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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #75 on: April 25, 2023, 02:08:10 pm »
But his suckers, er, I mean supporters think he will.

Not that I believe Desantis will, either.

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Let's be completely honest about this. NOBODY is going to "drain the swamp" in one,or even two terms. It took decades to create it,and it's not going to go away overnight regardless of who wins the next election.
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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #76 on: April 25, 2023, 02:10:47 pm »
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That photo has to be a product of photo shop. No way in hell is Biden hugging any female over the age of 8.
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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #77 on: April 25, 2023, 02:16:20 pm »
I'd say its more like the conservatives and populists fighting each other, but maybe that's just me.

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I'd say it has more to do with the personalities of the Trump naysayers than anything else. They live in an alternate reality where it is impossible for "Rude Orange Man" to win.
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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #78 on: April 25, 2023, 02:22:20 pm »
He is also considered, and strategic.

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How much in campaign funds and how many votes will he gain while in Asia?
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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #79 on: April 25, 2023, 02:29:34 pm »
@Kamaji

How much in campaign funds and how many votes will he gain while in Asia?

Are you saying that he should not develop any sort of international experience or expertise?

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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #80 on: April 25, 2023, 03:07:15 pm »
The term "A-hole" is used in relation to Ron DeSantis by his fellow Florida Republicans in Congress.

DeSantis may be too impersonable to build an interstate coalition necessary to prevail in the GOP Primaries.

Elections are popularity contests.  It sounds like DeSantis is being an a-hole towards the wrong people.

Americans will vote for an A-hole willing to fight FOR them, not against them.

DeSantis' culture war strategy is popular among eccentric conservative GOP billionaire mega-donors, but the unwashed masses are more focused on fiscal issues that immediately effect them - 'All politics is local' and 'It is the economy, stupid".
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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #81 on: April 25, 2023, 03:11:10 pm »
The term "A-hole" is used in relation to Ron DeSantis by his fellow Florida Republicans in Congress.

DeSantis may be too impersonable to build an interstate coalition necessary to prevail in the GOP Primaries.


Hey Republicans, If Ron DeSantis Didn’t Hug You, It Will Be OK

BY: EDDIE SCARRY
APRIL 25, 2023

Serious question: Is David Trott’s wife embarrassed for him?

Readers are forgiven for perhaps having never heard of Trott, since he only sat in Congress for two terms and accomplished nothing of note, but he did ooze back to the surface last week under the most questionable circumstances: He emailed a Washington reporter to relive the time he desired the notice of another man, only to never receive it.

Politico’s widely read “Playbook” newsletter said Friday that it had received a “surprising email” from Trott, in which he recounted sitting “right next” to then-fellow Republican Congressman Ron DeSantis, who is now obviously governor of Florida and a likely presidential candidate. “[H]e never said a single word to me,” Trott said in the note. “I was new to Congress, and he didn’t introduce himself or even say hello.”

The Politico reporter said he called Trott for more details, and Trott giddily provided them. “I go to my first [House Foreign Affairs Committee] hearing early, and DeSantis showed up right at the gavel time and didn’t say hello or introduce himself,” he said. “And then the next hearing, the same thing happened. I think the third time it happened, I thought, ‘Oh, this guy’s not ever going to say hello to me.’”

With that memory seared into his brain, Trott concluded that DeSantis is “an -sshole.”

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/25/hey-republicans-if-ron-desantis-didnt-hug-you-it-will-be-ok/


Consider the source of the a-hole comment.

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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #82 on: April 25, 2023, 03:26:55 pm »
The fact it is April 2023, and the convention is 16 months away, and the we are already at this level vitriol, does not bear well for us.

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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #83 on: April 25, 2023, 03:34:14 pm »
The fact it is April 2023, and the convention is 16 months away, and the we are already at this level vitriol, does not bear well for us.

Reagan's 11th commandmant is a fleeting memory.


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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #84 on: April 25, 2023, 03:42:40 pm »
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That photo has to be a product of photo shop. No way in hell is Biden hugging any female over the age of 8.

That was my first thought, too, @sneakypete ----- which is why I posted the link to the source of the photo.  Click here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fabiola-santiago/article266871596.html

It's real.

