A week ago, Colorado senate republican candidate Joe O’Dea said on CNN, “I don’t think Donald Trump should run again.” He quickly added, ” I’m going to actively campaign against Donald Trump and make sure that we have got four or five really great Republicans right now; Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley and Tim Scott.”
President Trump blasted O’Dea the following day {link}.
Today, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis picked Joe O’Dea as his only 2022 endorsed senate candidate {link}, recording a robocall for O’Dea that says, “Hello this is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. America needs strong leadership and desperately. That’s why I’m endorsing Joe O’Dea for U.S. Senate. Colorado, please vote for Joe O’Dea.”
Keep in mind, Ron DeSantis is a governor who campaigns on his success as a governor and has been rallying exclusively for governor candidates. However, despite not endorsing the republican candidate in the Colorado state race (Heidi Ganahl), Governor DeSantis went out of his way to support the only explicitly anti-Trump Senate candidate in 2022, Joe O’Dea.
When Paul Ryan endorsed Ron DeSantis, you could argue that DeSantis never asked for it. When Jeb Bush endorsed DeSantis, again you could argue that DeSantis never asked for it. However, the transparency of DeSantis endorsing O’Dea who has stated his intent to actively campaign against any MAGA candidate… well, you can’t say that had nothing to do with DeSantis.
Face it.
This is what is clear.
The DeSantis 2024 organizers are a mixture of allied republican establishment figures, corporate party donors and former Ted Cruz base supporters (Never Trumpers) who have united in common cause to stop the MAGA working-class coalition from taking full control of the republican party. An endorsement for DeSantis from Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger is increasingly likely as soon as the midterm election is over.
Ron DeSantis is increasingly being exposed by his own actions/inactions and the actions of others.
Let us not pretend any longer.
{ Source }
I could smell the establishment GOP in the Florida winds over the spring and summer. When DeSantis went into the bunker on the day of the FBI Mar-a-Lago raid, remained silent for 5 days, and then exited bunker with a new establishment brand image crew and communications team, it was obvious what just happened.
We accept things as they are, not as we would wish them to be. 94% funded by Wall Street hedge fund managers, billionaires and multinational corporations,… to the tune of over $200,000,000….. with a national campaign launch, book launch and national television advertising strategy…. It became brutally obvious.
Ron DeSantis in 2024 is Jeb Bush + Ted Cruz in 2016.
- Five Days in Bunker following Mar-a-Lago Raid 8/9/22
- No expressed support for Donald Trump following Mar-a-Lago raid 8/9/22.
- New brand image consulting team 8/14/22
- New communications team 8/14/22
- National advertising campaign
- 94% billionaire and corporate funding
- Raised $200+ million for state governor race?
- Cancels Lee Zeldin fundraiser after meeting with New York real estate donor who supports Hochul
- Endorsed by Club For Growth (C4G)
- Voted to support TPP trade agreement and Obama Fast Track trade authorization
- Supports all Ukraine funding and U.S. government spending in Ukraine
- Endorsed Florida Red Flag Laws, most firearm confiscation of any state
- Silent over the 100 Florida citizen J6 detainees (largest number in nation)
- Asked legislature to criminalize boycotts of Israeli companies, including pharmaceutical companies
- No support for E-verify system or employment law against illegal alien hires
- Endorsed by Paul Ryan
- Endorsed by Jeb Bush
Sooner or later people have to admit the obvious.
Ron DeSantis is a generally good governor, but he is being dishonest in his national intents.
Sure makes me glad that I decided to TRUST Sundance’s Judgement on this, BEFORE I made up my mind about DeSantis!
He’ll make a Good Governor for the State of FL, BUT after this, I “wood-ent-trust” him with “a 10′ pole”! CMDrift?
He is starting to sound just like another McConnell gop sellout.
Hello DeSantis lovers where are you now?
Good question.
Sadly, (I don’t know if DeSantis knows this or not, I suspect he knows but his ambition got the better of him) – when you run against somebody, you’ll have to point out the other person’s flaws and what makes you better.
If the 2024 primary season is as brutal as in 2016, you can’t just “kiss and make up” and hope the winner will still view you favorably.
When DeSantis runs for the 2024 cycle, he and his backers better know that they can kill the king. The MAGA crowd, which I consider myself one, won’t be forgiving.
Captain Ron is in bed with the Cultural Marxists. Shame. When it mattered, Ron voted like a FILTHY Liberal. Bye Bye Ron.
