Former Republican strategist turned Democrat boot licker Tim Miller appears panicked about the idea of a Matt Gaetz 2028 presidential ticket, hyping the Florida Congressman as a presumptive gubernatorial successor to Ron DeSantis, before suggesting the Kevin McCarthy bete noire may turn is attention to the highest office in the world.
“I find it noteworthy that in this venue, among the people who will have the greatest influence over the future direction of the party (emphasis intended!), the idea of Gaetz as successor didn’t seem at all preposterous,” Miller wrote at the globalist blog.
“The so-called power brokers have been foiled again and again when their interests have gone against those of the grassroots faithful. The party poohbahs didn’t want Trump in ’16. They wanted to move on from him in 2021. They wanted to keep McCarthy in power this year. And they wanted DeSantis or Youngkin in 2024. Fail. Fail. Fail. Fail. Why would it be any different next time?”
Miller also reported that he asked Gaetz, in person at the AmericaFest conference, about his theory: “Gaetz naturally demurred and joked about how the media was trying to run him out of town two minutes ago, and now people like me are arguing he’s on the come-up.”
“Is Gaetz 2028 really that crazy?” he concludes. “Doesn’t seem so to me. I wouldn’t bet my mortgage on it, of course. But if past events are a predictor of future results, someone in the Gaetz mold will be a much better bet than whatever quarter-zip-vested stooge the GOP donor class ends up getting behind.”
