Florida ping
When the article says “Don’t capitulate”, the writer is talking to the GOP establishment who apprently does not give a damn if they win or lose.
Who could have reported to us abot the incompetence of the Republican election machine. On another thread a commenter said,
‘I think the real damning thing about the GOP{ GOTV is the incompetence....they had people by the thousands at malls, outside movie theaters, along strip malls, college campuses, parks, etc. not just in swing states but very targeted swing counties registering people to vote and persuading them with whatever liberal BS they ad in their GOTV manuals...on top of that they had massive databases of people in specific neighborhoods and countis that had never voted before, they didn’t just reinforce their base and try to persuade independnets, they CREATED new voters by comparing registration rolls to other databases of eligible but non-registered citizens, gettingthem on the phpone or knocking at their door...”
who was reporting on this? Who could have told us that Romney’s get-out-the-vote machine was almost non-existant? THIS was the true unreported story of the campaign, not that “America has changed” or “the demographics are different now” yada yada yada.
the lazy bastards, the lazy, cincompetent GOP establishment bastards.
So not urging the GOP to “not capitulate” is pointless, just pointless. They are going to capitulate all over the place.
The Dems had hundreds of thousands of passionate, energetic workers. We had NOTHING to compare to that and the GOP never even tried and it was not reported. I repeated, we knew nothing of this limp-wristed, incompetent campaign.
Scott is one of the good guys!
He unfortunately doesn’t have the sort of warm and fuzzy personality that would make him a voter magnet, but I think he’s doing extremely well in Florida (like Jeb Bush, who was an excellent and strict governor but had a much warmer personality) and whether people think he’s warm and fuzzy or not, they’ll like what he’s doing and vote for him.
Also, I saw in my local (hostile) paper today that Scott is starting a “family initiative” of some kind that I think will make it clear that he is not just a rich exec who has become governor, but cares about his state.
The teachers’ union hates him, but he has pretty much subdued them...and schools are getting more money for the right things now (academics) than in the past under the horrible and union-friendly Charlie Crist.
Gov Scott is very similar to Gov Walker.
Rick Scott plays a very good tune and has been since he was inaugurated, Rick Scott in 2016, screw RINO Christie.