The Trump-rejecting Florida Republican who has a plan to fix the GOP

Politico ^ | 28/4/21 | Sabrina Rodriguez

[BillyBoy]

>> Curiously, when he ran in 2017, he seemed to be the choice of both parties as he got 86%. <<

Shades of Earl Warren when he was Governor of California, a "bipartisan consensus builder" who had "widespread support across the political spectrum", he got the nominations of the GOP, RAT Party, and I believe the Progressive Party too. Some Prohibition Party candidate was the lone conservative alternative to Warren, and that poor guy got like 8%

[fieldmarshaldj]

I don’t think we knew for certain Warren would turn into an ultraleft subversive on SCOTUS judging just by his Gubernatorial record, unfortunately.

Then-Attorney General Earl Warren almost got the Dem nomination for Governor as well in 1942, losing to the incompetent Sinclairite leftist incumbent, Culbert Olson, by just 11% (52-41%) (conversely, Olson wasn’t officially a candidate on the GOP line, but got half-a-percent as a write-in). I noticed on OurCampaigns, I endorsed Fred Dyster as the Prohibitionist that year (and Henry R. Schmidt, the ‘46 opponent of Warren you referenced).

It was curious that when he ran for reelection in 1946 that he beat his Democrat successor as Attorney General, Robert Walker Kenny, in the Dem primary. Kenny had been considered an up-and-comer (and a former Republican) and expected to face off with him in the general. Instead, it ended his elective career (Kenny got 8% in the GOP primary), although 2 decades later Gov. Pat Brown put him on a lower court position. Apparently, Kenny was to the left of Warren and was like the Ramsey Clark of his era with ultra-leftist and Communist causes and helped found the notorious Soviet front group National Lawyers Guild (he also endorsed the Soviet dupe ex-VP Henry Wallace over Truman in the 1948 Dem primary for President). Kenny would be in the “mainstream” of the Stalinazi Demonrat Party today.