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Why can't we have Tulsi Gabbard? She is also a veteran and was against mandates for vaccines but unlike DeSantis she is not a lap dog for Israel or Saudi Arabia.

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She's never been very good on Israel but she is exceptional on Saudi Arabia

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She is against censorship and giving kids hormone blockers. She is no Ron Paul but seems to be the best person that might actually run.

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I voted for her. I also campaigned for her.

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I'm no democrat by any means, but I have tremendous respect for Tulsi Gabbard, even back in the day. I'd vote for her regardless of party. She's a national hero. (I disagree with her on role of government in healthcare, but it would be nice to go back to meaningful disagreements rather than this tribalism BS)

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Yep, the Republicans always have to fuck it all up with their foreign policy. They just can't give it up, It's their thing and they're really into it.

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Except for trump

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsJr7PCbNtk&t=3s

He may have not been a neocon himself but he did almost all their bidding. Didn't buck them until it was too late.

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I do live here in FL and have been saying the same thing. DeSantis was a lockdowner, an essential business decider and authoritarian in the covid beginning. His political philosophy mentor by his own admission is Alexander Hamilton. In foreign policy he is more John McCain than non interventionist. What propels him now is his catching this wokeness campaign at just the right time. People want their authoritarian in office to punish the other guy's authoritarianism. He is not a freedom governor by any stretch.

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100 percent

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Still better than any other Republican

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Before becoming a politician he was a lawyer in the JAG Corps stationed at GITMO.

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