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January 21, 2024 02:34 PM UTC

Buh Bye, Ron DeSantis

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).

FOX News reporting this Sunday afternoon, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is taking his sputtering campaign back to the place where his presidential aspirations were born, and along with “wokeness” will now die:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dropped out of the 2024 Republican presidential race and endorsed former President Donald Trump two days before the New Hampshire primary…

“It’s clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance,” DeSantis continued. “They watched his presidency get stymied by relentless resistance, and they see Democrats using lawfare this day to attack him.”

The Florida governor also took a chance to criticize former United Nations ambassador and former two-term South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, the other remaining major contender for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.

“I signed a pledge to support the Republican nominee, and I will honor that pledge,” the Florida governor continued. “He has my endorsement because we can’t go back to the old Republican Guard of yesteryear, a repackaged form of warmed over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.”

So ends an almost perfectly charisma-free campaign that nobody really wanted beyond a name other than Donald Trump. There’s not much in the way of a local angle to this announcement, since all DeSantis did that we know of in terms of organizing in Colorado was pay the state party’s $40,000 “ballot access fee.” It’s safe to say DeSantis’ endorsement of 2022 Colorado GOP Senate loser Joe O’Dea didn’t swing that race either.

With DeSantis now officially out of Trump’s way, the last line of “Never Trump” defense is former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Haley is not expected to win this week’s primary election in New Hampshire, but if she manages to not lose too badly there it could give her campaign a toehold to stay in a little longer–with the goal to stay in the race until her home state’s primary in late February.

If Trump buries Haley in New Hampshire, the presidential primary could be over that night.

Colorado Republicans will cheer their momentary vindication, and the real showdown will begin.

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22 thoughts on “Buh Bye, Ron DeSantis”

  1. Even many of Ron DeSantis’s closest allies had chosen to side with Donald Trump. This morning, before DeSantis dropped out, Representative Aaron Bean of Florida endorsed Trump on Twitter. Bean had worked closely to promote DeSantis’s agenda when he served in the Florida statehouse.

    Why?  Because con men, cowards and weasels have to go somewhere.

  2. At least the consultants can salve their wounds with the money they made.  Citizens United has made this a billion dollar cottage industry.

    And a sprawling DeSantis operation that quickly amassed more than $100 million was plagued by infighting and distrust among different factions. DeSantis loyalists in Tallahassee clashed with the national consultants brought in to run a supportive super PAC — their tensions culminating in the late creation of a new group and the resignations and firings of top officials.

    1. I appreciated the other calculation …. Newsweek's summary (and my emphasis)

      From January 1, 2023, to June 30, 2023, Never Back Down spent some $34 million of the $130 million it had raised, according to FEC filing data.

      From May 15, 2023 to September 30, 2023, his presidential campaign raised over $31 million and spent almost $19 million, FEC data shows….

      Based on the combined reported spending by DeSantis' campaign and Never Back Down of $53 million, this means DeSantis spent at least $2,263 on each vote cast for him. The true figure is likely to be higher, though, given the FEC data only covers a four-month period of DeSantis' spending.

  3. When you are completelty out of touch with the world.  When you need to have a coach to teach you how to laugh. When you look like a four year old when eating a sandwich. When you are stupid and believed those wanting untraceable cash. When your handlers destroy human rights in a state.

    You might be a loser. 

    I would have mentioned his dominating wife, but that would not be nice.

  4. Isn’t this like the Ronald Reagan Berlin Wall moment when he rushed over to Berlin to tell Gorbachev to “tear this wall down” when the wall was already …. wait for it … coming down?  No way DeStupid was going to lose his own state to Fat Donnie. Political suicide, something something.  

  5. Perhaps this is a good time and place to leave a reminder and a question about campaign finance reform. Is the corruption connected to practically unlimited amounts of cash not an issue in the blossoming kleptocracy that will certainly be fundamental to a Trump presidency?

    We can see how the clever ones can easily turn their campaign money into an elevated lifestyle. Am I right, Lauren?

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  7. Well it was a long, strange, bad, and genuinely worthless endeavor… See you all in 4 years. At least Ron learned something. When his wife runs he'll play the angry insecure husband so well. 

    ​​​​​​

    Now to figure out what my next Avatar will be.

      1. After Melania's nude photo shoots and her icy disdain for other human beings ("I really don't care. Do you?"), nothing is off limits in the FLOTUS arena.

        1. I have family members who belive those soft porn pics of Melania are fake.  Nothing you can say would change their mind.  I dropped by X Twitter to check in on puddin fingers, Trump trial, etc.  I'm pretty judicious with my time in that cesspool but noticed the Florida CFO has apporved people contributing to the Trump Defense Fund through drivers license renewals now. Who'd have thunk?  

  8. Bret Stephens at the Times put it best this morning:  "Trump’s opponents have consistently done us all a disservice by underestimating his strength, misunderstanding his appeal and misunderestimating (to borrow a word) his presidency. And we’ve done our side an even bigger disservice by too often being smug and moralistic."

    Opinion | The Trump Train Is Getting Very Crowded – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

    Well, at least Meatball Ron can now go back to wearing comfortable shoes and pissing on Mickey Mouse.

    1. Tim Scott must be quite the socialite …. his engagement announcement got picked up in SO many places.

      • NYTimes
      • NY Post
      • Washington Post
      • The Hill
      • Fox News
      • Bridal Musings

      He's a romantic …

      Scott said he had approached her parents about two weeks before Christmas to ask for their blessing. With their approval, he set about planning the proposal. One of his friends rejected an early idea of proposing after a pickleball game, a hobby that both of them enjoy, he said.

        1. The fiance should probably call Mrs. Larry Craig for advice in how to keep the husband out of trouble.

          BTW, Tim Scott must be confident that SCOTUS is not going to revisit Loving v. Virginia.  (Thomas would probably draft a decision that would grandfather in his marriage with Crazy Ginni.)

    2. Finally got around to watching God Forbid  last night and felt the need to shower afterwards.  Like a leopard, the one thing that hasn’t changed since then is Fat Donnie’s spots. He’s played the evangelicals like a fiddle. I assume Tim Scott, in an effort to stay in the running, will conduct himself in The Liberty Way and be keeping himself chaste for the wedding night?

      What a $#! show.  

    1. There was something just not quit right about DeSantis. I'm old enough to recall the introverted Richard Nixon, his social anxiety issues, and his overall discomfort being inside his own skin. But DeSantis makes Nixon look downright relaxed and easy going.

      Who can forget that time he confronted that little girl eating an ice drink and telling her about how awful it was for her to be eating all that sugar. (Move over Mike Bloomberg who was a little more subtle in doing the same thing as mayor.) Or those contorted facial expressions during the debates. Or the elevator shoes. Or that wierd moment he was going down the receiving line at the last debate, shook hands with local Iowa pols and then shook his own wife's hand. (Spoiler alert:  even pols usually kiss their spouses although not necessarily with the full on, Al Gore exchange of saliva kiss.)

      All of this just reinforces my belief that DeSantis did not win a landslide in November 2022 as much as Charlie Chris lost badly. 

      1. The man has about as much charisma as a piece of toast. If you're that freaking socially odd and uncomfortable what the hell would make you tell yourself " Hey, I'll go into politics !"

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