The crook who spent more money....probably most of it ill-gotten....more money than ever spent in a Florida election.....that crook.....has won the GOP nomination for governor. Hopefully Alex Sink can beat him in the November vote but this state has been going GOP for a while now....albeit by a few hanging chads.
No George....but it's puzzling.....possibly troubling. It makes you wonder who in the hell is voting for this guy and more importantly who else are those same idiots voting for.
Everything is puzzling. Arizona nominated the dottering old flip-flopper John McCain. No matter how many times we get kicked in the nuts, we keep coming back for more!
This is a key race result with national implications according to CBS: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20014659-503544.html Scott may win over Sink but he will be dirt ass poor by doing so I think if he buys his way to the governor's mansion because I see one helluva battle looming. The Dems don't forget it was the GOP in Florida that brought George Bush to the whitehouse in 2000.
Hmmm let me see, Scott pays 40 millon of his own money to take a job that pays a measley $132,000....I would love to see a news agency with big brass fuzzy ones do an in depth interview on why a politician (no matter the party) would spend the money they do to get into office...I can damn sure guarantee you that its not to serve the people... Our political system continues to uninspire me... RC
I agree Ralph. This guy made millions upon millions in business.....( ok...so maybe it should have been a few million made legally ) so.....my bet is he knows a good investment from a bad one and 40 million is one hell of an investment. Wonder what kind of return he is looking for?
I was sure that Scott would lose. However he won and now will face Sink. I think Sink wins, but keep in mind that I thought Scott would lose to McCollum. However the world has hardly ended.
Sink will win in a landslide because Scott went outside the mainstream republican party who all but crowned McCollum the winner. By doing this he has alienated himself from the republicans he will need to compete with Sink....
...yeah....but there are 595,000 voters in this state that I have serious questions about. Supposedly they are "grass roots" Republicans. I can think of a few other synonyms..... :wink:
I don't live in Florida any longer and wasn't totally up on this election. However to blindly label 595,000 people as having serious questions about might make one wonder if about your qualifications.
Bill......he seems like a dishonest guy to me.....his company was woefully dishonest and he ran the damned company and made millions upon millions from it. He doesn't strike me as someone who doesn't know what is going on at his own firm. Therefore.....yes....I do question those who would vote for him.
That said Bill....how many GOP voters in the November election will vote their party.....meaning Scott......no matter what they think of him?
So we are to assume then George that just because the GOP nominee is a scumbag then so is his opponent? Just because the GOP couldn't come up with an honest candidate then the Dems must have equally screwed up so the choice is the lesser of the two evils? That is the epitome of partisanship and illustrates how much trouble we are in as a nation politically.
MCG, your claims might not ring so hollow if you hadn't raged against all things Republican for years. But hey you got your way with Obama getting in. Hows that cangey and hope thing going?
Please recall I have said this on more than one occasion....I did not cast my presidential vote for Obama and he was not my choice for the Democratic nomination. That said.....a change was needed. It still amazes me the short memory people have about the state of our country by late 2008.....W's last full month in office. This mess didn't magically appear on Jan. 20th 2009.
Bill.....it started with me when W Sr. was shown in the middle of the recession of 1991....at a grocery store and he seemd out of touch......like he had never been there and didn't really understand the plight of average Americans. I have always been a realist about my economic status......never have fooled myself into believing that I am something I am not. Some average Americans think what the GOP offers is for them whether it is or not in reality. That recession in 1991-92 smacked me up pretty good and I was hurting at the time of Sr.s faux pas before the '92 election. After that.....the country was doing much better economically in some boom times and the desperate GOP resorts to their grandstanding attacks at all expense vs. Clinton and that really turned me against that specific GOP group in particular. Then.......the 2000 election....hanging chads....etc.... Then.....WMDS...... a very unnecessary and costly war with Iraq and finally the collapse of our housing and financial markets which have directly impacted me and my family. Those are my reasons.....that you are correct.
The one thing I've never quite understood is why it's bad for a candidate to have a lot of personal wealth such that he/she can finance their own campaign? A candidate with tremendous personal wealth theoretically wouldn't have to sell himself to special interests for the money to finance the campaign. While the ordinary guy with little or no personal wealth has to go out and raise that money. Certainly it would be great if a campaign could be financed soley with mon/pop donations but usually it can't and the candidate has to some how get larger donations from Unions, PAC's, loans from Banks, etc all of which potentially come with strings attached.