The dogs just don’t like it. DeSantis edition.

[SavannahMann]

There is an old cautionary tale. It is about a Dog Food company. The CEO is raging at the various department heads. They have the best packaging, the best jingle, the best commercials. Why isn’t the product selling?

The answer put forth by a hesitant man. The dogs don’t like it.

DeSantis set out to solidify his position with the Base. He picked a war on Woke. He got every law he wanted to stop the Woke. He even got a war with Disney to show the Woke who was boss.

Now the results are in, and this time it isn’t the Dogs who don’t like it. The voters just don’t like it.

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/13/desantis-minnesota-swing-voters-reject

These are average people. Democrats were barely represented with a single person in the Focus Group. These were Republicans and Independents who leaned Republican.

On the surface it looks like DeSantis would be just who they wanted. From the article.

• Seven of the 13 voters said that they'd ditch Biden in favor of "a generic, middle-aged, white, male, Republican governor with mainstream conservative views," when asked about that hypothetical matchup by the moderator.

They would be happy to vote for someone other than Biden. And everyone knows that is true. Hell I say Biden is a bumbling old fool. But he won the Presidency because the alternative was apparently even more distasteful to the voters.

DeSantis didn’t manage to secure his position with the Base, and he did succeed in alienating too many voters. The lesson to others is don’t play up the Fringe.

 

[kyzr]

Biden won in 2020 (by 43,000 votes) because the FBI interfered in the election and the MSM is always biased against Republicans.

Desantis is for many of us who think Trump is "damaged goods". The MSM is just itching to show J6 videos non-stop to sway voters to the democrat.

If the choice is Desantis or bumbling Biden, most independents would probably not choose the bumbling senile criminal fool.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Biden won in 2020 (by 43,000 votes) because the FBI interfered in the election and the MSM is always biased against Republicans.

Desantis is for many of us who think Trump is "damaged goods". The MSM is just itching to show J6 videos non-stop to sway voters to the democrat.

If the choice is Desantis or bumbling Biden, most independents would probably not choose the bumbling senile criminal fool.

Correct, we would choose the best 3rd party candidate

 

[kyzr]

Correct, we would choose the best 3rd party candidate

If the choice is Biden, Trump, or Joe Manchin, I'm voting MANCHIN.

 

[surada]

Biden won in 2020 (by 43,000 votes) because the FBI interfered in the election and the MSM is always biased against Republicans.

Desantis is for many of us who think Trump is "damaged goods". The MSM is just itching to show J6 videos non-stop to sway voters to the democrat.

If the choice is Desantis or bumbling Biden, most independents would probably not choose the bumbling senile criminal fool.

The head of the FBI has always been Republican.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

It is not Desantis' time. He should have waited until 2028.

 

[SavannahMann]

Biden won in 2020 (by 43,000 votes) because the FBI interfered in the election and the MSM is always biased against Republicans.

Desantis is for many of us who think Trump is "damaged goods". The MSM is just itching to show J6 videos non-stop to sway voters to the democrat.

If the choice is Desantis or bumbling Biden, most independents would probably not choose the bumbling senile criminal fool.

They won’t pick a Hitler Lite. Read the article. The participants made that connection without prompting. They said it reminded them of Germany under Hitler.

• Others had a harsher view of the governor: "We saw what happened in Germany 80 years ago," said Jeff D., making a reference to Hitler's rise.
• Amber H. echoed the voter who called DeSantis a "wannabe dictator" after watching the video and likened his vision to that of a dictatorship. "He just wants to take over and not work for the people, is really isolating and he'll do what he wants how he wants it."

This is the people who are taking a look and not liking what they see. I just don’t see DeSantis being able to shake off that impression after months of it during the primary. You know when he suddenly pivots to the middle to be acceptable in the General.

 

[SavannahMann]

It is not Desantis' time. He should have waited until 2028.

I shudder to think that there will ever be a right time for his message.

 

[Lesh]

DeSantis is going nowhere

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I shudder to think that there will ever be a right time for his message.

He has a very good message it just can't get out because of the war enemy democrats are waging against Trump.

