One of the key aspects to noticing a controlled candidate is the speech, cadence and distinct linguistics used during prepared remarks.
When a candidate is authentic in delivery of advocacy points, their speech is a natural flow of thoughts and ideas they create in verbal delivery. However, when a politician is delivering a speech constructed for them, using the thoughts of others, you will notice a cadence constructed around a series of soundbites that are strung together.
Ron DeSantis kicked-off his official Iowa campaign today literally reading prepared remarks that did not come from his own thought processes. When delivering a speech from the thoughts of others, there is an emphasis on the reading of it; in the example we highlight today with DeSantis the reading is extreme. You can see below.
This is not to say that speech writers are not useful, they are. Almost all politicians use speech writers to assist them in putting their thoughts into words to assist communication. The key is to use the candidates’ thoughts. However, when the thoughts themselves are not from the candidate, there is a very different outcome in delivery.
This is what becomes very visible with Ron DeSantis.
As candidates, Dr. Ben Carson and Newt Gingrich wrote most of their speech scripts and delivered their own thoughts on points of policy and advocacy. President Trump also communicates his own thoughts through speeches written from them. When the thoughts are from the candidate, you will notice a tone of authenticity in the delivery. Speeches delivered by people like Tucker Carlson and Jordan Peterson also communicate with authenticity because the thoughts conveyed are their own.
Conversely, in traditional politics there are candidates who do not convey their own thoughts and end up reading speeches that are disjointed with emphasis misplaced, syllables in wrong context, and carrying an odd syntax and cadence. The more disconnected from the thoughts of the reader, the odder the delivery.
The worst examples of reading other people’s thoughts to assist their own communication, come from Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg. Governor Nikki Haley also struggles with this, and to a lesser extent so does Mike Pence and other well-known republicans.
Three of the more noticeable political figures, somewhere in the middle of the extremes was Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush and George ‘Dubya’ Bush. The best orator to transfer the thoughts of others into his own linguistic delivery was probably Barack Obama. One of the reasons for Obama’s success was due to his team all having the same ideological outlooks. Obama delivered convincing words because his thoughts and the thoughts of his speech writers were in synergy.
The bottom line is that when a political operation is poll-testing, highly managed and heavily scripted, there is a noticeable lack of authenticity in the speeches of the candidate. The reason is quite simple; the speeches are assembled from disconnected ‘talking points’ or ‘soundbites’ and then an effort is put toward sequencing them for candidate communication.
Once you notice the issue of reading the ‘thoughts of others‘ it is almost impossible not to see it when you watch the speech being delivered. This issue is very clear today in the remarks from Ron DeSantis in Iowa. Unbeknownst to most casual political observers, DeSantis has always been heavily influenced and managed by others throughout his career. However, now it is starting to become more noticeable.
The venue is a mega-church in Des Moines. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds introduces Ron DeSantis to the church audience, and immediately the Florida governor starts reading the script. Watch how much time he spends literally reading the words. WATCH for a minute and you will see:
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Every time DeSantis goes on stage, they should play the song “I’m You’re Puppet,” by James & Bobby Purify…
Hahaha Great idea. This link should accompany every new post on DeSantis.
Had forgotten all about that song. Don’t think ever for a second I’m not going to use it on some of Biden’s tweets. Going to bookmark it.
Got a friend at work who likes DeSantis and knows that I don’t. I sing a few bars every once in a while. He laughs and shrugs it off…
Love this song from the mid 60s! I remember as a five year old listening to this song on AM RADIO thinking it was the greatest song my young self had ever heard!!!
Or “Puppet Man” by Tom Jones.
Here’s a link for you-
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=vyS70ailKbM
One word describes Rds: puppet.
Ron seems extremely nervous – not comfortable at all with what he is reading – probably because it was written by someone else, as Sundance says. He doesn’t seem to be invested in his message. Such a difference from Trump!
Guessing he is nervous because he is not being himself. He’s playing a role for his masters. He’s acting and he’s not a good actor.
And because he’s essentially skipping school. He has a job in Florida, but instead of working, he’s running his resume around the country trying to get a better job.
It is so phony….
I know from personal experience that Sundance is spot on here. Ages ago I had a job assignment that caused me to do frequent public speaking. As was the case with the folks in my group, all had the crutch of charts. Death by Powerpoint! I would give this canned talk to groups ranging from a company’s executive management, to college kids and profs, to hobbyist groups that might have an audience as large as 3k people. It was uncomfortable for a good six months until I completely rewrote the schtick and turned 32 charts into four. By the time that assignment was over, I could do the entire thing and never get off the agenda chart. It was only a crutch to remember all the points to make. Disjointed bullets, herky jerky delivery, yeah, that’s a definite thing.
Exactly what’s wrong with DeSantis’s prep, it’s too convoluted and uncomfortable for him. When he’s on stuff that matters to him, he does fine. When he’s trying to use the agreed upon wording and presentation, he falls flat.
I think if I was Desantis I would be careful about talking crap about President Trump Keep in mind that so far President Trump has just kind of jerked him around a bit, and done nothing to really knock the teeth out of his head, but lately Desantis thinks its cute to hit President Trump by saying he is better and comparing himself to P.T and one day soon PT will hit this guy and knock him into next month, and then people will really have something to complain about.
