It’s Ron DeSantis’ GOP Now Bob Maistros
https://issuesinsights.com/2022/11/09/its-ron-desantiss-gop-now/
‘The Red Wave.”
If you’ve been watching Fox News and frequenting conservative websites the last few weeks (and this commentator admits he does more than his share of both), you were hearing how Republicans were going to have another one of those massive 2010-style seat pickups in the House.
Win 56 seats in the Senate.
Celebrate upsets in Michigan and even New York governors’ mansions.
Yeah, right. Fox News commentators (yeah, doing it again) in the wee hours of Wednesday morning were struggling to justify salvaging at least a “Red Ripple.”
Turned out to be a Red Puddle. Of blood.
The most heard words during the network’s coverage of this Tuesday night massacre were “Republicans were hoping” and “Republicans thought.” Hoping and thinking, nothing. More like spiking the ball before they got to the goal line.
Face it. If, as a party, you can’t run up the score against …
- the worst, fakest and possibly least-popular first-term president in the history of the United States who has burdened America with the highest inflation in decades, crippled the world’s once-dominant energy industry, embarrassed and weakened his country on the world stage and cried “all-ee all-ee in-free” at the border
- an accidental governor who insisted in a debate that she didn’t understand why crime was so important to her opponent when even an MSNBC anchor confronted her about not feeling safe on her state’s biggest city’s streets
- another hopeless governor who pursued nonsense, inconsistent and ultimately tyrannical shutdown policies on COVID and openly lied in her own debate about the extent of her lockdowns of public schools
- a Senate incumbent whose ex-wife stated on camera that he ran over her foot with a car during a domestic dispute and who was charged with covering up child sexual abuse
- utterly, completely and totally gobsmackingly, a Senate candidate so crippled by a stroke that he opened a debate by wishing the viewing audience “good night” and took both sides on fracking…
… then a) either you’ll never be able to do so b) you’re not very good at politics, for politicians or c) and this commentator’s vote, both.
With multiple omelets’ worth of eggs spread across the faces of the masters of the Grand Old Party – and especially its most recent occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue – one recalls the lament of legendary Yankee manager Casey Stengel when he was demoted to babysitting the then-expansion crosstown Mets: “Can’t anyone here play this game?”
Except … it turns out there is one guy who can.
One guy who in the face of the Great GOP Washout, pulled off a stunning, near-20-point win and turned a purple state bright scarlet in the process, pulling his party’s U.S. senator and four new Republican House members across the finish line with him on his powerful coattails.
One guy who, as has been pointed out on these pages, has demonstrated himself to be a “skillful operator of the machinery of government and political trench warrior” and “no-holds-barred, take-on-all-comers battler.” Who held off the COVID cops, fearlessly stomped the most influential business force in his realm when it questioned his positions, and has conclusively shown, as he claimed in his victory speech, that his state is “where woke comes to die.”
One guy who, in particular, had the guts to put up with nationwide vilification in pursuing the political “stunt” of transporting illegal immigrants headed to his state to a smug “sanctuary” stronghold – and was rewarded with majority approval on the part of Hispanics.
And one guy who has now, more than ever, earned the right to be entrusted with the future of his once-again stumbling, bumbling Stupid Party and just perhaps, as he has done in the Sunshine State, make it, and America, smart – and free – again.
The Donald, whose endorsed candidates led the MAGA movement to an epic faceplant, should change the subject of the planned Nov. 15 announcement he had the temerity to announce on the eve of an election in which he was not – technically – on the ballot.
He should get up, take a bow and accept the thanks of a grateful party for its new, middle-America-focused direction, and immediately get off the stage in favor of a new people’s champion.
Because after Tuesday’s bloodbath – everywhere but in his state – more than ever, the GOP is Ronald Dion DeSantis’ party now.
Bob Maistros is a messaging and communications strategist, crisis specialist, and former political speechwriter. He can be reached at bob@rpmexecutive.com.
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