re: Chip Roy endorses Desantis for President

Welp, all the lemmings off the Chip bandwagon.

The cult of Trump will not tolerate this insurrection.

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It's amazing how f'n soft this country has become.

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I know.

Let someone criticize DeSantis here and see that in action.

NB4 a new thread titled:

"Why Chip Roy is a backstabbing Globalist and needs recalled"

Or maybe... It's due to Trump not backing.

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Donald Trump denounces Chip Roy's bid for U.S. House Republican leadership

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Why is this some sort of "Shocking" thing

It has been reported that team DeSantis (Turtles funding, establishment PAC's) has spent A LOT of money buying bloggers...

RightSide News, Hot Air, NatReview, GOP Briefing Room, their own Florida something podcast, that one weirdo lady- former MSM reporter,-that did the twitterFiles and linked her AG Barr editorial Go Ron go- site, influencers, whoever is on the take-- on the internet.

I also think that DeSantis has been given permission to go against the Big E on issues. As well as Paul Ryan, GWBush, AG Barr are being told to STFU.

He has been courting Massie and Chip Roy. So look for Massie next... As well as some others depending on what their price is and if they are wined and dined properly at the island retreat meetings...

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‘Don’t Be Fooled’: Why Leading GOPers Are Taking Aim At Both Trump and DeSantis

Christie called DeSantis’s warnings about sliding into a proxy war with China “one of the most naïve things I’ve ever heard in my life” — arguing America is already locked in such a conflict; he told the donors “don’t be fooled by false choices” being pushed by “a fellow governor,” a reference to DeSantis’s argument that Biden was too focused on Ukraine’s border at the expense of America’s border; and, most pointedly, Christie wondered how exactly “they teach foreign policy in Tallahassee.”

If any of the contributors gathered at the Omni Barton Creek Resort outside Austin missed Christie’s point, well, he returned to it following his jeremiad against Trump. Immediately after saying “he is the problem” of the former president, Christie concluded his pitch by warning that the safer course was not to “just nominate Trump Lite.”

The Stop Trump campaign among Republican elites is off to a quick start. Most every weekend since the start of this year there’s been some sort of gathering of donors, strategists and lawmakers in a warm weather state. And while the hotel ballrooms, lobby bars and presidential libraries may change, the overarching goal is consistent: how not to be saddled with perhaps the one candidate who may lose to Biden.

Yet a sense of mission creep is already setting in on the anti-Trump plotting. And it’s being driven by the guests of honor at these get-togethers.

Bolton: Trump needs to be eliminated from the presidential race

As DeSantis heads to Iowa Friday for what’s effectively the start of his presidential bid, his initial strength with Republican contributors and voters alike is prompting the other would-be candidates to divide or at least pair their attacks. With Trump appearing to have an unshakable core of support, and the nature of the primary shaping up to be who can emerge as the strongest alternative to him, the rest of the potential field plainly feels pressure to dislodge DeSantis from his early perch as that candidate.

For his part, DeSantis has ignored both Trump and the other likely Republican candidates in public. In private, though, he has cast doubt about the other aspirants’ fundraising capacity, noting to a small group of Republicans that former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley didn’t release her initial haul after announcing her bid, and has made a bigger statement with the company he keeps.

Clearly alarmed about being portrayed by Trump as overly tied to the so-called establishment, DeSantis has cultivated right-wing leaders and influencers, inviting them to his inauguration in January and his own donor retreat last month in Florida. As significant, he’s deepened his friendship with some of the best-known hard-liners in Congress and is poised to soon deploy them as surrogates.

DeSantis claps back after Trump criticism: I got reelected

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), the most influential voice in the right’s effort to deny Kevin McCarthy the speakership and nobody’s idea of a squish, already has the DeSantis party line down.

“A proven conservative who has been disrupting the establishment and challenging it,” Roy said of his favorite soon-to-be-candidate.

While DeSantis is building the message and team of messengers to guard his right MAGA flank from Trump, though, much of the rest of the field is taking aim with hopes of raising doubts about him among non-MAGA voters.

At the hotel in Austin, just down the corridor from where Christie lit into Trump and DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence sat down with me, inscribed a copy of his book and then offered his version of what the former New Jersey governor had just delivered privately to the donors.

“The Bible says if the trumpet does not sound a clear call who will know to get ready for battle,” Pence said. “To me it’s a function of leadership.”

He was talking, as Christie was, about DeSantis’s straddle on Ukraine, an apparent effort to avoid taking sides on what’s the biggest bright-line divide so far in the 2024 Republican primary.

DeSantis said last month in a Fox News interview that it wasn’t wise to tempt a wider war, downplayed the prospect Russia may invade other European countries and denounced what he called Biden’s “blank-check” aid to Ukraine. What he didn’t do was take a forceful stance aligning himself with the populist or internationalist wing of his party on the larger question of America’s role in the conflict.

It was a brief first look at the governor’s foreign policy thinking, which he delivered off the cuff on a morning program known more for its curvy couch than hard-hitting questions.

To the rest of the Republican aspirants it was something else entirely: tempting.

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

Looks like a third rate Grandstander named @RepThomasMassie, a Congressman from, unfortunately, a truly GREAT State, Kentucky, wants to vote against the new Save Our Workers Bill in Congress. He just wants the publicity. He can’t stop it, only delay, which is both dangerous......

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Or maybe... It's due to Trump not backing.

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I didn't say Trump's track record of throwing actual conservatives under the bus starts and ends with Massie.

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Does anybody remember Trump throwing Thomas Massie under the bus for opposing shite tons of Covid spending?

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JJObama and the Cultists have memory holed that.

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I didn't say

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No... It really doesn't matter what you "say". I stated a fact that it's more to do with Chip not getting Trump's backing over the years.

Why would Chip support Trump. Politics is petty right?

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No... It really doesn't matter what you "say". I stated a fact that it's more to do with Chip not getting Trump's backing over the years.

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Do you understand the difference between an opinion and a fact, jjdoc?

Unless you've heard or read a quote from Chip Roy saying his endorsement of DeSantis is more to do with Trump not endorsing him for speaker than Trump's retarded row with Thomas Massie, you have nothing but opinion that this is the case.

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Why would Chip support Trump. Politics is petty right?

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If Trump was a conservative, that would be one reason.