The Ron DeSantis Closing Message to Iowa
is a Perfect Encapsulation of Ron DeSantis
Conservative Treehouse,
by
Sundance
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
1/15/2024 2:38:33 PM
I doubt this guy is going to come in second place, maybe third; yet there’s a possibility he could even drop to a devastating fourth. The short answer about why is in this closing message.
(snip) attacks Donald Trump by saying, “if you kiss the ring, he’ll say you’re wonderful. You can be the strongest, most dynamic successful Republican and conservative in America, but if you don’t kiss that ring, then he’ll try to trash you.” This comes after Ron DeSantis was desperate in 2018 and likely to lose the Florida governor race to a drug fueled porn addict, so his team begged Donald Trump for assistance.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 1/15/2024 2:48:10 PM (No. 1636937)
I guess the weather and the political temperature got so cold in Iowa that he just had to burn that last bridge.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
snakeoil 1/15/2024 3:07:40 PM (No. 1636942)
I adore both Our President Trump and Governor DeSantis. But this go around belongs to Our President. DeSantis 2028.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Peregrine 1/15/2024 3:40:33 PM (No. 1636955)
DeSantis jumped the gun.. He should have served out his term as Gov. and could have run in 2028.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
avital2 1/15/2024 3:48:38 PM (No. 1636961)
a lot will depend on how widely circulated isthe news that a good chunk of Nikki voters would vote Biden over Trump if she doesn't succeed. Dem crossover distorts things.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/15/2024 4:04:27 PM (No. 1636973)
Gov DeS is a great governor but seems to put his size 10s in his mouth too often.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jasonB 1/15/2024 4:18:50 PM (No. 1636981)
Oh, let me guess, Sundance has once again attached all of the strings on his corkboard and started asking the "Right ****ing questions" and has figured out (again) that the one guy who has actually done what he campaigned on (that every Republican supposedly wanted until right now) is somehow a deep state plant.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/15/2024 4:19:16 PM (No. 1636982)
Trump kissed DeSantis's ring when he asked the people of Florida to vote for DeSantis.
What does Trump get in response from DeSantis? Kicked in the balls.
DeSantis had better enjoy his term as Governor because when it comes to the Presidency he can KMA.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/15/2024 4:19:21 PM (No. 1636983)
Trump kissed DeSantis's ring when he asked the people of Florida to vote for DeSantis.
What does Trump get in response from DeSantis? Kicked in the balls.
DeSantis had better enjoy his term as Governor because when it comes to the Presidency he can KMA.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Catherine 1/15/2024 4:24:06 PM (No. 1636989)
DeSantis has gotten spectacularly bad advice from the start. It's almost like his 'advisors' were actually working against him. The Bushes, that is. He could not have made a bigger disaster of his campaign if he'd tried. Plus, his wife has not been any help. She did her Jackie Kennedy impersonation early on. That was a big mistake.She sort of reminds me of DR Jill. If DeSantis had just waited, he would have won the next election with bells on.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
msjena 1/15/2024 4:59:33 PM (No. 1637007)
When I see DeSantis on Fox, my eyes glaze over. He has done a lot in Florida. Good for him. But he seems very wonkish and yes, boring, to me. What is is signature campaign issue? How are his policies different--and better--than Trump's? I don't know the answer to any of these things. That is why he has not caught on with the voters, except for the few that want anyone but Trump.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
sagman 1/15/2024 5:24:49 PM (No. 1637012)
I have one particular friend on the site who was for Trump eight years ago when almost no one else gave him a second look. She is an acute observer of politics, a bona fide expert on the Tea Party movement, and she is not shy about expressing her zeal for President Trump. To my knowledge she has not attacked DeSantis, reserving her energy to sing the praises of our former president.
Where am I going with this? For various reasons, I prefer DeSantis over Trump. But if, as appears likely, Trump wins the nomination, I'd crawl off my deathbed to vote for him. There are many things to like about Donald Trump. One thing I do not like is, in my opinion, his tendency to require fealty to him and his cause or suffer his slings and arrows.
