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applegrove

(118,022 posts)
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 05:50 PM Mar 2023

Thoughts About Ron DeSantis

Thoughts About Ron DeSantis

March 10, 2023 at 4:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 144 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2023/03/10/on-ron-desantis/

"SNIP........

Peggy Noonan: “I don’t think normal people have more than an impression: a blank face sitting behind a square desk signing bills. Often he is surrounded, sometimes oddly, by grade-school children…”

“He’s tough, unadorned, and carries a vibe, as I’ve said, that he might unplug your life support to re-charge his cellphone. His supporters shrug: ‘He’s not warm and cuddly.’ I don’t think voters are looking for warm and cuddly, but they do want even-keeled—a normal man or woman who’s a leader, who has guts and a vision of where the country needs to go.”

“As I watched the Reagan Library speech I thought: This candidacy is going to have power. He wasn’t inspired or eloquent but plain-spoken and brisk; his address was workmanlike, from notes, but all together it packed a punch.”

.......SNIP"

Applegrove:

It is not 'normal' to carry a vibe that says 'he might unplug your life support to re-charge his cellphone'.

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Thoughts About Ron DeSantis (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2023 OP
They don't want Hitler 2.0 either. Keep up. onecaliberal Mar 2023 #1
He's got that used car salesman vibe C_U_L8R Mar 2023 #2
Kind of reminds me of this guy... 2naSalit Mar 2023 #5
My thoughts: He's deep in the closet. RandySF Mar 2023 #3
And this is their guy? louis-t Mar 2023 #4
more bigtree Mar 2023 #6
A Vision Of Where The Country Needs To Go Is Only Good If The Majority Of The People Of..... global1 Mar 2023 #7

RandySF

(57,659 posts)
3. My thoughts: He's deep in the closet.
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 05:57 PM
Mar 2023

I may get in trouble for this, but he REALLY sets off my "gaydar" and he looks miserable in that closet.

louis-t

(23,199 posts)
4. And this is their guy?
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 06:09 PM
Mar 2023

A guy who wants to keep track of the people who aren't nice to him? People who don't fawn over him have to register with the state? That's fucked up.

global1

(25,168 posts)
7. A Vision Of Where The Country Needs To Go Is Only Good If The Majority Of The People Of.....
Fri Mar 10, 2023, 07:25 PM
Mar 2023

the country have the same vision.

I don't think that is the case with DeSantis.

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