Listless? We have a list, Ron

Listless Walmart Shopping vessels are we,
Who live in the land of the free.
We know what we like.
DeSantis can take a hike.
It’s Trump or it’s nothing for me.

— Rudy the Reader

Ron DeSantis is crashing and burning as a political candidate, which has him lashing out at the Republican base. He is demanding to know why he isn’t up by 50 points.

DeSantis told Will Witt of the Florida Standard, “A movement can’t be about the personality of one individual. If all we are is listless vessels that’s just supposed to follow, you know, whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth Social every morning, that’s not going to be a durable movement.”

Hillary the Arkancider called us deplorable.

DeSantis the desperate calls us listless vessels.

He is 41 points behind Trump in the polls. Ramaswamy is in third-place and gaining ground on the guv who doesn’t love us no more. Reading DeSantis putting Trump supporters down tells me we dodged a bullet train with this guy.

Technically, he did not call us listless vessels but that is what he meant, as his campaign press secretary Bryan Griffin wrote: “The dishonest media refuses to report the facts—Donald Trump and some congressional endorsers are ‘listless vessels.’ Why? Because Trump and DC insiders feel he is entitled to your vote. (DeSantis) believes your trust should be earned and has the vision, plan, and record to beat Joe Biden and reverse the decline of our country. That’s why Ron DeSantis will be showing up on Wednesday night to debate, and Donald Trump will not.”

We are entitled to vote for Trump because he earned our vote with his vision, plan and record of reversing the decline of our country.

I like what DeSantis did in stopping the grooming of prepubescent children in public schools. I like that he rescinded Disney’s special exemption from local laws and taxes. I like that he fires prosecutors who don’t do their job. I have said so in my newsletters.

Once Biden started indicting Trump over such things as calling Mike Pence a wimp, the race was over because Republicans have no choice but to stand against the fascist state we now live in.

Republicans have no choice. They must reject the persecution of political opponents by Biden. Most do.

Now we know who DeSantis is because when the chips are down — by 41 points — you find out who a man is.

I am not offended by the words DeSantis said because sticks and stones may break my bones, but Hillary’s words can never hurt me. Ditto DeSantis.

But Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for Make America Great Again Inc. tweeted, “Ron DeSantis is showing his true colors. The pressure of polling in third place is getting to DeSantis and now he is lashing out at the same voters who got him elected governor. DeSantis must immediately apologize for his disgraceful insult.”

Buzz off, lady. Being offended by every little utterance is the mark of a liberal, not an American.

The fact that DeSantis believes Trump owes him and the duplicitous Fox News an appearance at their dumb debate shows the very sense of entitlement that he projects on Trump and his supporters.

DeSantis also said in that interview, “And so you could be the most conservative person since sliced bread. Unless you’re kissing his rear end, they will somehow call you a RINO. So it’s been totally detached from principle in what you actually believe and results. And it’s more about, you know, just what faction you happen to do.”

Any time a Republican critic of Trump claims principle, I say ahoy and think of Bill Kristol on a cruise ship wit rich readers. Trump is the most conservative president we have had since Ronald Reagan left office. The only principle in this election is whether your cheer harassing Donald Trump with a well-organized series of show trials.

I thank Ronald Rodham DeSantis for taking a stand — right beside Christie and Pence to form a Triumvirate of Stooges.

This tweet will make your day.

I have tried not to knock the governor out of respect for his accomplishments, but I would have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to notice how awful his campaign has become. He fired most of his campaign staff and he has become a thinner version of Chris Christie, bitching about Trump.

DeSantis complained that President Trump attended the Iowa State Fair.

The guv said, “When I was at the Iowa State fair with (Gov.) Kim Reynolds, that’s when they did their counter program. I think he was on the ground for 45 or 50 minutes. I was the only candidate he cared about in Iowa. He came because I was there and he wanted to try to take some of the attention away from us.”

Given the distance between Iowa and Mar-a-Lago and the coordination with Secret Service a former president must do to go anyplace, it is an insult to my intelligence for him to imply that Trump saw him in Iowa and decided to go there on the spur of the moment.

Trump’s rejoinder was “He had a very small crowd. He only had a few people show up. It’s a big difference.”

Vivek Ramaswamy got in a dig on Desperate DeSantis by tweeting, “The real danger to our movement is the rise of listless-vessel robot politicians who blindly follow the commands of their Super PACs.”

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace reported, “I don't know why anyone running for president would put down half of the electorate and identify them, call them listless vessels because they support the former president. And you're right, he and I don’t always see eye to eye but I call it like I see it. Why Ron DeSantis would do that while his numbers are tanking is really beyond me.”

That’s why his numbers are tanking.

Republicans cannot win without Trump supporters who were 75 million strong in 2020, up from 62 million in 2016. The strategy of attacking anyone who dares to support President Trump is stupidity squared. I offer Christie and Pence as proof. DeSantis saying he meant only congressmen is the same old political spin that we have heard all our lives because what makes a congressional supporter any different from a retiree supporting him in West Virginia?

As for Trump’s supporters being listless, we have a list all right. I can assure Desperate DeSantis that he is on that list, right after Hillary and Bill Barr.