{"id":54219,"date":"2023-02-18T02:43:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T02:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54219"},"modified":"2023-02-18T02:43:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T02:43:55","slug":"ron-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54219","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis: No. 1 GOP target"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=GOP%20%232024election%20%23RonDeSantis%20%23MAGA&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>As I wend my way through Collin County&#8217;s back roads, I have seen precisely one 2024 campaign flag flapping in the North Texas breeze.<\/p>\n<p>It has Ron DeSantis&#8217;s name on it; the flag flies in the yard of someone living off Farm to Market Road 546 between Princeton and McKinney.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; with that I want to say a few words about the Florida governor who, I presume, is going to declare his candidacy for the presidency of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s every bit the charlatan as his political daddy, Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The dude wants to ban any discussion in Florida&#8217;s public schools about Black history. He has launched a &#8220;don&#8217;t say &#8216;gay'&#8221; campaign in the state&#8217;s public school system. DeSantis is dismissing the vaccines that have saved millions of American lives in the wake of the COVID pandemic. He attacks the mythical &#8220;critical race theory&#8221; curriculum he says is being taught.<\/p>\n<p>The guy is a right-wing, MAGA-loving nut job of the first order.<\/p>\n<p>In a way, though, I am kinda\/sorta pulling for him to defeat Trump for the GOP nomination, although I cannot quite explain why. They&#8217;re both stomach-churning demagogues. Furthermore, I am still not yet convinced that Trump is going to get his campaign off the ground, given what I believe will be a series of criminal indictments coming down that will accuse him of some very serious crimes against the government he once swore to protect.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, though, is a goofball who needs to be exposed for what he is. A fraud and a fruitcake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=GOP%20%232024election%20%23RonDeSantis%20%23MAGA&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I wend my way through Collin County&#8217;s back roads, I have seen precisely one 2024 campaign flag flapping in the North Texas breeze. It has Ron DeSantis&#8217;s name on it; the flag flies in the yard of someone living off Farm to Market Road 546 between Princeton and McKinney. So &#8230; with that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54219\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DeSantis: No. 1 GOP target<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9543,1941,7419,9758],"class_list":["post-54219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2024-election","tag-gop","tag-maga","tag-ron-desantis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54220,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54219\/revisions\/54220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}