Univision debate: the lady or the cyborg
The Saint Pete Times not surprisingly endorses the home town boy, giving Charlie Crist the nod for FLSen. Crist also has the endorsement of Florida Today. The governor probably has the inside track on most of the newspaper endorsements, given his happy medium of fiscal conservatism and “live and let life” social stances. Leaving out the demonstrably conservative papers, which will back Rubio, he’ll probably win the endorsement sweepstakes. The interesting case will be the Miami Herald, which has two hometown candidates, Kendrick Meek and Marco Rubio, both of whom have been the subject of critical stories out of the Herald newsroom, plus Crist, who the ed board slammed last weekend for being a shape-shifter. The conventional wisdom is that the ed board, which has a tendency to steer just to the right, would pick Rubio. But who knows.
Speaking of endorsements, Kendrick Meek will get his eleventy-fifth one from former President Bill Clinton, who returns this week to stump for his friend, who is in a pitched battle for his political life.
The Orlando Sentinel ed board picks the endangered Suzanne Kosmas (h/t to FlaPolitics)…
And the Christian Coalition further cements their role as a partisan, rather than a genuine spiritual organization, by saying “blessed are the crooks, for they should inherit the governor’s mansion…”
Meanwhile: the Palm Beach Post says “oh HELL no, are you high?” to Allen West, or in softer terms, they endorse Ron Klein.
Back to the Senate race for a moment: the Stephen Moore “Florida Double-Crist” story was horse shit. But it was effective horse shit. Even Kos fell for it, if not hook, line and sinker, than at least enough to spur him to write this.
BTW if you missed the Alex Sink-Rick Scott debate, otherwise known as “The Lady and the Cyborg,” you missed something special. Sink got at Scott throughout, dropped some serious zingers, and managed to smile and look at him throughout, while he literally stared straight ahead or looked down at the podium, scribbling something probably unprintable, the whole time. She called him “Rick,” he called her “my opponent.” His wooden, bloodless performance was really hard to watch, and afterward, he didn’t face reporters himself the way Sink did, but rather sent his running mate, Jeb Bush, and the Diaz Balart brothers to stand in for him. What a man… er .. robot…
You can watch the debate in English here. Not to be missed: Scott’s closing remarks, in what I think he believes was Spanish…
And it turns out that while Rick Scott may hate him some Barack Obama, Obama’s first two years as president have been very good to Rick Scott.
And just to give you some idea of what Sink is up against, her campaign took in an impressive $600,000 last week, but Scott countered, by injecting another $2.4 million from his $300 million golden fraud parachute into his campaign.
Last but not least, on Friday night, I put out a Twitter challenge, asking if any Republican in Florida — any at all — would step forward and Tweet me back that they are proud — not supportive, but PROUD — to have Rick Scott as their candidate for governor. Not a soul stepped forward for quite some time, although I hear that some of my Twitter friends got lots of responses from people who said they had to stand with Scott, but didn’t like it. In fact, the only person who ultimately would tell me they were proud of Scott was Javier Manjarres of The Shark Tank, but well … it appears he might be on a certain Republican payroll. More on that later…
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