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Loser DeSantis Loses

Ron DeSantis was sold to us as the Savior of the Republican Party who would be the nominee and prevent another nomination of Donald Trump.

The Ron love in a lot of the media pretty much started with a declaration that he won the pandemic. This was part of some pundits’ odd obsession with proving expertise wrong during the COVID-19 outbreak. But soon, it became obvious that DeSantis was declared the Pandemic King too early.

The Republican nomination campaign for Governor Ron has run a parallel path. Professional Disappointing Columnists like the New York Times’ Frank Bruni were hyping the man, telling all of us not to underestimate him.

Well, yesterday the Florida Governor, aka Ron DeSantimonious and Meatball Ron as per Trump’s nicknames for him, dropped out of the race. I guess enough people underestimated him so much that they didn’t express enough support for him.

Much to the Very Smart Punditry who were telling us not to underestimate him, he lost ground to Trump in polls even before he officially launched his campaign. As for that launch, well, let’s just say it was a disaster with the added benefit Elon Musk looked like an idiot as well.

Despite the insistence by the DC media that we were all wrong about him, Meatball DeSantimonious served up plenty of evidence that he was in fact, a dork.

Repeatedly being a dork, and a weird one at that, is not the best recipe for winning political office. Often, DeSantis seemed to be puzzled by how to interact with these things called human beings.

So, Ron is out, and of course, he immediately endorsed Trump. His criticism of Trump was light and milquetoast, but that won’t keep The Donald from delighting in forcing Ron to kiss the ring and probably also lick it. Being a national GOP political figure means you have to be willing to be humiliated by Trump.

A member of the DC media who was a DeSantis skeptic from the start, Greg Sargent of the New Republic, notes that DeSantis’ exit is another sign that the anti-woke movement is losing a lot of steam.

As the idiotic idea that wokeness is why Boeing’s planes are falling apart demonstrates, the anti-woke movement has jumped the shark, becoming increasingly unhinged and turning people off. As Sargent points out, the sort of anti-woke holy trinity of Moms for Liberty, Glen Youngkin, and DeSantis have not had a great last few years. To be honest, this is a pretty good sign for the nation.

So, as for the so-called race for the GOP nomination, then there were two. Nikki Haley will continue her “Don’t Upset Trump Too Much” campaign for the nomination, a strategy that has her destined to lose in New Hampshire and she will likely also drop out once she gets trounced in her home state. She will then be ordered to kiss the ring and will no doubt endorse Trump. At least we can stop pretending that the GOP primary is a real horse race and get on with the business of covering Trump for what he is, a threat to democracy, I won’t hold my breath that will happen given this kind of coverage, and this, and this, and so on.

But that’s for another post for another time. Meanwhile, I will share one of the more ironic headlines that came out of the Great Ronnie D. Media Swoon of 2021-2023. He indeed, from how the Very Smart DC Punditry hyped him to his eventual faceplant, was another Scott Walker.

The last word goes to Donald Fagen, as DeSantis drifts back to his own Florida Room.

 

 

 

2 thoughts on “Loser DeSantis Loses”

  1. Ron now gets to join Bobby Jindal and Scott Walker as the latest Governor who tried to burnish his national bonafides by wrecking stuff on his state before ignoring it to campaigning, only to find that no one actually likes him nationally.

  2. Said it before, and it’s still true: the only path Puddin’Boots ever had to the White House was over TFG’s dead body.
    Suspending his campaign (which is what he did) means that he can jump back in as soon as TFG stops twitching. The endorsement is just to kneecap Haley, just in case it helps in a race without TFG.

    So now Puddin’Boots can concentrate on infesting Mar-a-Dumbo with coral snakes and ticks carrying flesh-eating bacteria. It’s a gamble, but better odds than what he had before.

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