Sir_Cliff
Well-Known Member
I thought his big selling point was that he was supposed to have been the pro-business, open-up-Florida governor versus the big government Democrats. This muddies the water on that front, making him seem like an ideological warrior first who will use the state to go after private enterprise if they disagree with him.It's a wink-and-a-nod situation.
The Bud Light constituency doesn't want him to be a "more temperate version" of his rival, they want him to be as combative as possible. Pettiness and amateurism are credentials to those voters. If they wanted temperate, we'd be in the second term of the Rubio administration.
All he's left with, then, is being a knock-off version of a far more effective troll.
The problem with this is that he is actually inflicting grief on a private company that is one of the big economic motors of his state. To go behind closed doors and wink at pro-business donors that he's actually on their side becomes less convincing when your actions show that you will go after their investments if it suits your political interests.Meanwhile, behind closed doors, he'll intimate to the donor class that he doesn't actually believe any of this, that he's capable of pivoting to the center and being an "electable" candidate in the general election, and that all of this culture war crap is a ruse to rile up the red hat crowd.