If Ron DeSantis, Nicki Haley and Tim Scott are what is considered really great republicans than I will have reservations voting for any of the three in a 2024 presidential primary race. They lack the tenacity to right the lopsided scales of justice.
Trump blasted the Republican nominee in Colorado, who admittedly does not like him. A lot of people are beginning to wonder if Trump is more interested in himself than in policies that will help Americans. MAGA does not mean Make Trump Great Again. I say this as someone who voted for Trump twice and would do so again. But if he comes across as being more interested in himself than in the country, he will piss off a lot of people. Given the state he is running in, this was about as good a candidate we were going to get. Trump would have been wiser to say nothing. Half a republican is better than 100 percent of a democrat.
The party of crazy IS AS BAD AS the party of traitors (the Bush-Cheney-Clinton globalist cabal currently masquerading as DeSantis).
Trump gave up everything to fight for our country and for us. It is absolutely ridiculous and completely disingenuous to say he is more interested in himself than the country.
Exactly.
So correct. The only president that list millions in office.
Trump is controlled opposition. You are blund, deaf, and, especially, dumb.
Excuse me, BLIND, not BLUND. I BLUNDered there.
Nope. I do not agree that half a republican is better than 100 a democrat. Been burned by too many fake republicans. The last Republican who won our district in 2016 turned around and handed the Democrats in my state the vote needed to pass their presidential electoral voter disenfranchisement scheme. Our electoral votes now go to the winner of the most popular vote regardless of who wins the state.
Stop Don SMythe. I read this exact comment you made on Twitter. Trump had not mentioned anything about O’Dea. O’Dea came for him on CNN first. The two candidates for Colorado virtually have no differences. Trump had every right to nail him to the wall. This is all about McConnell wanting to maintain power and he would rather have a minority that win without fealty. His time will be up in the next 3 years. Who cares who is pissed off? People are fickle and change with the wind. This man was never going to win the race and it is obvious that he is using Trump to say Trump’s pettiness lost him the race , insert Desantis. I don’t trust Desantis and his plain is obvious as daylight!
I do not write on Twitter. Sorry. And I am playing devil’s advocate here.
Also, be aware that many people I know who have also been Trump backers are very worried about his age … you and I might not be bothered that he would be 78, but a lot of people in my conservative baliwick here in Florida are voicing that opinion. The thing I fear most is Trump and DeSantis battling for the nomination and generating such animosity that the lover’s backers stay home in November 2024. Want more Joe or Kamala? That’s how you get it.
Very hard to beat incumbent Dem in CO with a weak GOPe candidate who has promised to vote for Obama’s unconstitutional Dreamers.
Better to send a message to CO state GOP and vote for Libertarian Brian Peotter.
Platform sounds like a mini-Trump.
https://www.peotter.com/
😏😏 Nope! President Trump fights.
You appear to cower.
Cheers!
It is NOT Trump’s opinion of HIMSELF that is irritating to those who hate him.
That is merely a convenient Deflection.
Half a Republican has not so far proven to be an Improvement over a Democrat – just a Toady to the Democrat:
For there are eunuchs who have been born incapable of marriage; *and there are eunuchs who have been made so by men; and there are eunuchs who have made themselves incapable of marriage for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let him who is able to accept this accept it. – Matthew 19:12
*Generally speaking, these refer to Servants of the King, who have been Rendered to have No VESTED INTEREST in ANYTHING in the Palace except to do the bidding of the King.
I suggest that is the Description of RINOS, who bow to the service of the Democrats, BUT NOT of their own Homeland. The TOOL USED to so Render the “man” is CASH on the Barrel Head. And he or she has No Other Loyalty at all.
That’s the problem with RINOS like yourself. Half a republican is a democrat in a Brooks Brothers suit.
“I say this as someone who voted for Trump twice”
Sure you did…
That’s too much like a faithful wife whose husband claims fidelity because he only cheats on weekdays. That, a marriage does not make.
Are you kiddin’?! Trump was controlled opposition from the start. Don The Con and Q. How stupid are sheople?! A rabid lifetime lefty lib Dem who partied with Clintons and Epstein and who abandoned J6 and watched it all unfold from the comfort of the TaxPayers’ Oval Office suddenly is The Saviour of The People?! C’mon, you j/a/k@$$3$! This is a fraud who was QUOTED on TV in 2012 that, if he ever ran again for Pres, he’d run Repub bcuz Repubs, per him, are the stupidest people on the face of the Earth. Direct quote. Then, suddenly, this rabid Dem is a Repub running for Pres in 2015. C’MON.
you need to get smarter ! …….Goose .
