Get Ready for Trump to Attack DeSantis from the Left

[cato potatoe]

Get Ready for Trump to Attack DeSantis from the Left

By PHILIP KLEIN February 10, 2023 11:27 AM

Florida governor Ron DeSantis is most known for his relatively early abandonment of Covid restrictions and aggressive battles against wokeness in all its manifestations. But he entered politics before today’s culture-war battles were front and center, when the Tea Party was still strong, and when a desire to shrink government was what separated the real conservatives from the RINO wing.

In a post reacting to the Social Security and Medicare dustup between Republicans and President Biden during the State of the Union, Josh Barro reminds his readers that as a member of the House of Representatives, DeSantis not only supported Paul Ryan-style proposals to overhaul entitlements but actually voted for conservative alternatives that went further. Much of Barro’s post is about how Biden could exploit this record in a face-off against DeSantis. But it’s likely that DeSantis will face these attacks well before any theoretical general-election match-up — from Donald Trump.

Trump has consistently rejected the idea of entitlement reform, which he sees as a political loser. Currently, he is lecturing Republicans that they shouldn’t cut a single penny out of Social Security and Medicare. He reiterated that point again yesterday and diverted attention to much smaller items in the federal budget, such as foreign aid, gender-ideology instruction in the military, illegal immigration, and “waste and fraud.”

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Trump is now referring to GOP rival DeSantis as 'Meatball Ron' and 'Shutdown Ron' as ex-president tries to paint Florida governor as a lockdown hypocrite who closed his state

    Donald Trump has ramped up his attacks against Ron DeSantis in recent weeks
    DeSantis has not yet declared his intent to run for the White House but his refusal to rule out a 2024 challenge to Trump has angered the ex-president
    Trump has also privately called DeSantis 'Shutdown Ron,' according to report

By Elizabeth Elkind, U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.Com

Published: 16:30 EST, 12 February 2023 | Updated: 16:41 EST, 12 February 2023

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11742767/Trump-DeSantis-Meatball-Ron-report.html

[cato potatoe]

Don't know about you, but entitlements are a dealbreaker between me and the GOP going forward.  The US faces a catastrophic debt crisis, in which SSA and Medicare play no insignificant role.

https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2022/6/22/us-fiscal-imbalance-june-2022

The party must embrace a platform which benefits younger Americans.  If Trump ignores their biggest problem, he surely doesn't deserve their votes. 

[DB]

I'll be glad when the adolescent name taunts are behind us.

[deb]

Meatball Ron? Shutdown Ron? If you’re going to behave in this manner, at least be clever.
The angry old man is losing his touch.

[cato potatoe]

Trump is now referring to GOP rival DeSantis as 'Meatball Ron' and 'Shutdown Ron' as ex-president tries to paint Florida governor as a lockdown hypocrite who closed his state

You gotta be kidding me.  I came Tampa in June 2020, and just about everything was open, in spite of the Trump CDC guidelines.  Are Republicans dumb enough to fall for this?

[LMAO]

You gotta be kidding me.  I came Tampa in June 2020, and just about everything was open, in spite of the Trump CDC guidelines.  Are Republicans dumb enough to fall for this?

I might be wrong on this, but wasn’t Trump critical of governors opening their states too early

[LMAO]

I'll be glad when the adolescent name taunts are behind us.

But it excites his  diminishing base of supporters

[Maj. Bill Martin]

In fairness, the "Meatball Ron" nickname is one he only "reportedly" has used in private.

But he definitely has gone after DeSantis for his COVID response, which does seem like an odd tactic.

[Wingnut]

Waiting for RiV to weigh in.

[mountaineer]

Meatball Ron? Shutdown Ron? If you’re going to behave in this manner, at least be clever.
The angry old man is losing his touch.

By popular demand, Co. Jones Productions’ spaghetti and meatball western, “DESANTIS,” will be released in the U.S. as “DEATHSANTIS.”

https://twitter.com/GiancarloSopo/status/1662489562218725376

Now that's clever. 

[Hoodat]

By popular demand, Co. Jones Productions’ spaghetti and meatball western, “DESANTIS,” will be released in the U.S. as “DEATHSANTIS.”

An homage to our first Italian American president

Give it a month, and Biden will be passing himself off as the first Italian-American President.

[mountaineer]

Give it a month, and Biden will be passing himself off as the first Italian-American President.

I thought he was Puerto Rican. Or black. 

[deb]

By popular demand, Co. Jones Productions’ spaghetti and meatball western, “DESANTIS,” will be released in the U.S. as “DEATHSANTIS.”

https://twitter.com/GiancarloSopo/status/1662489562218725376

Now that's clever.