Remember the adage, “speak softly but carry a big stick?” Ron DeSantis’ philosophy appears to be, “talk like a psycho and have nothing to back it up.” He went to New Hampshire recently and if this is his vision for America, violent rhetoric and imagery, he will go to the “dustbin of history” where he says he’s going to send “Woke” who is his personal nemesis. Maybe there’s a rabbit called Woke that appears to him in hallucinations, like the movie Donnie Darko. NHPR:
Throughout his trip to New Hampshire, he appeared bent on demonstrating that no candidate talks tougher. He promised that, under his presidency, Mexican drug cartels would be “shot stone cold dead,” and vowed that when it comes to federal bureaucrats, “we are going to start slitting throats on Day One.”
The crowd that listened to DeSantis at the Rye event, a barbeque, hosted by former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, was heavily Republican. And, by and large, DeSantis’ message went down fine. But not everyone liked the word choice, particularly the bit about slitting throats.
“If I was in charge of his PR, I would have said, ‘Don’t use that terminology,’ ” said Norm Olsen, a GOP primary voter from Portsmouth who describes himself as a “Sununu Republican.”
And this will entertain you. DeSantis thinks there is some mythical creature known as a “soft Trump voter.” Ron, it doesn’t exist. A Trump voter is a Trump voter. There are no shades of grey, only jet black, stick, stone, stupid.
“We’ve got to convince the soft Trump voters not to vote for Trump,” he said, after DeSantis spoke in Rochester Monday. “And we’ve got to convince the people currently supporting the others that they have no chance in hell.”
As to this remark, even if DeSantis did get all the votes from people now supporting Haley, Ramiswamy, et al., that’s still not going to take him over the top. His only shot at the nomination is Trump being unable to run for office and him inheriting the role of GOP candidate by default.
But how — and whether — team DeSantis can pull that off in New Hampshire is a big question. As he spoke to reporters in Rye on Sunday, DeSantis himself was quick to stress that plenty of voters here haven’t even begun to pay attention.
“Definitely after Labor Day, I think people are going to be dialing in a little bit more, and we are going to be here,” he said. “So you can take that to the bank.”
Say what you will about DeSantis, his worldview is intriguing. He’s got himself believing an alternate reality, wherein he really has a shot at becoming president of the United States. And that is despite mountains of evidence, building more and more daily, that he is not presidential material and that the more people get to know him, the lower his polls plummet.
It will be interesting to see how this pans out. Maybe DeSantis will start referring to himself as president and it will be like the classic movie, “Arsenic and Old Lace” where the deranged brother was convinced he was Teddy Roosevelt and the staircase was San Juan Hill, and he would yell, “Charge!” and run up the stairs. I can see DeSantis reprising that role in his own way. And he can train Casey and the kids to stop calling him Ron or Daddy and call him, “Mr. President.” That is, if he hasn’t already.
Turkey De Sandwich is a puffed-up angry little doodle stroker that likes blotting his copy book with bumper sticker wording. What a short sighted puerile knob.
Kinda hard to take seriously tough guy talk from a dude who struts around in public (knowing it will be on national TV) in white go-go boots! MAGAs may not know what the social media thing known as “ratioing” is but DeSantis is going to be getting a healthy dose of it from them!
a lot of anger hogwash flooding out of FLA.
We’ve all been living in an alternate reality since the orange slim oozed into politics. I can’t wait for him and all his wannabe imitators like DiSatan to melt into their white go go boots and get trounced in the voting booths – again.