The days of Ron DeSantis in politics, at least presidential politics, are numbered. Nobody is sure how many are left, but numbered they are. Few people disagree with that premise. DeSantis got himself into this situation for a couple of very large reasons: 1. He saw that Donald Trump’s days in politics — at least at the presidential level — are also numbered. And 2. he figured that he could take the “Trump Formula” and put a smart, less threatening spin on it, and reign supreme. So, how’s that working out for him? Umm…welllll….
Let’s get specific, shall we? What did DeSantis see as “the Trump Formula?” Ahhhh….now you’re cooking. DeSantis, unless we miss our guess, saw Trump as trivializing everything in a show biz manner. And that’s pretty much accurate. But what DeSantis didn’t get was that only Trump can do it and get away with it. Why is that? Because only Trump is stupid enough to actually believe the nonsense he spews. Everybody else merely looks like they’re spewing Trumpian nonsense. Case in point:
.@RonDeSantis in Iowa “@NikkiHaley sided with Disney over Florida and over our kids. I'm sorry, that is disqualifying. If you're going to bend the knee to every big corporation and not stand up and fight, then you're not going to get the job done.” pic.twitter.com/PPiSWQDbVv
— Kit Maher (@KitMaherCNN) November 4, 2023
It’s beyond asinine when DeSantis, or anybody else does it. And he’s only doing it, because he believes, as do all of the GOPers who follow Trump’s lead, because they utterly lack imagination, that this is something that will win over the electorate. Wrong. Wrong. And wrong. Trump can win over the electorate with this bullshit because he believes it. Everybody else merely looks stupid saying it.
It has nothing to do with presidential politics or anything else. The simple point is, Trump spews this garbage because this is legitimately how he sees the world. When DeSantis does it, he just looks stupid. Speaking of which, WTH was this?
— elijah’s mom 💙 (@nancha1107) November 5, 2023
Um…Ron? Considering your track record in Florida, you might think about more of the nuts and bolts of campaigning and less of the theatrics.
Remember this?
Remember when Trump had to make notes to sound like he cared about school shooting survivors? pic.twitter.com/CrTvjcp3e8
— Cerinthe (@Purpurescens) November 5, 2023
Wow. I never thought that could be bottomed, but DeSantis can bottom anything.
We should start making book here. How long will Ron last?
- The Iowa caucus, period. If he loses to Trump, game over.
- Up until the bitter end, when he and Nikki Haley claw each others eyes out over who is taller, heels or no heels.
- Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Ron has an obsession with getting the 2024 GOP nomination that makes Mike Lindell’s obsession with the stolen election look like child’s play.
- Until the surprise plot twist. DeSantis is counting on Trump being incapacitated, maybe that projection will boomerang on him.
All we know is that with respect to Election 2024: “Be there. Will be wild,” is an accurate prediction.
9000 teaching jobs unfilled is part of the program with ‘pubes, not a bug. They have been removing funds from public schools for decades to achieve an ignorant population suitable for being serfs for their wealthy oligarchs and craporations. This is the plan folks. They are doing so well at destroying our public schools that they’ve started attacking higher education. Like the nazis, they do not want intellectuals around to point out their evil.
Ursula, to add to your reasons that Ron stays in. (at the top of this piece) and to the poll at the bottom, my answer is Casey DeSantis.
I am convinced she thinks she’ll usher in the new Kennedy Camelot, if given the chance. She has the full length gloves. She’s worn in seemingly inappropriate times.
She may be why her husband keeps on embarrassing himself. Perhaps she’s a frustrated prom queen runner up?
Your 3rd option about how long DeSantis lasts makes me wonder who becomes the first 2nd place GOP candidate to declare the primary was “stollen?” And, just how delicious would it be for one of the candidates losing to Trump to go before the press (and, more importantly, his or her supporters) and whine loudly that Trump “stole” the primary and make that his or her mantra.