[Clemenza]

BILL MCCOLLUM IS AN INCOMPETANT MORON! He ran a sh-t campaign and kissed the a-s of the Gay lobby.

Kathering Harris or Charlie Crist would have been better Senators.

[BillyBoy]

I completely agree Bill McCollum ran a lousy Senate campaign (both times), but that does not excuse the fact that McCollum is a HERO from the Clinton impeachment and one of the few congressmen with a backbone who stood on principle (read the account of how he stood up to the Senators in David's Shipper's "Sellout").

In any case, McCollum hardly had the campaigning skills to pull off a victory, which is why I said I wished the party would have run anyone else but Martinez. Kathering Harris or Charlie Crist are good possiblities. Ideally, I would have LOVED to see the FL GOP slate Daniel Webster, you can't go wrong with a name like that. Unforunately he didn't run, so I was left with having to support Johnnie Byrd as the "default" alternative to Martinez.

At least Martinez is marginally better than his predecessor, but one more RINO in the Senate GOP delegation does not inspire much faith they will be able to pass a conservative agenda.