Four Key Reasons to Oppose the DeSantis Shadow Campaign

Topic: Perspective

I don’t believe anyone is owed anything simply because they breathe oxygen.  After all, I am not a Democrat.

In certain cases, people are owed something.  If I promise to pay you $1,000 for services rendered, I owe you the money.  If I renege on that without offering adequate compensation, then I am a deadbeat.  Likewise, politicians who campaign on a specific platform and win owe their voters their most sincere efforts in achieving those policy goals.

It is simply not enough for someone to stand in meaningful opposition to a political campaign without providing rationale for doing so.  I have found that in many cases, the patriot movement fails to define its positions and, in some cases, relies on emotions and gut reactions more than hardened intellect, which is actually a hallmark of the political left.

For example, the main deficiency in our elections is that they lack transparency and legitimate auditability that would screen out ballots cast on behalf of counterfeit registrations.  The outputs, which are what pisses people off, is that the wrong candidates are “elected” to public office - that has catastrophic impact to the nation and world.  Likewise, the most grievous issue over the vaccine debate is the disregard for personal medical freedom, and the underlying crisis surrounding the J6 debate is the lack of due process for a group of people that have become political prisoners in the Land of the Free.

I am writing this article to voice why I consider the ongoing Ron DeSantis 2024 shadow run for president to be inappropriate and worth opposing.  Keep in mind, I have stated four key reasons why I find (or found) it unlikely DeSantis will formally run, but in an ever-changing world, minds must also remain flexible.

Here are the four key reasons I believe a DeSantis 2024 run should be opposed, and it has nothing to do with party unity:

1)    Everyone knew Trump was running again and given that a super-majority of Republican primary voters believe the 2020 election was decided fraudulently, the nomination belongs to Trump as a matter of honor.  I would not feel that the nomination should default to Trump had he been legitimately defeated, because it would be clear that competition was warranted to determine who was the right man for the job.

2)    DeSantis is clearly synchronizing the conduct of his shadow campaign and announcement with the phony Manhattan witch-hunt against President Trump.  This should give everyone in Conservative, Inc., great pause.  In contrast with my article predicting DeSantis would not run, it is now clear my missing intelligence gap was his knowledge of Trump’s looming indictment.  DeSantis formally running would confirm to me that he and his advisors had inside knowledge of these proceedings, and it doesn’t get any more “entrenched deep state bureaucracy” than that. As it stands now, it appears the Governor is testing the waters.

3)    DeSantis is being promoted, funded, and readied for a potential campaign by the people who are responsible for the “America Last” Republican Party that has been prominent for three decades, including the Bushes, Karl Rove, and Paul Ryan, a raging hemorrhoid who thinks people suffering a third-world invasion, looming world war, and the collapse of the economy give a rat’s ass about tweaks to tax policy.

4)    DeSantis owes his political success to Trump, and four more years to his voters.  Florida law requires him to resign to run for President, and if there is anything at this point that will stop this campaign, it is that law. 

Being crushed in the polls, owing four more years to voters who re-elected him in a landslide, and owing gratitude for Trump’s backing means DeSantis should repent of this shadow campaign, shed the Bushes, endorse Trump, and get himself to work in the Sunshine State.