National GOP turns on Florida candidate

Politico ^ | March 7, 2014 | ALEX ISENSTADT

[Clintonfatigued]

Their frustration had been mounting for weeks. But by late January national Republicans had had it with David Jolly, their candidate in Tuesday’s nationally watched Florida congressional special election.

The candidate had just told the state’s top political reporter that he disagreed with an ad the party was airing against his Democratic opponent — a spot paid for with the nearly $500,000 the GOP had already spent on Jolly’s behalf.

“Are you f—-ing kidding me?” a senior National Republican Congressional Committee official told a Jolly staffer over the phone, according to two sources familiar with the conversation. Would the Jolly campaign prefer that the NRCC stop spending money in the race altogether? the official asked.

Over the past week, a half-dozen Washington Republicans have described Jolly’s campaign against Democrat Alex Sink as a Keystone Cops operation, marked by inept fundraising, top advisers stationed hundreds of miles away from the district in the state capital and the poor optics of a just-divorced, 41-year-old candidate accompanied on the campaign trail by a girlfriend 14 years his junior. The sources would speak only on condition of anonymity.

[justiceseeker93]

If bogus Dem ballots were in...they obviously were not enough to undo this Republican win.

Not this time. But it was pretty darn close. You have to be concerned with what might happen in November when, for example, there may be a rerun of this race, and the 'Rats could amp up their fraud and cheating efforts. Having early voting aids and abets the malefactors, giving them more time and more opportunities.

By and large female candidates are awful even the Republican ones.

Republican women candidates tend to be more physically attractive than their 'Rat counterparts, like Palin and Bachmann. But there are some mieskeits and RINOs in that bunch, too.

[Clintonfatigued]

Wow, the election results were amazing to me. Republicans choose a dud to be their nominee. He ran in a district that twice voted for Obama in a key special election. His opponent was better-known, better financed, and a better candidate. And he won anyway!

This election, first and foremost, is a rejection of Obamacare and the Democrat leadership in Congress. There’s no other way to read this. Most Democrats were confident of victory and many Republicans were privately resigned to defeat. It’s not possible that the Democrats can spin this as insignificant.