Cards on the table, friends. DeSantis posts don’t do well on this platform. They don’t get read, ergo, don’t make money like the others. And that’s the key to everything that is wrong with Ron DeSantis and his presidential quest. He doesn’t pique any interest. Nobody cares. I don’t expect this post to get a lot of views, either, but I’m doing it for posterity. I’m doing it for the record. The DeSantis campaign eclipses anything I’ve ever seen in my life in terms of both competence of execution and a flawed candidate. I thought Bobby Jindal with his young earth beliefs was the bottom of the barrel. Jindal had the charm of an Obama compared to Ron DeSantis.
The handwriting has been on the wall for some time that DeSantis was going to have to suspend. He was fantasizing earlier last week about skipping New Hampshire and being in South Carolina this weekend. That was never going to happen, because he’s out of money. When he canceled his Sunday show appearances today, that said it all. He ends his campaign the way he began, dripping phoniness — and lying to people, because we’re too stupid to know. My Gawd, what a loser.
Don’t dirty WC’s name with your mouth.
— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@RachelBitecofer) January 21, 2024
The man has a fatal flaw which cannot be coached out of him. He doesn’t like people, he can’t connect with people, he can’t empathize. There is something in his characterological makeup which keeps him from understanding human emotions or being real on stage. Or, if this IS the real Ron, then he is more afflicted than we know. Jonathan V. Last has it nailed:
3. God’s Fighter Is Ded
NBC News reports from DeSantis Land:
Inside a DeSantis finance team meeting at the Surety Hotel in Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday morning, campaign manager James Uthmeier painted the picture of a difficult, but manageable, fundraising environment for the campaign, according to two sources familiar with the meeting.
“Going to be tough sledding,” another DeSantis supporter familiar with the thinking said. “The sentiment is we have and can raise the resources to get through South Carolina.”
When a campaign starts trying to assure people that they can probably raise enough money to get to Point X it means that they absolutely don’t have the money to get to Point X.
Combine this with more layoffs at the DeSantis PAC and another “reorganization” of the main campaign and you get a death watch.
But I want to pause for a moment to note that even now, when his campaign is over, DeSantis is still engaged in make-believe. Here’s my favorite bit from the NBC story:
And rather than campaign exclusively in New Hampshire this week, the final stretch before the primary election on Jan. 23, Mr. DeSantis will stump in South Carolina over the weekend, hoping that his conservative message will better align with primary voters.
His campaign on Wednesday framed the decision as a chance to deal a knockout blow to Ms. Haley.
So DeSantis is running around asking people for money while saying that his big plan is to deal a knockout blow after pulling single digits in New Hampshire. And this knockout won’t be to the actual campaign leader, but to the candidate who is running 30 points behind first place.
If DeSantis were only saying this to make himself feel better, it would be one thing. That his campaign is peddling it while trying to get people to fund it borders on fraud.
Next week Ron DeSantis will end his campaign the way he began it: With an embarrassing clusterfuck performance.
When the history of 2024 is written, DeSantis will earn the distinction of having run the single worst presidential campaign of the modern era. He had all of the money and all of the institutional support, yet he bungled every strategic and tactical decision. He could not manage his organization. He did not display a single moment of competence. He chose expediency over principle and lost anyway.
He picked loyalists to back him up rather than experts. He wouldn’t listen to anybody but his wife. Last goes on to say how running for president is always a good thing. It raises one’s profile. But DeSantis is now DeStroyed. This has been positively Shakespeare-ian to behold.
And as a final insult to our intelligence, and an affront to his own dignity, Forbes is reporting that the Churchill quote is fake.
But Churchill never uttered those words, according to the International Churchill Society’s website, which notes they’re very familiar with everything the British statesman said and wrote during his lifetime.
“We base this on careful research in the canon of fifty million words by and about Churchill, including all of his books, articles, speeches and papers,” the International Churchill Society explains.
Perhaps DeSantis could’ve used other Churchill quotes that historians agree the former prime minister actually said, like, “Success always demands a greater effort.” But it’s easy to see why the DeSantis campaign chose the fake quote as an inspirational message. The DeSantis campaign was often criticized by fellow conservative activists for being “too online,” which makes the choice of using a fake quote that’s popular on the internet all the more appropriate. Fake quotes from figures like Albert Einstein, Walt Disney and Mahatma Gandhi are extremely popular online and have been for decades.
Who are you going to believe, DeSantis or the International Churchill Society? This is right on target. Touche. DeSantis is a complete make believe fraud, from the ridiculous launch of his campaign on a broken Twitter platform to a made up quote by Winston Churchill at the end. DeSaster all the way. A complete shitshow from the first moment to the last.
Well, FL….he’s all yours again for 2 years. Enjoy.
I think DeSantis is done. I don’t know whether he could run for governor again. He’s had two consecutive terms and the laws might be that he could run again later on, after some other governor serves. I would have to look up Florida law. The reason I’m not bothering to do so right now is because I think DeSantis has annoyed enough Floridians that it’s a moot point. I think the man is done now.
Hey ronnie…now you can ditch the lifts and just think of it as a job training program.
It was a job training program. Mark my words, political strategists in years to come will cite the DeSantis campaign as what not to do.
Mr never back down has backed down at last!
What was mind boggling from the very beginning is that DeSantis honestly thought he could just make a campaign into a TV show and he could dupe the voters. He was never genuine and he offered nothing genuine. He saw Trump, the consummate con artist, succeed at getting elected and so he decided he would do the same.
What he’s missing is that Trump is genuinely crazy. That’s the essence of his success. He believes the drivel coming out of his mouth. DeSantis is not crazy and he’s got zero acting ability so he had no chance. But he never saw the truth of that situation.
Not particularly relevant to DeSantis, RIP, but enjoyable nonetheless:
“A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”
Winston Churchill
That’s very good.
The slavish subservience of the Florida legislature, which passed the fascist bills promoted by DeSantis, may have convinced him that he and and his views would be popular nationwide. Plus, some early backers saw him as “Trump without the baggage,” apparently without ever meeting him. Let’s hope that his failed campaign can actually make “red” Florida competitive in the presidential contest.
Anyone who thought anything positive at all about DeLoser had never actually met him.
so after much research I can safely call trumbola the NV republican winner of his caucus therefore all the electors, no matter what happens on the PPP side.