 

[MinTrut]

There is an old cautionary tale. It is about a Dog Food company. The CEO is raging at the various department heads. They have the best packaging, the best jingle, the best commercials. Why isn’t the product selling?

The answer put forth by a hesitant man. The dogs don’t like it.

DeSantis set out to solidify his position with the Base. He picked a war on Woke. He got every law he wanted to stop the Woke. He even got a war with Disney to show the Woke who was boss.

Now the results are in, and this time it isn’t the Dogs who don’t like it. The voters just don’t like it.

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/13/desantis-minnesota-swing-voters-reject

These are average people. Democrats were barely represented with a single person in the Focus Group. These were Republicans and Independents who leaned Republican.

On the surface it looks like DeSantis would be just who they wanted. From the article.

• Seven of the 13 voters said that they'd ditch Biden in favor of "a generic, middle-aged, white, male, Republican governor with mainstream conservative views," when asked about that hypothetical matchup by the moderator.

They would be happy to vote for someone other than Biden. And everyone knows that is true. Hell I say Biden is a bumbling old fool. But he won the Presidency because the alternative was apparently even more distasteful to the voters.

DeSantis didn’t manage to secure his position with the Base, and he did succeed in alienating too many voters. The lesson to others is don’t play up the Fringe.

I've been saying this forever...

DeSantis has NO national political future.

And he'll be lucky to hold on to the power he has in Florida.

He's a Deep Swamp creep and bully, and The People do NOT like him.

He's yesterday's news, and only still a star in a small corner of the right wing echo chamber.

 

[MinTrut]

Biden won in 2020 (by 43,000 votes) because the FBI interfered in the election and the MSM is always biased against Republicans.

Desantis is for many of us who think Trump is "damaged goods". The MSM is just itching to show J6 videos non-stop to sway voters to the democrat.

If the choice is Desantis or bumbling Biden, most independents would probably not choose the bumbling senile criminal fool.

Independents don't like DeSantis.

 

[Lesh]

He has a very good message it just can't get out because of the war enemy democrats are waging against Trump.

What?

No one… not even Republicans like “his message”

It has nothing to do with Dems.

DeSantis is just not clicking

 

[SavannahMann]

He has a very good message it just can't get out because of the war enemy democrats are waging against Trump.

No. You are wrong. His message is getting out. His War on Woke message revolts people. The Fringe love it. But the Fringe will vote for Satan as long as he is a Republican.

 

[kyzr]

The head of the FBI has always been Republican.

So what? He apparently has no control of the FBI.

 

[kyzr]

Independents don't like DeSantis.

They don't like Biden either.

 

[surada]

So what? He apparently has no control of the FBI.

That's what Trump has been selling.

 

[DBA]

No. You are wrong. His message is getting out. His War on Woke message revolts people. The Fringe love it. But the Fringe will vote for Satan as long as he is a Republican.

You have it exactly backwards. Democrats are the biggest, non-thinking lemmings on planet earth and there isn’t a close second. They elected a senile man whose running mate is even dumber than the average Democrat. They believe anything the MSM tells them, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. They defend the likes of Hunter Biden to the bitter end. It is pretty sad actually for our country.

 

[kyzr]

They won’t pick a Hitler Lite. Read the article. The participants made that connection without prompting. They said it reminded them of Germany under Hitler.

• Others had a harsher view of the governor: "We saw what happened in Germany 80 years ago," said Jeff D., making a reference to Hitler's rise.
• Amber H. echoed the voter who called DeSantis a "wannabe dictator" after watching the video and likened his vision to that of a dictatorship. "He just wants to take over and not work for the people, is really isolating and he'll do what he wants how he wants it."

This is the people who are taking a look and not liking what they see. I just don’t see DeSantis being able to shake off that impression after months of it during the primary. You know when he suddenly pivots to the middle to be acceptable in the General.

You lose. Calling Godwin's Law. If you need to resort to calling someone Hitler, you lose. Desantis is a veteran. Who cares what the losers think?
Look at what the good people of FL think, the ones who elected with a 20-point plurality.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

He has a very good message it just can't get out because of the war enemy democrats are waging against Trump.

So, you support the message of "disagree with the Govt and we will punish you"?