Griffin appears to be just another donor in a long line of them. DeSantis is like most politicians in one regard -- he's gotta dance to the tune of the people who write him checks.
Trump isn't quite like that, which earned him a helluva lot of animosity from just about everybody except truck drivers, gas station clerks, restaurant servers, corn farmers, and those of us who live in flyover country. But that doesn't mean Trump gets a free pass -- he's got to fight and win in the primaries and if he can't do that, he's done. Thanks, Don -- you did as well as you could've, with 3/4 of the country determined to see you fail. Enjoy your retirement.
CMD, I get the fact you're a DeSantis opponent. Nothing wrong with that. But insofar as the sway that Griffin holds over DeSantis in light of that long line of donors, that remains to be seen. But speaking of Griffin, are you saying he was paying DeSantis's bills in 2012?
Something tells me no.
Another thing -- DeSantis hasn't even declared, unlike Trump. What's Trump been doing since he announced besides losing yet another court case?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-formally-dismisses-trumps-case-for-a-mar-a-lago-special-master/ar-AA15bb9w
If that's what you get, then you misunderstand completely. I am an opponent of the
establishment GOP, of which I am thoroughly convinced that desantis is a part. I don't come to that conclusion lightly. MAGA/America First = Main Street. Establishment GOP = wall street. As in outsourcing jobs. As in the "we need more workers" blind eye turned toward illegal immigration. Their interests. Not ours.
That "long line of donors" are the very same bunch that were pushing Jeb! who nobody wanted:
"Ron DeSantis is backed by the same assembly of political insiders, donors, corporations and financial backers that supported Jeb Bush. The professionally republican class know what they have in DeSantis, and he is brand organized, packaged & managed to deliver on their intents."
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/10/14/florida-governor-ron-desantis-wins-coveted-paul-ryan-endorsement-for-2024/I like everyone else want to see
our interests represented in dc instead of given lip service along with 'well, we're not as bad as the dems are'. I'm neither taken in nor offended by any cult of personality here. My stance is 100 percent purely based on the rational self interest of MAGA/America First policy making versus globalist policy making no matter how it's camouflaged or described using soft fuzzy globalist-splaining.
Tribalism or cult of personality has nothing what so ever to do with this, particularly given that both are contrived and perpetuated distractions to keep your eye off the ball. I refuse to swim in that shit anymore. So should we all.
You should spend some time reading the treehouse. Sundance brings the receipts.