It’s going to get a lot more huggy in the brand image of Team DeSantis 2.0
According to campaign officials, and those inside the operations, DeSantis will stop talking about Florida, tone down the wokeism and confrontation with the alphabet people, drop the expensive platform speeches and focus on small group meetings to help the candidate learn how to like people more. In essence, stop being the DeSantis campaign.
Yup, awful huggy. Gee, who could have seen this coming?
(Via NBC) – TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign is planning a reboot, top campaign officials said, with a significant shift on messaging, events and media strategy.
Expect fewer big speeches and more handshaking in diners and churches. There will be more of a national focus than constant Florida references. And the mainstream media may start to get more access.
[…] Campaign filings show that the DeSantis campaign needs to figure out how to bring in more money and spend less. It fired roughly a dozen staffers last week. Donors and allies are pressing for a change. The poll numbers are stagnant. And rival GOP presidential candidates are smelling blood in the water.
“Downright low” is how a source who was present when the staffers were fired described morale these days. “The entire campaign is on the brink,” the person said. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”
The reboot is notable for a candidate who was perhaps the most widely expected GOP entrant in the 2024 race.
[…] The campaign postponed paying some of its outstanding bills until after the end of June, in part so its second-quarter financial report would show more money in the bank, the sources said. It’s not an uncommon practice for campaigns running up against big reporting deadlines, but it can obscure larger issues.
Top DeSantis aides acknowledge that the money situation has to be addressed. They plan to do it in part by cutting costs for his events. DeSantis won’t travel less, but his campaign appearances will begin to be leaner and more intimate.
[…] Cody Hall is joining the campaign as a senior communications adviser. He will remain a top political adviser to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, having also served as communications director after he worked on his 2018 campaign for governor. Campaign spokesman Andrew Romeo is stepping into the communications director role, and Bryan Griffin will continue as press secretary.
The DeSantis campaign has already laid off roughly a dozen people, NBC News reported. Campaign officials said that, as of now, they don’t plan any more budget-related layoffs. (read more)
Again, it won’t work. Everything is fake, manufactured, astroturf, based on a foundation of fraud… And, inauthentic.
The candidate sucks and the candidate’s wife is a Cindy McCain clone trying to be more like Sarah Palin. Yup, more fakery.
The smallness of their naked ambition is as visible as the artificial nature of the pretending that began long before the “book tour.” They are in the self-fulfilling downward spiral where every effort extended to ask people to like them only looks more pathetic and weaker.
Once they have played out the cancer card, they’re done.
Please clap………
What the donors and anyone else in the Big Club who are trying to foist DeSantis on us do not understand is that it’s not the approach that’s failing.
It’s the product.
They can stamp “New and Improved!!!!” all over it.
We do not want it.
It really is that simple.
Unfortunately Betsy there will be a few who get bamboozled.
I’m at the point now where I ask – is it sad and pathetic that some will fall for it or us it just comical?
I’m leaning towards comical.
Yep.
But those folks are stupidly deluded and think they are smarter than everyone else.
If you don’t believe me, ask one of them. LOL
They live in their own world, BK, insulated from the hoi polloi…that would be us.
And they’ve made it abundantly clear they don’t give a tinker’s damn what we think we want. They know better what is best (for them).
Their world is full of failed ideas and products concocted by those who think this way, and egos are always at the centres of such failures.
Which is the one thing they are not short of.
Funny, TwoLaine…exactly what so thought of.
Nobody wanted that either.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
They don’t care what you want. You will take your castor oil like a good girl
It’s like the old saying. You can put paint on a turd,It’s still a turd.
I passed on this video when yuckboob tried to serve it up to me yesterday, but I watched it today for Sundance. It was a waste of my time, just as I expected.
Just remember, they are in this race because “people” asked them to be in the race, last November, while his/their? hands were on the Bible, taking the Oath of Office and celebrating their victory over Florida.