As biblical accounts show us time and time again God uses imperfect people to do GREAT things! Moses was a murderer yet God used him to save the Israelites, an oppressed people, enslaved by The Egyptians. David, who slayed the Philistine giant Goliath & who became King, had another man killed so that he could have this man’s 8th wife, Bethsheba for himself. Jesus once said, he without sin cast the first stone at her (Mary Magdalene), a prostitute. Jesus tells us seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness… Yes God wants us to live a righteous life but not practice self-righteousness. In this realm of relativity, contrast exists so that we may remember and re-create ourselves anew, to be the grandest version of the greatest vision ever held of oneself. We are constantly changing as we remember who we really are, Individuations of divinity expressed. Perfection Personified. Never separate from God or one another. There is only one of us in the room. God is all knowing -knowing and experiencing are two different things. Here Experiencing all that we know conceptually. Now, how will you show up. BE LOVE -BEcause- ‘ITS WHO WE ARE’! It’s a matter of remembrance. Peace be with you-
SOUR GRAPES, INTEGRITY and Joe O’DEA’S LACK of it is what got him the KIND of Recommendation that TRUMP gave him.
Half a Republican IS NOT AT ALL BETTER – OR DISTINGUISHABLE from a Democrat.
Then you will get what you are asking for … another Democrat, maybe worse than this one.
Naw..a RINO is worse.
Agreed….Sundance has laid out the facts….the reality. I think RD is a good Gov., but his pathway to POTUS is now poisoned ….There is nothing inconsistent with what Sundance lays out.
“You can ignore reality, but not the consequences of ignoring reality”
I would never vote for him as Pres. He’s a pretender…God knows we have enough of them already.
Murkowski, Collins, McConnel, McCarthy are worse.
“THE TENACITY”?????
They They LACK the WILL, the INTEGRITY, THE DESIRE to Right the Scales of JUSTICE.
“We’re No Angels” 1955 – starred Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov, and Basil Rathbone
More support from the RINOs for Ronnie. This time, National Review!
Almost like it’s a coordinated campaign! I posted an article/tweet from the Washington Examiner on the last page, also dated today, from the RINOS pushing DeSantis 2024.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.
…or Mark Levin in a duck costume.
They divide -They conquer. Stand United as WE ARE-1DivineBody. We appear separate but that is FARTHEST from Truth. Things are NOT always as they appear. Stop listening to them. Stay focused. What they resists PERSISTS (it’s how the universe WORKS. The way to becoming highly evolved beings is to observe observe observe what is so and then do what works. TRUMP WORKS 4The People. (Let them stir the pot- they’re doing NOthing else)!
I suspect DeSantis didn’t get this far being a moron. He is a wise man. Besides, he has small children that need him. His time will come. It’s just not NOW.
Anyone that refers to Kemp as a rising star, is a lying dingbat.
DeLightful, Caleb. Sheer Delightful! AMEN!
YUP! Flaming RINOS – also DIABLOS: Devils In All But Label Only.
DeSantis jumped the shark with this blunder! Thank goodness–his true self laid bare.
Stay in Florida and don’t “F” it up. MAGA will finish where it left off. Just because you roll Lynyrd Skynyrd out there doesn’t mean a damn thing. Skynyrd died in 77′ and Trump reigns supreme now.
Joe O’Dea is a YUGE amnesty shill — maybe from his construction background???
From his web site:
“As for those in this nation illegally today, I have said this since the start of my campaign: there is no effective, affordable, or compassionate way to deport tens of millions of individuals without creating a massive humanitarian crisis. Instead, let’s protect the kids — the Dreamers — end the flow of illegal immigration by securing the border, and end mass deportations for undocumented residents who are following the law, paying taxes, and who got in line.
And on the other side, with a secure border in place, let’s hammer-out a solution for the other undocumented residents who are here, working and following the law.”
THANKS for the GREAT INFO on JOE O’DEA:
“As for those in this nation illegally today, I have said this since the start of my campaign: there is no effective, affordable, or compassionate way to deport tens of millions of individuals without creating a massive humanitarian crisis….” – JOE O’DEA
LET ME MAKE THIS VERY CLEAR!!!! ” there is no effective, affordable, or compassionate way to” TO BRING THEM HERE ON PURPOSE IN THE FIRST PLACE, BUT YOU AND YOUR KIND DID IT ANYWAY TO US!!! WITH NO COMPASSION FOR US!
