From: constance@duxmail.com   
      
   On 2024-02-09, JE Corbett  wrote:   
   > When I first learned Nikki Haley was interested in the presidency, I thought   
   she   
   > might be a good choice for the GOP since I didn't think Trump was going to   
   run   
   > and didn't think he had a prayer of getting elected. Both have since   
   surprised me.   
   > While Trump has engineered the greatest political comeback since Nixon in   
   > 1968, and maybe even greater than that, Haley has showed herself to be just   
   > another old establishment Bush/Cheney neocon that has lost control of the   
   > party. That faction of the GOP has never forgiven Trump for denying Jeb Bush   
   > the party's nomination and possible election in 2016. In their minds it was   
   his   
   > turn and it was stolen from him by an outsider and political neophyte Donald   
   > Trump. How dare he upset their applecart.   
   >   
   > What the old GOP establishment has never figured out is the reason the rank   
   > and file Republicans abandoned them is because they found a guy in Donald   
   > Trump who would fight for the things they believed in. The old establishment   
   > claimed to believe in those same things, but when push came to shove, they   
   > would get rolled by the Democrat leadership because they didn't have the   
   > stomach for a fight. We saw it in Bush 41. We saw it in Senate majority   
   > leader Bob Dole. We saw it in Bush 43. We saw it in one Republican House   
   > Speaker after another. When the MSM started to criticize them, they would   
   wilt like flowers.   
   >   
   > When I first learned Trump was going to attempt a comeback, I was lukewarm   
   > to the idea. No more. I am all in for Donald Trump. Not only will he get my   
   > vote, he will get my time and my money. I will do my part to make sure the   
   > next president isn't named Joe, Kamala, Gavin, or Michelle. The country   
   > needs four more years of Donald Trump.   
      
   In the unlikely event that Biden can survive the current crisis, or   
   the longshot that the Dems would entrust the nomination to Kamala, I   
   wouldn't mind Trump being president.   
      
   But Gavin Newsom or one of the other Dem governors will be opposing   
   Trump, and that's got to be an L for Trump. He is toxic; this was   
   proven by the 2022 midterms when all of the candidates he embraced did   
   5-10 points worse than normal Republicans. He single-handedly lost   
   the Senate 3 times -- 2020, GA runoff, and 2022.   
      
   One just hopes that he'll go quietly and fade into the woodwork...yes,   
   it's a vain hope but what else do we have?   
      
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