No, i voted for Martinez simply to keep Betty Castor from geting the job.
You may recall that Castor was the former president of the University of South Florida who refused to fire Sami Al Arien the head fund raiser of many islamist terrorist groups.
She would have been even worse than Mel in my opinion.
Still believe that to be true.
Course you can make any accusation you care to. pal.
Ex-college university president who's never been elected to a high ranking political office before, running statewide as a Democrat in a strongly Republican state. Yep, no doubt that's a top tier unstoppable Democrat foe. The U.S. Senate is just choke full of them college university presidents elected in states controlled by the other party.
Yeah, Mel Martinez and his whooping 49-48% victory sure showed her. There's no way in hell the sitting Speaker of the Florida House, a well known U.S. Congressman (who later went on to hold statewide office as A.G. in a huge year for the Dems), the Chairman of the renowed Judicial Watch, etc., had any chance of beating a fearsome college president. A medoicre trial lawyer with zero accomplishments under his belt during his appointed tenure as Dubya's housing secretary was the only way to go if he wanted to "win" against the Castro machine and her fearsome track record of one term as a Hillsborough County Commissioner years ago.
Sure, your argument makes perfect sense.