Another three endorsements for President Trump today from the Florida congressional delegation, bringing the total so far to ten with more anticipated. Meanwhile, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is in Washington DC seeking support. DeSantis is warmly greeted, but President Trump gets the endorsements. What’s going on?
Republican Congressman Greg Steube gives an explanation below about the Ron DeSantis Floridians know, but nationally most do not.
DeSantis is an out-of-touch aloof persona, who generally projects himself as better than others. In person he projects an arrogance and condescending personality trait also carried by his insta-selfie supporters and ‘influencers.’ It comes through the camera lens. Everything constructed around DeSantis is fake, even the fake blue-collar handshakes that have to be photo-shopped to give a common man impression.
The donors are pouring in hundreds of millions to pay for the fake DeSantis constructs, Top Gov brand imaging and Madison Avenue illusions, but you cannot purchase authenticity, and you cannot rewrite the history of who DeSantis is. Greg Steube explains:
[I]n a brief interview last night [Steube noted] that DeSantis has never once reached out to him during his five years in Congress nor replied to his multiple attempts to connect. He recalled a recent news conference dealing with damage from Hurricane Ian where the governor’s aides initially invited him to stand alongside DeSantis, only to tell him that he wouldn’t be part of the event when he showed up.
Trump, on the other hand, was the first person Steube remembers calling him in the ICU to wish him well after he was injured in a January tree-trimming accident. “To this day I have not heard from Gov. DeSantis,” he said.
Things suddenly changed last week, Steube said, as Trump started rolling out his Florida congressional backers. ”For the first time ever, I hear from DeSantis’s political person,” he said, referring to aide RYAN TYSON, who reportedly contacted other Florida Republicans about their endorsements.
For Steube, the outreach was too little, too late. And he continues to have sharp words for DeSantis, criticizing him for his robust political travel schedule amid a busy legislative session and just months after winning a new four-year term. “Floridians want him focused on Florida,” he said, “which is the job they elected him to do.” (read the entire article)
Like I said last year, once people get to see Ron DeSantis up close, his disdain for people just jumps out at you. He loves standing at the podium telling you what’s wrong with you, and what is brilliant about himself; however, he just doesn’t like people in an authentic or natural way you would expect from executive leadership.
The same disconnected snobbery applies to everyone his team has recruited.
Ken Cuccinelli and Jeff Roe are two of the biggest self-important jackasses in national politics. They don’t carry an ounce of humility or introspection. They are always right, and the problem is it just takes too long for everyone to come around to admitting how great they are. This is the character of DeSantis that flows through everyone he associates with. Here’s an example from one of the ‘influencers” a few days ago.
This Twitter account is connected to both Representative Thomas Massie and DeSantis campaign official Christina Pushaw:
That tweet encapsulates the worldview of the average Ron DeSantis supporter in Florida.
This is why the overwhelming majority of the Florida Republican delegation, will not endorse him. These outlooks are toxic and elitist. Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis did not wear elbow length silk gloves at the noon-time inauguration day event accidentally. Casey already went shopping with Cindy McCain and has her 2024 tiara picked out.
As I keep saying, there are not enough people who take Instagram pictures of their lunches to make Ron DeSantis a viable candidate. The polo club, cocktail party circuit of people who eat crustless triangle cucumber sandwiches and look down their noses at everyone else, is just not a large enough coalition to win DeSantis the nomination. It means he will have more money; however, factually, the professional donor class is annoying with the level of self-righteousness and condescension they promote.
WASHINGTON DC – […] In yet another blow to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s not-yet-official presidential bid, two more Republican members of Congress from his own state are gearing to endorse Donald Trump for another term. Reps. Gus Bilirakis and Carlos Gimenez are each planning to announce their support for the former president this week, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell TIME.
Their pledges continue something of a downward spiral for DeSantis, who has been steadily losing ground in the endorsement battle for legislators from his own backyard. The development is even more noteworthy after his political team recently tried to stop the bleeding by asking Florida Republicans to refrain from endorsing Trump.
