Posted on 04/08/2024 2:02:49 PM PDT by backpacker_c
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gathered about 100 top supporters and donors over the weekend at South Florida’s Hard Rock Hotel and Casino to say “thank you” — and to foreshadow what might be next.
DeSantis supporters see those moves, along with the weekend event at the Hard Rock, as clear signs the Florida governor is once again eyeing a White House bid.
The main event Saturday evening featured DeSantis speaking with Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Thomas Massie, R-Ky.,
He needs to repair his image nationally,” said one of the attendees. “I don’t know anyone is going to be like sending him to Pennsylvania right now, and I don’t know that that would do any good.”
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Winner!! Hard to believe that someone who is supposed to have been here since 2005 wasn't bright enough to even look at my profile, which only consists of my home state.
The 55th Massachusetts Infantry was the second black regiment authorized by Lincoln to organize in the north during the Civil War. The 54th Massachusetts was the first, and because there was a large response of men arriving to enlist, they organized the 55th afterward. There was also a black 5th Massachusetts Calvary (unmounted) unit formed after those two had already left for the south. Two of Frederick Douglass's sons enlisted...both initially in the 54th. They were his oldest, Lewis Henry Douglass, and youngest son Charles Remond Douglass. Charles became ill at the training camp in Readville, Mass., and couldn't deploy with the unit. He eventually joined the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry. His third son, Frederick Douglass Jr. was a recruiting Sergeant for the 25th U.S. Colored Infantry.
I spent many years researching all three units, and did my thesis on the 55th. Although my research days are long gone, I've continued to use the mass55th screen name ever since. Got to meet many fascinating people, and descendants of the men in both the 54th and 55th. Two were the elderly daughters of a Civil War veteran in the 55th. Their father had been born a slave in Kentucky.
You have to understand the DDS types here aren’t really that interested in any conservative that actually gets things done. Regarding DeSantis it’s likely they are afraid that he’ll cause their Disney+ subscription to increase in price and they will have less money for Bud Light and a Dylan Mulvanny OnlyFans page.
[“political skills”
Too many have political skills. Too few love America and know how to return her to fiscal solvency and economic health. Worship at the feet of Reagan & JFK. I will measure by results achieved for America & Americans in all walks of life, against overwhelming obstruction and adversity.]
What about RV's? Will there be a law against squatting and taking over someone's RV? How about a law stopping people from building treehouses in your trees? Lots of press! Gak~
The simple concept of trespassing has these people baffled. Yet another career lawyer turned lifer politician.
There’s the fact that DeSantis and Trump live in the same state. There’s the fact that “Trump, but gets things done” doesn’t really add anything to the ticket. And there’s this: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4232640-desantis-says-he-would-not-serve-as-trumps-vp/
But Trump should pick DeSantis... sure...
And more recently... https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/22/politics/ron-desantis-vice-president-trump/index.html
It is excellent that we have a forum to exchange ideas. I fervently disagree with your comments but not with your right to express them.
It is a pity that you paint with such a broad brush and ignore why Trump was unable to repeal DACA despite a concerted effort. Perhaps those other “politically skilled” operatives you admire had something to do with DACA persisting. You are wrong about the wall and wrong about the significant defanging of Zerocare as well.
You are so right. The one guy is so obsessed with governor DeSantis. It’s bizarre.
“Trump failed to build a wall”
Only to someone with an axe to grind does building 450 miles of new border wall constitute, failing to build a wall.
“[Trump] failed on repealing DACA”
Trump’s DHS rescinded DACA. His recission was challenged, and US Distric Judge William Alsup placed a temporary stay on the order, pending the outcome of the appeal. On June 8, 2020, SCOTUS ruled against Trump in a 5-4 decision.
At the time of the decision, Ginsburg was still on the Court, as was Breyer who were both joined by Roberts, Sotomayor and Kagan in the majority decision. Trump’s efforts to work around SCOTUS’s decision were cut short by the outcome of the election.
“[Trump]failed on improving Obamacare”
Trump signed legislation to repeal the individual mandate. A complete repeal was torpedoed by John McCain. Undoubtedly, full repeal would have been achieved by DeSantis /s.
“[Trump] set the country up for trillion dollar annual budget deficits.”
Riiiight. It wasn’t Bush or Obama. It was Trump
Trump has had more success than any president in fighting the Uniparty. To judge him as below average because he wasn’t able to reverse everything in four years is not the judgement of a serious person. And to believe that DeSantis or any other professional politician would have had more success is beyond foolish.
