stinkfist
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RE: How is Ron Desantis a RINO?
(12-01-2022 01:28 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote: (11-30-2022 09:44 PM)stinkfist Wrote: (11-30-2022 09:16 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote: If the American people cannot see what is blatantly obvious - - a cartoonish clown of a former president and a weak socialist puppet for a current president - - then we may end up having to live with one or the other.
I don’t think it will come to that. I think Fo Shizzle has it right. There is simply no 2024 path that Donald Trump is capable of maintaining for an entire election cycle. In fact, he won’t make it more than 5 steps along that path before becoming distracted by the next glitzy celebrity who blows smoke up his ass. His campaign is doomed, due to his lack of discipline and his utter stupidity.
It may not ultimately be Ron DeSantis. But someone other than Trump will become the Republican nominee in 2024. When that happens, Donald Trump will naturally have his very public meltdown. And for a few months the media will lap it up. But in the end, only a small handful of delusional fanboys and fangirls will stick with him. And the blowhard Trump is way too cheap to himself finance what he knows will be a losing campaign. He’ll of course claim that he was cheated, but he will not be the Republican nominee and he will not run a third-party campaign.
The choice will then end up being a sane Republican versus some owned and compromised Democrat. Buttigieg is my guess. Not all, but most Trumpers will suck it up and vote for the Republican. But if I am wrong in this, and the American people cannot see their way through that easy choice, then we will fully deserve what we get.
notice I've mostly stayed away from all this semantical/diatribe/silly arse bs ... however, you deserve the following from nuts zongo...
#groverII is dead ... long live wtfe becomes via the subsequent king of :clowns:!
@nov3'20nov8,'22 #mail-it-inns-won ... everything else is now irrelevant...
the states that continue to fk themselves deserve all the continual bs coming down ye ol' crusty road...
side bet ... I'll bet ya Younkin won't win his reelection bid in '24 ... you call the wager ... that's your current state of residence, Ja?! I wish ya guys nothing but the best ... however, name your poison ... I'm all ears, chief!
Three points in response to the bolded references above:
1. You're right, you have in fact stayed clear of the rhetorical theatrics. It's surprising, and a bit concerning. When my online behavior falls below the stinkfist standard, I probably ought to re-examine things.
2. groverII is most certainly NOT dead. It is wounded and angry. In other words, exactly how the Democrats want things to remain between now and November, 2024.
3. I agree, Youngkin will not be reelected in 2024, for at least two reasons: First, the next Virginia gubenatorial election isn't until 2025. Second, Virginia does not allow consecutive terms for governor. My bet is on Winsome Sears. She is the real deal.
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2. I'm in the camp it doesn't matter based on the current mail-it-inn states ... however, he's dead to the borderline folk ... also, as I stated after the Nov. 3, 2020 debacle, DeSantis was going to emerge as the frontrunner moving forward if not #groverII ... based on the former posit, I don't believe he can win, either ... of course, quite a bit of shite can happen over the next two years...
3. did not know that ... thanks for the intel ... I learned something about VA, today ... I like limiting to two terms better if ya get a good one in rd. 1, but limiting to one offers its own advantages as well (least possibility of long-term corruption comes to mind) ... again, I'm impressed what Youngkin has accomplished to date for y'all!
now knowing about #3, it wouldn't surprise me if an RNC backed Youngkin makes a serious run for the pub nom .... that's easily plausible ... he'll still lose, but it's plausible...
addendum: found this interesting ... https://wamu.org/story/17/09/28/single-v...on-change/
Quote:Petersen argues that in Virginia, the institutional knowledge of the government resides within the legislature, and that the one-term limit serves as an important check on executive power:
“We have governors that come in for four years. They have a large amount control: they can appoint members of boards of commissions; they have a line-item veto, they can refuse or decide to spend money; they can name their own executives agencies. They have a tremendous amount of control as an executive, and the way we temper that is that we limit them to one term.”
Petersen also fears that if governors are allowed a second consecutive term, the next possible change would be a full-time legislature, not the part-time citizen legislature Virginia currently has.
But even with all the power governors do have, fellow State Senator Adam Ebbin (D-Alexandria) still thinks that they should be able to run for re-election, no matter how long the ban has been in place. He says Virginia’s future shouldn’t be governed by its past.
“You know, we’re not in the same times as when the governorship was established under British monarchy,” he says.
Ebbin argues that the term limit leads to inefficient government. Since Virginia runs on two-year budgets, it means any governor who’s elected has to wait a while before he gets to decide what to spend money on. And since filling government posts can be slow, Ebbin says governors can face delays in implementing their priorities.
But, most importantly, Ebbin says the best tool to keep a governor accountable is the prospect of facing the voters a second time.
that pretty much sums up the 'why' one term...
(This post was last modified: 12-01-2022 09:53 PM by stinkfist.)
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