Bilirakis and Gimenez have also committed to be at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach on Thursday night, as the former President hosts members of the Florida delegation who have already endorsed him, including Reps. Matt Gaetz, Anna Paulina Luna, Cory Mills, and Greg Steube. It’s not clear yet whether Reps. Byron Donalds and John Rutherford, who have also endorsed Trump, will be at the gathering.
Neither Bilirakis nor Gimenez responded to requests for comment. Rep. Brian Mast, another Florida Republican, has also told associates he plans to formally back Trump in the coming days. And on Wednesday, Rep. Vern Buchanan officially thew his weight behind Trump. TIME reported last week that Buchanan was planning to endorse Trump in the coming days.
All of their endorsements will bring Trump’s tally of members of Congress from Florida to ten, whereas DeSantis has just one, Rep. Laurel Lee, who announced her support for the governor on Tuesday. Before winning her House seat last year, Lee served as DeSantis’s first Secretary of State. (read more)
Lance Gooden (R-TX) – “Today, after careful consideration and a positive meeting with Governor DeSantis, I have decided to endorse President @realDonaldTrump for 2024.”
Rolling Stone – […] “Over the past few years, the Florida governor has risen to Trump’s top internal rival without even declaring his candidacy. And part of that rise has been fueled by his pull with the GOP’s megadonor class, who prefer him to Trump because, while he brings a similar set of MAGAfied policies, he has not, to date, attempted a coup. That wellspring of financial support has been instrumental in fueling his rise, but the investments are predicated in large part on a belief that he can take down Donald.
That belief seems to be wavering, as the donor revolt has been brewing since at least last month. And it’s not just skittish donors like Richard Uihlein or Thomas Peterffy, who went public with his complaints last week. Several other top donors to DeSantis were livid about the governor referring to the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine as a “territorial dispute,” with at least one major donor calling DeSantis to urge a walk-back, a source with knowledge of the outreach and another person briefed on it say. “My understanding is that the message was: ‘If we wanted a fucking MAGA candidate, we would donate to Donald Trump,’” the second source says.
[…] Those polling troubles may be giving some megadonors second thoughts. Sources familiar with Schlitz Brewing heir and shipping titan Richard Uihlein’s thinking told NBC News that the “brakes are pumped” with the megadonor’s DeSantis giving after the governor’s lackluster polling has given some “pause” about his viability.
Other conservatives have taken to predicting that DeSantis is potentially the second coming of Scott Walker, another Republican governor and conservative-media darling who many thought would be the favored candidate in a presidential primary — only to flame out before any ballots were cast. (read more)
I really had to laugh- not just at Casey’s white gloves but that poor Ron was dressed as an afterthought. His suit was wrinkled and ill-fitting for his gov. Inauguration . It was as if he was not the star of the show. It said a lot.
I’m not even being snarky here. It’s not Ron’s fault, he has an awful figure to dress. There’s a reason models are tall, thin and have longer than expected limbs even for their height. Short and stocky just doesn’t wear clothes well.
A good tailor can make almost anyone look good.
W/the right pair of shoes.
AND the right socks. Never forget the socks! Right, Twinkle Toes Trudope?
I keep picturing him wearing that thick vest and white go-go boots.
He DOES have that quality, doesn’t he?
That these idiots, shopping for someone they could manufacture as a “alternative to Trump” picked THIS guy,…either shows how totally “out if touch” they are, or that they are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Hopefully, this has benefitted US, long term.
We had McCain, then Romney,…and Ryan,..and of coarse the BUSHES (eyeroll) …
Hopefully with enough such experiences, more of us are “once burned, twice learned” and are learning to spot the Decepticons BEFORE they can get in a position to harm us, instead of only seeing it in hindsight!
Woah, that RS piece is one of the most disgusting things I’ve read in awhile, and that’s saying something for RS (which, BTW, is displaying the establishment’s sheer terror of PDT with their many “trending” stories about our president-in-exile.)
Prob the most sickening part was when, among all the other quotes from the “donor class,” there was a fascinating misnomer from one of the millionaires/billionaires on tap who was upset over (more like furious about) both RDS’s abortion views AND his “book-banning.”
