the left will paint DeSantis as the most evil person to ever walk the earth.Booray said:Pretty rich given that much of the GOP accuses anyone Democratic of grooming children as candidates for perversion. Just for kicks I listentd to about thirty minutes of Waco's talk radio am station yesterday. Apparently all Democrats hate America. I never knew...Rawhide said:Yep Trump is done. He's losing supporters with his attacks on DeSantis. No way Trump can win in 2024 because he'll make it all about how he was screwed in 2020. People are growing tired of his antics.Harrison Bergeron said:I agree. I think Trump's continued obsession with the 2020 election and refusal to actually support any candidates financially weakened him. Tuesday's results really harmed his position. His petulant, unprovoked attacks on DeSantis - the biggest winner Tuesday - really make him look like a moron.RMF5630 said:You are correct. I am hearing from more and more high up company officials they are glad that someone is showing up that can knock Trump out of the limelight. Sick of his antics. I believe those that think Trump is the power in the GOP are going to be very surprised when they see how quick people jump on an alternative that is an adult and is able to get things done. Got to work in the system, not blow it up. Or, we become a banana republic.Canada2017 said:Mothra said:It amazes me that after Tuesday, anyone still thinks Trump should be the next Republican nominee. If 2020 didn't prove he's going to get his ass kicked in a general election, his myriad of legal troubles and unethical behavior since then, as well as the resounding defeat of Trumpism this past Tuesday, should have waken them to this fact.ATL Bear said:It shouldn't be hard to defeat him. The fact it could be is an indictment on the people who continue to prop him up. Please stop.whiterock said:Best way they can do that is to stay out of the race. The more candidates that enter, the harder it will be to defeat Trump. All it will do is divide up the non-Trump vote as the primaries turn winner-take-all. His core base will stand strong.Adriacus Peratuun said:
Every stupid self-serving Trump tweet simply pushes a few more people over to Desantis.
Sununu and Haley can [if they are smart team players] kill a Trump candidacy early. Let him lose 7-8 of the first 10 primaries and he is done.
He's been in the mid-50's all year. I'd be guesstimating on what is his hard floor, but if it's 40% or better he's invulnerable in anything larger than a three horse race. and I don't think it would be much less than 40%.
The folks here who want to move on from Trump are not being unrealistic in their desire, only about how hard it could be to beat him. And they're being even less realistic about how hard it will be to find another candidate capable of inspiring firing up conservative voters to the point of spontaneous boat parades.
Desantis has some stuff going for him, for sure. But the crowd here is letting their hopes get way out over the tips of their analysis
Alas, we are very slow learners.
Some are simply incapable of adjusting long held thought processes .
The fact remains…….Trump is poisonous to the Republican Party .
Which is why Dems actively keep his name in the public spotlight .
Not that anyone doubted it was always just about Trump, but now he's leaving no doubt it always was just about Trump. I think he's done.
Now we can move onto DeSantis so the media can paint him as 10x worse than Trump, an ultra mega uber deplorable right wing extremist who will kill democracy, gays, transgenders, senior citizens, women and anyone that's not white. For any women he doesn't kill, he'll lock them up and keep them barefoot and pregnant while he ushers in a new era of fascism in America. He'll be the next Hitler, a despicable human being that eats meat, denies climate change, and deports undocumented people just trying to make a better a life for themselves.
DeSantis will be a hater of women's rights, the poor, the homeless and drug addicts. The Ron will jail doctors who perform abortions and the women who seek them. He'll throw the homeless out of their street tents and refuse to give clean needles to addicts. He'll support the unvaxed murderers that refuse to mask up and he'll the audacity to let businesses stay open and let Americans continue work.
Yes Ron DeSantis will be Trump 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 and Hitler's ghost all rolled into one.