romad1 Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 Do i think Trump will win? No. He’s already lost three elections in a row. Do i want a game to be close in the 9th inning or would i prefer a blowout? Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 I don’t see how Trump can suck up all the media oxygen in America with his antics for the next fifteen months, which he definitely will, and that people will start tuning him out and become too apathetic to vote. Those two circumstances don’t mesh for me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 I could watch Uncomfortable DeSantis videos all night long... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smr-nj Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 Ouch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutiger Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 Ladies and gents... I present to you the mainstream, Rich Lowry-approved, alternative candidate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 1 hour ago, oblong said: I could watch Uncomfortable DeSantis videos all night long... Turning into a pumpkin after ten o'clock at night might be a problem for a president when the calls come in from the other side of the world all through the wee hours every single day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 DeSantis fires his campaign manager. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/us/politics/desantis-campaign-manager-generra-peck.html Also of note that in an NBC interview DeSantis said Trump lost the 2020 election. That probably won't gain him any support. But there is a dynamic beginning here that maybe has been missed. As the GOP hopefuls start campaigning in earnest, they have to deal with the MSM, and I think they realize they will never get off that first question to any other topic until they admit Trump lost to the interviewer. The question is whether having people inside the hard right GOP like Pence and DeSantis undermining the 'Steal' narrative will actually help deflate it or not where it matters. Maybe not, but it can't hurt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gilmore Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 Dude is weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 He’s Nixon. Do you think Desantis has any friends? Like old college buddies? Maybe from the Navy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 (edited) 24 minutes ago, oblong said: He’s Nixon. Do you think Desantis has any friends? Like old college buddies? Maybe from the Navy? Lord, way worse! 😱 I always thought Nixon did well in public, too well really - he saved his dark side for behind closed doors. Can you imagine DeSantis handling Krushchev the way Nixon did? He was not graceful physically - e.g. his "V" salutes always looked weird, but aside from that suspicion on the part of us who didn't trust him that wheels were always turning behind the mask, my recollection is that did fine in public settings. Even the "I am not a crook" speech wasn't really badly done considering the stakes and the pressure. Maybe the 'Checkers' speech was a little over the top - but only for its day because in that era pols were not allowed to evidence self-involvement., but that level of self-pity, which earned him a fair amount of ridicule, wouldn't even be noticed in a pol today. More the frustration for those of us who believed in his duplicity that he was pretty good at normal. Edited August 8, 2023 by gehringer_2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netnerd Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 And people said Howard Dean’s scream was weird… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edman85 Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, oblong said: He’s Nixon. Do you think Desantis has any friends? Like old college buddies? Maybe from the Navy? I know of one he had... https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-ally-kent-stermon-killed-himself-after-being-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-with-minor And a literally knew this because a friend of mine lived down the street from him and was facebook friends with this guy and saw some odd facebook postings tagging Ronny D's personal account in the weeks leading up to his death. Edited August 9, 2023 by Edman85 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1984Echoes Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 Movements to bar Trump from ever running for political office in the U.S. again, specifically President: https://www.yahoo.com/news/heres-ban-trump-other-maga-093002838.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 54 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said: Movements to bar Trump from ever running for political office in the U.S. again, specifically President: https://www.yahoo.com/news/heres-ban-trump-other-maga-093002838.html Come on man...this is gonna get the mods to drop a gavel on you. I appreciate the note of course. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.TaterSalad Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 20 hours ago, Netnerd said: And people said Howard Dean’s scream was weird… It was more than weird, it was nearly disqualifying to some. Now you can nominate a presidential candidate who mocks disabled people, dodged a draft but says POWs aren't war heroes, and talks about vaginal bleeding of news commentators and none of that is disqualifying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 Gary Hart was disqualified because he was on a boat with another woman. Jimmy Carter's Chief of Staff resigned because he looked at someone's cleavage and might have done coke (This was the 70s). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1984Echoes Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 Trump and his Maggot supporters threats of violence against the United States of America (one person shot dead already by the FBI... yesterday); theory: Trump isn't even really running for president in 2024, he just wants the platform to issue his threats of violence: https://www.yahoo.com/news/violence-leading-democracy-expert-says-094501120.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 (edited) What would be the proper term for this? "Postjection"? Also, lol "sic" Edited August 10, 2023 by chasfh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 can't believe in a former life I used to have Townhall bookmarked for daily reading. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatkoVarda Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 2 hours ago, oblong said: can't believe in a former life I used to have Townhall bookmarked for daily reading. Obama just broke them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 3 hours ago, oblong said: can't believe in a former life I used to have Townhall bookmarked for daily reading. Drudge is almost readable again because Matt Drudge is anti-Trump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted August 11, 2023 Share Posted August 11, 2023 2 hours ago, romad1 said: Drudge is almost readable again because Matt Drudge is anti-Trump Yeah I check his site daily. Although too many of the links go to fringe places. I find his use of imagery to be quite troll ish. In a good way. another one that was a go to was instapundit. And James Taranto’s best of the web today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted August 11, 2023 Share Posted August 11, 2023 54 minutes ago, oblong said: Yeah I check his site daily. Although too many of the links go to fringe places. I find his use of imagery to be quite troll ish. In a good way. another one that was a go to was instapundit. And James Taranto’s best of the web today. I think Andrew Breitbart would have hated what his site became. He was against bullies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben9753 Posted August 11, 2023 Share Posted August 11, 2023 (edited) I wonder what Krauthammer’s take on Trumpism and what conservitsm has become would have been. Edited August 11, 2023 by ben9753 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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