WTH? His “book-banning”? Are these supposedly tuned-in political guys really so ignorant that they think picking books for elementary school libraries that do not feature drawings of and instructions for man-on-boy sex is the same thing as “book-banning?” Meaning they (and obviously the RS writer) think that “conservative” thought is based on the idea of the state/federal gov. deciding what local schools will teach?
No, duh — those are democrat values! Send both those clueless elites — the writer and the rich guy — back to school (Hillsdale. please) to get a proper grounding in what conservatism is all about, because central planning/control is not it.
Yes, the RDS backers are Globalists in in the pocket of the Marxist’s agenda. Too bad, so sad, Ron got taken by the GOPe.
BTW, it’s time RDS officially denounces his run for POTUS even though he has not officially declared his Candidacy. Ron, time to tell america that you are going to fulfill your duties as Governor of FL for the rest of your term.
You can only get taken if you’re greedy and compromise your beliefs for money. That’s what DeSantis is doing.
Seriously, that’s what DS is doing? You state it as fact, so you must know it’s true or you’re just a two bit liar making everything you’ve ever said suspect.
Gosh forbid he is a captured entity who is too scared to stand up like he used to and do the RIGHT thing (pun intended) or even talk beyond what he’s been told to say.
The smear campaign coming out of RS and the Left seems to want to invalidate anything the guy has ever done and make the Right distrustful of ea other.
Your post seems to go with that.
Troll much?
Politics ain’t bean bag. DeSantis is fighting Trump. Net sum game. There are no rules of engagement. See news today where Federal Judge (… appointed by Trump) in NY dressed down NYC prosecutor who a couple of days ago was trying to prosecute… Trump.. Desantus would still be looking at his make up and lighting. This is a war.
Anyone standing against Trump is standing against the American working class.
Desantis SUCKS.
“(Hillsdale. please)” —
Not sure how to interpret the “please,” based on these Hillsdale Collegian articles:
If, hypothetically of course, Real President Trump decided to retire tomorrow, I still would not support DeScented.
He is on the Swamp’s Corporate Fascist payroll. Mitch Money. He will put them first, not Americans. He’s proven it.
After winning re-election in Florida, he’s ignoring Floridians to pursue his own ambitions. That’s selfish. Floridians need and deserve his best efforts.
There’s one more thing; Republicans should acknowledge the truth. Real President Trump was duly-reelected in a Landslide and that should be honored. For him, yes, but even more so for us.
On the other hand, I’m glad to see RFK run as a Democrat. He’ll wreck them–unlike Ron.
I will always support our True President, but this man has something absolutely VITAL to say, even though I believe these things will be settled not by elections, but by the Hand of Almighty God, Hallelujah!
Habakkuk 2:
12-14 “Who do you think you are—
building a town by murder, a city with crime?
Don’t you know that God-of-the-Angel-Armies
makes sure nothing comes of that but ashes,
Makes sure the harder you work
at that kind of thing, the less you are?
Meanwhile the earth fills up
with awareness of God’s glory
as the waters cover the sea.
Yes, Lord Jesus, and Amen!
Rest in the Vine: Ron versus Robert: Run, Bobby, Run!
RE: RFK
I like the man, he doesn’t revolt me the way DeSantis does. It is just a shame he is a Kennedy, a Democrat, and a Climate Change Freak. I will always be grateful to his work against the Gnomenazi and the vaxx, but I can’t vote for him.
President Trump didn’t order lockdowns. It was the governors of each state that had the authority not President Trump!
I blame lockdowns for mail-in ballot fraud.
“I’m delivering the great American comeback and we’re not having any lockdowns, that I can tell you. There’s no lockdowns.”
–Donald J. Trump Nov. 1, 2020, Michigan
The Michigan rally was the first of five that day.
The buck stops with Truman’s CIA?
“I think [setting up the CIA] was a mistake. And if I’d known what was going to happen, I never would have done it.”
— Harry S. Truman (Plain speaking: An oral biography)
I don’t blame people for honest errors.
Did trust-the-science send the letter to a mail-in covid zuckerbox?
Those weren’t locked down very well.
Build Blame Better
So my take on RFK Jr’s tweet is that, if given the chance, he would be in favor of lockdowns not only for diseases but for “pollution” reduction. He fits right in with the Green New Deal.
