Posted on 10/21/2014 7:32:13 AM PDT by e-gadfly
Florida Gov. Rick Scott and former Gov. Charlie Crist face off for the third and final time Tuesday night in a debate hosted by CNN and Jacksonville affiliate WJXT.
The showdown comes just two weeks before Election Day and marks a final point in what's become the most expensive 2014 midterm race in the country, more than any House or Senate campaign....
1. Elephant in the room: While Crist appeared to break the rules in last week's debate by having a fan underneath his podium, Scott might have fared worse in the optics of the scuffle.
2. Will Scott try to add some personality?...
3. Look for the zinger. One easy way Scott could display some humor would be to go after Crist over fangate....
4. Expect Scott to link Crist to Obama. Scott's campaign released a new ad Monday that features Crist praising President Barack Obama....
5. The three numbers you'll hear (again and again). One of Scott's most frequent talking points is an attack against Crist for overseeing the loss of 832,000 jobs while he was governor from 2007 to 2011. Meanwhile, Scott will be sure to highlight the 640,000+ jobs created under his administration since then.... For his part, Crist will focus on the $1.3 billion in education cuts during Scott's first year as governor....
6. Libertarian appeal. According to CNN's poll last week, Libertarian candidate Adrian Wyllie pulled a significant share of the vote at 9%, enough to make a huge difference in a tied race....
7. Blue Dog Democrats. DeHaven-Smith added that neither candidate has done much to reach out to the rural, white Southern voters in the panhandle and central part of the state....
(Excerpt) Read more at wptv.com ...
I wouldn't advise playing that game. Acute alcohol poisoining is not something you want to mess with.
Scott’s latest radio ads are awesome..it’s just Charlie Crist yelling “ I LOVE BARACK OBAMA”
Watch one of President Obama’s speeches and play the drinking with “I” being used and a shot for each occasion.
Will there be another fan?
They will crank the AC down so that it will be close to 50 degrees.
The Wyllie has been excluded from this evenings Jacksonville debate as well.
OK, so Scott has been an effective governor and Crist was a complete failure in the job. BFD. What do the automatic Democrat double-dip voter scumbags from NooJoisey and NooYAwk care about that as they file their illegal absentee ballots, adding them to the glacially stupid union members from Michigan who are doing the same thing? Add their votes to those from the illegal Latinos, throw in the multiple vote scams from Trayvonland, with Morgan and Morgan securing the doper vote. Yeah, Rick could lose.
Just one more question, as Colombo used to say, "How come nobody in Florida ever says anything about fraud?"
OK, so Scott has been an effective governor and Crist was a complete failure in the job. BFD. What do the automatic Democrat double-dip voter scumbags from NooJoisey and NooYAwk care about that as they file their illegal absentee ballots, adding them to the glacially stupid union members from Michigan who are doing the same thing? Add their votes to those from the illegal Latinos, throw in the multiple vote scams from Trayvonland, with Morgan and Morgan securing the doper vote. Yeah, Rick could lose.
Just one more question, as Colombo used to say, "How come nobody in Florida ever says anything about fraud?"
Sorry Dude, Wiley may or may not be a great guy, but a vote for him is a vote for Crist.\\
Will y’all get to see Crispy’s orange tan get runny?
Crist doesn’t sweat - really. I think the fan is comforting for him...
That outlook ensures more of the same.
Hence the only two choices the empire promotes.
Please note, I do not blame those who vote "Libertarian." They vote, they tell us, "on principle." Apparently, they are not politically cynical enough to realize that they are not-so-subtly aided and abetted by the Democrats, who steer them about like the rubber ducky in Reggie Love's bath tub.
I do blame the Republican Establishment, who sold out long ago in exchange for safe seats and a share of the swag and really do not give a Shiite about who might win or lose a particular election, as long as they have enough seats at the table where the money is divided up.
Wylie will not win. He may well sink Scott, who, all things considered, is a very good and effective governor. In exchange, FL will get Crist back, who is an Obamanaut (now) and who in his last iteration as governor did harm to the states economy that Scott has worked quite effectively to straighten out. If Scott were able to use those wasted Wylie votes, he'd whip gay Charlie by at least 4-5 points.
Florida Fraud: Today Limbaugh (mirabile dictu) announced to all and sundry that he has been underestimating the effect of fraud on elections nationwide. Case in point: Florida suffers from Double-Dip Voters, i.e., those registered in two or more states and voting by absentee. There is systemic fraud in the heavily black gerrymandered districts (witness the theft of West's Congressional seat), the votes of illegal alien Haitians, Mexicans, Central Americans, etc. As if these were not enough, the fraud-upon-fraud effect multiplies this vote, to which are added all sorts of old-fashioned and new-fashioned shenanigans with false ballots and jiggered machines.
All gay Charlie needs, if he doesn't sneak in, is Wylie's help to get close. Then you'll see some fraud.
All this is beside the point, because up until now, the Republicans have not actively and effectively contested fraud. Maybe Limbaugh sudden fraud awakening can have some effect on that. Perhaps the crass and terrible logic of the buggered two-party system will penetrate the zealous self-righteousness (and self-destructiveness) that infects "Libertarians" and they'll do the right thing.
Then again, my neighbor's pet pig may master the Immelman.
Crist has deluged the cyberspace and I presume the airwaves with a very slick ad about Scott's "Billion-dollar cuts to education, after Scott promised not to harm the children ... now look. What a frickin' liar," says Charlie Crist. He is good on camera. Scott? Not so good.
Content and the astounding frequency of this ad, annoying as it may be, lead me to believe that Crist has a mighty end-of-campaign salvo of ads coming up and has saved up the good negative ammo for the last when it cannot be refuted.
Between some very slick campaigning, Mr. Wylie, outrageous FL media bias, and the ever-present Flaud (Florida vote fraud), I fear Gay Charlie may be about to slip it to us again.
Let's turn'em out on election day! Let's get'em off the couch.
I haven’t seen any Crist ads on line. He must be targeting people visiting stupid web sites. I see Scott ads about Crist running away and saying “I love Barack Obama.”
Entirely possible. However, in my addictive case, Crist has been absolutely blanketing (and ruining) Youtube BBC offerings. There is also the possibility that Team Crist is using sophisticated ZIP and list controls.
I am FL West Coast, in a safe Republican Congressional District, but with a shrinking margin of safety and an ineffectual "legacy" incumbent who probably does visit stupid web sites. God knows he is impervious to e-mail and cannot make a coherent speech.
Scott hammering the "Obama Connection" might work well in this district, but in other counties, in which Obama is a demi-god, that approach might well boomerang. After all FL is represented by Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, among other real jerks; an idiot to us; a goddess to those who have sent her to Congress.
Though I am impressed with Scott's tenure and admire the job he has done as Governor, I ain't impressed with his campaign. I also remain critical of the unpreparedness of the FL AG to deal with vote fraud. Not a peep out of he on the subject yet.
And thanks. I do promise to stay off stupid web sites.
Fla AG Pam Bondi?
What's the Fraud Mitigation Plan?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.