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Governor Ron DeSantis, of the great state of Florida, has been getting a lot of advice from people across the political spectrum as of late. Some of it may be insightful and worth taking the time to think about and implement; some of it might be worth pondering for a couple of minutes and discarding.
However, there is a third option here and that is…
Advice from Sarah Palin that should not ever be considered because it is just plain silly.
Maybe the Babylon Bee could do a hot take on it which would, in jest, make more sense than what Palin recently tried to pass off as profound political thought.
As my colleague, Mike Miller covered here last week, the Governor of Florida has been a topic of conversation since his smashing re-election victory back in November of 2022, and people are pondering what his future holds in terms of a possible presidential run. DeSantis has not yet indicated whether or not he will throw his hat in the ring for the Republican primary, but that does not mean he is just sitting idly by before he announces any decision. Here are some examples of recent activities of his that have been discussed on the pages of RedState.
Watch: Ron DeSantis Delivers Solid Takedown of MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Over ‘Slavery’ Lie.
Gov. Ron DeSantis Creates List of School Board Members Who Need to Be Relieved of Their Duties
Ron DeSantis Moves to Revoke Licenses of ‘Drag Queen Christmas’ Venues, Groomers Hardest Hit
The Governor has been busy doing what he was elected to do down in Florida and the people of that state seem to approve. That might be why he cruised to victory in the largest landslide in the state in 40 years.
So that Sarah Palin recently popped up to give her “political advice” to DeSantis after her crushing loss last November is simply adorable and quite frankly ill-timed. Sarah Palin Loses Her House Election.
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who has close ties to former President Donald Trump, does not think Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida should run for president in 2024, but would support him if he made a White House bid in the future.
“DeSantis doesn’t need to [run]. I envision him as our president someday but not right now,” Palin told Newsmax host Eric Bolling. “He should stay governor for a bit longer. He’s young, you know. He has decades ahead of him where he can be our president.”
Palin said she believes Trump, who endorsed her midterm campaign, has the best chance at winning the GOP nomination.
Palin goes on to say that anyone who wants to put their hat in the ring with Trump has to have a “lot of guts” to do so. I’m not sure I follow exactly why but I’m willing to take a guess.
Is it because some people think that out of a nation of 330 million people, Donald Trump is the only person who should run for the GOP nomination and be allowed to be President? That may be the thought, but honestly, it is not a good one. If the country and the Republican Party are limited to just one individual who could and should be the only choice to run for president, the United States of America is more screwed than I thought.
In Miller’s article, he mentions that some Republican pundits claim that Palin was a drag on the 2008 McCain Palin ticket that ran against Barack Obama and Joe Biden. However, a lot of those same pundits, I’m willing to bet, now work for the Lincoln Project and never cared if Republicans got elected — only that they got paid after their losses.
Remember: There was a time Palin was — for a brief shining moment in American political life — the hottest commodity, and the sky was the limit for her political ambitions. Those days are long past her and hopefully, she will soon realize that a vibrant Republican primary for president will benefit the country as a whole looking towards the future and not the past.
So Ron DeSantis, who has won multiple elections, taking political advice from Sarah Palin, who has now lost multiple elections, is not something that he should consider — or that America deserves.
If Donald Trump wants to be the 47th President of the United States, then he definitely needs to be challenged by the future of the Republican Party and any of those potential candidates who want to join the fray should be encouraged to do so — and I’m here for all of it.
Let the games begin!!
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