Posted on 08/21/2023 9:10:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Election season is rapidly approaching. The first Republican debate is this week. The Iowa caucus is in January, and the New Hampshire primary is soon thereafter. With over a dozen declared candidates, the marathon placements are starting to take shape.
For now, don't lean too heavily on polls. First, we're too far out, and too much can happen. Second, we all know how we feel about polls. The poll showing our candidate doing well is Gospel. The poll showing our candidate faring poorly is Soros-funded dreck. As the polls change direction, so too change their designations. Rinse. Repeat.
But taking this into consideration, it is undeniable that, if all primary voting were held today, then Trump would win handily, DeSantis would come in a solid second, and both Ramaswamy and Scott will have garnered enough second-tier support to warrant vice presidential consideration. Unfortunately for whichever camp you fall into, the polling so far suggests that Trump can't lose the primary and can't win the general election.
But what should be a civil discussion among rational conservatives is turning personal and nasty — not just among candidates, but among their supporters as well. Trump-supporters are treating DeSantis-supporters like neocon sellouts, and DeSantis-supporters are treating Trump-supporters like cultish conspiracy theorists. Neither charge is merited, and the rabble-rousers on both sides would do well to cut the ad hominem attacks. Such are the tactics of leftists peddling the sexualization of children, not of principled Americans who reasonably disagree about the best path forward.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Concur
“Isn’t that the way it’s supposed to be?”
Absolutely.
No quarter, for anyone.
Because the Democrats will fight with all they got, and all they can invent.
TRUE!
Rob DeSanctus will be remembered as a governor who flew too close to the sun.
Two people worshipping at the altar of a strawman. You should get out more.
I find this characterization bizzare, disrespectful and insulting. 100% against the spirit of what Jim R has requested. IOW Trump supporters are stupid groupies and only you have a mind that works. Way to win friends...not.
I think you nailed it.
He may have lacked foresight but he had planty of hubris and a weakness for big donations.
DeSantis is beholding to the Globalist/Big Business cabal. I hope he stays in Florida or the Senate where he will not be able to do as much to damage America.
I’m hoping too. I’d love to hear his thoughts after this is over on what he was thinking. It was a mess.
At least DeSantis has a long life ahead of him. The other thing is running out of breaths rapidly.
At least 2024 is the end for one of them forever!!!!!! DeSantis will go to the senate when Scott finishes and DeSantis will run again for president. Trump is on his fourth and last run.
4th?
Two people worshipping at the altar of a strawman. You should get out more.
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You’re right. I now see the light. See post 178. That’s the altar I worship at now.
“Read the replies in this thread. There’s a dozen or more “Trump or else” replies.”
I was being specific to what you said.
Yes, a thousand times yes.
According to the psalmist and the prophet Isaiah, those who worship inanimate idols will be like them, that is, unseeing, unfeeling, unable to hear the truth ...
You have to beware of your fascination with worshiping at an idol rather than thinking & reasoning.
I think you missed the sarcasm. This fascination applies to only Trumpers. From upthread....
“Trump is a religious icon to them the same way that that a leftist single woman worships Rachel Maddow, RBG, or Stacey Abrams, with the T-shirts, prayer candles, and with MSNBC constantly blaring.”
No, I just turned it. Your insults are egregious and demeaning. I resent your closed minded approach and refusal to stick to facts rather than mud throwing. You do no honor to your candidate or this community.
None of US know our day or hour. He could vapor lock before you do.
Don't underestimate the ability of Trump to hurt Trump.
Maybe.
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