There are several news items about what Trump reportedly said in private about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, calling him boring among other things. As is so often the case, there is no attribution, only “anonymous” sources.
Did I not have such a source last week? Indeed. And you’re welcome to disregard it as I do with all these other anonymous sources.
The current Trump/DeSantis dustup is in reality the Hoax News media’s deep concern that both of them are dangerous to the left and right now neither can be stopped. It’s almost not worth it to go into Biteme’s latest cratering polls. Suffice it to say he is now lingering on the cusp of the 30s in many major polls, not just one or two. Oh, they may be able to buy off a pollster here or there to produce a 48% approval rating and thereby greatly skew the RealClearPolitics average, but not much more than that.
Meanwhile there has been a 14 point shift from DemoKKKrats to Republicans in the generic ballot from Gallup in the last year!
So what if Trump said things about DeSantis, or DeSantis of Trump? Need I remind everyone that Ronald Reagan’s chief opponent in 1980 was George H. W. Bush, who called Reagan’s economic policies “voodoo economics.” That was right before Bush became Reagan’s veep—-and turned out (as I show in my biography of the Gipper) to be the most loyal and supportive veep since Nixon with Ike. I could not find one instance in the Reagan archives of internal meetings where Bush disagreed with Dutch; and occasionally Bush would buck the entire rest of the cabinet to align with Reagan.
I would not like to see DeSantis as Trump’s running mate in 2024, only because I think it would move a highly effective governor to a largely do-nothing job. And right now we have three highly effective governors—-DeSantis, Youngkin (though very early), and Abbott. These guys are not just stonewalling leftist policies, but aggressively attacking them across the board. They are followed by governors such as Kristi Noem of South Dakota and Doug Ducey of Arizona who try to appear more conservative than they are, and who may embrace the conservative answer after everyone else has, but they are hardly pathbreakers.
From DeSantis’s perspective, he’d have to be nuts to say anything derogatory about Trump, who at worst has the support of 82% of the GOP (and at best is in the mid 90s). Trump by all available polling is crushing DeSantis among primary voters. It is far better to be on Trump’s good side—-as wanna-be Arizona governor candidate Kimberly Yee, an establishment type, dropped out when it was learned that Trump would endorse one of her rivals, Kari Lake, at his Arizona rally (that just happened to draw 40,000 live and over 400,000 on line). Better to have the Donald with ya than agin ya.
Lake, by the way, embodies another trait that has to deeply concern the leftoids, namely the bench for the GOP is not only very deep almost everywhere but quite talented . . . and aggressive. Lake has vowed that, if elected, she will engage in a compact with other states to enact border security of the feds won’t.
Meanwhile Noem is running well ahead of the incumbent senator John “way-too” Thune, and could unseat him in the fall, replacing a RINO with a, well, not RINO. (Noem it must be noted blew two good opportunities to establish herself as the “DeSantis of the North” when she caved to the NCAA on transoid issues and then caved to the Rutabaga’s edict that there would be no 4th of July fireworks at Mount Rushmore.
Can she recover? We’ll see. There is always room in American politics for a smart, beautiful woman, as the DemoKKKrat females have neither of those qualities.
Oh, and while we’re on the subject of DemoKKKrat “veemen,” Cankles is still dropping hints that are louder than Jimi Hendrix’s feedback that she wants to be the candidate to run against Trump in 2024. We religious people, of course, should be praying for her to succeed in this effort. After all, with such a DemoKKKrat candidate, there is still an outside chance Trump could even win Kollyfornia.
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I know a lot of Texans are disappointed with Abbott, and I would support West if I was there. But Abbott is better than Ducey, about equal with Noem.
Great article but as a resident of Texas I would ask you to take another, look at Governor Abbott. He talks a big game but has accomplished very little. His original border fence turned out to be chain link... He won't call a special session to deal with vaccine mandates. Yes we still have those in Texas. Now he's not paying the guard who is sent to our border to sit and watch people come across. Hopefully he'll be gone with a better Republican in his place after Nov 22 too.