Senator Trump for SecDef DeSantis?
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wrote on 4 Dec 2024, 15:41 last edited by
John Tower. That’s a name I haven’t heard in a while.
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wrote on 4 Dec 2024, 15:42 last edited by
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wrote on 4 Dec 2024, 17:24 last edited by
Sure - just copy the image URL and paste like any other picture.
https://media1.tenor.com/m/jZ_upwCgJE0AAAAd/300-action.gif
I put a space in the word "action" to show you what it looks like.
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wrote on 4 Dec 2024, 18:44 last edited by
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wrote on 4 Dec 2024, 19:15 last edited by
Ha
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wrote on 4 Dec 2024, 19:47 last edited by
DeSantis is term-limited, but his current term runs through 2026. It would be a damn shame for Florida to lose him 2 years earlier, and I think serving as Governor is a better fit for him. If he does want to run in 28, he would be well positioned to leave office in 27, spend a year doing the pundit rounds and training for debate/presentation, put together a better campaign staff and come out swinging in 2028.
I don’t think DeSantis is a great campaigner, though. His first campaign for Governor fell flat, and he likely did need Trump to push him over. On the other hand, he is an EXTREMELY competent executive. I mean, the guy is just that damn good. I think he would be better off taking 2 terms in the House, then come back to the Governor’s mansion.
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wrote on 4 Dec 2024, 20:03 last edited by
Do their term limits work that way? He can leave and come back?
I think he’d take SecDef if offered myself. It’s a good platform to continue his anti-woke warrior schtick while getting national attention.
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wrote on 4 Dec 2024, 20:06 last edited by
The problem with DeSantis is charisma - he needs a transfusion. Competent, reasonable, and all that.
But he just comes off awkward to me.
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wrote on 4 Dec 2024, 20:08 last edited by
I’ve heard it’s the same in person.
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Do their term limits work that way? He can leave and come back?
I think he’d take SecDef if offered myself. It’s a good platform to continue his anti-woke warrior schtick while getting national attention.
wrote on 4 Dec 2024, 20:16 last edited by LuFins Dad 12 Apr 2024, 20:23@jon-nyc said in Senator Trump for SecDef DeSantis?:
Do their term limits work that way? He can leave and come back?
Yep. It’s limited to two consecutive terms. He can take off a term and come back.
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wrote on 5 Dec 2024, 00:04 last edited by
@Jolly said in Senator Trump for SecDef DeSantis?:
we got Cheney instead of Tower
Seen on National Review:
(A veteran Senate staffer friend offered a historical analogy: “He’s John Tower 2.0, except a worse deal in every way because Tower could actually have run DOD.”)
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wrote on 5 Dec 2024, 14:09 last edited by
Seen on twitter:
In 1989, President George H.W. Bush nominated John Tower, senator from Texas, for Secretary of Defense. Now, Tower was a very considerable person, a real defense intellectual, someone who deeply understood defense, unlike the current nominee. And it emerged that Tower had a drinking problem, and when he was drinking too much, he would make himself a nuisance or worse to the women around him. And for that reason, his nomination collapsed in 1989. You don't want to think that our moral standards have declined so much that you can say, 'Let's take all the drinking, all the sex-pesting, subtract any knowledge of defense, subtract any leadership, and there's your next Secretary of Defense for the 21st century.'"
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Seen on twitter:
In 1989, President George H.W. Bush nominated John Tower, senator from Texas, for Secretary of Defense. Now, Tower was a very considerable person, a real defense intellectual, someone who deeply understood defense, unlike the current nominee. And it emerged that Tower had a drinking problem, and when he was drinking too much, he would make himself a nuisance or worse to the women around him. And for that reason, his nomination collapsed in 1989. You don't want to think that our moral standards have declined so much that you can say, 'Let's take all the drinking, all the sex-pesting, subtract any knowledge of defense, subtract any leadership, and there's your next Secretary of Defense for the 21st century.'"
wrote on 5 Dec 2024, 15:01 last edited by
