Me dino would very much like a Trump/DeSantis ticket and it appears that a Don/Ron movement that still shows up in my email has not given up.
In the past I've stated in The Gulch that we need 4 years of Trump with DeSantis as vice-president and then 8 years of DeSantis to clean up the big fine mess our senile Puppet-In-Chief's Marxist handlers have got us into.
I may be wrong, but at this point I don't think there will ever be a Don/Ron team.

Mccannon, first off thanks for making a coherent post, which is a refreshing change from the kind of frothing juvenility we typically see from the personality-cultists who've unfortunately become the vast majority of Trump's online supporters. 'Not something I expected to see polluting GGO, but I'm not getting anything in the way of response from a site Admin so I'm thinking the site is basically adrift anyway, and yeah, we've got T-cultists trying - with some success - to transform GGO into a Trump-cheerleader echo-chamber. (I've clicked the "Ignore" button for Beavis, incidentally - he of the "I don't realize Trump picked Pence" and "Is that you Hillary" and "Trump FIGHTS" repeated over and over on multiple threads. 'Not sure if that "Ignore" works the same as a Facebook "block" but I no longer see his drivel. Anyhow...)

I realize right off the bat that I'm basically spitting into the wind on this because the same steamroller that selected Trump as our "nominee" in 2016 (Fiorina said "The primary process is rigged" and I believe her) is going to install him as our 2024 "nominee" as well, so it's pretty much a done deal anyway.

To be clear, yes, I consider Trump to be an adequate "placeholder" (at best) on the same caliber as GWB, and yes, the fact that he'd still be orders of magnitude better than the best Democrat-Socialist is a no-brainer. However, comma...

The problems I have with Trump are first and foremost that he has absolutely no grasp of core Republican / Founding principle, like not-the-faintest-clue-oblivious - and a solid grasp of core principle is something that is absolutely essential in a Republican Presidential candidate. I won't even talk about "cohesive philosophy" because that's even more alien to him. The best he has in terms of principle is a vaguely-sketched and capriciously-applied sense of "Making America Great Again" (a slogan he copped from Reagan, but a good one,) one which he ditches whenever the mood suits him, such as in his flip-flop on election reform. On more concrete levels there is the obvious grab-bag:

- He is limited from the outset by the 22nd Amendment to a single four-year term even if he's able to win. At a time when we as Republicans need the maximum possible length and continuity in office, running a candidate limited to a single-term is arguable idiocy;
- Along with defaulting on a thorough top-to-bottom housecleaning on election fraud, there is a bewildering number of absolutely crisis-level issues that he left utterly untouched if not ignored (assuming he wasn't completely ignorant of their very existence.) We're all still getting 1095-C tax forms in the mail yearly (rendered toothless and therefore safely ignored - for now) which is concrete evidence that he left the entire structure of Obamacare intact, for easy reactivation by the Democrat-Socialists whenever they think they have enough power; To date he has not even uttered aloud the words "Agenda" and "Twenty" and "One" together, or even "Agenda" and "Twenty" and "Thirty" - which means the single greatest threat to America and to human rights aside from Xi's threat of war and the Trilateral Commission's assertion that "2023 is the first year of the New World Order," remains utterly unaddressed. When it should've been exposed and obliterated at least two decades ago (GWB ignored it too, possibly because he and his clan are on board with it); He allowed government spending, which was already a vast, slobbering, freedom-crushing pig during GWB's term, to continue expanding unhindered, and here we are closing in on a national debt of $32 Trillion-with-a-T and no end in sight; Trump, not the Democrats, engineered and solidified the massive, unconscionable attack on human rights that was the Wuhan Hypochondemic and all of its associated coercions from lockdowns to forced vaccinations in violation of the first clause of the Nuremberg Code - and all of the economic, political and personal wreckage that's transpired in its wake. That's Trump's legacy, not the Democrats'. Reagan would've maybe allowed the fabled "Three weeks to flatten the curve" on medical facility preparedness and then have obliterated all government restrictions on the American people by April 2020; Trump apparently was totally oblivious to the fact that anything untoward was even being taught in American schools until something like September of 2020, when he initiated his pathetically-lame "Patriotic Education" thing or whatever he called it.
- His entire personality and recent history in politics renders him as one of the most polarizing figures in American politics today, if not in the last century of its history, at a time when a unifying (though uncompromising) voice is desperately needed. You could argue that given the psychotic mania gripping the American Left right now that any Republican is inescapably polarizing, but only Trump has that vainglorious pomposity-study that are his personality and his mouth.

And the list goes on and on.

Assuming he gets shoved in front of us with a "Here's who we're giving you as your 'nominee,'" the only thing that could make his ticket palatable is if he chose an absolute slam-dunk running mate.
- Yes, DeSantis would be excellent. Given the instant handicap that would be having to do another primary and select a new nominee for 2028 - instead of a far easier re-election campaign for a seated President who's eligible for two full terms - having the best possible VP is non-negotiably essential. We can't have him pick another cipher like Pence - or Quayle, or GHWB for that matter. We need the best possible candidate for 2028. Period. And that's: Trump's running mate.
- So would Kristy Noem be excellent (though I'm thinking she's more valuable as SD's Governor right now.)
- Former Congressman Lt. Col. Allen West is someone I consider to be the closest we have to "another Reagan," and the fact that he's black... If Allen West became President in 2028 it would precipitate a sea-change in the black vote to the GOP that would essentially leave the Democrat-Socialist Party in a TKO that would last for at least a century.
- Ted Cruz is a Constitutional scholar who would similarly effect a sea change of the Hispanic vote to the GOP - as well as get some true activism done on behalf of core Americanism.
- It's a longshot because of her age (she turns 35 in spring of 2024,) but if he picked Candace Owens it would be a dream come true. This is the lady who has featured, prominently, interviews with Objectivist scholar Alex Epstein on the moral argument for fossil fuels and industrial civilization, to name one indicator of where her grasp of principle is at.

But ideally - and admittedly a longshot on the order of miraculous - we would get a new Presidential candidate for 2024, any of the above being prime prospects.
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