Florida's republican primary winner was a admin for an alt-right FB group. - Polidicks

Dude, is this the hill you really wanna die on? If there’s limitless things to roast this guy on, why is this not one of them? Guy’s a bastard, why should we suddenly ignore this as a molehill instead of treating it as yet another mountain on the range?

It's nice that you're willing to give someone the benefit of the doubt, but there's no reason why his racist remark should be any less disgusting than anything else he has done. You have to remember that DeSantis is running to become an elected representative, as in the person you want to represent your state. I'm sure a select group of people are on board with DeSantis, those people I would call racists, and I hope they're alright with the idea of electing a racist. Frankly, I think we've had enough racist officials to last us a lifetime, and I hope we don't see any more.

Dude just stop, you're not convincing anyone and it's just damaging your own credibility

Old and gay: "Monkey it up" New racist hotness: Jungle bongo mudhut robocall https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/01/an-appalling-robocall-racism-invades-floridas-governors-race-second-time-this-week/ An assertion by a white gubernatorial candidate that Florida voters can't afford to "monkey this up" by voting for his black opponent was widely viewed as a "dog whistle" to rally racists. If it were a dog whistle — and GOP candidate Ron DeSantis denies any racial intent against Democrat Andrew Gillum — then a jungle music-scored robo-call that has circulated in Florida is more akin to a bullhorn. ... "Well, hello there,” the call begins as the sounds of drums and monkeys can be heard in the background, according to the New York Times. “I is Andrew Gillum." "We Negroes . . . done made mud huts while white folk waste a bunch of time making their home out of wood an' stone." The speaker goes on to say he'll pass a law letting African Americans evade arrest “if the Negro know fo' sho' he didn't do nothin'." ... And a spokesman for DeSantis — a U.S. congressman who has been criticized for his racially tinged comment about Gillum a day after Tuesday's primary — called the robo-calls “disgusting." "This is absolutely appalling and disgusting — and hopefully whoever is behind this has to answer for this despicable action,” Stephen Lawson, a spokesman for the DeSantis campaign, said, according to the Tampa Bay Times. “Our campaign has and will continue to focus solely on the issues that Floridians care about and uniting our state as we continue to build on our success." DeSantis has said his comments were aimed at Gillum's policies, not his skin color. To his credit, Governor Rick Scott had this to say in response to the robocalls. https://twitter.com/ScottforFlorida/status/1035639661895528454

Jesus fucking Christ he's more racist then Roy Moore

Every single day, America seems to become more and more a parody of itself.

To be fair to DeSantis, anyone could've run this robocall and the DeSantis campaign is denouncing it. Blaming DeSantis or his campaign is entirely premature. However, at the same time I'm not surprised that this happened, because When you get into bed with rats you get bitten in the dick.

I retract everything I said before in this thread. The man isn't just racist. He exhales it with every breath.

I'm no friend of DeSantis but I don't want anyone misunderstanding what that story said. But on the other hand it gives you a good idea of what some people think his campaign should be about.