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America's greatest governor gives Master Class in Rope-a-Dope
Like a great trap laid by a lawyer on cross-examination, a great rope-a-dope is hard to pull off. But, as Don Draper might say, it’s delicate, but potent. When perfectly executed, it not only exposes the adversary but leaves them open to a devastating blow when a response finally comes.
The usually omnipresent DeSantis went some two weeks without appearing in the media or at public events. Florida DEMOCRATS and national progressives thought that this opened him to a great attack: The governor has gone missing during a crisis! Never mind that the “crisis” was a pandemic that has been ongoing for two years now, and DeSantis — like any other governor who’s been in office the whole time — more or less knows what his menu of options are, and his team knows what he’d do.
Moreover, DeSantis, unlike Pete Buttigieg last summer, wasn’t actually off the job. He was still holding regular meetings in Tallahassee. This was well known because Florida has an extensive legal and political culture of openness under its Sunshine laws. One can easily examine who DeSantis is meeting with. What’s more, his press office sends out a daily schedule to the Florida press.
Still, Florida DEMOCRATS are nothing if not fools. And the DeSantis haters nationally only loathe and fear him all the more for the sheer number of times they thought they had him only to see him, like the Road Runner, sprint away undamaged while his pursuers wiped the shrapnel off their own faces.
So, Nikki Fried (vying with Charlie Crist to be DeSantis’s hapless opponent this November) pushed hard on the “where is Ron?” theme. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, when caught vacationing in Florida, played that card as well: “Hasn’t Gov. DeSantis been inexplicably missing for like two weeks? If he’s around, I would be happy to say hello.” MSNBC’s Joy Reid claimed that DeSantis was “not governing during a crisis; and sunning his belly on vacation instead.”
After letting this go on for two weeks, DeSantis answered his critics: He had been busy instead accompanying his wife to her cancer treatments.
This was a textbook example of a perfect rope-a-dope. DeSantis could have shut down his critics earlier; instead, he let them wallow in their “trend this on Twitter” antics and increasingly overwrought rhetoric before finally wading in to present a reason for being out of the public eye that is beyond public criticism.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/a-ron-desantis-master-class-in-rope-a-dope/
Like a great trap laid by a lawyer on cross-examination, a great rope-a-dope is hard to pull off. But, as Don Draper might say, it’s delicate, but potent. When perfectly executed, it not only exposes the adversary but leaves them open to a devastating blow when a response finally comes.
The usually omnipresent DeSantis went some two weeks without appearing in the media or at public events. Florida DEMOCRATS and national progressives thought that this opened him to a great attack: The governor has gone missing during a crisis! Never mind that the “crisis” was a pandemic that has been ongoing for two years now, and DeSantis — like any other governor who’s been in office the whole time — more or less knows what his menu of options are, and his team knows what he’d do.
Moreover, DeSantis, unlike Pete Buttigieg last summer, wasn’t actually off the job. He was still holding regular meetings in Tallahassee. This was well known because Florida has an extensive legal and political culture of openness under its Sunshine laws. One can easily examine who DeSantis is meeting with. What’s more, his press office sends out a daily schedule to the Florida press.
Still, Florida DEMOCRATS are nothing if not fools. And the DeSantis haters nationally only loathe and fear him all the more for the sheer number of times they thought they had him only to see him, like the Road Runner, sprint away undamaged while his pursuers wiped the shrapnel off their own faces.
So, Nikki Fried (vying with Charlie Crist to be DeSantis’s hapless opponent this November) pushed hard on the “where is Ron?” theme. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, when caught vacationing in Florida, played that card as well: “Hasn’t Gov. DeSantis been inexplicably missing for like two weeks? If he’s around, I would be happy to say hello.” MSNBC’s Joy Reid claimed that DeSantis was “not governing during a crisis; and sunning his belly on vacation instead.”
After letting this go on for two weeks, DeSantis answered his critics: He had been busy instead accompanying his wife to her cancer treatments.
This was a textbook example of a perfect rope-a-dope. DeSantis could have shut down his critics earlier; instead, he let them wallow in their “trend this on Twitter” antics and increasingly overwrought rhetoric before finally wading in to present a reason for being out of the public eye that is beyond public criticism.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/a-ron-desantis-master-class-in-rope-a-dope/