Bicycles for the peasants!!!
RFK JR speaks WEF talking points.
God knows the outcome but it is we who decide it. It’s called free will. It was part of what we had to deal with when we chose to come here as part of His plan for our salvation. It’s up to us as Christians to turn this country around. He already did His job. He doesn’t get directly involved again until His Annointed returns. Praise be in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen
Where is Mitch?
RINO Ronny was in the right place at the right time. Just like Jeb and Rick Scoot. All plants by the the establishment. Florida has been overpopulated. The biggest concern here affordable housing. They are building huge apartment complexes here. Soon they will be overflowing with homeless people and doling out dollars to the less unfortunate people. It is attracting unwanted people that will eventually turn the state over. Glad I’m old . I saw the same thing happen to California. Been here twenty years. DeSantis is an idiot letting it happen.
Interesting point, Jrod. The best thing Ron can do now is affirm that he is not in the race for POTUS, but to run his State of FL.
This post is so Boomer it hurts.
This post is so Juvenile it hurts.
You are an idiot to think you know better. They did it in Boise and are using tax money to repopulate other cities that are red with reliable democratic voters. It is a successful formula they have used for decades.
Once they have the numbers, they will bring in their democratic machine and by using controversial issues like transgenders, guns and abortion, they will divide and conquer using the same community organizing tactics that wins their elections.
As they populate every position of influence, by winning over smug idiots such as yourself who think older people are stupid and you have it ALL figured out, the towns become just another sh@t hole blue city with homelessness, drugs and crime. Just like Portland is to Oregon. Then they take the entire state.
It works. And you still won’t be able to afford the rent…. Just like in Boise.
Same trick every time and they relay on arrogant fools to pull it off.
True. It’s happening here in Utah as well. Apt construction is everywhere and we had our own BLM riots run by a bunch of half-wit blue haired morons from out of state. Our youth have been indoctrinated
the longer we wait to fight back the worse it will get for us.
Yup. W/all those northern immigrants the state will turn blue. You can take ’em out of Jersey and NY, but you can’t take the Jersey and NY out of them.
It’s not just NY and NJ. Plenty of refugees from leftist Illinois and Michigan are packing Florida.
Yes, I-75 comes straight from Michigan to the West Coast of Florida, with easy access from Chicago.
No. One million Republicans have moved to the state since 2018. It’s what increases his victory margin. It’s not northern Democrats moving to Florida.
I cringed when DS went on tv and invited people (from the north) to come on down. Who thinks those people are going to change their voting patterns?
Florida is deteriorating rapidly. Back in the ’90s, New Yorkers overran Boston, making it prohibitively expensive. The same thing is happening in Tampa. The quality of life is going down, yet DeSantis and Hannity keep cheerleading to attract more people.
Meatball Ron is just another RINO sock-puppet.
Granted, I’d take what he’s doing for Florida here in Illinois, even if most of it is ultimately theater, but given the tenor of our times and our cornucopia of fast-approaching national disasters, he can’t hold a candle to DJT.
DeSatan’s slogan “Never Back Down” is so laughable, as if he has the resources or principled character to withstand the crucifixion Trump is being put through for challenging the status quo. Meatball’s campaign is all shameless puffery at best, a total con at worst.
I believe Ron was smitten by the Globalists and Elite’s mega $$$$ backing him. Obviously, he is a politician at heart, and played into their hands. Well, Ron, time to wake up and realize that your job is to be the best Governor of FL you can be, and lead other Governors to follow your Governorship ideas.
It’s time for Ron to step away from his “non-candidacy” by proclaiming he intends to fulfill his term as Governor, and work with other Governors to help preserve the USA we believe in.
I imagine it will be a hard decision, knowing that he was being backed by GOPe mega donors.
Ron has already taken hundreds of millions from the GOPe donors. It’s too late. They own him.
Personally, send Mr. Desanctamonious back~ Don’t even want him for my Gov. anymore. You can’t rub the stink off until you get rid of the corpus. sp.? He should have stayed his committed course~ Keep Florida Beautiful!
Use this manure to feed our garden~
I would suggest a beer summit, but maybe this is not the month
NO “beer summits.” Let that go down as the Halfrican’s so-called claim to fame.
