![]() ![]() While the media sages are probably right that DeSantis (or a similar Republican like Gov. Calling in an establishment voice for backup, Dowd quotes David Axelrod, former chief campaign strategist for Barack Obama: "The kind of tricks you use to get elected to other offices don't work in a presidential race because you get scrutinized so closely."Īnd on it goes: DeSantis is by turns "contrived," "robotic," "inept," "nasty" and "dull." OK, Maureen, we get the picture. Why did DeSantis' exploratory campaign flame out so spectacularly? Here Dowd, standing in for dozens of commentators, judges that DeSantis was simply not likable (in Dowd's world, everything in the known universe is reducible to sophomore class in high school, and people elect politicians for the same reasons they form lunchroom cliques).ĭeSantis' political stunts apparently exacerbate his unlikability. The epitaphs have been quick in coming Maureen Dowd's recent column in the New York times may serve as representative of the conventional wisdom. Ron DeSantis, they've driven a stake through the corpse's heart and stuffed its mouth with garlic. In the last few weeks the mainstream media have not only buried the presidential ambitions of Florida Gov. ![]()
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