Yeap read it.
Supreme Court blocks vaccine mandate for businesses, exposing Biden's overreach
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opini...es-biden-administration-overreach-ncna1287202
DeSantis for the win
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Yeap read it.
Supreme Court blocks vaccine mandate for businesses, exposing Biden's overreach
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opini...es-biden-administration-overreach-ncna1287202
The best you can do is post old news articles from January.
Simply pointing out that you have an uncanny ability to be consistently wrong.
Maybe you need to take a look at DeSantis’ uncannny ability to lose lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit. He has a consistent record of being on the wrong side.
The funny thing is that everything the democrats have failed at, so has GWB_NPC. I remember when he was all on about Rebekah Jones and that stupidity (hell, its in this very thread).
Democrats only have themselves to blame for the rise of Ron DeSantis
The mercurial rise of Ron DeSantis is the Democrats’ fault.
I say this with gratitude, not regret. Absent some catastrophe, DeSantis is going to win a second term as governor of Florida this coming November and, after that, he has a fair shot of being president. This is partly because he has done an excellent job for his state. It’s also because he was unusually lucky in his enemies.
Unable to help themselves, the Democrats have aided him at every stage. They still are.
2018 was a good year for the Democratic Party, but not so good a year that the quality of its candidates didn’t matter. Had the party nominated a credible centrist in Florida’s toss-up gubernatorial race — Gwen Graham, for example — that candidate would not only have won the governor’s mansion for the Democrats for the first time in two decades, she’d have ended DeSantis’ career.
But the Democrats didn’t choose a credible centrist. They hosted a messy and divisive primary, selected the radical Andrew Gillum as their nominee, lost by 0.4 points, and set DeSantis up for a bright future. Opportunity: missed.
The Dems still had a chance to turn it around, even after he won. Ron DeSantis is a good governor, but he is not perfect, he does not get every call right, and he is as susceptible to base political temptation as any other human being. Florida has undoubtedly grown more Republican of late, but it is not Mississippi, and the Democratic Party will eventually win a big election here simply by being a sober, credible alternative to the GOP.
If the Florida Democratic Party understands this, it has a peculiar way of showing it. Instead of calmly rebuilding, it has allowed itself to become so crazy in its opposition to DeSantis, it has elevated him to national status, provided him with all the incentives he needs to play Churchill at the gates, and, by confirming that any Republican (not just Trump) will be treated terribly in the press, turned him into a rock-ribbed conservative hero.
If Democrats had picked a centrist like Gwen Graham (right) as their nominee for governor in 2018, they could have won the seat. Instead, they chose radical Andrew Gillum (left) and lost.
To DeSantis’ delight, his opponents have become addicted to stepping on rakes. In their desperation to take him down, the Florida Democratic Party has chased one absurd conspiracy theory after another. Its leading lights have sided with the disgraced fabulist Rebekah Jones, who falsely accused DeSantis of manipulating state COVID data; it has spread a debunked “60 Minutes” claim that there was something untoward about Florida using the state’s largest supermarket chain to distribute vaccines; it has pretended that the plan to make Florida the 23rd state with a state guard augurs something sinister; and it has advertised a link that does not exist between contracts awarded to the drug company, Regneron, and donations to DeSantis’ campaign.
Worse still, the party has come to believe its own rhetoric. Nikki Fried, the state’s Democratic agriculture secretary (and a potential 2022 gubernatorial nominee), has taken to claiming that “Florida isn’t a free state”; to comparing DeSantis to “the leader of a communist country,” to a “dictator,” and, “in a lot of ways,” to “Hitler”; and to charging that he represents a “danger” to “the world.” In the meantime, her colleagues in the legislature have gone all out to oppose a set of COVID policies that have made Florida a magnet for disgruntled Americans and to assail a K-3 education bill that, despite the dishonest way in which it has been characterized (“Don’t Say Gay”), is popular among Democrats.
The results have been predictable. DeSantis now leads his likely opponents in every reputable statewide poll, has an approval rating of around 55%, and, when compared to the hysterical descriptions to which voters are treated, appears refreshingly normal to the average American.
Bang-up job, guys.
Charles C. W. Cooke is a senior writer at National Review.
Democrats only have themselves to blame for the rise of Ron DeSantis
The mercurial rise of Ron DeSantis is the Democrats’ fault.
