Both are outstanding patriots. Their day will come. They will serve the republic well if there is any republic left to serve five years from now. We have reason to be hopeful. But Trump is the man of the hour. He alone can get us back on track. When Trump's work is done, the young guys will be well-placed to take over.
Listen to Vivek Ramaswamy's fabulously hard-hitting, content-rich, and super-articulate speech in endorsement of Trump. (7:18)
Ron DeSantis' speech is also impressive. (4:33)
But no complacency! The filthy Dems will use every Alinskyite tactic and commie-playbook trick to win by any and all means.
If you are a conservative who can't abide Trump, you are just going to have to suck it up and shut up about the man's obvious flaws. As DeSantis said, he's superior to Biden -- an understatement! -- and I would add: superior to any Dem who might run against him.
No infighting! Circle the wagons. No RINO-fueled circular firing squad. No Libertarian/Losertarian or other third-party circle jerk. As Ramaswamy said, it's a war. In a war, you have to take sides. You can't float above the fray as if you are a transcendental spectator with no stake in the bloody battle below.
Do you have RINO friends? Confront them brusquely with 'Which side are you on?'
Do you have Democrat friends? Cut 'em off! Make them pay a price for their willful self-enstupidation. Why should they get the benefit of your friendship? (The usual ceteris paribus considerations apply.)
And if Nikki the Neocon should get the nomination? Then too you must suck it up and support her and not hang back because she's not Trump. She can't turn things around, but she could stave off collapse until DeSantis and Ramaswamy are ready to enter the lists.
When DJT gets the nomination, good chance the Ds will say that since he claimed that he actually won in 2020, it is illegal for the R party to run DJT now, because of the 22nd "no third term" amendment.
Posted by: Joe Odegaard | Monday, January 22, 2024 at 08:18 AM
Does Trump really have a chance at winning though? He won in 2016 because millions of people didn't vote because they thought Clinton was definitely going to win. Trump won by very little there BTW. He lost in 2020 because people didn't make the same mistake twice. Even if you say he lost because of voter fraud, how is that not gonna happen this time?
I wonder if Dem-voters who really do care for the republic could be convinced to vote for Trump just so that he doesn't continue claiming to have been cheated, and doesn't get treated like a martyr for the more extreme to take advantage? From their perspective, it could seem to be better for the republic to give him his 4 years then leave politics, than for him to continue show up and poisoning the whole process.
Posted by: Billy | Monday, January 22, 2024 at 08:18 AM
Joe,
The Demo-bastards will try anything. They've proven that in spades.
Billy,
Trump is the only one who can do the job. He has a chance. Of course, if Haley gets the nomination, then you must vote for Haley and not hang back because she's not Trump.
Posted by: BV | Monday, January 22, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Desantis might, just possibly, have convinced a critical mass of Trump's loyalists to vote for him - he does have a decent record as governor of Florida. Haley doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hell of doing that. She will not be nominated.
If the GOP Establishment could find their way, unassisted, out of a paper bag, they'd have backed Desantis without reservation and not bothered with Haley at all, Desantis would have gotten her votes in Iowa, and we'd have a genuine horse race. As it stands? Well, Trump is free to deal with the lawfare trying to keep him off the ballot, months before the general campaign starts. (God does indeed protect fools, drunks and the United States of America...)
Oh, and Billy? Any GOP candidate has to face dirty tactics from the Dems to get elected. A Republican could promise to do everything the Left demands if elected, and the Dems would still defame him, try to disqualify him, and print fraudulent ballots to get one of their own into office instead of him. The only way to win against that is to tap into the popular resentment against the welfare state and its managers which has, as yet, no organized party serving as its vehicle. Trump does that supremely well; there are other Republicans who can do it, but he's the one doing it.
Posted by: Michael Brazier | Monday, January 22, 2024 at 08:26 PM
>>Any GOP candidate has to face dirty tactics from the Dems to get elected.<<
Right. Remember the BUCK FUSH bumperstickers? Even the inept, dopey, milque-toasted G W Bush was made out to be Hitler.
Good analysis, Michael.
Posted by: BV | Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 04:32 AM
https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/22/no-there-was-nothing-desantis-could-have-done-to-beat-trump/
Posted by: BV | Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 04:38 AM
When Trump made his inaugaral (sp) speech, the leftists where I live really wanted to agree with it; It was all about the little guy, and justice for workers and similar; but they couldn't bring themselves to agree, they said that 'he couldn't have written it...'
And why? it is very strange to me. There are demonic forces at work here, blocking people from seeing and hearing with their own eyes and ears.
Posted by: Joe Odegaard | Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 09:29 AM