DeSantis Latest Version Of Normal Routs Anything SNL Can Achieve

I simply marvel at the presidential campaign of the Florida governor, Republican Camelot as it’s been billed. We keep making cracks about what planet he’s from and whether his spaceship ended up in Atlantis after it had navigation problems in the Bermuda Triangle, but the fact is, unless Ron DeSantis really wants to keep that line of whacky dialogue going, I sincerely have no idea WTH he is doing or what he did on CNN’s Town Hall on Tuesday night.

It was supposed to be an occasion to meet and greet the voters, get some necessary points going into the Iowa Caucus — which is a done deal and he’s already lost. We’ll get to that in a moment, but take a look at the gravitas and charm that DeSantis brought to the show tonight. His version of those attributes, at least. The guy is not only lacking in any natural grace, but he is a gawd awful excuse for an actor. Simply gawd awful.

Invader Zim energy pic.twitter.com/V5lqTZWvRa

— Rebecca Tolen (@TolenRebecca) December 13, 2023

I wonder what the eye squinting is all about? I’m wondering if it’s an over reaction to his deer in the headlights look, which got him so much criticism. This reminds me of a terrible review that Humphrey Bogart got when he first started stage acting and he was supposed to be an Asian butler, if you can believe such a thing. As bad as that review was, I daresay Bogart’s performance was Oscar-level, compared to this one. Here are a few more lowlights.

Lying causes dry mouth

— Double_Anarchy (@Double_Anarchy3) December 13, 2023

I don’t know what the wild gesticulation is about.

DeSatan knows as little about the Foundinf Fathers as he does about human facial expression. Creating a religion is antithetical to what they put in the Constitution.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

— Carolyn Haynes 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@AskMe_idareyou) December 13, 2023

Now, as to the futility of all this. This is from the Des Moines Register article published Monday. J. Ann Selzer, who is a nationally renowned pollster has signed off on these figures and her polls are considered the gold standard.

Trump holds a commanding 32 point lead over DeSantis, who basically has not moved the needle since he announced his candidacy. Nikki Haley is in a statistical tie with DeSantis. The bottom line is that it really doesn’t matter at this point. All year now we have seen the two GOP primaries side by side, the real one and the fantasy one. In the real one, Donald Trump has led by a wide margin all along, in the fantasy version, the candidates have gone on stage four times now, insulted one another, and the numbers have jiggled a bit here and there, but not enough to make any kind of a real difference.

The real GOP primary shows Trump winning the Iowa Caucus handily and I daresay that minus some earthshattering event, like Trump choking on a cheeseburger, he will win the Iowa Caucus on January 15. Then he will go on to repeat the performance in New Hampshire and South Carolina, then out west, so on and so forth.

Now, there is this note, from the Des Moines Register article:

Forty-nine percent of poll respondents say their minds are made up, while another 46% say they could still be persuaded to support another candidate.

While the rest of the field is largely stagnant, Trump’s hold on his front-runner status has only gotten stronger — even as his criminal trials advance and his legal fights come into sharper focus.

The share of Iowa’s likely Republican caucusgoers who are confident that Trump can win an election against Democratic President Joe Biden, despite the 91 felony charges he faces across four criminal cases, has grown 8 percentage points since October.

I believe in the accuracy of the poll, I just can’t follow the logic of it. So Trump can actually get convicted, can for all intents and purposes “shoot somebody on 5th Avenue” and he’ll still win? I guess that’s what we are reading here.

Again, we’ll know more in a little over a month than we know now, but DeSantis, Haley, Ramaswamy and Christie can do what they want for the next 30 days and it’s going to be an effort in futility, if we are to believe this poll, which I do.

It will be interesting to see who drops out and when and why. It’s rumored that Haley wants to be Trump’s VP candidate, but guess who just shot that idea all to Hell and back? Junior.

Trump won’t select Kari Lake. She’s a loser and a woman. Marge would get on his nerves. He’ll pick a guy.

— Rocky Resistor🇺🇸😎🇺🇦 (@RockyResistor) December 13, 2023

My theory is that he’ll pick Kristi Noem or Elise Stefanik — unless he picks Tucker Carlson and then it is going to be a complete shitshow from start to finish in 2024. Say what you will about Mike Pence, at least he had a background in government and wasn’t a Fox News talking head. Carlson would send the bar plummeting even further southward than it already is. And I would love to see how the rest of the GOP manages to whitewash and justify that choice.

Buckle up. It’s going to be a wild roller coaster ride for the next eleven months. And I do not for one minute believe that Trump’s legal problems, the proverbial elephant in the room, simply do not matter. If that would be the case, then America has more problems than just Donald Trump. America has stopped being America if it will elected convicted felons to the nation’s highest office.