I say this with gratitude, not regret. Absent some catastrophe, DeSantis is going to win a second term as governor of Florida this coming November and, after that, he has a fair shot of being president. This is partly because he has done an excellent job for his state. It’s also because he was unusually lucky in his enemies.
Unable to help themselves, the Democrats have aided him at every stage. They still are.
2018 was a good year for the Democratic Party, but not so good a year that the quality of its candidates didn’t matter. Had the party nominated a credible centrist in Florida’s toss-up gubernatorial race — Gwen Graham, for example — that candidate would not only have won the governor’s mansion for the Democrats for the first time in two decades, she’d have ended DeSantis’ career.
But the Democrats didn’t choose a credible centrist. They hosted a messy and divisive primary, selected the radical Andrew Gillum as their nominee, lost by 0.4 points, and set DeSantis up for a bright future. Opportunity: missed.
The Dems still had a chance to turn it around, even after he won. Ron DeSantis is a good governor, but he is not perfect, he does not get every call right, and he is as susceptible to base political temptation as any other human being. Florida has undoubtedly grown more Republican of late, but it is not Mississippi, and the Democratic Party will eventually win a big election here simply by being a sober, credible alternative to the GOP.
If the Florida Democratic Party understands this, it has a peculiar way of showing it. Instead of calmly rebuilding, it has allowed itself to become so crazy in its opposition to DeSantis, it has elevated him to national status, provided him with all the incentives he needs to play Churchill at the gates, and, by confirming that any Republican (not just Trump) will be treated terribly in the press, turned him into a rock-ribbed conservative hero.
If Democrats had picked a centrist like Gwen Graham (right) as their nominee for governor in 2018, they could have won the seat. Instead, they chose radical Andrew Gillum (left) and lost.
To DeSantis’ delight, his opponents have become addicted to stepping on rakes. In their desperation to take him down, the Florida Democratic Party has chased one absurd conspiracy theory after another. Its leading lights have sided with the disgraced fabulist Rebekah Jones, who falsely accused DeSantis of manipulating state COVID data; it has spread a debunked “60 Minutes” claim that there was something untoward about Florida using the state’s largest supermarket chain to distribute vaccines; it has pretended that the plan to make Florida the 23rd state with a state guard augurs something sinister; and it has advertised a link that does not exist between contracts awarded to the drug company, Regneron, and donations to DeSantis’ campaign.
Worse still, the party has come to believe its own rhetoric. Nikki Fried, the state’s Democratic agriculture secretary (and a potential 2022 gubernatorial nominee), has taken to claiming that “Florida isn’t a free state”; to comparing DeSantis to “the leader of a communist country,” to a “dictator,” and, “in a lot of ways,” to “Hitler”; and to charging that he represents a “danger” to “the world.” In the meantime, her colleagues in the legislature have gone all out to oppose a set of COVID policies that have made Florida a magnet for disgruntled Americans and to assail a K-3 education bill that, despite the dishonest way in which it has been characterized (“Don’t Say Gay”), is popular among Democrats.
The results have been predictable. DeSantis now leads his likely opponents in every reputable statewide poll, has an approval rating of around 55%, and, when compared to the hysterical descriptions to which voters are treated, appears refreshingly normal to the average American.
Bang-up job, guys.
Charles C. W. Cooke is a senior writer at National Review.
The funny thing is that everything the democrats have failed at, so has GWB_NPC. I remember when he was all on about Rebekah Jones and that stupidity (hell, its in this very thread).
Democrats only have themselves to blame for the rise of Ron DeSantis
The mercurial rise of Ron DeSantis is the Democrats’ fault.
I say this with gratitude, not regret. Absent some catastrophe, DeSantis is going to win a second term as governor of Florida this coming November and, after that, he has a fair shot of being president. This is partly because he has done an excellent job for his state. It’s also because he was unusually lucky in his enemies.
Unable to help themselves, the Democrats have aided him at every stage. They still are.
2018 was a good year for the Democratic Party, but not so good a year that the quality of its candidates didn’t matter. Had the party nominated a credible centrist in Florida’s toss-up gubernatorial race — Gwen Graham, for example — that candidate would not only have won the governor’s mansion for the Democrats for the first time in two decades, she’d have ended DeSantis’ career.
