(05-25-2023, 05:48 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: Nah you're not going to manufacture scandals and attempt election interference in perpetuity and have me move off my candidate under the pretense of maybe you'll start playing nice.  The "by any means necessary" crowd deserves another dose of him and given the path things are on very likely has it coming.  Ron will have my full support in '28.  This is just the politics of a primary.  It gets ugly sometimes even within the same "team" even though Trump is more 3rd party usurper than specifically a Republican.  It got ugly with Trump, Rubio and Cruz in 2016.  It was ugly with Bush and McCain.  They all played nice after or at least appeared to. 

Ron will get my vote this go around if he wins the primary, but I don't see that happening.  There's never been real excitement for a candidate on the right like there is and has been for Trump.  Never seen anything like it in politics in my lifetime.  There's just no way he's not the nominee.  And don't put too much stock in general election polls this far out or even ever for that matter.  If I got polled, I'd probably answer the opposite of how I feel just to [BLEEP] with their accuracy because they're so often used as a tool to "say" what a specific pollster wants them to say.  Maybe others feel the same way, who knows.

If you're a never-Trumper on the right, Trump gave you 90% or more of what you wanted in policy... and "mean" tweets.  If he wins the nomination, try to get out of your own way.

I never really cared about mean tweets.
Those were frequent, but I didn't care about them.
I cared about tweets that called for violations of the Constitution.  Those were less frequent, but very concerning.
And I cared about tweets and speeches calling for a mob to threaten Congress.
And I care about him continuing to say he won an election that he clearly lost.  People who are that deep in delusions about themselves do not belong in positions of power or trust.

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