Is a one-inch heel the secret to a DeSantis victory in 2024? (DeSantis wears high heels)

[LetMyPeopleVote]

TFG will have fun with this. I remember that Little Marco also wore shoes with elevated heels and TFG had fun with this fact.

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/09/presidential-candidates-height-desantis-trump/

There’s an inextricable vanity to politics. People who seek elected office are definitionally asking to be judged favorably by voters. In theory, those judgments derive from the candidates’ positions and value. In practice, though, they are also judged on other metrics, like appearance.

Like height.

This very old idea in politics has gotten a fresh coat of paint in recent weeks as new attention has been paid to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) everything-but-formally-announced 2024 presidential aspirations. Reports that former president Donald Trump, one of a handful of announced candidates, is mulling the possible nickname “Tiny D” for the governor — Trump’s never been known for his subtlety — overlaps with new scrutiny of DeSantis’s predilection for heeled shoes. Perhaps, the theory goes, DeSantis is boosting his height in order to boost his 2024 chances.....

It seems clear, then, that DeSantis is probably about 6 feet tall — not 5′9″, as some critics have charged, and several inches shorter than Trump (whose medical report had him at 6′3″, in line with ChatGPT). When the two appeared at a rally together in 2019, it was clear that DeSantis was slightly shorter — perhaps in part because of his heel.

[cbabe]

1. Wait! What? He wears heels? Lock him up!!

[jcgoldie]

2. Just keep the kids away from his drag shows!

[2naSalit]

11. +1

[riversedge]

3. at least it is not an orange face

[samplegirl]

4. A jackass is a jackass

Trump was proof his height did nothing it just made his ties hang below his dick like a true moron!

[blm]

6. Trump wore lifts.

[maxsolomon]

8. He still wears lifts.

Vanity thy name is Trump.

[llmart]

9. And a girdle.

He's probably traded that in for Depends now.

[blm]

5. He wears heeled boots AND lifts.

He’s 5’8” and adds nearly 3” between the heels and lifts.

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. He is a tiny little man.

In thought, word, deed and stature.

Someone needs to just play hardball against his fragile little ego and he will self implode. I'm hoping Joe Biden gives him the "You're the worst President we've ever had" type treatment at some point.

[Omnipresent]

13. He should wear a high top hat, like Prince did.

[llmart]

10. "they are also judged on other metrics, like appearance."

If that is true, how the everliving f*** did we end up with the ugliest President ever? I literally wanted to vomit every time his face came across my TV screen or monitor.

[brush]

12. I'll never forget DeSantis' white go-go boots he wore...

in a media appearance after a hurricane. trump's campaign will surely resurrect that photo.

And btw, trump wears lifts himself that tilt his body forward...it's noticeable in full body shots of him from the side view.

[Cha]

18. I couldn't believe it.. I thought

they were Photoshopped.

Who in their right mind would put on those stupid boots and go out in them?!!

[EX500rider]

23. Actually to any Floridian familiar with commercial fishing

The boots look pretty normal.
Although obviously he's not a commercial fisherman

https://www.flfishingoutfitters.com/apparel/footwear/fishing-boots/

[Conjuay]

34. guys pouring cement wear them as well

but they never look spanky new out-of-the-box.

[brush]

14. It's not clear DeSantis is about 6' tall. Where did you get that...

about the guy who is about 5'8", 5'9" at best?

It is clear that he wore white, heeled, go-go boots at a media appearance after a recent hurricane in Florida.

WHITE, HEELED, GO-GO BOOTS.

[lame54]

15. I thought that was illegal in Florida

[ZonkerHarris]

16. Both Trump and DeSantis wear lifts/heels. They can fight it out on the catwalk. On the catwalk.

[jmowreader]

20. Piss Boy is far from being too sexy for his state

[Cha]

17. Whatever brings that Fascist

Fuck, Book Banning, Bigoted SHIT DOWN! I don't care.

