Posted on 07/12/2023 12:02:20 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
A front group being linked to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign is being charged with a “desperate” dirty tricks attempt to portray former president Donald Trump as a “transgender trailblazer,” with leaflets “thanking” him for having “allowed a biological male to compete in the Miss Universe competition in Canada” over a decade ago appearing in Iowa mailboxes.
“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” wrote Iowa blogger Laura Belin, who first reported the delivery of the gay leaflets on Saturday. It is unclear how many homes the leaflets have been delivered to, but the imprint reads ‘Paid for by Advancing Our Values’ – a front group registered on June 27th, 2023.
The DeSantis camp recently released a gay attack ad against former President Trump, but used an anonymous Twitter account to release it. DeSantis himself then had to run to the Fox Corp-owned Outkick website to explain the now-deleted meme.
The “dirty tricks” campaign is straight out of the playbook of DeSantis campaign chief Jeff Roe – whose firm is under investigation for campaign fraud in Nevada. Roe championed Senator Ted Cruz’s own dirty tricks campaign in Iowa in 2016, which won him the state primary but ended up hurting him in the long run.
“From the false alert the campaign sent out that Ben Carson was suspending his campaign as the Iowa caucuses began to the voter-violation mailer that the Iowa secretary of state condemned to a Photoshop-altered image of Marco Rubio and Barack Obama, they have pointed to Roe’s hidden hand in supposedly guiding Cruz into the gutter.”
The DeSantis War Room previously attempted to tie Trump to the LGBT lobby by sharing a now-deleted video of him saying he would “do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens” and claiming it as evidence he supports Pride Month. The context of Trump’s comments, issued in response to the murder of 49 people at an Orlando gay club by a Muslim terrorist, was not mentioned.
Raheem Kassam, editor-in-chief of The National Pulse, analyzed the tactics – which DeSantis himself endorsed as “fair game” – on episode two of The Campaign Trail podcast released this weekend.
“[DeSantis is] taking an incident from, what, 12, 13 years ago, something to do with the Miss America pageant… and saying, ‘OK, well we need to hold Donald Trump accountable to that 2011 or 2012 standard… “On the other hand, the DeSantis team will tell you ‘Yes, DeSantis did listen to Fauci… and he did try to ban interstate travel into Florida, and he did mask up, and he did kill that old veteran that he put on television to have the vaccine… but then he course-corrected, so it’s fine, so we don’t need to deal with that’ – and that was only a couple of years ago.”
“The way [the DeSantis team] campaign, it’s not coherent, it doesn’t flow, and that’s what really works about the Trump stuff, the authenticity just flows – and this stuff, where they’re attacking one thing on one basis, but then saying that they’re allowed to do it when it’s some other topic, I’ve got to tell you, not only does it not work, it screams desperation,” Kassam explained.
Download the full podcast here.
.@RaheemKassam on the DeSantis campaign: "Their story doesn't even stack up. The way they campaign is not coherent it. It doesn't flow. And that's what sort of really works about the Trump stuff. The authenticity just flows." pic.twitter.com/UDWCNVyXZi
— Anne Luty (@anneluty) July 10, 2023
But I do know he did in fact host a queer party at Mar-A-Lago last December.
But who really cares? This business is as fake as the National Pulse trying to tie this scummy campain tactic directly to DeSantis.
If Trump shouldn't be the nominee because he's too polarizing for the Republican party, and we should also fuss at Trump for hosting the Log Cabin Republicans ... you might be supporting the RINO's favorite candidate.
It is muckraking, but that’s how it goes. Anyone trying to tell me that Trump isn’t throwing mud is deluding themselves. That being said, Trump is probably the most pro-LGBT of the Repub crowd.
Didn’t Karl Rove have a robocall for GWB against McCain in SC claiming that he had an illegitimate black daughter, and he denies it to this day?
Funny how a large group here are convinced Desantis is Soros reincarnate, Devil Spawn and deeper than deep state.
Yet the far left deep state magazines seem to have missed the memo as they hate him as well.
Odd…
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ron-desantiss-etiquette.html
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/ron-desantis-just-stepped-in-it-4/50996/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-dumb-failed-strategy-to-campaign-on-culture-war-bullsht
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ron-desantis-2024-trump-bullying-strength-rcna91661
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gavin-newsom-ron-desantis-migrant-flight_n_647e4005e4b0b4444c806ae9
https://www.thewrap.com/the-view-whoopi-goldberg-ron-desantis-running-for-president/
Go Desantis 2024—Go Trump 2024. (fine with either)
“That being said, Trump is probably the most pro-LGBT of the Repub crowd.”
Okay, let us see how quickly your man DeSantis comes out in condemnation of all things LGBT. He has to now. What will he say, “I’m pro LGBT, but not as much as Trump.”
Yep, sounds like a plan.
These politicians just can’t let sleeping dogs lie.
I wish everybody - on both our sides - would STFU.
If a Dem gets in next we’re all up ship’s creek.
It will be the end of the Republic.
Who cares? Conservative Nuthouse is probably a paid propaganda arm of the trump campaign masquerading as a legitimate opinion page.
Trump banned transgenders from the military.
Team deSantis doing the same dirty tricks a Team Cruz did in 2016 - because they are the same campaign staff...
https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/ted-cruz-and-the-art-of-the-dirty-trick
I received one of those in the mail. Is any part of it false? Maybe inconvenient, but it appears true.
He has by actions in Florida. Prettry clear if you look at what he has done and the screaming that ensued. Heck, even Trump criticized his actions against Disney.
Sorta by tweet. But the military was never informed. They decided to keep trans and trump finally got his way December 2020. Biden reversed it January 2021. No trans were discharged or not able to enlist. Had trump gone through the pentagon, he probably would have made an impact.
You received one from this group in nevada?
Something that appears from reports, targetting Iowa?
Post a picture of it, held up next to the title of this thread then, and the name of the group putting out the mailing.
DeSantis is making himself look bizarrely obsessed with human sexuality.
I have no use for trans, nor any other member of the weird alphabet squad...and no use for DeSantis either.
“Heck, even Trump criticized his actions against Disney.”
You DeSantis-bots really think you have something with that line, as I have seen it constantly on this site.
Trump, a businessman, was making comments about the business decision; he was not affirming their woke ideology.
Okay, I’ll play, explain exactly why Trump criticized DeSantis for his actions against Disney? It is clear that he didn’t want Disney targeted and it gave him a two-for to also criticize DeSantis for challenging Disney’s woke and perverted anti-family bias.
“...criticize DeSantis for challenging Disney’s woke and perverted anti-family bias.”
Can you perhaps cite the quote wherein Trump did that?
As I just stated, challenging DeSantis over the economic dislocation he was trying to do to Disney is a different concept from jumping to the defense of Disney’s perverted and anti-family bias, since Trump loudly proclaims he will root that kind of thing out of the public schools.
When all the dust is settled, you will find that DeSantis did nothing to penalize Disney.
I received one of those in the mail.
Well, it looks like Reno89519 outed himself again, saying he received one of the Iowa targetted mailings, since he won’t provide any proof he did, or acknowledge being questioned about it.
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