Posted on 07/09/2023 7:11:36 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Ron DeSantis campaign continues to collapse under the inertia of its central flaw, a terrible candidate.
Hundreds-of-millions have been amassed to structure the pretending, create the brand image and present the narrative of something completely false.
The central flaw was always, eventually, going to surface.
Tens of millions have been spent on the launch and careful construct. However, when the core of the effort is built upon a false premise, there is nothing that can be done to change the outcome. Truth has a way of being self-evident; this represents the ultimate problem for the DeSantis team.
Every single week since the launch of the DeSantis campaign he has lost ground. The more Ron DeSantis is pushed into the voting audience, the less supported he becomes. In a desperate effort to stop hemorrhaging that support, the branding and image consultants decided to replace the candidate with a stand-in, his wife, Jill “Casey” DeSantis.
Think about this in context. The best hope of a multi-million-dollar ‘Never Back Down operation’ is to remove the principal from the equation and use an alternate. That’s the mindset of the DeSantis brain-trust. That’s their solution to the central flaw; remove the candidate – show him less. None of their action deals with the central flaw, because the core of the problem is the center of the operation.
The only hope for the entirety of the assembly behind those hundreds-of-millions, behind all those group chats, email lists and meeting rooms of professional political consultants, is if some external force removes President Donald Trump. Ultimately, that’s all they have. Without an external intervention, the downward spiral continues.
When you realize this central truth, you can then go back to what I was saying in the summer of 2022 and get an idea of what I meant.
In the summer of 2022 when few people would accept my prediction that Ron DeSantis was running for the GOP nomination in 2024, even fewer people truly understood what I meant when I said eventually all the Ron DeSantis supporters would start promoting eating bugs. “Hey, the bugs ain’t so bad.”
Few people understood what I was stating. But it was actually acceptance of a logical sequence.
Ron DeSantis cannot win the GOP nomination without an external intervention to change the dynamic. If you start your review of sequence from that acceptance point, then you realize those who support Ron DeSantis will need to support the external intervention. In this instance, a corrupt and weaponized leftist U.S. Dept of Justice.
The DeSantis team, just like the Ted Cruz team that preceded him, are more anti-Trump and anti-nationalism than they are anti-corruption in government.
If it takes a corrupt and weaponized United States government to achieve their objective of a DeSantis nomination, then the corrupt and weaponized government is something they must accept. Hence, the baseline for my snarky prediction, “hey, the bugs ain’t so bad.”
Again, this is not a grand exercise in political insight, it is simply following the sequence of necessary events to its most logical conclusion.
Ron DeSantis supporters will be Joe Biden supporters in order to eliminate the problem of Donald Trump. However, the number of American Republican voters who are willing to accept that conflicting outlook is far fewer than the number of ideologues within the GOPe willing to accept it.
What I have just described in that dynamic of diminished support, is exactly why Team DeSantis continues to shed supporters amid the ranks of voters.
Team DeSantis, the billionaires, the RGA, RNC and the entire coalition of ideological influencers, may be willing to eat the bugs – but the overwhelming majority of the voters will not; nor will they accept a transparently weaponized Dept of Justice as an external force against the will of We The People.
If you understand this dynamic, I mean really understand this dynamic, it becomes fun to combat the influence group being paid by the hundreds of millions in Sea Island funding.
In order to achieve their objective, the DeSantis supporters are forced to align with the corrupt system they pretend to despise. They are forced to deny that elections are manipulated; they are forced to deny the targeting of Trump is an inflection point that destroys our nation; they are forced to deny their association with the same corrupt and manipulated systems they depend on to achieve their objective. Pushing those supporters into the painful sunlight of their hypocrisy is not difficult.
The reason I shared the Casey DeSantis video yesterday is an element of this dynamic. Like her husband, she’s unbearable. Like her husband, she is fake. Like her husband, she is artificial, annoying and becomes more unlikable the more you are exposed to her. The scale and visible scope of the inauthentic political pandering underway by both Casey and her “The Governor,” Ron, is hilarious.
You can literally see the Republican brand image consultants at work.
Hey, MAGA, via Palin, originated and likes the Mama Grizzlies.
Hey, MAGA likes and relates to Duck Dynasty.
Hey, MAGA likes and relates to Melania, and her ‘come and take them’ stiletto heel attitude.
Hey, I’ve got an idea….
…Let’s put Mama Grizzlies, Duck Dynasty and Melania’s stilettos into the brand:
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You cannot make up this level of inauthentic effort.
At a certain point, you just laugh at it.
No way.
Lake could be a good candidate if she were to serve a term as Trump’s VP. Maybe less so if she were elected Senator in 2024 and served in that role for 4 years.
I like Vivek but obviously he needs experience. A major cabinet role like Treasure Secretary or something like that in which he excelled would do him a lot of good.
2028 is still 5 years away though. There’s plenty of time. I like what Josh Hawley has done so far as Missouri AG and as US Senator. I like JD Vance a lot so far. Matt Gaetz could further burnish his credentials in the next 5 years. Let’s wait and see.
I’d never heard of her, so thanks.
I found this:
In June 2022, Pushaw retroactively registered as a foreign agent per the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), after the United States Department of Justice contacted her. She hired former United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Michael R. Sherwin, to represent her for the FARA registration. She was paid $25,000 over the course of two years for her work and lived rent-free, for six weeks, in a Tbilisi apartment owned by a Saakashvili associate. In a November 2018 interview for Georgia Today, Pushaw claimed she was “not paid by anyone” for her support of Saakashvili.[34] According to her FARA filing, she received her first cash payment from Saakashvili in late October 2018. Her filing described her arrangement with Saakashvili as “unwritten and informal.”
Imagine selling out for so low a price tag!
He needs Georgia!
How does he get Georgia? Kemp is popular in Georgia like it or not!
For that matter he needs Virginia. Youngkin wouldn’t be awful though I don’t think he’s that popular in Virginia. Popular enough to bring in Virginia.
He needs Michigan, Pennsylvania. Wisconsin, Arizona (I don’t think Lake would help!) I am missing a state. He needs to counter those 6 states, 6 urban centers & 7 counties.
“There’s plenty of time.”
Hope so.
I suspect she’s a CIA/DeepState asset. Up to her eyeballs in Euro intrigue . Not MAGA . She’s there to guide Ronnie to the Dark Side., bet on it.
Like the 🐍 Kurshner, and what he did to PT.
I’m not sure there is plenty of time. We are in a lukewarm Civil War NOW.
Yea, I think that is a possibility. I don’t like it but I think he may be forced too because the Georgia bunch will absolutely tank the state to keep Trump out.
I am not quite that far along regarding the political hopelessness of suburban women. The “wokeness” and “trannie reading-sessions” in the schools are causing pause. I also think that the crime explosion as well as inflation is contributing to that reconsideration.
What do Noem & Reynolds bring to the ticket that’s not already coming? I like them both, but those states are already voting for Trump. Trump needs to break that phalanx of 6 states, 6 urban centers & 7 counties!
Come to Lower Merion, PA where I live.
Yeah that’s Philly not surprising!
We need PA though, which means the Canidate needs to be bold and go after black and Hispanic men in Philly.
That’s an argument for Tim Scott!
or some of the rising black & Hispanic GOP politicians.
Scott is too Neo- Conish.
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