Category Ron DeSantis
Governor DeSantis adroitly uses January 6 to solidify his control over the GOP
President Donald Trump was AWOL yesterday. His shame and embarrassment evidently kept him from addressing his supporters on January 6. As the former President continues his year-long fade into self-inflicted obscurity, it’s no surprise Governor Ron DeSantis continues to step up and claim the mantle as leader of the GOP, which after right now is […]
DeSantis soars into 2022 while Democrats self-inflicted wounds of yesteryear hobble a recovery. Can it be fixed?
I will preface this column by conceding that many readers of this site will find this unpleasant reading. But it is also very true that if Florida were to find a Beto O’ Rourke quality rock star statewide candidate, things may be not quite as bad as they are today. Governor DeSantis enters 2022 as […]
Is Governor DeSantis Pro-Vax? Anti-Vax? Vax-Hesitant?
Thirty five months into his term as Governor the reality is abundantly clear – Ron DeSantis is the most skilled politician 21st Century Florida has seen. In fact, I don’t think their is a close second. We’ve previously on these pages, written at length about the Governor’s ruthlessness in acquiring and holding governing power, which […]
Ron DeSantis is Florida’s “Great Divider” that mimics George Wallace and who now has a global following
So much of George Wallace’s lore is about his out-and-out segregationist activities in the 1962 election and between 1963 and 1965 as Governor of Alabama and his quixotic challenge to Lyndon Johnson for the 1964 Democratic Presidential nomination. But let me introduce you to another phase of George Wallace’s career which revolved around his 1968 […]
Can Florida Democrats afford to nominate Nikki Fried?
Commissioner of Agriculture, Democrat Nikki Fried was back in the news this week for the wrong reasons. As a result of one of the many unforced errors related to Fried we have previously discussed on this site, the Commissioner was reprimanded by the bipartisan ethics commission this week. It’s increasingly obvious Fried, despite some snappy […]
Governor DeSantis and the 1845 Moseley flag
I appreciate in a way probably unique to most folks in this state that we have an actual Floridian as Governor, after suffering through eight years of a retired Health Care executive from somewhere else masquerading as a Governor. The previous Governor pretended he knew something about our state, but more often than not showed […]
Democrats chances to beat DeSantis have largely evaporated while the party’s continued comical ineptitude continues
A new batch of polls, most recently (and reliably) the new St Pete Polls confirms what many of us have been sensing. The Democrats, in classic Florida Democratic style have failed to properly define Governor DeSantis and are likely headed toward electoral Armageddon here in Florida in 2022. The Governor has opened up a sizable […]
Explanation to readers for my use of the term socialism to describe Florida Republicans and other notes on Democratic messaging
Yesterday, I penned an article arguing this week’s legislative session was about Republicans pushing their own version of socialism regarding COVID, which in my opinion has been a constant theme of the formerly conservative GOP since Donald Trump’s election in 2016. The use of the term socialism set off a firestorm on my phone, but […]
Roger Stone’s potential DeSantis’ opposition likely about a lot more than Trump (if it even involves Trump at all).
Roger Stone is threatening to run for Governor as a Libertarian to siphon votes away from Ron DeSantis. Yes- that Roger Stone, who by the way lives in Fort Lauderdale. The assumption has been that Stone is trying to protect Donald Trump from a potential DeSantis candidacy in 2024. Well that could be it, or […]
Florida and the Orbán model – How the Democrats constantly misread DeSantis
Former Weekly Standard publisher and current Bulwark Editor-at-large, Bill Kristol nailed it in this Saturday tweet. The subject at hand is the controversy over free speech and the University of Florida. For those who haven’t paid attention the past few days, the long and short of it is the University under apparent pressure from the […]
The Florida Squeeze 