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Bye bye DeSantis

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by vaxcardinal, Jan 21, 2024.

  1. Orange_and_Bluke

    Orange_and_Bluke Premium Member

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    You’re damned if you do and if you don’t.
    I remember very clearly how you and Fl got into a disagreement over your treatment with the libbies.
    And I believe you’ve been in a couple other tussles with him in the recent past.
    Taking a personal shot at his education says more about Davis IMO than FL.
    Weak as hell.
     
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  2. Gator715

    Gator715 GC Hall of Fame

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    How well? Neck and neck with Trump? What's your source?

    Again, people were expecting his campaign to take off and for him actually compete with Trump and it just never built any momentum. And the longer you go without building momentum, the less support you get in a primary because people typically don't vote for people who they perceive can't win. But it's also hard to build momentum and buzz when a Trump campaign with all of these indictments sucks all of the oxygen out of the room. That's rationally all anybody has been talking about.
     
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  3. GatorRade

    GatorRade Rad Scientist

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    I recently read an story about Jennie Jerome, who later became Winston Churchill's mother. It's said that when she was young, she dined with the British statesman William Gladstone and left thinking he was the cleverest person in England. Later she dined with Gladstone's great rival, Benjamin Disraeli, and left that dinner thinking she was the cleverest person in England. The lesson was it is great to be Gladstone but even better to be Disraeli.
     
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  4. duggers_dad

    duggers_dad GC Hall of Fame

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    The enemy of my enemy is my friend could backfire on Democrats. DeSantis may end up being their vice president.
     
  5. tampagtr

    tampagtr VIP Member

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    Reminded me of this classic, which is a valid quote


    “A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.'

    That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”

    ― Benjamin Disraeli
     
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  6. ajoseph

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    The distinction is that one has charisma and the other has almost none.
     
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  7. ajoseph

    ajoseph Premium Member

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    It’s impossible to like a guy who built his entire image on a campaign of hate wars.
     
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  8. l_boy

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    Pretty much confirms my distaste for Megan Kelley. She is obsessed with culture wars.
     
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  9. citygator

    citygator VIP Member

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    Charlotte
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  10. l_boy

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    So where do you stand on programs like

    - social security
    - Medicare
    - Medicaid
    - ACA
    - current level of defense spending
    - defense support for Ukraine
    - environmental regulation
     
  11. citygator

    citygator VIP Member

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    Charlotte
    100% opportunist. She's smart and knows better but she likes the income from the deplorables.
     
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  12. l_boy

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    She got booted from a NBC mega contract because of remarks around blackface not being that bad. Her podcast is heavily jilted towards culture wars. I think it is real

    I may agree with 25% of her thoughts on the issue, but I’m not obsessed with it and it isn’t a big issue for me.
     
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  13. GatorJMDZ

    GatorJMDZ gatorjack VIP Member

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    Total memory lapse or simply avoiding the truth?

    Vehicle Totaled…
     
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  14. duggers_dad

    duggers_dad GC Hall of Fame

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    GatorRade Rad Scientist

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  16. tilly

    tilly Superhero Mod. Fast witted. Bulletproof posts. Moderator VIP Member

    Now your're stooping.
     
  17. oragator1

    oragator1 Hurricane Hunter Premium Member

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    Trump lashes out at polls showing Ron DeSantis with a big lead in the 2024 GOP primaries
     
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  18. GatorJMDZ

    GatorJMDZ gatorjack VIP Member

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    Listen to you after countless "Read the Law" admonishments and telling everyone you had read it ad nauseam. You ABSOLUTELY don't understand what you are reading if you think those two statutes say the same thing. Speaking of LOL.
     
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  19. tilly

    tilly Superhero Mod. Fast witted. Bulletproof posts. Moderator VIP Member

    That sounds dirty. Please rephrase

    :D
     
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  20. rivergator

    rivergator Too Hot Mod Moderator VIP Member

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