Hmmm. Is The Florida State Legislature Starting To Have “Buyers Remorse?”

At this point I honestly don’t know how much worse things can get for Florida Governor Ron ShrimpSantis, but I can’t wait to find out. In the latest NBC News poll he’s down 15 points to Traitor Tot, but there is a silver lining. That is the fact that nobody else in the field is even in double digits, so at least he’s all alone back there eating Trump’s dust. Thank you Sir! May I have some more?

Little things mean a lot, and ShrimpSantis is doing almost every one of those little things wrong! For starters, DeSantis hasn’t actually formally announced his candidacy yet, so by law he can’t even legally fundraise for his campaign. Here’s a funnier one. Since the majority of road Trips Pissantis has taken so far are officially called book tour stops for his Florida GOP Pop-Up book, he can’t even charge the expenses to his existing  campaign war chest as a political expense. He either has to eat the cost, or con his publisher into eating it instead.

And people are starting to notice. Not only are ShrimpSantis’s poll numbers down 16 points since January, he’s in a self destructive cycle. As I wrote a few days ago, DeSantis’s potential big money donors have turned off the funski valve until he gets his sh*t together. And here’s the kicker. If DeSantis is the Wizard of Oz of Florida, master of all he surveys, why has he only picked up one endorsement from the Florida state delegation to congress, while FrankenTrump has picked up eleven?

Which brings us to the Florida legislature. The GOP supermajorities in the legislature have literally been the goal tender that has powered The Little Engine That Couldn’t. From day one the slavish GOP legislature has let ShrimpSantis spend three years trying to out Trump Trump, which would be like me trying to out Obama Obama. Just a quick resume;

• They signed of on DeSantis’s homophobic Don’t say Gay law banning gender identity conversations from K-3rd grade
• Because stupid engenders stupid, they ran the table and extended the Don’t Say Gay law from K-12
• They let Pissantis set up his own personal brownshirts with his Election Police Force, which is so wildly successful that out of an initial crop of 22 arrests, a grand total of one defendant has settled on a plea deal. The rest of them are getting thrown out of court
• The legislature indulged him in his pissing contest with the Disney company, even passing a law stripping their autonomy zone, costing two of their counties an extra $1.2 billion in property taxes

But now some of the blooms are starting to fall from the rose bush, and it’s quite that the GOP Florida legislature is starting to think they may be the one who went to the bathroom at the restaurant at lunch with his coworkers, and comes back to the table to find all of the checks sitting there.

Because in reality, a lot of the sh*t that they passed in the vain attempt to turn ShrimpSantis into Trump without the baggage aren’t very popular in Florida. In fact, two of the reasons that major donors are closing their eyes and ears to DeSantis are his idiotic fight with Disney, and his disastrous six week abortion ban. What really frosted the donors apricots was that DeSantis signed the abortion ban at 11 at night, with only an official photo of the signing released on the Governors official website. Even DeSantis knew this was a mistake, and tried to distance himself from it.

And now DeathSantis is happily and callously ignoring his own constituents. As we speak, a sizeable chunk of sout Florida coastline is under water. I’ve heard that director John Carpenter is planning another sequel called Escape From Fort Lauderdale. And yet DeathSantis is jetting around pimping books and making political speeches. Doesn’t this dipsh*t remember what happened to Cancun Teddy Cruz when he abandoned his state in the middle of a deadly power outage?

But here’s why the GOP Florida legislature is likely left holding this blivit in their own two cowardly hands. Because it’s this simple, Ron Pissantis doesn’t have to give a sh*t. He ain’t never going to be President, and he’s termed out in 2026. And DeSantis has never, since day one, been one to get out there and mingle with the masses. He’ll just sit there in his fortress and keep proposing stupid sh*t.

But the GOP legislature can’t. Just remember, all of the GOP House members, and at least some of the GOP Senate is going to have to run in 2024, without DeSantis on the ballot. But unlike DeSantis, these MOC, some of them in vulnerable districts are going to have to go out there and face the music. And if you think that DeathSantis is going to come out of hiding and campaign with them to give them some close air cover, you need an intervention.

And now the citizens, even GOP voters, are going to hold the legislature responsible for DeSantis abandoning them in their moment of need. And they don’t have any choice. They have to get out there and campaign, and that means in the trenches, with the voters. And I heard a commentary today on MSNBC that made perfect sense to me. Former GOP US Representative David Jolly opined that the reason for DeSantis’s and Rubio’s lopsided victory in 2022 was voter suppression, especially the Gestapo Voting Police. But with their spectacular crash-and-burn, the same anxiety may not be there in 2024.

Here’s the funny thing. In 2024 it may not be a member of the GOP legislative supermajority at the most high profile risk. Freshman Florida Senator Rick Scott is up for reelection in 2024. Scott is widely blamed in the GOP for losing a Senate seat in 2022 through piss poor campaign spending. A sky high Democratic protest vote in 2024, along with disgruntled Republicans with their state legislature could make his race very interesting. Don’t touch that dial.