This tweet provides the playbook to run against Ron DeSanctimonious should he get the nomination

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Link to tweet

[fightforfreedom]

1. Also, call him a Dork he obviously is. Love them white boots.

[CrispyQ]

2. Add that image of him in his white boots, too. -nt

[CurtEastPoint]

7. Here: courtesy of Nancy Sinatra...

[Joe Cool]

10. Try not to laugh at him in those boots.

You can't.
This image needs to be burned into the American psyche. Keep Florida man in Florida.

[CrispyQ]

13. LOL. You can't not laugh at that! -nt

[MiHale]

15. White wellies???...never saw that color...🤣😂😜

[littlemissmartypants]

22. You can get them at big box hardware stores. They're really cheap knock offs.

Just like DeSatan.



❤️pants

[MiHale]

40. 👍🤣🤣🤣

[SledDriver]

24. These boots are made for walkin'

[louis-t]

26. Giggety.

[Kaleva]

34. He needs a big gun to compensate

[CatWoman]

38. OMG!!! Too funny!!!

[uponit7771]

36. This ... this can't be real ... is this photoshopped ?! tia

[DemocraticPatriot]

37. that one is real...

the thigh-high with high heel version is photoshopped, lol

[uponit7771]

39. Death Sentence does ..not.. want to be president, not .. not after that pic

[Blue Owl]

41. He's the green M&M Tucker warned you about

[Elessar Zappa]

3. I don't think he'd have a good chance of winning.

After 2016 you never say never but DeSantis doesn’t have the dark charisma that Trump has. He’s duller than a turnip.

[CrispyQ]

12. Dark charisma.

That's a perfect description, cuz Trump does have charisma. He knows how to work an audience & no matter how much DeSantis practices & tries to imitate Trump, you're right, he's duller than a turnip.

[bronxiteforever]

4. He has been silent on Putin. He shares many of Putin's values

As far as being anti-lgbtq. He is anti science and would cripple our technological and scientific progress against disease as well.

Instead of focusing on saving lives and pushing treatments that we know work – like vaccines and boosters – Ron DeSantis is lying and putting Floridians at risk so he can score political points.

Orlando Sentinel: “DeSantis blasts halt in antibody treatments even as drugmakers say they don’t work on omicron”

Bloomberg: “Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he would consider suing the federal government to allow use of two monoclonal antibody therapies for Covid-19, after the Food and Drug Administration halted their use and said they don’t work against the omicron variant.”

Washington Post: “DeSantis said Monday that President Biden ‘has forced medical pros to choose treating their patients or breaking the law.’ The governor added Tuesday morning, ‘Without a shred of clinical data to support its decision, the Biden Administration has revoked the emergency use authorization for lifesaving monoclonal antibody treatments.’”

The science is clear that these specific monoclonal antibodies are not effective in treating omicron, and the Biden-Harris administration is stepping up to ensure Floridians have access to prevention and treatments that actually work.

CNN’s Daniel Dale: “As the DeSantis administration rails against the FDA decision to limit use of monoclonal antibody treatments made by Regeneron and Eli Lilly, worth noting both companies say they agree with the feds that these drugs aren’t effective against omicron.”

Washington Post: “Similarly, despite DeSantis’s claim that there is not ‘a shred of clinical data to support’ the FDA’s decision, there is significant data on the monoclonal antibodies’ lack of effectiveness against the omicron variant in a laboratory setting.’”

Insider: “Psaki said the Biden administration is investing in a range of treatments, including monoclonal antibodies, pre-exposure treatments, and oral antiviral pills. She noted that the administration has sent Florida 71,000 doses of antiviral treatments that are effective against both Omicron and Delta.”

https://democrats.org/news/its-ron-desantis-vs-science-and-also-reality/

[Joe Cool]

8. Just look at him in those white boots

and try not to laugh.

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/florida-gov-ron-desantis-gets-clowned-for-white-boots-photo-op-after-hurricane-ian/Slideshow/32611217

Just make Desantis out to be a total joke who needs to stay in Florida.

[mopinko]

9. follow the money.

vaguely recall he had some financial connection.
i think it was the co that was setting up infusion sites.

[Jerry2144]

5. THe tweet should have said

He's a frothy mix of...

instead of a Frankenstein...

" a Frankenstein of Rick Santorum & Paul Ryan"

[The Polack MSgt]

17. +++

[Joe Cool]

6. Desantis has the charisma of a walnut.

No offense against walnuts, of course.
Listen to him talk for about 25 seconds if you can stand it. You won't want to listen to him after that point.

Keep Florida man in Florida.
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/florida-gov-ron-desantis-gets-clowned-for-white-boots-photo-op-after-hurricane-ian/Slideshow/32611217

[Hope22]

16. Yet the Floridians seem to eat him up.

A family member who is MAGA residing in KY, switched to DeSantis without a beat. She didn’t even stop to think that her picker was broken after *rump or take a minute to think the situation through!
These are the things that concern me. Two years from now I don’t want to be sweating it out because we misjudged the power of the broken picker! 😊

[Pinback]

19. He brings the cruelty, and he's a Culture War standard-bearer for the loons.

Those are the two key criteria the Republican base cares about.

Scott Walker had the charisma of a dishrag as well, yet the Wisconsin Republicans almost managed to re-elect him as governor in 2018. Fortunately, his trial balloon for the presidency didn't go well in 2016. He didn't last long against the Trump onslaught.