President Trump is a double puncher and will only punch hard when some scum bag like Christy and Desantis is hitting him.
its shaping up so that none of these people running want to win, they just want to bring P.T down and they think that if they all become a thorn in his side they will some how knock him out of this race, and No one did more to give obama the white house in 2012 than Cris Christy so he should shut up now before he gets his big fat butt handed to him.
An “oily” politician, fake as a $4.00 bill.
Sorry to disagree here somewhat. Yes, DeSantis should have waited for the next term, but no way can I see an evildoer in him. His ego maybe big, but not as big as Trump’s. And he handled the plandemic a LOT better than Trump. Too bad, after all is said and done, he is wasting a lot of credit. And he will do a lot of damage to the conservative movement by fighting Trump, and his own carrier ultimately.
DeSaster can wait for all the terms he wants, but as a seditious backstabbing traitor that will just commit treason once in office … he will never have mine, or many others, vote. Ever, period.
He made his bed when he lied, cheated, and backstabbed the citizenry of Florida and the rest of the USA when he took the money over principle and proved he was worthless as an honorable being.
IOW a globalist puppet/bitch.
Know them by their deeds. Based on his deeds I consider him evil. He is running against MAGA. His mission is not to become President because he never will. His mission as you phrase it is to “do a lot of damage to the conservative movement”. That’s his mission.
Any and all time spent focused on him is time NOT spent focusing on POTATUS.
Shiny object. Stiff object, but shiny and distracting too.
DeSantis is not running to lose. Maybe the others are, but DeSantis wants to be President and he is hoping for the brass ring, now, that he has the money to backup his campaign in hand.
DeSantis shut down the state of Florida during Covid, and encouraged the vaccines.
Nobody said anything about an ego but you. If you want status quo and you like bought politicians, continue supporting Ron but the rest of us realize he’s the same as a Jeb or Christie when in office.
As of 48:30 while his wife speaks, RdS is receiving instructions (he’s looking out and to his left) as to how to stand and whatever. He’s clearly uncomfortable.
He’s terrible, literally an awful candidate.
Trump is going to flatten him.
Desantis is synthetic and somehow he knows it.
Soon the establishment will be bringing in Brian Kemp and He is a globalist sellout! Kemp is as corrupt as they get!
I strongly disagree with Sundance’s opinion of Meatball as an orator. Listen to this … brings a tear to my eye. Can’t fake this kind of authenticity.
The wild card in this is that they have thrust all their hopes and sinister schemes on a politician who is basically a mid-rate hack and in no timeline within the multiverse a plausible presidential figure.
Governor of Florida is even a stretch. A hidden hand handed that to him. Based on his actual talent, the back bench in the House Of Representatives is more his level.
DeSantis just isn’t very good at it, and the gaping laocoon in his skill set is something intangible that cannot be coached.
He’s going to wilt like a starched collar in the Florida humidity once he actually has to stand up there on the dais with The Donald, who has these qualities oozing out of every pore in his body.
Who is running Florida?
The same people who were running it when he was there.
Anybody’s guess. It was reported that he never made a decision without consulting Casey. She demanded for herself the office normally occupied by the governor’s chief of staff. And now she is co-campaigning with him.
Two interesting articles on the DeSanti, which Ron and Casey have come to be called. From liberal publications, but lots of people doing the talking:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/ron-desantis-the-making-and-remaking-of-a-maga-heir
And a long profile on Casey:
The Casey DeSantis Problem: ‘His Greatest Asset and His Greatest Liability’
Ron DeSantis’ wife is going to play a very prominent role in his presidential campaign. Some of his supporters wonder if that’s an entirely good thing.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/19/casey-ron-desantis-wife-profile-00097456
“If-if-if-if-if-if-if…”
Yeah, Sixty-States Barry was a great speaker. /sarc
any florida polling on desantis yet?
I have to agree, he was reading a speech, not giving one.
Casey’s ten times the speaker that Ron is. She should coach him.
She may be coaching him and what works for her may not work for him, so, he falls flat. He has a different temperament. He does fine on issues that actually matter to him. There is a big difference when he talks about immigration and grooming versus other issues. At the same time, I agree with Sundance, on the national stage, he needs to be talking about the big national issues, the economy and Ukraine funding as well as the border. Whoever is word smithing his speeches is using words that are not part of his colloquial speech, it is just not the way he talks when expressing himself genuinely.
“Unbeknownst to most casual political observers, DeSantis has always been heavily influenced and managed by others throughout his career.”
Are you suggesting he has been managed and groomed like the “Manchurian Candidate?”
Desantis can’t defeat Trump and all know this. They want to take out Trump and then this stooge can walk in. This is going to be boring until they start their flood of illegal filings against Trump.
Trump would eat him alive in a straight up debate. He will have to avoid that at all costs unless his head is that swelled up.
Thanks Sundance. I’ve seen the excess reading before by DeSantis and many others. Previously, I felt the impact of his cadence being off, but I was not able to pinpoint why he was coming across as stiff and inauthentic. You nailed it again. This speech shows pieces where he’s speaking from his own framework and he comes across as authentic like about the border. Then, he hits the “ideological” party line and his cadence falls apart. His joke lines fall flat because his timing is off for the same reasons. His speech writers need to tailor the jokes to things DeSantis is comfortable with and sees the humor in, because right now they are all too contrived and falling flat.
Jesus’s church is no place for any politician to bloviate. Where is that whip of knotted cords when we need it? The pastor of that church as well as Little Ronnie need to feel its sting.