Saddled with a senile President and a party that’s divided but driven by its radical left, Democrats are reaching for one of the few weapons they have left: the appeal to ridicule. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last year, it was Ted Cruz being (wrongly, I think) accused of abandoning Texas during the infamous ice storm (on a trip that had apparently planned for some while and, being a legislator rather than governor, he had no actual role to play. Democrats and Never-Trumpers got a few yuks out of that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Big Left thought Ron DeSantis had “disappeared”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The only thing that disappeared was, apparently, whatever sense of humanity Tide Pod Evita might have once claimed<\/a> (emphasis added):<\/p>\n\n\n\n The governor reportedly accompanied his wife Casey to medical appointments for breast cancer<\/strong> on December 29 as critics claimed he had abandoned his post, DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw told Fox News….DeSantis spokespeople jumped to the governor\u2019s defense after Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) suggested that the governor was \u201cinextricably missing\u201d [sic] and ignoring his responsibilities over the last couple of weeks. The congresswoman retorted with that comment on Twitter after she was criticized for visiting Miami Beach on a leisure trip on Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n “Inextricably missing?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n If Lauren Boebert had said that, it’d have made Stephen Colbert’s leg tingly for two weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHasn\u2019t Gov. DeSantis been inexplicably missing for like 2 weeks?\u201d she shot back on Twitter in response to a tweet from Team DeSantis welcoming her to Florida after\u00a0National Review\u00a0published photos of her seated outside<\/a>\u00a0Doraku Sushi and Izakaya in Miami Beach Thursday afternoon, raising a cocktail in one and checking her phone in another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n