r we supposed to believe that he grew morals? gimme a break.
i hope we have an actual dem in the race.

He's a Reformed man. Hope he beats the Fascist in Florida!

And his son.. wow!

Mahalo, BRDS

My dad was born in 1915 and was solid Republican and conservative. His viewpoint on executions was that "even if a wrong person was killed, they probably deserved it anyway." I used to get in knock down verbal fights with him over Nixon, as he believed that Nixon was a quaker and would never do anything wrong. But, a week before his death in 1992, he told me that he would vote for Clinton. He acknowledged that he had been wrong his entire life.

Maybe his son did some good..In any case a Democrat from Florida in place of a Republican in these times, can not hurt.

I learn a lot from his reports, most of which are short.

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/

Have seen some of those too. When I first saw the last name, I *knew* he had to be associated with Lev!

be an asset to our party?

I still wouldn't trust him. NO WAY!

I wouldn't trust him, either. He has very thoroughly shown the world who he is, we'd best believe him. Tigers don't change their stripes. Love his son Aaron, him not so much.

Lev Parnas has a lot of guts to try this. Maybe some of those Florida Repukes will listen to him?

Republican. You can just lie in the most bold-faced way imaginable and your voters will believe it, and half of the other voters won't really know what to think and will just say that both sides are the same anyway.

Seems kinda shady to me. If he wins, I hope he's the real deal. But he's gonna have to prove it to me first before I'm on board.

...particularly one as dirty as Parnas was. Yeah, I get it that he's repented, but I don't think the stain is entirely washed off. My 2cts.

Parnas would be interesting for sure, but what happens when he's taking up a house seat in 2029, and no more Trump? If Aaron wants the seat, he should run himself.

(From Cook Political Report) "Florida's 27th Congressional District is a heavily Hispanic, Republican-leaning district in South Florida, represented by Republican Maria Elvira Salazar. Following redistricting and a significant shift in Hispanic voter support toward the GOP, the district has become firmly Republican, with Salazar winning by 21 points in 2024."

Trump's threats to topple the current regime in Cuba make it almost certain Salazar will win by an even greater margin in 2026.

Except that he has also deported more Cubans than any of his predecessors.

As posted here - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3628444

The vast majority of Cuban-American voters in the southern part of Miami-Dade County - Republicans and Democrats alike - have been praying for the overthrow of the current communist regime in Cuba since the 1960s. It's the single most important issue for them. Most of these voters are 3rd and 4th generation U.S.-born Cuban-Americans who care more about toppling the communists in Cuba than they do about deportations. If Trump and Rubio launch an invasion of Cuba, statues will be erected to honor them, and they will become mythical figures.

whose mother was a friend of my mother (and their daughter was also childhood friend of one of my sisters), was Cuban. They had a huge house (mansion) here in Philly (the parents ran a small hotel in the area), and they were back and forth between here and Florida. So we got the lowdown about all that.

I would agree that they fled for obvious reasons. But that older generation is dying out, and ever since the "wet foot/dry foot" policy was abolished, the abuse has accelerated.

If what you describe happens, I expect that they will suddenly realize, like the Iraqis who wanted to get rid of Saddam, the Libyans who wanted to get rid of Gaddafi, the Panamanians who wanted to get rid of Noreiga, the Palestinians in the U.S. who supported a free Gaza, the Venezuelans who wanted to get rid of Maduro, and the Iranians who wanted get rid of Khamenei, is that U.S. "liberation" is all bullshit, death, and destruction.