'A total failure to launch': Why Ron DeSantis was doomed from the start

[RandySF]

Iowa was supposed to be make-or-break for Ron DeSantis.

The Florida governor essentially moved his campaign there late last year, and Never Back Down, his allied super PAC, spent tens of millions of dollars knocking on doors in the state.

“We’re going to win Iowa,” DeSantis declared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Dec. 2.

But in the week before the all-important caucuses, Scott Wagner, the recently installed head of the super PAC, was doing something that aides found puzzling: He was literally doing a puzzle.




https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-campaign-doomed-puzzle-rcna132688

[Blue Owl]

1. The DeMise of DeSantis has been DeLightful

[malaise]

9. Nicely played

😀

[brush]

2. After the anti-woke stuff didn't work, he had nothing. He may have well quit then instead delaying this long.

[stopdiggin]

3. the miserable, nasty, mean spirited stuff

doesn't really work with a lot of people EXCEPT the Trumpers ...
And they're already taken.

[RockRaven]

4. Anyone confused about why DeSantis wasn't popular enough

has never seen and heard DeSantis interact with human beings or heard him speak (whether scripted or not), or is a fool and weirdo.

DeSantis is incredibly skin-crawlingly odd, off-putting, and seemingly-contrived in his apparently-attempted humanoid behaviors and affectations.

[EYESORE 9001]

5. After 'woke' failed, he pivoted to anti-DEI BS

He’s angling for some position in an imaginary rump admin IMO.

[Best_man23]

6. All the likeability of wet cardboard

Think Gubner Noun/Verb & Work and his wife Serena Joy will start pushing for legislation to allow him to run for a third consecutive term as Gubner.

[limbicnuminousity]

7. Maybe

[NJCher]

8. Long article but

Well worth the time spent reading it.

[Prairie_Seagull]

10. Someone said "Desantis had the most punchable face they had ever seen"

Wait that was my wife. I would argue there is one other.