I am so happy this happened. There is nothing like hearing somebody who needs to be told something finally be told what she needs to hear. Casey DeSantis has some cockamamie notion that she is endearing herself to people when she rambles endlessly about her clearly out of control brats. She — I presume — is sharing these mommy tales in order that the parents in the audience will identify and nod their heads and say, “Um, hmm, that’s right. That’s how it is.” These two gentlemen don’t identify, they tell it like it is: “When your kid can’t save your campaign, you know it’s over.”
Isn't that why the Royal family have nannies? 😆 Hey, I built a $42M building and then ran several successful Democratic campaigns when my son was born into it and when we started school. My son is Asperger's. He never caused a scene anywhere. Today, he is working for the KDP.
— Desireé Owen (@OwenintheFirst) September 17, 2023
A lot of people aren’t buying what Casey’s selling.
This last person is expressing my sentiments. No way in hell there isn’t somebody taking care of these kids. Casey sounds like a bad actress. She’s playing a part up there. She and Ron are out of an amateur theater company of Tobacco Road. They’re two elitists attempting to be down home and folksy and nobody is believing the act.
Another couple of polls will drop tomorrow. We’ll see what kind of shape DeSantis is in. As of yesterday, I can report that the Washington Post ran a story, “From Bad To Much Worse For Ron DeSantis.” Well, isn’t that cheerful?
The national polls from Fox News and Quinnipiac University show Trump expanding his lead over DeSantis to 47 and 50 points, respectively. Those are Trump’s largest margins to date in high-quality national polls of the race. And thus his lead in the FiveThirtyEight polling average has expanded to a whopping 41 points.
Seven months ago, before DeSantis announced his campaign, he had crawled to within just 2 points of Trump. On top of those two polls came a Washington Post/Monmouth University survey in South Carolina that shows DeSantis in fourth place at 9 percent.
A coronation. The “king” of the Republican party is under indictment in four cases and you know all the stats as well as I do. That’s the creme de la creme that the GOP has to offer us.
Now the Post article goes on and from the sounds of it, it is masochism time in DeSantis world. Anybody reading this, if they were sane, would suspend their campaign right about now.
Perhaps the bigger lesson from these polls is the utter loss of what was supposed to be the silver bullet for DeSantis:Â electability. Fresh off a resounding 2022 reelection win in a midterm campaign that was bad for Republicans and worse for Trump, the argument was right there for the making. But it has vanished.
The Fox News poll is one of the first to test not just a Trump versus President Biden matchup or even a DeSantis versus Biden matchup, but to pit all the top Republican candidates against the incumbent president. And of the seven? DeSantis actually fares the worst. Here is how that looks:
- Donald Trump +2
- Nikki Haley +2
- Mike Pence +1
- Vivek Ramaswamy +1
- Chris Christie -1
- Tim Scott -1
- Ron DeSantis -3
A thought just occurred to me. Maybe this is how this is going to go down. Trump will somehow be taken out of the running, lose one of his cases, be sentenced to prison, or at least home confinement with an ankle bracelet, who knows? And DeSantis, the understudy, will become the star and then he’ll take a shellacking in the general election the likes of which we have not seen since Barry Goldwater — or better yet, Walter Mondale. My God, can you imagine? Mondale lost 49 states to Ronnie Raygun, only his home state of Minnesota voted for him. Wouldn’t it be comical if DeSantis lost all 50?
I don’t know if those kinds of landslides are even possible anymore. We’ve changed so much in even the short span of time between Reagan and where we are today. We’re so polarized that I’m betting the landslides of yore are just that, phenomena of an age now past.
And here’s the bottom line:
In the Fox News poll, Biden takes 42 to 44 percent of the vote when the alternative is not Trump or DeSantis, but 47 percent when it is DeSantis. A big reason for that? DeSantis has badly marginalized himself. While running hard to the right on issues such as vaccines and by using violent rhetoric, he has clearly and unambiguously alienated middle-of-the-road voters.
So who does that leave him? The hard right-wingers are MAGAs, so he doesn’t have them. That we knew. He’s alienated the moderates, “clearly and unambiguously, we are told,” and the only group that’s left is us, you and me, Jack and Jill Democrat. And we hate his (bleeeeeep) guts. Unless the cats and the dogs become enfranchised and vote for him, what demographic is left?
I don’t know, Ron. Enjoy what’s left of your gubernatorial term, and start thinking about a nice lobbying job on K Street or something. Give Roger Stone a call. He knows where old Republicans and has beens go to die.
‘working for the KDP’???
Amazon ‘Kindle Direct Publishing’ (which isn’t a job – it’s trying to sell your own publications online)?
Kansas Democratic Party?
Kool-Aid Drinking Promotions?
Or did she mean ‘KGB’ (which has been renamed FSB)?
Just the fact that she reported him “negotiating” with a young child shows they are not familiar with parenting. At the same time, he seems to have no problem being a dictatorial a$$hole as governor to the people of Florida. I guess because he doesn’t have to deal with them face to face.
She’s lying. Those kids think the nanny is mommy. They are unaware they have a father. Deathklan(t)ass is a sadistic sociopath, he doesn’t look at the kids let alone talk to them. And frankly, it’s a certainty they are better off spending 100% of their time with the nanny. And I’m certain it’s Nannys (plural). As much as she’d like to make someone care for her kids 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, I can’t imagine ANYONE tolerating that nightmare of a toxic hellhole for more than 40hrs a week. There are at least 2 and possibly as many as 5 nannys.
He’s turned into the German sausage he resembles.
From bad to wurst.
This is the first I had heard of this particular tone deafness. Howeverm when I swa “out of control kids” in the title I knew it had to be white kids. Black kids know that if they get out of conrol they wil die. (Not that staying in control is certain to keep them alive, but it certainly is their best bet.)
I just find these two, weirdo’s! RW must have rigged his Gov’s election! I don’t get the whole premise, why he’s wasting his money(?), he not going to win, even if Trump isn’t around! Then again, RW don’t “operate” in reality or “self-awareness”!