Little ole slow Juan was on Bret Baier”s show today and made his observation regarding DeSantis polling and lack of endorsements. After playing a few clips of DeSantis team bragging about him, Juan said “Well he may be Triple A but he’s not Big League yet. LOL! I said to the TV, you got that right, Juan. Trump is Big League!
bigly
He’s embarrassing and so is his wife because they are pathetic social climbers who look down on anyone they perceive to be below the status they think they are or more accurately should be.
IOW, he’s using his Book Tour to promote running for Prez. I’ve been following all the thing$ he’s been doing this last year. …..
When somebody’s bouncing around Iowa, New Hampshire, et al, that means they’re running for President.
As many are already aware… as of now, the push is on to amend Florida law to allow Meatball to continue his Governorship while running for President. Seems Meatball has commitment issues. If he wants to quit on Florida, then he should just come out and quit on Florida. I’d ALMOST have a modicum of respect for the man if he just handed over the keys to Lt. Governor Nuñez, and came out with a “it’s with a heavy heart… but I’m running for President because I can win” sorta deal. As it is, he’s just The Establishment’s 2024 #NeverTrump Chess Piece… which makes the Meatball situation all the more pathetic.
My governor’s going to Taiwan, I don’t know what the hell he is doing.
DeSantis didn’t call Greg Steube after his accident. That would just be basic care as Governor for his fellow elected officials.
Again- it says a lot.
Then has the temerity to ask for Steube’s endorsement. Ronnie is a gnarcissistic gnome.
Here in Pa. we call those gnomes, lawn jockeys!
Oh lol 😆
These are some common sense steps to restore integrity to our elections.
2nd time this week:
“Damn the torpedoes, FULL STEAM AHEAD!”
If ya ain’t wid us, ya ‘gainst us!
Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way, or we gonna go straight over or thru your stinking asses!!!!!!
“and look down their noses at everyone else”
This is how I remember Yeb! acting like in his early days of campaigning. And we know how that turned out.
question, ballet flats, crocs, go go boots, loafers, spectators, etc) what’s he wearing?
Platform Beatle boots👢
Well atleast Ronnie has Karl Rove, Jebito and Paul Ryan
There’s a reason Our President got 1 million more Florida votes in his last election than DeSanctimonious did. ONE MILLION! Those who know them best….
that hand-shake graphic is an absolute scream !
Do we really need quotes from a left wing dumpster like the repulsive Rolling Stone magazine, a periodical that is intellectually, morally and financially bankrupt? I know I don’t.
I wasn’t aware of IQ or income level being part of Article 1 of the Constitution or the Constitution as a whole, for that matter.
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That $50,000/yr. stupid-lazy comment should be transmitted everywhere.
Spit.
The average base pay for all of our members of the military comes to just above that.
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Oh my that mask just got ripped off in one fell swoop!!! Why does this Christina Pushaw give me Sorority Girl Ronna Romney McDaniel vibes? 😝
FILTHY Ron DeShiznit. You are Done.
Assholes like Chef Boy RD and John McCain should never hold Power. They will Always disappoint you.
Enjoy your humiliation, Ron.
I will be voting for Trump. At the same time I figure DeSantis will be president in 2028. It is necessary that he run now just like Reagan did 4 years before he won the Presidency.
What if Trump drops dead next week? Who are you guys going to support? Nikki Haley? Seriously?
DeSantis will be your favorite candidate in 2028 and hopefully will be just 8 more years of Trump. So let’s be chill about the need for us to join in the internecine fighting.
Ha ha. No to Meatball Ron. Not ever. Once a traitor then always a traitor.
This x1000
Nope Grant, I won’t be voting for Rondo or Cruz — ever.
Once they stick the knife in my back, it becomes impossible for me to pull the lever for them.
No. DeSanctimonious is a ruined as is Ted Cruz. They might as well have Michael Schiavo running their campaigns for them.
Ridiculous, endorsing someone that has not announced.
I hope Steube is doing well after his accident.
Has anyone read, or even touched, much less picked up a copy of The Courage to be Free? Has it hit the Buck Twenty Five store yet?