But the Democrats didn’t choose a credible centrist. They hosted a messy and divisive primary, selected the radical Andrew Gillum as their nominee, lost by 0.4 points, and set DeSantis up for a bright future. Opportunity: missed.
The Dems still had a chance to turn it around, even after he won. Ron DeSantis is a good governor, but he is not perfect, he does not get every call right, and he is as susceptible to base political temptation as any other human being. Florida has undoubtedly grown more Republican of late, but it is not Mississippi, and the Democratic Party will eventually win a big election here simply by being a sober, credible alternative to the GOP.
If the Florida Democratic Party understands this, it has a peculiar way of showing it. Instead of calmly rebuilding, it has allowed itself to become so crazy in its opposition to DeSantis, it has elevated him to national status, provided him with all the incentives he needs to play Churchill at the gates, and, by confirming that any Republican (not just Trump) will be treated terribly in the press, turned him into a rock-ribbed conservative hero.
If Democrats had picked a centrist like Gwen Graham (right) as their nominee for governor in 2018, they could have won the seat. Instead, they chose radical Andrew Gillum (left) and lost.
To DeSantis’ delight, his opponents have become addicted to stepping on rakes. In their desperation to take him down, the Florida Democratic Party has chased one absurd conspiracy theory after another. Its leading lights have sided with the disgraced fabulist Rebekah Jones, who falsely accused DeSantis of manipulating state COVID data; it has spread a debunked “60 Minutes” claim that there was something untoward about Florida using the state’s largest supermarket chain to distribute vaccines; it has pretended that the plan to make Florida the 23rd state with a state guard augurs something sinister; and it has advertised a link that does not exist between contracts awarded to the drug company, Regneron, and donations to DeSantis’ campaign.
Worse still, the party has come to believe its own rhetoric. Nikki Fried, the state’s Democratic agriculture secretary (and a potential 2022 gubernatorial nominee), has taken to claiming that “Florida isn’t a free state”; to comparing DeSantis to “the leader of a communist country,” to a “dictator,” and, “in a lot of ways,” to “Hitler”; and to charging that he represents a “danger” to “the world.” In the meantime, her colleagues in the legislature have gone all out to oppose a set of COVID policies that have made Florida a magnet for disgruntled Americans and to assail a K-3 education bill that, despite the dishonest way in which it has been characterized (“Don’t Say Gay”), is popular among Democrats.
The results have been predictable. DeSantis now leads his likely opponents in every reputable statewide poll, has an approval rating of around 55%, and, when compared to the hysterical descriptions to which voters are treated, appears refreshingly normal to the average American.
Bang-up job, guys.
Charles C. W. Cooke is a senior writer at National Review.
They said the same thing about Trump. It’s your fault we voted for a demagogue, not my prejudice and ignorance!
If it continues to lead to DeSantis' advancing political career, I'm OK with whoever you (or anyone else) want(s) to blame.
I don’t blame anyone, I’m just refuting the premise of the article you shared and pointing out the irony.
People are voting with their shoes and wallets. You praised Andrew Cuomo and hate DeSantis. Lets see what the numbers say.
COVID-19 migration: Who's moving to Florida and why there's a New York exodus
Extraordinary events have forever pushed and pulled and pressured U.S. population shifts from gold lust to the citrus rush to the restless return of WWII soldiers to revolutions in foreign lands and civil war on southern soil.
Now there is COVID-19, which has turned a years-long trickle to Florida from the northeast into a deluge.
More than 547,000 people exchanged out-of-state driver’s licenses last year for ones with Sunshine State addresses. That’s a 40% increase from 2020 and nearly 20% greater than the five-year average between 2017 and 2021.
The license swaps — largely from New York (11%), New Jersey (6%) and foreign countries (14%) — are acutely felt in Florida real estate markets where inventory is anemic and prices aggressive. The median sale price on Palm Beach County single-family homes ended 2021 at nearly half-a-million dollars with the average price pushing seven figures.
I don't think the premise is flawed at all. Democrats have been experts at stepping on rakes when it comes to DeSantis and it has done amazing things for his career. For example, doubling down on the whole bill regarding sex and gender education to Pre-K students should be an obvious no-no, but progressives are all over it. And as we saw in Virginia, the number one way to make sure you lose is to go against parents.