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bluecollar2

(3,622 posts)
Sun Oct 9, 2022, 04:50 PM Oct 2022

I'm seething here...Florida Governor DeSantis

Last edited Mon Oct 10, 2022, 01:02 AM - Edit history (1)

Is airing TV Ads with him in a flight jacket and the voice over is calling him "Top Gov"

Insinuating he actively was involved in SEAL operations.

The fact is this prick was never a line officer and never did a day underway

JAG officer his entire career....

Don't get me wrong...at least he put on a uniform but it just gets under my skin...

*rant over*

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I'm seething here...Florida Governor DeSantis (Original Post) bluecollar2 Oct 2022 OP
I saw that damn thing when it was first introduced oh his wife's Twitter page. Native Oct 2022 #1
Former Navy Pilot Rips 'Pathetic' Ron DeSantis Over 'Top Gun' Stunt LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2022 #2
DeSantis fighter jet ad conjures 1988 Dukakis tank debacle LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2022 #3
Democrats Rebl2 Oct 2022 #4
After watching the Republican party swift boat John Kerry bluecollar2 Oct 2022 #5
On the JAG tv show, they did it all. keithbvadu2 Oct 2022 #6

Native

(5,939 posts)
1. I saw that damn thing when it was first introduced oh his wife's Twitter page.
Sun Oct 9, 2022, 05:22 PM
Oct 2022

Made me want to puke. He was ridiculed for it then, and now it's on TV? I hope he gets ripped to shreds again.

That said, at least his go-go boots made it on SNL.

LetMyPeopleVote

(145,079 posts)
2. Former Navy Pilot Rips 'Pathetic' Ron DeSantis Over 'Top Gun' Stunt
Sun Oct 9, 2022, 05:28 PM
Oct 2022

DeathSantis' latest ad may make Dukasis' tank ad to look like an effective ad



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-desantis-ken-harbaugh_n_6305cb1ae4b052615d76429e

A former U.S. Navy pilot is calling out Ron DeSantis for his new “Top Gun”-themed campaign ad in which the Republican Florida governor calls himself “Top Gov.”

“It’s not just cringey,” said Ken Harbaugh. “It’s literally Navy pilot cosplay.”

In the widely mocked ad, DeSantis donned aviator shades and a bomber jacket and plopped into what appeared to be the pilot’s seat of a fighter jet as he talked about taking on the “corporate media.”....

He added:

“This tough guy act is pathetic, especially from someone like Ron DeSantis. This campaign ad from Ron DeSantis is just one more example of a Republican politician appropriating the honor of others because he has none.”


Harbaugh concluded by giving DeSantis a new callsign: Wedge or “the simplest tool known to man.”


LetMyPeopleVote

(145,079 posts)
3. DeSantis fighter jet ad conjures 1988 Dukakis tank debacle
Sun Oct 9, 2022, 05:31 PM
Oct 2022

DeathSantis wants to follow in the footsteps of Dukakis



https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/08/23/desantis-dukakis-fighter-jet-tank/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=wp_main

Clearly, what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was going for was a comparison to Tom Cruise.

Hence the “Top Gov” label at the beginning of his latest political ad, which resembles that of Cruise’s “Top Gun” movies, and the slo-mo shots of the Republican governor zipping up a flight suit over an energetic guitar music track. DeSantis “briefs” an out-of-view team — presumably Florida voters — about the “rules of engagement” for “dogfighting” with the “corporate media.” At one point, he sits in the cockpit of what appears to be a fighter jet, flight helmet on, and says, “Alright, ladies and gentlemen.”

What are DeSantis and his team getting instead? Comparisons to Michael Dukakis, the Massachusetts governor who made one of the most-mocked campaign photo ops in modern political history while running for president in 1988.....

So, seeking to bolster his national security chops, Dukakis gave a speech at an M1 Abrams tank manufacturing plant in Sterling Heights, Mich.

“Somebody had the not great idea of putting my dad in a tank,” said John Dukakis, the candidate’s son, in the documentary. “With a helmet, of course, because you can’t ride a tank without a helmet.”

So, seeking to bolster his national security chops, Dukakis gave a speech at an M1 Abrams tank manufacturing plant in Sterling Heights, Mich.

“Somebody had the not great idea of putting my dad in a tank,” said John Dukakis, the candidate’s son, in the documentary. “With a helmet, of course, because you can’t ride a tank without a helmet.”

Rebl2

(13,485 posts)
4. Democrats
Sun Oct 9, 2022, 05:36 PM
Oct 2022

should speak up more that he was just a JAG officer and never involved in SEAL operations. Maybe Lincoln Project.

bluecollar2

(3,622 posts)
5. After watching the Republican party swift boat John Kerry
Sun Oct 9, 2022, 06:55 PM
Oct 2022

It just pi**es me off that it appears that the Democratic party in Florida is letting this kind of behaviour go without challenge.

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