And, it is incredibly rude and brazen to invite a Congressman to an event and then tell them to get lost.
Thomas Massie thinks the reason you don’t have a boatload of DeSantis endorsements right now is because he hasn’t announced yet.
That makes no sense based on the situation. They would either endorse, or at least announce they are part of the draft DeSantis group to try to stop the Trump tsunami endorsements from rolling in.
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It’s really sad watching a man crumble like this. Maybe it was for the better. When a nutball like Bill Maher can even see through your lack of charisma, then you know that you have problems.
Nothing the LEAST BIT sad about watching Ron DeSanctimonious crumble.
In fact, nothing much could be a GREATER relief, though quite a few of them would be JUST AS MUCH a relief…
Such as Biden, Obama, Ted Cruz, John Cornyn, Sheila Jackson Lee, Katie Hobbs, Mitch McConnell, Alvin Bragg, and a few thousand more of their Kind.
Not one cotton picking SAD thing in all the world about THAT!
It would be as Glad an occasion as the Walls of Jericho and the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah. And the Fall of Korah.
One more issue that seems to go unannounced :
who would DeSantis leave in charge as he abandons Florida?
This is a huge concern. What’s Lt. Gov of Florida, Janette Nunez’s, relationship to DeSantis’s handlers and paymasters?
Wait u til the good people of Florida find out that this is who Ron wants to leave them with
OMG!
I do not know why the voters in Florida do not get on the phones and call their Florida representatives and tell them “DO NOT CHANGE THE LAW to allow Ron! run for president while still being Top Gov of the state.
Rather than writing them out, President Trump has taken to speaking his Truths into the camera in shore bursts. He’s spoken about a dozen so far. It’s very effective.
Elitism and self-segregation is the pitfall awaiting all Presidential candidates.
The need to raise funds early in any campaign can easily become a dead end.
If you’re an elitist by nature, like Hillary, then the trap beckons.
I recall a Texas Senator named Phil Gramm, who ran for President, and found raising money from Texas rich guys just too easy. He did well, briefly, then crashed and burned.
All these politicians are urged to hire political consultants, and the consultants want most of all to get paid. So the consultants advise the dopes to say and do whatever raises money. Nikki Haley will still be fund-raising when the world comes to an end.
RDS is now spending his days meeting with rich guys, and being urged to say and do whatever pleases rich guys. So did Jeb! Thus went Jeb! Here lies the political abyss.
“…[Ron] has not, to date, attempted a coup.”
Dear Rolling Stone hagazine,
Stop smoking dope and wake up to what’s really going on.
There has always and only been one coup going on, and Rondo and most of D.C. are in on it; not President Trump or patriots across the country.
I thought Rolling Stone went out of business after putting the Boston Bomber on the cover.
You are talking to the Soros Choir (Aka like a “Greek Chorus”)
So what are we going to do when Trump is in prison and the 2024 choice is Newsom or DeSantis?
Concerned? Trolling? Or both?
So, if Jehovah and His Son Jesus are NOT your God, or you think He has no Keeping Power for Donald John Trump Sr., then just who is? Molech? Astarte? Diane? Beelzebub! Jezebel! Do you consider any of these others to be the Superior above Jesus the Son of Jehovah???
Who are you deciding to depend upon in This Great Hour? ……
Is THAT your Question???
Just Wondering…..
PSA…
Donald Trump did a lot of good for the conservative movement during his term in office, although since then he has been, at best, a mixed blessing.
Currently, however, he is nothing but a drag on the conservative movement. His absurd attacks on Governor Ron DeSantis, conservatives’ best hope to win the presidency in 2024, should disqualify him from any serious consideration for the GOP nomination. Consider this incoherent and implicitly left-wing rant:
Can someone please get the hook and remove this dysfunctional has-been from the public stage? Trump is an embarrassment to the people whom he once represented.
Give it up, Karl… nobody wants your guy…
Lies even by you are unbecoming to you too!
Time to give it up!
LOL
Ha ha ha. Team Meatball must be panicking. They are sending their worst Concern Trolls/Dump the Orange Man faux outrage RINOs over to TCH!