FACT – THE INFLUX INTO the USA caused by Treasonously DOWNED BORDERS designed to invite the invasion HAS CAUSED JUST THIS KIND OF HUMANITARIAN CRISIS HERE IN AMERICA!!! and you – JOE O’DEA – have NO INTENTION of trying to fix THAT – For the Sake of your own HOMELAND!
NO, NO, NO TO THE NTh DEGREE – EXPONENTIALLY. You ROB YOUR OWN to build YOURSELF an ARMY AGAINST your OWN!
Joe O’Dea, the HUMANITARIAN CRISIS is in YOUR OWN HEART!
Joe O’Dea just has to be real creep. A stinky Colorado Republican Party tool. Colorado was robbed once again by the richie rich Republican Party that just will not grow up. Anschutz, Beaupre, Monforte, cashed out to back the Communists so their big play is: “Lets see if we can run Pete Coors, again? Pete is busy so Joe O’Dea said he will run against Trump.
I cannot believe this state has become. Denver is ugly, dirty, with poop, urine, crime and apartment buildings many stories straight up making canyons of dark streets at 2pm on a sunny summer afternoon. Snow that falls will not melt at the bottom of these canyons either. Democrat arrogance and Republican apathy is criminal behavior.
And now DeSantis contradicted Trump’s aversion to early/ mail in voting. DeSantis isn’t in the same slime league as Niki Haley…but he’s getting there.
Trust Trump. Bannon. Homan.
All others are suspect.
Hell no to trusting Bannon. Also, I have no idea who Homan is so I don’t have an opinion.
I agree. Bannon has some good ideas but I wouldn’t trust him. Homan is Tom Homan who was the Immigration and Customs Director during Trump’s presidency.
I have been saying that I will never vote for DeSantis during a GOP primary but will vote for him in a general election if he’s the nominee, because a Dem would be worse.
But dang, DeSantis has turned into a total a-hole, hasn’t he? I pray he never wins a GOP nomination.
I won’t vote for him even in the general.
I’m beginning to think he might be the one exception to my rule.
I won’t. It’s the same as voting Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Joe Biden all in one!
DeSantis is such an a-hole that he’ll pull this stunt before his own re-election. Florida conservatives have the power to oust him now, I know it won’t happen and I’m certainly not recommending it, but that tells you how smug he’s become. “Top Gov”, “America’s Gov”, he’s turning into a real prima donna.
DeSantis refused to say he isn’t running for POTUS in 2024 multiple times tonight in his one debate. Guess he answered it.
And DeSantis continues to play with fire.
At tonight’s debate, Crist asked him if he was committed to serving a full term if re-elected. No answer.
He’s practically daring Trump to come out and denounce his campaign before November 8. And if that happens, he will 100% deserve it.
This is so cringe. Clearly a consultant written line meant to imitate Trump…not even close….and he’s half reading it off of a paper.
DeSantis should never have used “old” as an epithet.
I’m beginning to hate this guy.
Edit: I just realized DeSantis doesn’t have any of the humor Trump has. Trump can deliver an insult and it’s hilarious, e.g., “because you’d be in jail” to Hillary. DeSantis just comes across as pissy and there’s no humor at all.
Here’s how you do it:
With you on DeSantis. I really dislike him.
You know, when a person like RDS comes out all Super-Flaming all over the place – they usually end up like a regular Shooting Star – a Few SECONDS of sparkle and then NOTHING, hitting the ground like a spent bullet that missed the Target.
Did DeSantis have another candidate in the race he could endorse or was it only O’Dea or a democrat? Seems that would be important to know.
Why endorse O’Dea? O’Dea is in Colorado and is anti-Trump. Is DeSantis that stupid? Yes and vindictive.
Only real solution is a new conservative party – one that can be used to hold politicians absolutely accountable, that will not be afraid to propose and pursue the big ideas that are needed and one that will allow us to demonstrate the complete difference between our party and the rest of them and that can educate the voters on the truth.
It won’t be easy and it may mean starting small, but sometimes we have to retreat to consolidate our forces, regroup and then continue to move forward.
And it should be obvious to everyone here that continuing to fall for the panic porn and elect unaccountable republicans is not a winning solution.
We already have a new conservative party, the one Trump created.
Remember when DeSantis pretended to be MAGA and a Trump ally so he could win the Florida election? He wouldn’t have won without Trump’s endorsement and help, he barely won with it!
Indeed, he fits well in the party of traitors cabal.
Stay in FL, Ron. You’re not presidential material.