Want to change something that really needs changing about your campaign DeceptiCON RON! and Wal-mart Barbie?
RESIGN!
You lied to the people of your state. You are lying now. People don’t like liars. Not one bit.
You’re so honorable, RESIGN. Follow the LAW.
BTW, there have een so many reboots I am dizzy.
More reboots than a personal computer running Windows.
Windows 95 at that
😱 “Wal-mart Barbie” ???
Perfect!!!!! 😄
The funniest part is Larry Ellison and many other big names in business threw money and support behind this guy – you could tell he was a fraud in 2017 standing behind the wrestler all the time with his occasion “yea. They won’t get away with this”
He hasn’t ever said a smart , whoa word, ever. Crazy to watch.
“What difference, at this point, does it make?”, someone once said. Thank you, SD, for exposing this slimey duo. The strings are becoming more visible to more people the more they talk & parade around. Is it time for them to go yet?
Like watching a slow motion Norfolk-Southern train wreck.
Casey starts talking, and I just lose interest. Couldn’t even make it past the answers to “how did you two meet?” She has to throw in all of this subtle stuff designed to make you say, “wow, you’re so accomplished” while also letting you know her “blue collar” roots. Humble bragging. I believe that’s the phrase I’m looking for. Humble bragging. It’s bothered me about these two for quite some time. Telling people how important they are, while trying to appear just like one of the little people. It’s the main reason these two don’t connect.
Remember the Messiah’s 2008 campaign. Mooch grew uo poor and oppressed in rhe ghettos of Chicago while Barry was subject to all kinds of racism in Hawaii of all places. Of course, stupid people went gaga and accepted the lies.
This interview with that ‘oh so Southern Christian woman Ainsley’ made me reach for the anti-nausea meds, literally. RDS and his funders have absolutely NO CLUE who we are.
Jill does not have blue – collar roots, she is the daughter of an optometrist and a speech pathologist.
And then Rob turned to Jeb and said “Hold my beer n’ watch this!”
Jeb DeSantis
I got to minute 3:27 with actually skipping to get there and had to stop. She talks a lot, when she looked like she was going to cry I just had to stop. The soft propaganda of personal emotional out reach to cause women, mostly, to make important decisions regarding selection of national policy makers on emotional appeal instead of basing those decisions on hard evidence of policy outlook is revolting to me. I had this conversation with my daughter in the month before the 2020 election. You don’t elect a president based on whether his personality irritates you. You will never meet him. He will never be at your house for dinner. His personality traits if off putting to you are irrelevant. The only relevance is whether his policies make you more autonomous and financially secure, two things I equate with freedom. In order to determine that you must pay attention to what he does not what he says he will do. And especially you have to trust your own determinations and drown out the talking heads because they have a self-interest in lying to you. Trump is the only one in my life of voting who actually did what he said he would do to make my life better, well the second I suppose since my first vote for such a thing was a vote for Reagan. I paid attention to what he said and then compared it with the history of what he had done. I quickly determined that what they were telling me about him were lies. Ever since that first vote for Reagan, until Trump, I fell for the suit and the words of promises. If I have to see Jordan bang that gavel one more time in a useless display of nothingness I might just break my computer. These people are feckless, self interested actors in a Kabuki theatre production of corruption. It’s Trump or nothing at this point.
And they are everywhere. Fooled easily a d always proclaiming “Muh feelings. Oh da pain and anguish…muh feelings!”
“The soft propaganda of personal emotional out reach to cause women, mostly, to make important decisions regarding selection of national policy makers on emotional appeal instead of basing those decisions on hard evidence of policy outlook is revolting to me.”
This statement is the absolute truth. They think all women are stupid and we vote emotionally. Cry me an f’ing river.
Will he stop speaking in that whiny voice?
No.
That caricature reminds me of Alfred E. Neumann a favorite write in candidate along with Mickey Mouse back in my high school days voting for student council candidates. Trump 2024!