Well, DeSantis may get
Sen Cornyn’s (Rino) endorsement eventually…
Cornyn is a dirtbag first class, if only Texas would primary him.
Rolling Stone calling out RDS for trying to play both sides was classic. A direct admission that the usual plan, where a RHINO gives soundbites to keep conservatives sated, doesn’t work w donors who are used to getting their way their way and go instinctual and basic when they get nervous. So the tight one-party establishment machine that never breaks rank is no longer cool and confident, more like coming apart at the seams. Thank you Rolling Stone.
DeSantis keeps losing home-state endorsements to Trump, and the Florida governor’s recent visit to DC didn’t produce any converts
Excerpt:
Insider reached out to the nearly dozen current GOP lawmakers who served with DeSantis during his time in Congress, and none responded to inquiries about attending his Tuesday night meet-and-greet.
Instead, former delegation mate Rep. John Rutherford announced that he was backing the twice-impeached former president before DeSantis even had a chance to speak. And freshman Rep. Brian Mast told CNN that not only does he plan to endorse Trump, he’ll also spearhead a “Veterans for Trump” group.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ron-desantis-dc-gop-endorsement-bust-2023-4
I find it amazing that so many folks can’t see what is going on with DeSantis. That is, how he is being used as a tool by the gopE in an attempt to destroy Trump and MAGA. How can so many be so blind to what is playing out in front of them?
Gee, ain’t it a shame.
The late, great comedian, George Burns, had a phrase that went something like this:
“People love authenticity. If you can fake that, you got it made”.
Stay in your lane Ron. Don’t join the rino bunch and you may go far next time,
rds appears to be a well groomed jag officer who has his designs on the “ladder”. That nasty view of his fellow humans will lead him to failure. Is it me, or is rds having some trouble with the politics of FL? I have never enjoyed the hyper elite who believe they are better than others because the are allowed in the officers club.
Thank you for keeping us informed and on top of the ball. Very dangerous situation for our country. We must have all the information possible and know who to trust.
So our choices are between a stuck up snob and a petulant man-child. Great.
I’d be more concerned if the results of the 2024 election weren’t already a foregone conclusion but since we have demonstrated to the Dems convincingly that they can steal an election right out in the open with impunity, there’s no reason to expect anything different the next time. They’ll just create as many “votes” as they need and it won’t matter who the candidate with the R after their name is, so all this wailing and gnashing of teeth over who the Republican candidate should be is just kind of silly if you ask me.
Like most other non Florida conservatives I thought Ron seemed like a great candidate. Maybe even a Trump like leader and fighter for what is right. I felt he should run as Trump’s VP to learn the truth about DC before stepping in to take the leftist arrows as POTUS. Then he started to actually move toward a run and he exposed himself as just another elitist GOP jackass. As his choice of campaign staff and fake media presentations began he turned me off.
As for that Saltdog tweet, if you mean “statistically” but you write and publish “statically” then either you have the IQ of a goldfish or you are lazy or both.
Large numbers of DeSantis’ backers are Trump haters, and not even, necessarily, Republicans! These people will own him! He is making a very big mistake running against Trump because he would need Trump backers to win, and he will not get them. He has also opened his need for funds to people that conservatives consider enemies. This can only hurt him if he should decide to run again in another 4 years. DeSantis’ connections to the Bush Family and other RINO’s will do him no good whatsoever with Conservatives, and we make up the largest portion of the Republican vote, as much as they like to deny us.
If Big Ron really wants to be president someday he would run now but agree with everything Trump says. lighthearted competition and rip the democrats is all Ron needs to do to set himself up for 2028. He could even get appointed by Trump to something after his governorship runs out that helps him in 2028. Prove he is America first and he will be rewarded.
Go against MAGA and he will fail.
If i recall Ron asked for an got Trump endorsement for Governor of Florida. He was also losing to a now indicted candidate. The organic process of developing candidates for office is now a cultivation . Who are we to trust? Obama was the biggest fake of all, and the media lied for 10 years, the two before he got “elected” 116% turnout in Philly. The eight years he was in office. Have you noticed he is off the radar? he is busy running his third term of destruction and fundamental change of America.
Trump: True to his word!