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Five Quick GOP Debate Thoughts Under the Fedora, Nikki you’re so fine, DeSantis slow and steady, Christie v Ramaswary undercard, Invisible men , In Summation

Posted: August 24, 2023 by datechguy in election 2024, elections, elections, politics, primaries
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Yesterday I had expected to be home in time to watch the GOP debate live because thanks to BidenomicsTM there has not been enough work at work for full 8 hour days but as two people were on vacation and two more had left finding other jobs I ended up working a full shift and getting home at 1:00 am after dropping off my car at the garage for a pre-inspection checkup didn’t get to see the GOP debate till 1:05 which meant a long night and given the repairs and inspection this morning for my 1999 LeSabre (it passed) I’ve not had time to comment till now.

The first thing that jumped out at me was Nikki Haley who much to my surprise sounded like the credible presidential candidate and make several excellent points, particularly on the fact that there was absolutely no chance of passing a national abortion ban. She seemed ready to showcase herself as a credible alternative to Donald Trump and without a question accomplished that mission. The proof will be if Trump comes after her.

There was a lot of speculation that everyone would be targeting Ron DeSantis but that wasn’t the case. DeSantis made his points very well and seemed to spend his time focusing on the failures of the Biden administration (something that it seemed to me the moderators were doing all they could to avoid dealing with that subject). While Haley was the star there is no question DeSantis did what he wanted to do which was make the case that he had produced and would continue to do so. Ed Morrissey put it best:

This reality is likely why the Trump campaign has apparently invested plenty of time claiming this was all bad news for the Florida governor. The facts alas don’t match with that rethoric.

In terms of entertainment Chris Christie was the primary source of it spending all his time throwing punches at Ramaswamy as there was no Trump to attack while occasionally touting his record as a conservative governing a deep blue state (a record that wasn’t as bad as people remember it to be) Ramaswamy handled it well and make me smile by forthrightly calling climate change BS and speaking truths concerning Ukraine and other subjects that were being dodged. I thought he acquitted himself well.

Most of the rest of the field was invisible, Tim Scott particularly, although he did better than Hutchinson & Bergum who showed they didn’t belong on that stage. As for Mike Pence he kept talking about the achievements of the Trump/Pence admin which is a legit move and was rather adamant that despite the Biden admin making a point to pass a law preventing a VP to reject electors after the fact (a point he never mentioned btw) he in his opinion had no authority to reject the electors in 2020. I think he’s dead wrong but I also think he actually believes he believes that

Finally several quick thoughts:

  • I think the debate moderation demonstrated little difference between Fox & the rest of the MSM
  • It’s apparently still possible to have an actual debate about substance, at least without Trump
  • The whole Trump “counter programing” plan really doesn’t work when in a streaming era
  • It seemed to me Youtube did all it could to steer people to the spin rather than the debate
  • When the first round of debate cuts come half of those candidates should be gone
  • I’ve yet to watch the Trump interview I’ll do so tonight when I get home from work
  • I suspect Trump will reverse his no debate position once the field is down to 3 or 4 but we’ll see

Forgetting his Own Snake Song

Posted: August 23, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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"I saved you," cried that woman
"And you've bit me even, why?
You know your bite is poisonous and now I'm going to die"
"Oh shut up, silly woman," said the reptile with a grin
"You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in

This ad from the DeSantis camp is the first open hit on President Trump and it’s a valid one:

You see there is one basic thing that President Trump missed that has now become very apparent during the Joe Biden years.

If there are no consequences for bad behavior (such as mass shoplifting looting, setting fires and assaulting people on the streets) you get more of it.

Likewise if there is no punishment for corruption in government you get more of it. DeSantis understands this and has made the left pay the price in Florida.

Donald Trump let the left in general and the Clintons in particular off the hook on their corruption because while he was a bit off the reservation in the sense of getting things that needed to be done for the people done, in the end this was the circle he has previous traveled in and hoped once his term(s) were over to travel in again so he let them know that his rhetoric about corruption and draining the swamp was just business.

Alas he didn’t recognize that the swamp didn’t feel the same and even has his campaign in general and he himself in particularly rightly cry foul over the corrupt use of government against him to criminalize political speech they can paraphrase his own words against him

Oh shut up, silly Donald,” leftists cry and laugh and scoff
“You knew well what we were back on the day you let us off

I’m Old Enough to Remember When CNN Editing A Conservative’s Speech To Change It’s Meaning Was Frowned Upon by Trump Primary Supporters…

Posted: August 21, 2023 by datechguy in election 2024, elections, primaries
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…but apparently if you’re doing so to DeSantis suddenly the MSM, fake media that pushed the Russia Hoax the false J6 narrative and has been pushing the Trump indictments are disqualifying are suddenly to folks like Kari Lake and Donald Trump Jr a reliable source that must be trusted. Which is particularly funny in Lake’s case as her entire campaign in Arizona was based on her calling them out.

