Helpful Hint. Don’t Look For DeSantis To Announce Anytime Soon. His Funding Is Fizzling Out

I love history, especially political history. And political history is replete with former and current Governors of both parties who were hot shit as chief state executives, and then melted under the bright slate of the national spotlight like a popsicle.

Governors love to tout themselves as having Presidential timber because unlike congressmen and Senators, they have run entire governments. And if ya can run one government, then ya can run any government, right?

Just a quick roster of some of the famous and less so Governors who have come-a-cropper in their national aspirations. Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Michael Dukakis, Scott Walker, and Jeb! Bush. I’m ignoring candidates like Jay Inslee and John Hickenlooper, who ran for other reasons, pushing a specific agenda item on the platform, and gaining statewide name recognition for a Senate run.

And it looks like we have our next gubernatorial ignoramus who forgot to put their sunscreen on before they went under the lot lights of national politics. Ron Deathsantis. I have pooh-poohed his chances from the start, and now it appears I’m not the only one who has doubts. Some of the people he needs most, deep pocket GOP donors are starting to pull their oars in too.

DeSantis hasn’t done himself any favors. He likes to market himself as Trump without the baggage. But that’s not true. DeSantis is Trump, he just lets his legislature do the dirty work. DeSantis also hasn’t helped himself with his flip-flops on Ukraine and banning books. And just think, his total national exposure is two lousy book tour stops in Iowa!

But the worst part is that DeSantis seems to have no actual plan for how to deal with Trump in a bruising national campaign. DeSantis tried a backhand slap at His Lowness in an interview, referring to all of the drama queen bullshit in Trump’s administration, and comparing it to his own smooth operation. Guess what, Pee-Wee? The drama is what people love about the Trump administration. Trump savaged DeSantis in his Waco campaign event last, night, but the whole day passes today without a stinging response by either DeSantis or his press shop. If you’re in a dogfight with Trump, you can’t beat Trump without kneeing him in the nuts. Former congresswoman Donna Edwards summed it up perfectly today on MSNBC when she said, Ron DeSantis hasn’t decided what he wants to be yet when he grows up…As a presidential candidate.

And that piss poor performance hasn’t gone unnoticed. According to NBC News, DeSantis recently attended a deep pockets GOP money mooching retreat. Maybe he should have just stayed home and threw darts at Mickey Mouse. According to the report, several high level donors, including one whose wife had funneled a cool $500k into DeSantis’ gubernatorial reelection campaign, cautioned DeSantis that in the current climate, it might be better to give 2024 a pass, and instead spend a year after leaving office in 2026 to set up a national organization for a 2028 run instead.

This could be the kiss-of-death for DeSantis. These are the power players, the ones who can make-or-break a campaign with a nod or a wink. And if they’re telling DeSantis that it’s not his time yet, to go home and work on his game, and then come back in four years, that can’t be a good thing. After all, DeSantis is in his middle forties. What’s going to change in four years? He’s still going to be a weak, spineless, racist, homophobic sycophant, and in four years he won’t even have Trump left to compare himself to! That kind of a brushoff is the political equivalent of a high school girlfriend telling you, Look, I love you, but I’m not in love with you. 

DeSantis’ original plan as I understand it was to go out on his book tour, making speeches and touting his POS book, and then declare his nomination sometime after Easter, when the Florida legislature finished its session. But with the phat wallet boys telling him he’s puny spuds, and his poll numbers sinking like a stone the more voters see of him, while Trump’s numbers rise, that plan may not be operable.

Here’s my prediction, for what it’s worth. Remember this, DeSantis never came out and said he was running, or even considering it. He never formed an exploratory committee or made a national donor suck up tour. He thought he would be anointed as the more acceptable replacement for Trump. But now that it’s crashing down around his puny ears, I find it highly likely that a shallow, spineless, vain little wimp like DeSantis won’t say anything. He’ll just hide out, and when asked will blame the media for all of the speculation, and say he never had any intention of running in the first place. Just his style when confronted with a fight.