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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1478694
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1478694
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That PAC would be the “Never back down” PAC That backed down in a flash. Lots of yak about DeSantis but living here in Florida I have a bit better take. Folks saw him. Until he stepped in the light he was just what folks HEARD about him then they SAW him. That was it.
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TPM Cafe = Morning Memo writer can’t get their act together.
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The white boots and Mickey Mouse. Ron put the loo in loser!
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Photo illustrates the difficulty lizard people have learning the human smile.
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If I ran for office I’d have a lawyer to make sense of what I just read. But since I am not running for office I don’t care about what I read.
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“DeSantis, to put it charitably, expanded our imagination.”
Why put it charitably? WTF is wrong with you?
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Most of Ronnie’s problems stemmed from Ronnie. He surrounds himself with ass kissers and yes men. No one told him that with Trump around in 2024 2028 was the way to go. That resulted in DeSantis being in a race in which he had to both kick and kiss his opponent’s ass.
DeSantis did not “win” by 19 points in Florida. His opponent, Charlie Crist, lost by that. Instead of using that good fortune to place himself for 2028 he let himself believe he was responsible for his Guv victory…and that he was unstoppable. That 19% victor is now polling under 50 in Florida and would lose to a Dem in a race today. In short Ron and his Never Back Down boys couldn’t read the room or the cards. He’s not even going to be mentioned in 2028. He took the Jeb! / Walker path and is going to the same place.
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Well his campaign was a general nightmare from the candidate to how it was run, so par for the course.
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RE: Using Texas’ language.
I don’t care how good it might be, Molly Ivins told us that Texas is our National Laboratory for Bad Public Policy. We can’t use Texas’ language.
Here are Ohio’s definitions:
A partisan (party) candidate is a person who seeks to be a political party’s nominee for
an elective office for which candidates are nominated at a party primary.
An independent candidate is a person who is not affiliated with a political party, but
seeks to run for an office for which partisan candidates may be nominated at a primary
election.
A nonpartisan candidate is a person who seeks to run for an office that pursuant to Ohio
law does not provide for the nomination of party candidates, such as state board of
education, county court judge, township office, and offices in some municipal
corporations.
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Narrator: “That wasn’t actually charitable.”
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Except it was, despite using the reference to charity in a paradoxical manner.
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Though this scenario sounds ominous, I doubt it would work. We’re talking about a campaign running completely independent of the candidate himself. That sounds like a recipe for disaster no matter how much money is spent.
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Lizard people…would explain his attempted predation on Mickey Mouse & Company.
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How people run for office is a real mess. I thought that the political parties were “private” and if they are why don’t people running under their banner have to have some kind of approval to do so? Or at least declare themselves as candidates to the private political party that they say they support.
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Interesting that Tom points to Texas as an example of workable language defining a candidate. Of all the states, certainly Texas would work as hard as they could to ignore or undermine their own definition if a hard-right loonie were running this way.
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Had he sat on the sidelines and just did hateful things to brown people in his state he’s be as well positioned for the '28 nomination as Abbott is.
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Practically extinct from doing things smart people don’t do…
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So, what does the word “receive” mean in this sentence?
—“To be a candidate, someone must receive more than $5,000 in campaign contributions…”
Does the person have to accept the money?
Could this scheme be defeated simply by dropping off an envelope at the non-candidate’s with $5,000 in cash and a note saying “Here’s a little something for your presidential campaign”?
I know that sounds absurd… but the whole thing is absurd.
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