[Only to someone with an axe to grind does building 450 miles of new border wall constitute, failing to build a wall.]
The administration built 458 total miles of primary and secondary border barriers, U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows. The majority were replacements of smaller, dilapidated barriers.
Replacement barriers and secondary barriers that are behind primary barriers don’t add additional miles to the southern border’s total coverage. And when voters heard he would build a wall, they thought he meant from sea to shining sea.
As to the rest, it’s got the air of “France wanted to, but did not win the Battle of France, because the Germans were just too strong”. What everyone remembers is that Trump failed, that he wasn’t capable of doing what he claimed he would.
Trump’s foreign policies were excellent. From Russia, China, North Korea, Mid East to Israel.
Trump’s economic policy from tax policy to deregulation beyond compare.
Trump’s border policy was successful. So successful that it took Biden 94 executive orders to destroy Trump’s border policy.
Finally Trump’s energy policy. You are WRONG! Your kind of RINO nonsense is nauseating. Proof? Here is a left wing publication that encapsulates my point.
Are you a closet Democrat? The primaries are over. We've united behind our candidate, Donald Trump. Why don't we talk about the Democrats instead?
I had not read your about page. Great and interesting history.
Thanks.
>>”As to the rest, it’s got the air of “France wanted to, but did not win the Battle of France, because the Germans were just too strong”.”
Well it if has that air to you, then you missed my point. My point was that it’s a mistake to declare Trump a failure while he and we are still in the middle of the battle. Trump never gave up after 2020. He regrouped and went back on offensive. If he had just rolled over and retired into obscurity, maybe your assessment would have more merit. But he didn’t.
>>”What everyone remembers is that Trump failed, that he wasn’t capable of doing what he claimed he would.”
No, that’s not what everyone remembers. Trump is probably stronger, politically, now than he’s ever been. More and more people recognize what he (and we) are up against, and admire his tenacity.
With regards to the border wall, 450 miles of newly constructed wall were built, with much of it replacing existing but ineffective border barrier. One of the strengths of the new wall construction was not only that it replaced, existing, sub-par, wall with more effective structures, but also connected them through new wall construction, replacing a piecemeal collection of isolated structures with long stretches of contiguous wall.
This new construction allowed the Trump administration to drastically reduce illegal crossings by the end of his term, because the number of gaps had been reduced to a more manageable number, allowing border patrol to more effectively focus their attention. Of course there were plans to fill in what remained, but the 2020 election cut that short.
Good thing you didn't look. You wouldn't have found one. I've never created one since I joined in 1997.
In 2020 the Republican candidate won Florida's presidential vote with 51.22 percent of the vote. Close, a little too close I'd say; little margin for error.
In 2022 the Republican candidate Ron DeSantis won the Florida gubernatorial vote with 59.37 percent of the vote. That is a very comfortable win; very solid.
Republicans just have to do better in Florida's 2024 presidential vote. This is no time for a weak performance.
I feel confident that Governor DeSantis and DeSantis voters in Florida will pull the Republican ticket over the line with room to spare in 2024.
Of course, there are those working day and night to divide the Republicans in Florida pitting one group of Republicans against another. It is not going to work with DeSantis in charge.
Replacement barriers and secondary barriers that are behind primary barriers don’t add additional miles to the southern border’s total coverage
This account is definitively a nevertrumper...
The border stuff that got replaced were barb wire, and vehicle barriers consisting of steel beans on x shaped supports.
And yet, this poster would gaslight and have you believe that replacing something trivial that someone could step over, with 30’ high fences, are the same thing...
Why don’t we talk about the Democrats instead?
How about talking about why desanctus is still in campaign mode?
Why is desanctimonious doing daily press conferences, many without even announced topics because he’s still trying to make things up?
Why is he doing what ever he can to keep his name and face in the media, when he barely paid any attention or did press conferences on Florida when he was away for a year doing his grassley 99?
Every other week, it appears he gets on hannity or levine.
From what I gather, he got half an hour to almost a full hour on hannity today.
desantis is still campaigning, and he thinks he can use Florida taxpayer money and issues to get him into his next political position, whether as the republican presidential nominiee or senator,
Good catch. Signing a law to do what existing law already does? That fights right in with his usual modus operandi. DeSantis always chooses issues that have the best optics over issues that are of the greatest importance.
Yep...
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