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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: mystery-ak on May 26, 2023, 03:34:35 pm
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Ron DeSantis gives America the chance to move on from its punch-drunk stupor
By Post Editorial Board
May 25, 2023 9:11pm
Ron DeSantis’ entry into the 2024 race for the White House offers a fighting chance for America to dodge a Donald Trump versus Joe Biden rematch that almost nobody (except Trump and Biden) craves: According to most polls, this punch-drunk nation just wants to move on.
Trump clearly sees the danger in DeSantis, judging by the increasing velocity, ferocity and downright absurdity of his attacks on the Florida gov. Consider the $15 million Trump’s SuperPAC dumped into dumping on DeSantis before he even announced his candidacy.
But he failed to strangle the candidacy in its cradle: DeSantis enters with the war-chest (north of $110 million, well ahead of Trump) and polling numbers to potentially de-throne the frontrunner.
Yes, other talented Republicans might yet rise to the top or even enter the race: It’s a long way to Iowa, let alone the ’24 convention. But at the moment, it looks like an exclusive heavyweight bout between the two.
DeSantis is a proud son of the working/middle class — mom a nurse, dad a TV tech — who played elite baseball as a kid and at Yale, working his way through college while managing to graduate magna cum laude before heading to Harvard Law and then to the Navy, where he served our country as a JAG in Iraq and elsewhere.
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https://nypost.com/2023/05/25/ron-desantis-gives-america-the-chance-to-move-on-from-its-punch-drunk-stupor/
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I'm ready for some solid, steady leadership and end the whirling circle of flaming FUBAR.
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I'm ready for some solid, steady leadership and end the whirling circle of flaming FUBAR.
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I'm ready for some solid, steady leadership and end the whirling circle of flaming FUBAR.
Solid, steady, ADULT leadership. :0001:
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Solid, steady, ADULT leadership. :0001:
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Did Ron actually want to run though? I feel like he was basically dragged into this, halfheartedly.
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Did Ron actually want to run though? I feel like he was basically dragged into this, halfheartedly.
Considering the great orange ones attacks I would say he had two choices run or back down looking like a chicken...and I don't think DeSantis does chicken. I think as usual Trump made a huge blunder turning a would be ally into an enemy, but hey Trump seems to be big on creating animosity in his supposed party while complimenting those on his supposed opposing party.
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Is that supposed to mean anything to anyone but you in this context?
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Is that supposed to mean anything to anyone but you in this context?
Trump couldn’t emulate George Washington if his life depended on it.
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And, by contrast, Donald Trump is now making common cause with liberals.
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Is that supposed to mean anything to anyone but you in this context?
It will only mean something to those who don't surrender to Marxist tyranny.... So, please, relax. I didn't post expecting you to understand @GtHawk or @debrawiest Let not your hearts be troubled. happy77
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It will only mean something to those who don't surrender to Marxist tyranny.... So, please, relax. I didn't post expecting you to understand @GtHawk or @debrawiest Let not your hearts be troubled. happy77
How is supporting big government from the right *not* surrendering to Marxist tyranny?
Asking for a friend...
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How is supporting big government from the right *not* surrendering to Marxist tyranny?
Asking for a friend...
Hey now. We cannot be expected to understand superior intellect like that. *****rollingeyes*****
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It will only mean something to those who don't surrender to Marxist tyranny.... So, please, relax. I didn't post expecting you to understand @GtHawk or @debrawiest Let not your hearts be troubled. happy77
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Blah Blah Blah, you are becoming more like the teacher in Charlie Brown cartoon where only you and those with a Trump decoder know what you are saying.
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Hey now. We cannot be expected to understand superior intellect like that. *****rollingeyes*****
Fair enough @debrawiest :beer:
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Fair enough @debrawiest :beer:
Have a nice holiday weekend.
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It will only mean something to those who don't surrender to Marxist tyranny.... So, please, relax. I didn't post expecting you to understand @GtHawk or @debrawiest Let not your hearts be troubled. happy77
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Or those who have already surrendered to third-world-style caudillismo.
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Considering the great orange ones attacks I would say he had two choices run or back down looking like a chicken...and I don't think DeSantis does chicken. I think as usual Trump made a huge blunder turning a would be ally into an enemy, but hey Trump seems to be big on creating animosity in his supposed party while complimenting those on his supposed opposing party.
I, too, see this as an unforced and serious error on Trump's part. What could have landed twelve years of a Republican in the White House, and cleaned up a lot of what is wrong, has turned into some sort of ridiculous expenditure of energy, money, and vitriol against a guy who had formerly not professed great interest in running.
Now all the pundits will have all the excuses they need for braying about the criminally imposed underperformance of whoever the Republicans nominate when the votes are 'counted'.
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I, too, see this as an unforced and serious error on Trump's part. What could have landed twelve years of a Republican in the White House, and cleaned up a lot of what is wrong, has turned into some sort of ridiculous expenditure of energy, money, and vitriol against a guy who had formerly not professed great interest in running.
Now all the pundits will have all the excuses they need for braying about the criminally imposed underperformance of whoever the Republicans nominate when the votes are 'counted'.
Yes, Trump made a huge mistake; but as usual his 'ego' got in the way.
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Or those who have already surrendered to third-world-style caudillismo.
That's exactly who/what Trump is. I just didn't think we'd ever have so many Americans attracted to that type.
The image of North American strongman Donald Trump just makes me ill. And the image of Trump's ego-laden messiah complex next to George Washington's humility and grace is just sickening.
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I think as usual Trump made a huge blunder turning a would be ally into an enemy, but hey Trump seems to be big on creating animosity in his supposed party while complimenting those on his supposed opposing party.
Which is exactly why his second term would be no more consequential than his first, except for likely handing us off to someone much worse than Joe Biden in 2028 as voters are repulsed by a GOP with Trump in charge.
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"Stacking bodies." A complete joke coming from the ultimate fake tough guy.
When push comes to shove on controversial issues that may impact his popularity adversely, he folds like a cheap suit.
He handed the country over to Fauci because he was afraid of the backlash if he didn't. He won't discuss entitlement reform because he's afraid it will make him unelectable. He's a coward who during Covid sacrificed the people to his own political popularity. And Trumpers actually use that as the defense to excuse Trump's own passivity.