Desantis is identical to the infamous AL Gore, they changed his platform 3 or 4 times because he was such a Dimwit!
The Tennessee 2 x 4.
Regardless of whether or not you support DeSantis, it’s clear that he lacks the skills for the national stage. (Of course, that doesn’t stop the powers that be from promoting someone. I mean, Biden lacks the skills for feeding himself and he occupies the office of the President.)
Excellent photo
It’ll be considered a hard-fought comeback when zee meatball starts to creep up in the “polls” and then a ‘miracle’ when DeSanctimonious somehow wins the abomin-nomination to run for pretend prezzie.
SPIT.
Oh puke. rds is such a climber. Casey is way too sweet and self absorbed.
Being interviewed by the most inauthentic tv celeb makes it all vomit worthy.
I am 80. Way too busy for such jr high theatrics. We have a mission. This is is nonsense. They are not serious.
Love the Alfred E. Neuman pic – we need humor in all this swampyness.
A book will be written one day ‘An Idiots Guide to Running for President, How Not to do What Jeb!, Cruz, and RDS Did’
Retooling the snake oil show for us idiots. Those days are over.
Was it sundance who said that the Achilles heel of the globalists is their hubris? No kidding
The meatball’s biggest problem is his inauthentic fakery and now his handlers want him to be more hands on and intimate with the voters? Yeah, that’ll work out great……..for us. Wanna take bets on how fast his poll numbers can drop even more?
Yeah, it’s Lawfare or bust for these monsters. If Trump’s on the primary ballot, they lose yuge.
Retired Magistrate here: Never trust a Shape shifter!
PRESIDENT TRUMP 2024🇺🇲👍🇺🇲👍🇺🇲👍🇺🇲👍🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I find it quite hilarious that they are sending in probably the most hated Governor’s comms director to fix things. Sure, make him more like Kemp the Wimp. The liar and cheat. The one who handed the “win” to Delusional Bitem, basement dweller. And then there is this one. Who blew through MILLION$$$.
Don’t know DeSantis’ campaign manager? Generra Peck would like to keep it that way
By David Catanese
18 Jul 2023
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article277425758.html
“But DeSantis is entering the crucial third quarter with just $12 million in his warchest, burning through cash at a rate that is reminiscent of Scott Walker’s 2016 campaign, which shuttered after just two months.“
This brings to (my) mind about Romney trying to play a Conservative role.
Don’t know how all those ‘smart people’ consultants, who were/are paid big bucks, can even think that would work. SMH.
The Uniparty knows we are onto them.
If they clearance-sale the RDS campaign I wonder if they will bring out a full-throated anti-Trump, anti-Christian, anti-American, Martial Law candidate…🤔
This whole chess game may be about Stop Trump but it may also be about Stop Kari Lake…we have a powerful future… they don’t.
America is tired of the Uniparty lies and corruption…and they know it.
DeSantis defecated in his mess kit at least four times:
1) He was disloyal to DJT, the guy who “brung him to the dance” when he announced against him,
2) He reneged on his commitment to the Florida voters for a four-year term as their governor,
3) He CHANGED the Effing Law of Florida to be able to run for president without losing his governorship, and
4) He has Deep State funding rather than grass roots funding.
If that ain’t enough to create a “Dead Man Walking” I don’t know what is.
He had the legislature hide his travel records. DeSantis hiding travel records and Vivek hiding his internet footprint means they both are Astroturf. Own up to who you are.
If Ron had just read our comments he would be in a much better place!
How many times are they going to try and re-launch a failing product?
A quick googleedeegoo:
“A product’s life cycle is usually broken down into four stages; introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. Product life cycles are used by management and marketing professionals to help determine advertising schedules, price points, expansion to new product markets, packaging redesigns, and more.”
My own experience has convinced me, AND I may be wrong….but consider this…when you see a product you have used for a long time and suddenly it is labeled “New and Improved”….giving the impression that it will “work better”.
