keep his governor's job imo.
Thanks for posting that. Many people don’t realize that John Bingham was considered the father of the 14th Amendment and defined what a true natural born Citizen is recorded on the House floor.