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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #85 on: April 25, 2023, 04:04:29 pm »
Hey Republicans, If Ron DeSantis Didn’t Hug You, It Will Be OK

Pretty funny coming from the "Trump is too mean to support" crowd.  000hehehehe




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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #86 on: April 25, 2023, 04:42:04 pm »
Pretty funny coming from the "Trump is too mean to support" crowd.  000hehehehe

Pretty typical using a strawman when unable to defend your position.  No one here believes Trump is too mean to support.  It's that he's too liberal to support.  But then you knew that already.
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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #87 on: April 25, 2023, 04:43:57 pm »
Pretty typical using a strawman when unable to defend your position.  No one here believes Trump is too mean to support.  It's that he's too liberal to support.  But then you knew that already.

Exactly.

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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #88 on: April 25, 2023, 04:47:05 pm »
An issue with the DeSantis Culture Warrior routine is that it divides and drives away general election voters.

If you need to chose or create an enemy, do not make the voters that enemy.  Big Government, IRS, Inflation, Chi-coms are enemies that can coalesce voters around a candidate.
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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #89 on: April 25, 2023, 04:47:31 pm »

Reagan's 11th commandmant is a fleeting memory.

That commandment only applies to Republicans, not to those using the Republican Party as a vehicle to stroke their own egos.
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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #90 on: April 25, 2023, 04:49:21 pm »
Pretty typical using a strawman when unable to defend your position.  No one here believes Trump is too mean to support.  It's that he's too liberal to support.  But then you knew that already.

Well, many of his antics are similar to that of an unruly child or a spiteful teenage girl

But that’s minor compared to the economic and fiscal situation he left the country in and promises to do more of
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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #91 on: April 25, 2023, 04:50:09 pm »
An issue with the DeSantis Culture Warrior routine is that it divides and drives away general election voters.

If you need to chose or create an enemy, do not make the voters that enemy.  Big Government, IRS, Inflation, Chi-coms are enemies that can coalesce voters around a candidate.

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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #92 on: April 25, 2023, 04:50:44 pm »

As opposed to the swamp creatures who are supposedly supporting DeSantis?

Names, please.
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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #93 on: April 26, 2023, 12:52:08 am »
Are you saying that he should not develop any sort of international experience or expertise?

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I am saying that he is currently supposed to be governing Florida,not looking for campaign cash in Asia.
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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #94 on: April 26, 2023, 12:54:42 am »
The fact it is April 2023, and the convention is 16 months away, and the we are already at this level vitriol, does not bear well for us.

Reagan's 11th commandmant is a fleeting memory.

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AMEN!

At this point,if we say anything at all,it should be positive things  about the candidates we support,and leave their real or potential opponents alone to make mistakes on their own.
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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #95 on: April 26, 2023, 01:01:00 am »
Names, please.

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They are your pals,YOU name them.
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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #96 on: April 26, 2023, 01:04:02 am »
@Kamaji

I am saying that he is currently supposed to be governing Florida,not looking for campaign cash in Asia.

@sneakypete he is governing Florida --

Ron DeSantis
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I joined a roundtable with 80 executives from Japan’s largest companies to discuss why they should expand their businesses to Florida.

We are currently home to more than 200 Japanese firms that invest billions into our economy and are looking for more business opportunities for our state.

https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1650817097243533313?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #97 on: April 26, 2023, 01:13:40 am »
Are you saying that he should not develop any sort of international experience or expertise?

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Yeah,causen he is gonna  learn SOOOOO much in the few days he is sucking up to Asian politicians for their political and financial support,right?

Desperation is  NEVER pretty.
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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #98 on: April 26, 2023, 01:18:52 am »
@Hoodat

They are your pals,YOU name them.

You seriously expect me to prove your claim for you?
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Re: DeSantis Meets With Republicans on Capitol Hill, to a Lukewarm Response
« Reply #99 on: April 26, 2023, 01:26:47 am »
@sneakypete he is governing Florida --

Ron DeSantis
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I joined a roundtable with 80 executives from Japan’s largest companies to discuss why they should expand their businesses to Florida.

We are currently home to more than 200 Japanese firms that invest billions into our economy and are looking for more business opportunities for our state.

https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1650817097243533313?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

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Yeah,and he won't "pop" in your mouf,either.

He is trolling for cash by IMPLYING he will give them sweetheart deals IF he wins and that he will give them tax breaks if they open plants in Fla.

But,"Hey,if you can't trust DeSantis to support you after you supported him,who CAN you trust?",right?

He is pimping himself as well as Fla.
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