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 ...
Like I said nobody is really campaigning.
Those were other times. Today your party is filled with Uni Party backed Rinos. They need to be called out and expelled from your party. Not voted for or supported.
Yes on both sides but I especially have taken um ridge with being called a Trump cultist.
Umbridge. I detest spell check sometimes!
Spellcheck ain't the problem. It's spelled 'umbrage'.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
lol
We need a truce right here on Free Republic.......people here are doing the exact same thing.....for the exact same reason.
I fully endorse this sentiment. The name calling is childish. You can have a preferred candidate but there hasn’t even been a debate (and it looks like there won’t if some don’t participate) let alone a primary. The derogatory stuff hasn’t even had a sense of humor to it. It has all been ugly.
“being called a Trump cultist”
Hey I never said that....thought it a few times though. 😁
2000, 2016, 2020, 2024. Yes it seems like many more. Lol.
Wow. That's a spectacularly stupid "POINT," if true. It almost sounds like DeSantis doesn't want their votes.
Lol.
If Trump is taken out, it will be because his supporters are not seen as team players.
Politics is a team sport.
That’s just perfect.
Your a gentleman and a scholar
Good day. 👍
Considering the state of play DeSantis should just surrender.
It does seem that the effect is rather one-sided. As Tom Schelling wrote, unconditional surrender to someone who is not going to take the opportunity for mass genocide is a tactic that puts a huge burden on the other side. Now he has to figure out what to do with you.
Let’s try to imagine a presidency in which there was no russia hoax, no 24/7/365 lies in.the media, no impeachments, no china virus, and fair reporting on the border, the economy, and world affairs.
How differently President Trump would have responded if not under constant attack. Remember: EVERYTHING he was accused of was lies. Example: Remember when he was mocked for saying he was being bugged?
Now we know for certain that he was.
Oh, I’m a team player, all right. I spent money, time, and my vote on George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney, only because I KNEW the alternatives were much worse, and damned if all but one of them didn’t lose and leave me with the worst alterative anyway.
Everyone can hold their noses and vote for MY candidates for the next 21 years. I ain’t playing ball no more.
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