Yeah, that seals it for me. I was doubting Sundance on this DeSantis establishment stuff but the endorsement of that RINO in CO is a clear scarlet letter. And that list at the end of the article is definitive I think. Great governor. And that’s it. Stay in FL Ron.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
Oct 17
There’s this RINO character in the Great State of Colorado, Joe O’Dea, that is running against the incumbent Democrat for the United States Senate, who is having a good old time saying that he wants to “distance” himself from President Trump, and other slightly nasty things. He should look at the Economy, Inflation, Energy Independence, defeating ISIS, the Strongest EVER Border, Great Trade Deals, & much more, before he speaks. MAGA doesn’t Vote for stupid people with big mouths. Good luck Joe!
Oct 17, 2022, 07:59
There is No Way that I would support DeSantis . He came show boating in Arizona and tried to muscle in on the winning Republican candidates that had been endorsed by Trump .They didn’t by his act.
~ Endorsed Florida Red Flag Laws, most firearm confiscation of any state
This alone should have sent chills up the spines of Constitution-loving Americans.
Trump also endorsed the Red Flag laws. When he shut down our economy and people just accepted the loss of their freedoms, that is when I had chills up my spine. This action has hurt our children and families. Trump also pushed the vaccines and continues to insist that they are just fine when the data shows otherwise. Sometimes I feel that we are surrounded by Indians and the cavalry isn’t coming. But I know that God wins in the end. That keeps me sane.
What exactly did Trump do to “shut down the economy”? List the things he did.
He signed, right b4 leaving Office, without getting ANY concessions, the 2nd multi trillion dollar COVID “bailout”. Read the bailout, cover to cover, every word. I did. Answer yer own f/u/k/n question. It’s all in there. Trump FEIGNED opposition, then signed without question. And what the f/u/k was that corrupt criminal Kwame KilPatrick’s complete pardon all about?! WTF was THAT?! Stop being a Trump sycophant and REALLY do your homework, you lazy Trump sycophant.
Trump was always controlled opposition. 11 of his first 12 Cabinet picks were Wall Street jews. Yeah, that oughtta drain the swamp. No H1B reform AT ALL. Repeal and replace OTraumaCare?! Yah, where is that?! Tax reform?! The Wall FINISHED? Just a waste of dollars now. Trump’s a fraud.
Am I wrong, but I don’t recall DeSantis being the conservative warrior he now appears/claims to be, until after Trump set the stage and became the model fighter for him to copy?
Right. Can anyone name a single accomplishment prior to him glomming on to Trump so he could win the Florida Governor seat?
Bye Ron…you ain’t IT.
I don’t think he purports to be an IT guy. Calling Ron DeSantis. Calling Ron DeSantis. Computer virus cleanup in aisle 12.
It is so frustrating! He has been a good governor for Florida. There are a few decisions he has supported that I have not liked; but overall he has been great. I will absolutely vote for him on Nov. 8 to keep him as governor; we sure do not want Christ! I don’t trust him now, though, and do not want him to run in 2024.
DeSantis’ second term is unlikely to be like his first. DeSantis will be focusing on the 2024 presidential campaign (he has already started) and will likely feel no more need to prove himself in Florida. Will that be better than Crist as Governor? Probably. But just be prepared.
Since Trump’s endorsement of DeSantis is what got him the governorship, I’d have thought he’d be loyal to President Trump. I’m very disappointed he’s going with the swamp GOP. MAGA!
If you believe everyone should believe the way you think, you need to return to Democrats.
DeSantis and Lake best things out of Repubs in years.
Obviously you haven’t been paying any attention to what DeSantis has been doing for his 2024 presidential campaign, including stabbing Trump in the back in several different indirect ways.
Aug 8
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Ron DeSantis is taking his growing clout among national Republicans on the road, where he’ll be the main attraction at events for Senate and gubernatorial candidates in key races across the country.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses attendees during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, Friday, July 22, 2022, in Tampa, Fla.
The Republican Florida governor later this month is hosting a series of rallies with conservative education group Turning Point Action to boost campaigns for Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters and the state’s GOP nominee for governor, Kari Lake; Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance; and Pennsylvania’s GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, who was at the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Each of the candidates DeSantis is campaigning for has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump.
Those were the DeSantis 2024 rallies disguised as assisting candidates in other states. It was so obnoxious I doctored one of the advertisement posters:
No time to read all these pages of comments, but it is a little puzzling to me why DeSantis endorsing O’Dea is any worse than PDT campaigning for Little Marco. Neither one is MAGA.
Please delete. Posted in wrong thread.