I mean it’s not like there isn’t a glaring edit in the middle of the damn video that only an idiot could miss.

Here is the actual clip

Now I’m not actually surprised by the Trump campaign’s reaction because it’s Trump’s nature to fight in this way. Indeed one of the things that make Trump appealing other than his record is that he fights like a Democrat and when the target is a Democrat people who have have seen the left get away with this kind of stuff without pushback for years tend to smile because a Jacksonian believes that if you’re fighting against someone who doesn’t fight fair, they don’t get a fair fight back. It’s one of the reasons why Trump is my 2nd choice after DeSantis over the rest of the GOP field that has no fight in them whatsoever.

But right now we’re in a GOP primary and Trump is fighting the single best GOP governor we have in the country using the same type of tactics & lies that the Dems used against him. Why because he understand that voters, not pols vote. (at least in GOP primaries where the boxes are stuffed)

That last thing President Trump needs on the GOP primary ballot is a person with a solid conservative record both of accomplishment and defeating the left who can appeal to those people particularly in swing states, that are suffering from Trump fatigue.

I submit and suggest the only person more afraid of Gov Ron DeSantis than the MSM and left is Donald Trump.

But in fairness if DeSantis is going to beat the Dems in November he has to be able to handle this kind of dishonest attack because it’s exactly the same type of tactics that the Biden campaign will throw at him and worse so it’s good practice for the fall.

Closing thought: If Trump is the nominee it will be interesting to see the same people touting these tactics by CNN vs DeSantis being outraged when they’re used against Trump again.

#unexpectedly of course.

DeSantis 2024 is to the GOP Deepstate Establishment what Greek Food is to Leonard Hofstadter

Posted: August 14, 2023 by datechguy in election 2024, elections, primaries
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Sheldon: What is that you’re eating? Tonight is pizza night.

Leonard: I’d like to refer that to my attorney.

Priya: According to what I see here, Thursday nights are Franconi’s pizza night.

Sheldon: Yes, and when Franconi’s went out of business, we switched to Graziano’s.

Howard: That’s interesting. Can you just switch restaurants like that, Priya?

Priya: A good question, Howard. Turns out you can’t. According to the document you drew up, Sheldon, the selection of a new takeout restaurant requires public hearings and a 60-day comment period. Were those criteria met?

Sheldon: No.

All: Opa!

Sheldon: This is Greek food? Leonard, you hate Greek food.

Leonard: Not as much as you.

The Big Bang Theory: The Agreement Dissection 2011

Following up to my DeSantis endorsement There is one key advantage of Ron DeSantis over Donald Trump that everyone seems to be missing.

I’ve been a political junkie for 47 years and based on what I’ve seen the GOP do since Reagan left the room, Ron DeSantis is the type of candidate that the deep state and the GOP establishment historically hates.

Think for a second about his record: Ron DeSantis has

  • Openly taken on big business grooming squad (the same Disney & Budlight that Trump defended)
  • Openly taken on the Democrat machines in Broward county (the ones that the deep state has let operate)
  • Openly taken on blue states on illegal immigration (that the deep state deferred to) and
  • Openly taken on big pharma on COVID (the ones that have grown rich off of COVID)
  • Openly taking on big education

In short he is everything the get along go along GOP despises. Any other year the GOP deep state establishment would do all they could to marginalize, and even destroy presidential asperations he might have. Oh they might allow him a guy like him a seat but when it comes to the White House they would strive to sabotage him in the primaries as they have done to every strong conservative willing to fight the culture wars since the day I left the Democrat party last century.

Yet this year as many of the #OnlytrumpTM types have noted both here and at Instapundit in comments there are quite a few of these folks openly for DeSantis.

Why? Two words: Donald Trump

Donald Trump has changed the equation he is so despised by the GOP establishment (although some not as openly as others) that suddenly a guy like DeSantis who any other year they would be fighting tooth and nail is suddenly a viable and even desirable alternative for the GOP nomination.

Make no mistake, in any other year with no Trump on the ballot that same establishment would be pushing one of the squishes and calling DeSantis an extremist and doing all they could to destroy him.

That’s how much the establishment hates President Trump, they hate Trump so much that they’ll support an actual strong conservative to stop him and help him win in November just to spite the Donald.

I know it’s a silly thought on my part but I think actually increasing the potential vote pool, particularly in non-deep red states that aren’t already in the bank for us just might be a good idea even if those votes come from those icky folks not sufficiently Maga.

Finally I think the prospect of these jerks helping us to eight years of winning the culture wars and standing up to those who would soak the taxpayer to enrich their friends and being willing to openly fight the Democrats seems not only a good idea but a better revenge on those guys than anything else actually achievable.

DeSantis 2024!

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