[IcyPeas]

19. It's all about perception.

There's an old adage – best known probably as a David Brent quote – that the struggling salesman doesn't turn up to work on a bicycle. No, he turns up in a nicer car. When you're trying to strike a deal, it's all about perception.

*David Brent....... (aka Ricky Gervais from the british version of The Office)

[Lettuce Be]

21. Doesn't tRump also wear lifts -- speculation that is why he stands with a weird tilt

Not sure, so it'll be interesting to see if he makes an issue. Someone might bring up the diaper thing too, who knows?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

22. Strategists predict Ron DeSantis will be ridiculed in Iowa for 'his little platform heels'

This will be fun to watch

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/ron-desantis-trump-iowa/

On tonight's episode of MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes, Democratic strategist Fernandi Amandi noted that as Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) decides to run for president, he's facing off against his own kind of Oedipus complex......

"Who knows where the bodies are buried for him," she continued. "So, there are people who are disgruntled former DeSantis employees, who are now working for Trump. So, they know how to needle him and where his weaknesses are, and it's starting already. We saw Trump go after him because he knows that DeSantis is in Iowa today. And Trump will be there on Monday, so DeSantis got ahead of him there. He went after him on farmers. When Trump was talking directly to the farmers about how he helped them and how he was on their side and DeSanctimonious DeSantis was not. And telling him to go home. So, he's talking directly to the base."

She went on to say that DeSantis is not going to go over well in Iowa when he can't control the questions or the audience or even the reporters.

"I mean, can you imagine Ron DeSantis in Iowa, where the retail politics really matters?" she asked. "And so you've seen some of the reports out of there. You cannot be arrogant and awkward. Can you imagine him on the stump at the Iowa State Fair giving his presentations, talking about his policy-won stuff, and his little platform heels, trying to come across as someone who can relate to the folks in Iowa? I'm waiting to see that, because he's not very good at this. And we are starting to see the cracks in that. And Donald Trump will exploit that all day long."

[LudwigPastorius]

24. High heels?

I'd suggest a flowery sun dress to match, but that wouldn't go over too well with his prospective voters.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. When the phrase, "fat guy in little coat" becomes your reality.

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[peggysue2]

26. The 'Tiny D' nickname is more Trump's style

It hits DeSantis on several levels. Remember how Trump was infuriated with the 'tiny hands' jokes and what that implied?

Tiny D can refer to DeSantis' weak standing in the polls, his height, his lack of charisma, as well as any and all 'tiny' body parts.

LOL!!

The Master of Subtlety!

[Ace Rothstein]

27. Look Ron, everybody knows that you're heightening.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

28. Desantis "carries a vibe...that he might unplug your life support to re-charge his cellphone."

This is a great description of DeathSantis

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[area51]

29. He must be a groomer.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

30. I love good satire

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. For this thread

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[lame54]

32. Isn't that illegal in Florida?

[CTyankee]

33. I am SO LOVING THIS THREAD!

Honestly, I can't imagine this guy -- Mr. Yale undergrad, Harvard Law -- running successfully against President Biden. His press has been brutal. I'm sure he has his devoted followers, but c'mon...he's a joke.

[PufPuf23]

37. DeSantis also a baseball player, thought this ad with wife

and child was a spoof at first.

>He was a member of the Little League team from Dunedin National that made it to the 1991 Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.<

>He was an outfielder on the Yale baseball team; as a senior in 2001, he had the team's best batting average at .336<

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_DeSantis

Also a conservative Catholic attorney.

[Sympthsical]

35. A lift isn't "high heels"

I see flirting with homophobia to attack opponents is going to be a thing as ever.

Wonderful.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

36. How much height do these boots give DeSantis? Notice how he's always in some kind of platform shoe?

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[GenThePerservering]

38. Ron DeSatan is an ass

but those cowboy boots are a pretty common style and have been worn for decades, including with suits, and have always tended to have a higher heel (for stirrups).

Dump's lifts OTOH - his legs are so weak he can't even correct his stance when he's wearing them - that's why he's always leaning forward swinging his arms.

[Kid Berwyn]

39. Napoleon was short.

Look where it got him.