We'll see how things go for DeSantis in 2024. If TFG is still on the scene, White Boots Boy may have a tough time of it like Walker. But without Trump, he could have a realistic shot.

Who knows, though? There was a time when Rick Perry scared the crap out of me, but he withered on the vine. Hoping for a repeat of that scenario with DeSantis.

[tavernier]

23. Because he is a bully

And there are two sets of men in Florida who admire bullies: Southern Florida Cuban males, and Northern Florida rednecks. Throw in the wealthy republicans in the state that De Satan cow tows to at every opportunity and you’ve got his base.

And if you disagree or call me a bigot for thinking this way, live here for 45 years like I have and then we will talk.

[genxlib]

44. Nailed it

But I would add a third class of bully lovers and that is a certain type of retiree.

I am sure you have seen them in the keys. They feel like they have reached a point in life where everything should be done to suit them. They don’t want to fund anything they don’t use like the schools. And they think that the culture should reflect the 1950s.

They have always been around but the development boom in places like the Villages is drawing them in by the thousands.

Unfortunately it has become a self fulfilling cycle because low tax voters are electing low tax politicians which is bringing more low tax voters.

[tavernier]

45. We call them the got-miners.

[Johnny2X2X]

14. Trump is going to destroy DeSantis

By the time Trump is done with him, DeSantis won't be able to run for dogcatcher in Florida.

Glen Younkin is a bigger threat IMO.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

21. Trump is tarred with the loser label. His nomination is no longer a foregone conclusion.

[Kaleva]

32. Yes

[Kaleva]

31. I think TFG will continue to fade. The primaries are a long way off

I remember when people thought that Hillary was a lock to win the nomination for the 3008 election but then a guy named Obama got in the race

[IronLionZion]

18. Florida voters didn't seem to mind

hoping others states are better on this.

[ZonkerHarris]

20. And remember, if RDS is the nominee, Donald Trump will be undercutting and sabotaging him from the

Sidelines

[progressoid]

25. "he'll gut social services (hurts him in the rurals)" Nope.

Look at most of red rural America. They've been getting fucked by the GOP with regards to social services for years and they still vote for candidate with an R.

[Kaleva]

30. I agree

[DemocratSinceBirth]

33. We just need to mitigate our losses among the rural like Joe did.

[jaxexpat]

27. Scott Chaleen apparently knows very little about Florida's suburbs.

DeSantis' their man. Suburban homeowners want to have someone in power whom they think will keep the riff-raff away from the value of their primary investment. Their interest and curiosity stop at the edge of that which impacts their net worth.
Rural Floridians are much less effected by social services than national demographics would lead one to believe. And their political views have little effect on state and federal races. Florida's voters are, to an overwhelming extent, urban and suburban. Even the small towns are more suburban than rural in character. They're generally also uninformed about the larger world and geopolitics except what they get from Fox News and other fiends of misinformation.

Prying the Republicans out of the asses of Florida's "everyman" will require something for which the Democratic Party has had a poor history. Speaking to the people themselves from a place of mutuality and commonality. Most Republicans I've met here distrust Democratic politics because they sense messages being spoken down to them without clearly explaining what and who is to blame. Messages made of generalities have no "bad guy" they can point to. They're not "process people", they understand they're being led and lied to by a clown show but when the Republicans lie with a straight face, they consider it a form of honesty they can understand.

I think a Democratic candidate who's not afraid to call his opponent a lying SOB would do well here, especially if he can rattle off a laundry list of real obvious lies which have hurt the voter. Much better than trying to point out the fact that DeSantis is a fascist or a racist. BTW, Charlie Crist was a ridiculous candidate to run here. Hell, the Democrats here don't even trust or like him because he used to be a Republican.

Also, mocking DeSantis in white boots won't play well here either. Go into most any work boot supply and you'll see more than half the selection of rubber boots are white. You will not last long working in outdoor Florida wearing dark rubber boots.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

28. All that may be true but I'm not convinced

All that may be true but I'm not convinced he can beat Joe Biden running as a cultural warrior..

[jaxexpat]

42. Some people here thought Walker would prevail by 5% due to "culture war" issues.

In fact, it's a game of inches and, in truth, it's not really a game. Campaigning against an easily caricaturable politician like DeSantis by focusing on his repulsive cultural qualities will maintain and even increase the enthusiasm of Democrats to vote in already reliably Democratic cities, states or precincts but it will pull few, if any, Republican voters in Republican states into the Democratic column.

There is more to gain by pointing squarely at his cynical manipulation of his supporters, undermining his appeal by prosecuting the true nature and methodology of his success. Even complex and nuanced issues can be effectively conveyable if there's a hateful villain to blame and a hero at hand to repair the damage.

What I'm saying is that the inadvertent and continual setting up of American politics into a pre-civil war demographic stance is not a win for Democrats. In fact, this overly simplistic conceptualization (however logical on its face) has pushed many vulnerable and impressionable people ever more firmly into the jaws of MAGAtism, a predictable reactionary response.

[Kaleva]

29. Don't rural folks overwhelmingly vote to cut social services?

They vote for candidates who promise to do so.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

35. Yes. But Joe mitigated our losses among them.

[Skittles]

43. since when has gutting social services affected the rural voting pattern

they consistently vote against their self-interests

[JI7]

46. He just comes off as a Miserable Person