Posted on 06/10/2023 8:27:33 AM PDT by Drew68
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaking at the NCGOP convention Friday night, said if he’s elected president he would reverse the recent decision to change the name of Fort Bragg to Fort Liberty.
The promise by DeSantis to restore the name of the major military installation just north of Fayetteville, which earned loud cheers and applause from a ballroom full of Republican delegates at the Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, came just as President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden left newly named Fort Liberty after meeting with members of the armed forces.
The presidential candidate was touting Republican successes in last year’s midterm elections in Florida, and in North Carolina, amid disappointing results in the rest of the country, when he brought up the recently renamed installation.
“I also look forward to, as president, restoring the name of Fort Bragg,” DeSantis said to raucous cheers from the crowd.
He added that he would “thank the people that have served there, and they’re proud of their service there.”
“It’s an iconic name and an iconic base, and we’re not going to let political correctness run amok in North Carolina,” DeSantis said as the crowd continued to cheer.
Earlier on Friday, at Fort Liberty, Biden signed an executive order to enhance employment opportunities for military families. The executive action is intended to improve career stability and expand resources and support for military and veteran spouses, caregivers and survivors.
Fort Liberty, named more than a century earlier in honor of Gen. Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general from Warrenton, was renamed as part of a Department of Defense effort to adopt new names for military installations that were named for Confederate soldiers.
If you were on the line and you can look at your mirrored reflection and still see a good human being even after being part of the 60's madness then you are surviving.
desanctomonious is pandering, nothing more. He will never do it. We are back to politicians who promise the moon, but never do what they say. Trump did exactly what he said he would do. And he will again.
My big issue is your paperwork. You bet.
Good. I am sick and tired of this name-changing.
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So you’re sick of name changing but want it changed again.
Bragg-Liberty-Bragg.
I don’t care if the installation is called “Fort Newsom”
or “Fort Trump” it’s just a military facility.
A name change isn’t happening with a President DeSantis BTW, he doesn’t have the votes in the House or Senate to change it.
Absolutely he did! Ask us Floridians. Most think he did. I can’t stand him anymore .
Exactly. We want an open and vigorous primary and then will coalesce around whichever candidate wins.
There are too many creepy Trump cultists who will not vote if Trump is not the nominee.
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Then you’re screwed if Trump isn’t the nominee.
Watching a jerk like “you lose” it will be hilarious.
P.S. I ditched the GOP nominee for 3rd Party Candidates in the 2004,2008,& 2012 General Elections so you won’t be able to shame me into supporting that young punk from Florida.
I’ve been off the “GOP Reservation” for awhile & like it.
DeSantis is beholden to the stationery industry.
And we're screwed if he is because he's going to get schlonged in the general election.
That's the Democrats' plan.
Harass Trump endlessly with witch hunts and criminal charges that his angry base floods him with support, ensuring he's the nominee while at the same time, ensuring enough small 'r' Republicans, independent and swing voters are repelled by his personal behavior and exhausted by the endless investigations that they either stay home or vote for Biden.
The Nikki Haley history cleansing fan club will be sending you a membership application.
And we’re screwed if he is because he’s going to get schlonged in the general election.
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Maybe or maybe not, either way DeSantis can go find a Florida beach & “pound sand.”
P.S. The Establishment of the United States can rig any election the way they want.
Believing this, do you really think they’re going to let Trump back into the White House?
The Nikki Haley history cleansing fan club will be sending you a membership application.
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The history changers are the people that have come out of the education sector over the last 60 years.
I wish it wasn’t so, but that’s the reality. The politicians are responding to that reality.(like they always have.)
You are correct.
I’ve always stated its America First. There is only one candidate who embodies this platform both historically and presentalky, and he is President Donald Trump. Its why he is so hated and feared. The uni party is over if he retakes the WH. And their weaponized agencies will be gutted and rebuilt. Power will be lost. And these people can’t deal with that realiry. I will never again cast a vote for an establishment candidate.
Believing this, do you really think they’re going to let Trump back into the White House?
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Drew,
Today on June 9, 2023........”No”
It would take “economic carnage” bigger than the 2007-2009 financial meltdown for that to happen.
“Right now, I don’t see that happening.”
I promise you I will never vote for a GOPe candidate EVER again. I’d rather vote democrat. At least they don’t pretend to be conservative as they twist the knife in my back. If our country is going to hell then why prolong the trip. Lets get it over with.
June 9 should be June 10.(I’m tired)
Nimrata Nikki Haley like many recent imports is utterly indifferent to American history and will gladly toss it into the trash if she thinks that cheap virtue signalling will further her ambitions.
The DOD is changing names of bases named for Confederate generals. I’m surprised they didn’t name one Fort Maxwell Klinger!! 🤓
My SIL is in the 82nd at Bragg. Soldier are ignoring it. It’s still Bragg to them. It will, however, be nice if the name is restored.
Nimrata Nikki Haley like many recent imports is utterly indifferent to American history and will gladly toss it into the trash if she thinks that cheap virtue signalling will further her ambitions.
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True and she isn’t the only “history eraser” out there.
You know who isn’t a history eraser?
A city slicker from NYC that was our 45th President.
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