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Charles Pierce: The DeSantis Campaign Has a Ron Problem
A now-played-out rom-com cliche is when one woman tells another, "Girlfriend, it's your boyfriend." The banjaxed campaign to make Ron DeSantis into the President of the United States has a similar problem.
Campaign, it's your candidate.
That is the obvious, insoluble problem with the whole enterprise. Ron DeSantis is a wooden, inflexible meathead who tromps on his own dick like he's trying to make dick wine out of it. He's tried to go around Trump to the right and he's fallen repeatedly on his face. It has dawned on the Republican donor class that they have bought a dead parrot. Vivek Ramaswamy is creeping up in the polls. And the former president* is leading all the contenders despite the fact that he's cracking up on social media between federal indictments. In the middle of this political morass, DeSantis is sinking like a stone. And what is strategic reboot from whoever it is that's left at the top of the campaign? You won't believe it. From Politico:
Among the changes being made were to expose voters to DeSantis more, said Nick Iarossi, a Florida-based lobbyist and fundraiser who was at the event. Let Ron be Ron, added Iarossi. Thats what got him here. Thats what made him the leader that he is in Florida. Were going back to our basics on all of this.
Let Ron Be Ron.
You have to be kidding. For all his fatal flaws, Ron DeSantis has been as utterly without artifice. First of all, he can't carry it off. He's neither smart nor flexible enough. He has been what he's always beena jumped-up lucky boy who did two terms in the House that he spent as one of the former president*'s troupe of performing poodles. He barely fell across the finish line to beat Andrew Gillum in his first gubernatorial run. Through it all, he has been the wooden, bizarrely anomic human facsimile that he's been on the campaign trail this year. You might as well let Ron be Ron because he doesn't have the talent to be anyone else.
His latest foray into the happy land of WTF? came this week when he said that he'd consider making Robert Kennedy, Jr. the head of FDA or the CDC. You could almost hear the wallets snap shut up and down the Hamptonswhere, it seems, his campaign had to cut the minimum donation in half during the fundraising trip, Ron being Ron and all. Nobody else wants to be.
Campaign, it's your candidate.
That is the obvious, insoluble problem with the whole enterprise. Ron DeSantis is a wooden, inflexible meathead who tromps on his own dick like he's trying to make dick wine out of it. He's tried to go around Trump to the right and he's fallen repeatedly on his face. It has dawned on the Republican donor class that they have bought a dead parrot. Vivek Ramaswamy is creeping up in the polls. And the former president* is leading all the contenders despite the fact that he's cracking up on social media between federal indictments. In the middle of this political morass, DeSantis is sinking like a stone. And what is strategic reboot from whoever it is that's left at the top of the campaign? You won't believe it. From Politico:
Among the changes being made were to expose voters to DeSantis more, said Nick Iarossi, a Florida-based lobbyist and fundraiser who was at the event. Let Ron be Ron, added Iarossi. Thats what got him here. Thats what made him the leader that he is in Florida. Were going back to our basics on all of this.
Let Ron Be Ron.
You have to be kidding. For all his fatal flaws, Ron DeSantis has been as utterly without artifice. First of all, he can't carry it off. He's neither smart nor flexible enough. He has been what he's always beena jumped-up lucky boy who did two terms in the House that he spent as one of the former president*'s troupe of performing poodles. He barely fell across the finish line to beat Andrew Gillum in his first gubernatorial run. Through it all, he has been the wooden, bizarrely anomic human facsimile that he's been on the campaign trail this year. You might as well let Ron be Ron because he doesn't have the talent to be anyone else.
His latest foray into the happy land of WTF? came this week when he said that he'd consider making Robert Kennedy, Jr. the head of FDA or the CDC. You could almost hear the wallets snap shut up and down the Hamptonswhere, it seems, his campaign had to cut the minimum donation in half during the fundraising trip, Ron being Ron and all. Nobody else wants to be.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a44666297/ron-desantis-rfk-cdc/
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Charles Pierce: The DeSantis Campaign Has a Ron Problem (Original Post)
erronis
Jul 2023
OP
"...tromps on his own dick like he's trying to make dick wine out of it..."
callous taoboy
Jul 2023
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callous taoboy
(4,590 posts)1. "...tromps on his own dick like he's trying to make dick wine out of it..."
Ocelot II
(115,853 posts)3. You beat me to it! Pierce certainly has a way with words.
"Ron DeSantis is a wooden, inflexible meathead who tromps on his own dick like he's trying to make dick wine out of it."
yonder
(9,674 posts)4. You just have to admire that sort of skill. Impressive.
(the writing, not the winemaking)
FalloutShelter
(11,878 posts)7. Hysterical.
Irish_Dem
(47,400 posts)2. The DeSantis campaign is totally over except for the crying.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)5. I love this, thanks for bringing to my/our attention!
Paladin
(28,272 posts)6. Get 'em, Charlie. No prisoners! (nt)
MOMFUDSKI
(5,643 posts)8. Pierce
Rocks!