Good points all around. I currently intern with RPOF and can tell you that the party is going to throw it’s support behind Scott all the way. Not to mention, I still say that Scott will win the general if anything because of Rubio. He’ll be at the top of the ballot and all the Republicans that come out to vote for him WILL vote for Scott in the privacy of the voting booth.

I mentioned this in a previous post, but it would be idiotic for McCollum supporters or true Republicans to either not vote or vote for Sink. It’s the equivalent of a little kid not getting his way and breaking his own toys so he doesn’t have to let anyone else play with them. It’s better to have Rick Scott, a conservative whom you might personally dislike sometimes, than Alex Sink, a liberal Democrat who will do NOTHING that you like.

With full disclosure, I voted for McCollum mainly because I thought he would be our best shot at victory. Nonetheless, Scott is my nominee and I plan to swallow my pride and support him every step of the way. Any Republican that truly cares about the future of Florida will do the same.

I will be glad to get behind him and the new GOP ticket….and re-generate Florida’s true core…Conservatism.

I honestly don’t know how I feel about Scott. I chose not to vote for him, but unless he screws up royally before November, I will mark the bubble by his name.

If only every Republican was like Scott, we’d have a better America. Sadly, we’ve still got Lugar, Snowe, Graham, Murkowski…
Republicans need to firm up, offer solid candidates from good backgrounds and then succeed. We’re like a one-time athlete who’s now fat. Cut out the fluff and nonsense, and you’re left with a party capable of a 2012 bid.
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To his fellow Floridians, McCollum said in his last (attack) ad against Scott,

“I trust your judment…. I always have.”

Somehow I don’t think he was thinkin’ what he thought most of US were thinkin’ on the way to the polls…

And I loved his Obama-esque speech… saying something about not watching the poll results because, “This is going to go to wee hours of the morning…” just moments before Scott was announced the winner…

*** sigh ***
Good times…………………

Conservatism works EVERY TIME it is tried.

Scott was/is the Conservative in the race and he did not attempt to hide from that fact or to hide that fact from the voters.

McCollum, a nice guy by almost any measure, is a graduate of the Go Along to Get Along school of Republican governance. I.E. try to get them to LIKE you and they will play nice and help you get your agenda passed into law.

HA.

That sure worked for Dubya didn’t it. Apparently McCollum thought the vitriol, vituperation verbal abuse hurled at Dubya by The Swimmer was Kennedy’s way of showing his appreciation for that ceremony in his honor at Daddy Bush’s Library.

When I read he thought the theory of man made global warming (CO2 endangerment) was without merit. I looked around for McCollum’s position on the matter and saw him on both sides, ie agreeing with some of its programs and at other times saying he’s not sure about it. I don’t vote in Fla. but lived there for a large part of the past several years (Hillsborough Cty.) Florida is a poor state that has been allowed to sink into chaos. The global warming industry has its tentacles embedded in all aspects of government there, taking money in many ways from people who have no money to start with. The climate in Fla. is such that you have to have air conditioning on in your home and car much of the time. I was shocked at the prices charged by the local electric utility. I checked on the Chicago Climate Exchange and sure enough TECO (Tampa Electric) was listed there. Time will tell what Rick Scott does in the future, but coming out firmly against the fraud of global warming is a start for the people of Florida.

and I will definitely vote for Scott in the general election. Sulking won’t help our cause, and there may not have been much difference in the way they both would govern anyway. So be it, the next two months will be exciting.

On another note, I have never felt more honored in the voting booth, than when I cast my vote for Col. Alan West.

http://www.practicalstate.com/?p=2106

Cheers

I suppose I voted for McCollum because I have a basic distrust of candidates for the highest offices like Scott without any political “farm team” experience. Blank slates lead to Obamas.

However, I can’t think of any position of Scott’s that I disagree with. I wish his platform was a Contract for America 2010 that every GOP candidate signed on to. No one can say that he’s backed off any conservative principles. When he was getting hit by the media (and McCollum) he doubled down.

Just maybe all that money he’s committed to this fray means he’s really serious about conservative principles. He doesn’t seem too worried about making friends with the political elites in a “let’s get along” way.

Maybe this guy is for real.

Tonight he was on Greta’s show on Fox (which I rarely watch) and she was interviewing Rove who made remarks that the Democrats now have a better chance to win with Scott as the Republican nominee instead of McCollum. I’m sure that the frothing-at-the-mouth lefties will have a field day with those remarks.

Does anyone here have a line to Rove to pass him a message – “hey Karl – we’re in this to win, and giving aid and comfort to the Democrats is not a good thing – and you, especially you Karl should know that.” The AP today wrote a big puff piece for the Dems talking about all the Republican ‘infighting’ helping Democrat chances, and Rove’s comments just feed that left wing baloney.

instead of voting on principle, is that you end up with someone who only cares about being re-electable and not principle. That is why we have so many squishy RINOs in office today. We must get back to basic principles and stand by them. We cannot continue to make immoral compromises with those who want to “fundamentally change this country”!!!
“Elections have consequences”, and if you lower your standards just to win elections, you end up with lower consequences. How much lower are you willing to let this country go???

