Here’s How DeSantis Should Fight the Debate

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Here’s How DeSantis Should Fight the Debate

Kurt Schlichter
Aug 21, 2023

The word “fight” in the title of this column is intentional – Ron DeSantis is walking into the Octagon alone in the first GOP primary debate. The deck is stacked against him. He’s in a half-dozen or so gunsights. It’s Ronbo against the world. He best be ready.

Let us assume that Donald Trump takes my advice and makes the smart strategic choice – because Trump is known for always making the smart strategic choice just like Hunter Biden is known for his sobriety – of not attending the debate. DeSantis is the leader of the also-ran pack, the only conceivable rival to Trump at the moment, and he will be the guy each of the primary lilliputians is looking to take down by creating A Moment that will catapult them from also-also-ran to just also-ran. This complicates things for the Florida governor. Everyone else on stage will have one target, him. Alligator Ron will have three.

His first target is his opponents onstage. Ron has to demonstrate dominance over each of his rivals. That’s easy with Mike Pence, who always gives up and gives in to the establishment. The one time he stood firm was in rejecting Trump’s kooky electoral thing, but just last week he went belly-up for the frame job the enemy has launched against his ex-boss. Pence is one of those cons who pretends that passivity in the face of communist enemies is morally superior to crushing them. He makes submission into a fetish, and if he was not so uptight, he’d probably have a regular dominatrix.

“Mike, the time of the soft Republican is over. You should retire, teach Sunday school, and build birdhouses.”

Nikki Haley is the poster girl for 2005 conservatism, and DeSantis will need to dismiss her agenda of a return to the tired old GOP combo of wars n’ tax cuts for corporations that want to turn our kids trans. She’s all in on something-something Ukraine/Putin bad, that establishment mish-mash of cliches and fuzzy fake-tuff pseudo-thinking that substitutes for an actual national strategy that supports American interests. Nukey Nikki is all in for another Afghanistan, except with borscht, and you know that if her crew ever gets the wheel we’ll eventually be seeing CH47s lifting off from the Kyiv embassy roof. But then someone who was on the Boeing board is probably A-OK with dumping billions into the bloody Slavic blender with no articulated strategy for success. Yet she won’t fight at home. When Disney decided to pervertize our kids, Nikki sided with Disney because corporations are always right and the job of Americans is to obey.

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Source:  https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/08/21/heres-how-should-desantis-fight-the-debate-n2627241

[Maj. Bill Martin]

His first target is his opponents onstage. Ron has to demonstrate dominance over each of his rivals. That’s easy with Mike Pence, who always gives up and gives in to the establishment. The one time he stood firm was in rejecting Trump’s kooky electoral thing, but just last week he went belly-up for the frame job the enemy has launched against his ex-boss.

Nice to see someone draw that distinction between Trump's "kooky electoral thing" - which was indeed kooky - and jumping onto the bandwagon of the indictments.

It is entirely possible to believe that Trump's was urging Pence to take actions that were wrong-headed and unconstitutional, but also not criminal.