My own experience, I will use carpet cleaner solution as an example, can we say puppy?,….I believe that products are labelled as such, (to give false impressions to make you want to buy it)…. yet to meet regulatory criteria–the product has changed and is not as good…in this case EPA greenies caused the change…
….I found an old jug of cleaner, about 4 years old, in my cabinet….it works far better than the same “new and improved” same product by the same company.
This political product has quickly reached maturity shortly after it failed to launch. Pay attention to advertising schedules, packaging and market expansions.
Will this product work as well???
One chance to make a first impression. The rocket launch sputtered and failed.
Well, Team Meatball skipped the growth and maturity stages.
One could say that Meatball peed all over his own carpet…..
It is becoming increasingly apparent that Alfred E. Meatball’s campaign is financed by influencers rather than voters.
I only looked at the picture. That was enough.
Ron has his President Trump pose (hands and all) and she is miss prim and proper.
Oh my goodness, someone’s told him to smile giddily. Some people are taciturn by nature. So what. That shouldn’t disqualify them for the presidency. That’s what he should tell his handlers. The fact he’s susceptible to being something he’s not points to character defects.
But then, what’s it gotta be like having a bunch of psychopathic billionaires breathing down your neck about ‘being more approachable’.
Imagine being coached by psychopaths on how to be genuinely appealing to Reglar Fokkes. What you see there is about what you’ll get.
You have to wonder about the mentality of an electorate that craves ‘likeability’ in a candidate in the first place. No wonder the country’s in such a mess. It’s like looking for a grown-up version of JonBenét Ramsey, you know, poise, grace, affability, baton, swimsuit.
I mean, we need to grow up already with all this craving for gauzy salesmanship smiles. It’s almost as though Americans have an expectation that smoke is to be blown up their pants legs and dang it, they want it done right!
Maybe it’s inevitable that Kayfabe Circuses will draw out Kayfabe Analysts. But isn’t it just more kayfabe to analyze kayfabe on its own terms?
DeSantis, his user interface notwithstanding, is a stalking horse for globalism. And he lacks a sense of loyalty. That’s enough for me.
“the artificial nature of the pretending”
Careful. I’d rather have an artificial pretender than a genuine one. Artificial pretending seems more…genuine.
Pretty good you used the word “ Kayfabe “ it is a made up nonsense wrestling word used to describe the actual rehearsed fakeness of the supposedly ‘real’ pro wrestling matches …
BTW there was a reality show put on by McMahon’s WWF several years ago that showed the attempt to train several 20 something men and women on how to be Pro wrestlers – the Very first move they had to master in order to advance was to learn to do a front flip over by themselves ( like a standing somersault and landing noisily on their back on the spring enhanced ring floor ) – you often saw it in wrestling matches where one guy effortlessly front flips the standing opponent head over heels to the mat -Interestingly, a couple of the more athletic men simply could not master that move and were cut —-Similarly, RDS hasn’t mastered the first Kayfabe move of politics – selling his fake authenticity…
“Similarly, RDS hasn’t mastered the first Kayfabe move of politics – selling his fake authenticity…”
Exactly. Until you can sell your fake authenticity, you have no business in American politics. I think that’s the gist of this blog entry.
So, is RDS so profoundly fake that he can’t master this first move of professional fakery? I think he’s a relatively normal dude who got hit by a wall of money. Of course there are big strings attached to the big wave. And so he’s dancing well out of his skin and his comfort zone and smiling like he should be committed.
I don’t think DeSantis is a wholly unsympathetic character. He’s more a victim of nervous psychopaths who rushed him to market way early.
Actually, I find his early awkwardness a sign of authenticity. He’s just a wooden kind of guy by nature who makes no bones about not feeling your pain.
Americans love being lied to by glib sociopaths. They’ve formed an expectation for polished kayfabe. So when they don’t get it, they get strangely offended.