I want to vote for the Republican rather than not vote. I am enthusiastic for Marco. But if you want to convince people to support Scott, words like “nonsense” and continued criticisms of McCollum are are heck of a way to do it.

Sink/Smith would be a disaster. Chiles has no chance and has few positions I support. But I need to hear a lot more from Scott – specifics and positive comments about fellow Republicans – before I can be supportive in any real manner. Many people feel the same way. We got burned by Charlie and Greer. I do not want to be burned again.

a Conservative!

Who saw that coming? *laugh*

…and MAYBE the reason McCollum didn’t have time to delight us with grand, text-book, party-line promises… and cool soundbytes, is because he was kinda busy trying to manage the state’s business, in the absence of our flaming flip-flop governor, who was off hunting sound bytes for his own campaign…

Let’s see… first McC was handling the massive ObamaCare lawsuit, coordinating with several states’ efforts…. and there was the Fla. teacher’s crisis – that actually jump-started Crist’s career… Oh yeah, then came the AZ law, which even AZ’s people rejected on 1st draft, because it wasn’t legally sound – maybe even at the advice of McC, a respected legal-eagle.

But Scott was busy too! His totally amazing team found they could pick out a line from McCollum’s first rejection and HOPE you didn’t notice that McC was then busy putting together a proposed law for Florida that WOULD hold up.

Guess McC should have just invested in some robust bragging ads, dumped his job duties, and regurgitated the partyline promises that Palin, Beck, et.al. scripted long ago, so he wouldn’t have had to rely on us doing our own homework re: the facts…

Rick Scott’s excellent team also realized how BADLY he did in the first debate, so in the 2nd he just upped his error-laced attacks (and what legal-eagle would not take that hook?), giving MSM a grand feast on Repub. dirt, casting the debate as a silly catfight.

How did Scott handle the scheduled 3rd debate? Well, er… he just didn’t show up…(?!!).., without even the courtesy to cancel, perhaps an admission he wasn’t so well versed in Florida’s politics, as in partyline patter. Oh! But he did manage to hire a slick team who knew how to script clever ads…. almost as qualifying as community organizing, don’t you think?! Let’s hope Scott has some cash left over for extra teleprompters while he learns.

And we should hope we’re lucky enough to find as good an AG as we just lost to a lazy electorate and committed MSM.

Florida finally has a chance to elect a Governor NOT beholden to the Lobbyists, “insiders” and “politics as usual” …like progressive McCollum, Crist and Jeb Bush. Scott will have his work cut out for him as Crist and the Legislature have basically bankrupted the state. The budget needs to be cut by at least 30% …as does the size of State Gov’t employees and their pay. Sink does not have the ability to confront doing such a radical task. GO SCOTT.

Rick Scott started his campaign with radio ads followed by TV ads talking about issues that people could relate to and what to do to fix them with a positive “can do” attitude. That built a base of support.

Rick Scott would not have had to spend so much money if Bill McCollum had not spent the first half of his campaign spreading lies, innuendos, and half-truths.

“The Florida First Initiative” that was only affiliated with one client (Bill McCollum) spread the worst of the lies, innuendos, and half-truths. By McCollum not repudiating their ads, he took ownership of them in the minds of many voters.

McCollum apparently never heard of Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment or he forgot it! On the bright side, that probably has inoculated Scott against many of the charges.

I’m at a loss to understand why anyone would vote for that dead fish McCollum. He’s been a product of the Florida and Tallahassee good ol’ boy back slapping sewer political system. Ask yourself exactly why the tool Bill Nelson resides in the Senate today? The answer is because when Nelson first ran way back when brother Jeb decreed that it was to be Billy’s turn at the Senate. The better man, Tom Gallagher, was told to sit that one out and wait his turn. And, as expected McCollum did what dead fish do and lost a winnable race. I have, since that day, had little patience with the RPOF, brother Jeb, and Billy. This election was to be a stroll to the general for Billy. The path, so the party elite thought, had been cleared for him. How much did the RPOF flush down the tube in an attempt to keep this Billys turn by destroying Scott, A Republican?

It is all so disgusting I want to puke. And, to top it off, they and posters here wish to throw daggers at Scott. It is the elites who hold the voters in utter contempt that are now in need of changing their drawers after the election returns. They are now the ones in real jeopardy. Scott is Not a product of that utterly corrupt RPOF system. If true to his word he will put those worthless slugs on the road and, hopefully, clean up and sanitize Talahassee. After Crist and co. it really needs it.