It will be about 10 months before anyone casts a single vote in the 2024 primary elections, and I’m already fed up with it all. At this point all I really care about is someone showing up and punching the hell out of Joe Biden or something unimpressive, I don’t know what kind of woman the Democrat is that the left supports, anything else is bullshit. I’m afraid that whoever becomes the candidate of the Republican Party will have so many holes in him that he will bleed to death in front of the general, figuratively of course. It’s so far away that just over 1 percent of the population will die before then, so it’s time to give it a little rest.
Not for you to die, I don’t want that. What I really want is for the candidates, real and imagined, to grow the fuck up and for their supporters to stop acting like asses, too. It doesn’t seem like much, but with each cycle it increases more and more.
Candidates are advertising earlier than ever and we’re not done auditioning recent ones yet, but who cares.
I am wholeheartedly behind the Republican nominee and I don’t care who it is. There are those who obviously won’t be – looking at you, Larry Hogan – and there are those who I wish wouldn’t be the case, but even if it is them, they will have my vote. I want the Democrats to lose, period.
That said, give it a rest. No one is a favorite or entitled to anything in the general election, which will be held in almost 2 years, and the polls for this election mean nothing. I know many people have already made their choice. Just ask Scott Walker, the 2016 nominee, how essential it is to get an early lead in the polls.
Whatever you think will happen is unlikely to happen, and everyone will be madly incensed before it actually starts. That’s how these things work.
Besides, your life will be much better if you avoid blind loyalty to any politician because – and I promise you this – it will never, ever be returned.
Where are we? Ron DeSantis plays coy, Donald Trump plays the game, and everyone else is trying to catch up. But catching up is absurd, as I said, the race hasn’t started yet. It doesn’t matter that there are several runners stretched out in the infield, the doors to the stadium haven’t been opened yet.
I don’t need to see PAC ads promoting DeSantis before he announces anything. I don’t need to see Trump sycophants demanding to know what other candidates have done to assist East Palestine because Trump arrived on pallets of water. He’s a billionaire with a 747, flying on bottled water was a good thing… Completely cheapened by fans screaming that everyone should praise him for it and others somehow less because they didn’t. Ohio has water, Ohio has a governor. If they need assist, they can reach out for assist, but being a private citizen for Trump and doing something was good until it ruined him by treating it like it was just to rub it in other people’s faces.
No one can do more damage to a candidate than the people most devoted to him.
Say what you will about Nikki Haley, and I believe that most of what has been said so far is unfair and has been said because those who say it are either living for shock value or have other preferred candidates (which is okay, it’s just not lucid), she was mostly nonexistent. The vote is too far away for minor candidates to draw attention yet. By the time people notice her, she may be doing well, but now it won’t be 5 months yet.
The second announced candidate is Vivek Ramaswamy, but I can’t take him seriously because he has done nothing but curry favor with the Republican establishment. He’s affluent, his PR team talked him into selling books at Fox, Fox adopted him, he talked about taking over “woke” corporations via a hedge fund, he has a ton of money to do it, and as far as I know, he didn’t do it. Now he’s applying for a job that he won’t get because running attracts attention. This is all my opinion, of course, but I like to see results, not affluent guys on boards doling out loads of money to the conservative movement, showered with awards because so much of the Republican establishment is spent sucking up to each other for fun and profit.
Maybe I’m too cynical? Maybe I’m part of the problem I’m talking about? Maybe I’m planning something? I’m avoiding CPAC this week for some reason…
Either way, I could do without all this now. There will be a time for everything, but not yet. We have a common enemy, or at least we should. Only one of these people will win the nomination, and anyone who claims it’s their way or the highway is on that enemy’s team. Maybe think about it a bit, there will be plenty of time to fight for the direction of conservatism once liberalism is defeated.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!), host A daily radio broadcastand author of the book, Outrage, INC.which exposes how liberals exploit fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and the host of the weekly “A week in the fucking review”, a podcast where the news is presented the way it deserves. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