Sorry, I tend to disagree- He is not like some random ordinary dude that suddenly found himself in the National arena so to speak – He is an ambitious politician from the get go – Remember he has run or tried to run for 4 different elective offices in basically a 10 year span – House of Rep 2012 . , then was going to run for Rubio’s “empty “ Senate seat in 2015/2016 and then Governor 2018 and now President 2022/2023 – a fast track for sure – it is not MAGA voters issue that they are not impressed with his efforts and techniques to try to reach the unreachable this time …
Imagine these psychos trying to “reboot” PDJT! 🤣🤣🤣
Meatball got where he is by hitching a ride on the Trump train. He jumped off and got run over.
Jill found out
it’s warm in Florida
🤔 (after high school) ?
….long story short
“At the end of the day” 🥸
Mr Bucket of 🎱 ⚽️🏀🥎🏈
and
Mrs. 🍺
Those two sorry excuses are as genuine as their camera-ready tidy couch.
So, Ron! Just be yourself.
[retooled campain(sic) launches]
Okay, nice job. (Oh, did I forgot to mention? Nobody likes you.)
Jeb 2.0
ALL politicians should learn the following from the DeSantis, Jeb Bush & other campaign fails. A YUGE segment of the population rejects the insider groups behind these public faces. AND, much of the public NOW KNOWS to consider campaign backers as well as candidates.
I don’t even like listening to them speak… I can’t ever get through a full video of either of them because they talk about themselves and their kids all the time… and Ron’s answer to what caused him to run was very awkward and inauthentic.
No thanks. TRUMP 2024 or bust.
Alfred E Newman was better looking
Once again Sundance, you deserve combat pay for watching these interviews.
He will ‘NEVER’ become a “REAL boy”, no matter what they do. He is made of wood, and he has strings.
Do Meatball and Mrs. Meatball ever refer to their spouse by their name? “He is great. She is great.” That’s just odd.
Mrs Meatball saying her kids “don’t know to this day about her cancer,” as if children that small would have a comprehension about cancer
Every time I hear “The Governor,” It’s like nails on a chalkboard
It doesn’t matter what they do or how much money they throw into Ron’s campaign. Everybody has figured out that he is owned by the same GOP who gives the Ukrainian government anything they ask for, fight tooth and nail against Trump, but won’t lift a finger to fight back against the disgusting Biden administration. They do not represent us at all.
“They do not represent us at all”
And Murkowski and Romney threaten to leave the party because we are speaking up instead of quietly listening.
Those 2 rinos leaving would be a blessing.
In 2023, 1,958,310 new cancer cases and 609,820 cancer deaths are projected to occur in the United States.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36633525/
“DeSantis won’t travel less, but his campaign appearances will begin to be leaner and more intimate.”
🤔
Maybe….
“Ron and Casey” will stop talking about themselves long enough to visit a few of their ONE MILLION, NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTY EIGHT THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED AND TEN fellow AMERICANS who are projected to be diagnosed with Cancer this year.
Now, THAT, would be “Leaner and MORE Intimate”.
Just a thought
Mama mia! Thatsa the wrong Meatball!
Sorry I could not finish the video. 🤮
If he and his team had half a brain, he’d strongly shift to focus on the greatest crime of the 21st century and press for retribution for the COVID reaction and jabs.
You should have waited until 2028!
Finally watched video. I am being nice here.
Too much promotion of Casey. Questions were aimed mostly to her while people who still watch FNC might wish to know who RDS is! (Duh). Too much Casey might turn off what’s left of the people on the fence. Of course RDS has no personality so the campaign is in a tight spot.
Also, can you see Melania Trump doing all the talking with President hubby sitting beside her? Ha. She’d answer quickly and redirect.
We are seeing the implosion of a RDS, and his wife, who allowed themselves to be manipulated by the people who have set out to make sure RDS, has NO political future after this.
It sure looks like big money has achieved their goal.
Yeah. No thanks meatball. Shows it’s amateur hour with you on national stage. Damage is done. You won’t recover and are tarnishing future runs.