DeSantis: "if you kiss the ring, he’ll say you’re wonderful. You can be the strongest, most dynamic successful Republican and conservative in America, but if you don’t kiss that ring, then he’ll try to trash you.” I don't think this is sore loser talk or below-the-belt snark. It's an observation from someone in the ring, and while he might have been a bit more tactful, in the main I think he's right. Because I do doesn't make me a never-Trumper, an idiot or a fool.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Turninggrey 1/15/2024 7:30:50 PM (No. 1637071)
I can't wait for DeSantis to accept the inevitable (but only when he decides) and drop out only because I am so tired of Sundance singing this tune. I like DeSantis, and if the cabal does take out Trump, I am pretty sure he would take the majority of excess Trump votes over Haley. This thing Trump does is one of his weaknesses. Oh, and no, I do not think DeSantis is part of the cabal.
Having said that, at this point, I am Trump all the way.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 1/15/2024 8:14:41 PM (No. 1637092)
Those grapes were probably sour anyway.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/15/2024 9:06:22 PM (No. 1637128)
I have never forgotten that those close to Gov. DeSantis said he never made a decision without dragging it by Jill Casey. If she disagreed he changed his decision to her preference.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Harlowe 1/16/2024 1:05:53 AM (No. 1637229)
Respectfully disagree. Considering President Trump’s philanthropy through the years as private citizen and President, he is a not only a people person, but a compassionate man as well. As a man who grew a family business into “The Trump Organization,” his need to hire and fire employees was an important part of leadership; he knew when to encourage and when to discipline—encouragement to maintain a peaceful working environment, to encourage employees as team players, and when to discipline underperformance or betrayal. When a benefactor is betrayed, depending on the magnitude of the betrayal, human nature reacts and may, at times, be done in blunt language. With President Trump having endorsed Ron DeSantis for governor of Florida and subsequently Ron DeSantis sharply criticizing President Trump, it is not a matter of “kissing that ring” but a matter of betrayal to a person having given help when help was needed—a matter of decency and civility.
Philanthropy
- Widow's daughter recalls how The Donald paid off her mom's $300,000 mortgage after her father committed suicide
- Trump honors war dead with his heart and wallet - When Mayor Ed Koch needed someone to raise the money to build the Vietnam Veterans Plaza in New York City in 1983, he called on Donald John Trump. Trump raised the money the old-fashioned way, by writing the first check. He donated a million bucks, which was 40% of the $2.5 million needed.
- In 1986 a farmer, Lenard Hill, took his own life on the morning his farm was to go to a courthouse auction, believing his life insurance would pay enough to save the cotton and soybean farm in his family over 100 years. A complete stranger in Queens N.Y. read about this story and paid off the remaining $77,000.
- A USMC Sergeant spent seven months in a Mexican prison for accidentally crossing the border with a firearm. He was beaten and tortured in jail. Once he was released, the man from Queens sent him a check for $25,000 "To get you started."
- In 2013 a black bus driver saves a suicidal girl from jumping off a bridge. Our Queens man sends him a check for $10,000.
- A Rabbi's critically ill son needs to go from NYC to California for specialty care treatment in 1988. No airline will fly him. A generous man in Queens pays for a private flight for the child.
- In 2017 after Army Corporal Dillon Baldridge was killed in Afghanistan, a generous man in Queens sent his father a check for $25,000.
- “Trump’s Untold Tales Of Kindness: In 1997, Trump Fought To Make Mar-A-Lago The First Club To Allow Blacks & Jews”
- President Trump donates $100K of salary to help repair monuments damaged by anti-police brutality protests
These quiet, generous acts of kindness are not from a man expecting others to “kiss his ring”.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 1/16/2024 3:17:59 AM (No. 1637251)
Thank you and love you for that beautiful and important post, fellow Ldotter #15.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Harlowe 1/16/2024 6:46:47 PM (No. 1637834)
#16~ Thank you for such a generous, heartwarming response on behalf of a man who has been so shamefully maligned—a man whose ability to endure a relentless pursuit to destroy him and, in ripple effect, causing pain and suffering to his family, can only be perceived being given the strength to withstand the assaults through the grace of God. Blessings and Christian love for your meaningful, faith-based posts at this salon.
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