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"With Bush as governor and all the changes to your school system, it's clear that Florida is at the forefront of the conservative movement," said self-described liberal Rob Levine, who maintains a Minnesota-based Web site, mediatransparency.org, to track conservative organizations.

Gov. Bush doesn't see any wide-ranging plot. He has long argued that Floridians are rejecting liberalism of their own accord because it's a failed political philosophy.

I think both of the above speakers are correct, in that FL has in fact become more conservative, but the true reason for that is the reason cited by Gov Bush.

We just had an election down here in the 2002 FL gov race, and FL voters could have tossed Gov Bush out of office if they wanted to - but they didn't.

Bush helped the effort, having stumped for Republican candidates. He also penned a book about the "cultural decline" of Florida, started up a conservative foundation of his own and joined Richard Scaife on the board of trustees of the Heritage Foundation.

I'd like to know what book the reporter is referring to here in the above sentence, since the book Gov Bush co-wrote did not focus on "decline," and was instead upbeat and celebrated people. It is available on amazon and is titled Profiles in Character

All of which is proof that the foundation is committed to advancing its mission of helping animals as well as people, according to Chairwoman Jennie K. Scaife, the daughter of Richard Scaife. She scoffs at the suggestion that she's a point-person for a national conservative movement, or even her father's agenda.

"You gotta laugh," she said. "It's ridiculous. My father has nothing to do with this."

No, Jennie, you gotta cry: what EXACTLY would be the BFD is dad WERE trying to do conservatives' work through his organization? Don't be on the defensive: ask these commie-symp-liberal-pantywaists to tell you PRECISELY what is wrong with politically active people attempting to sway others to the right side of the aisle? The only ones who should enjoy freedom of speech are those with left-wing views? Ask them what their point is? DO NOT be intimidated by these whiny losers.

The nationwide family-values push wasn't enough to get Jeb Bush elected Florida's governor in 1994.

This is a blatant lie. JEB would have won in '94 except that at the last minute the Democratic/Socialist party had hordes of their useful idiots making phone calls to the elderly Florida residents saying JEB was getting ready to cut their social security payments and scared them into voting for Childs.

I can see it now in the Florida newspapers:

"FLORIDIAN LIBERALS SEEK REFUGEE STATUS IN CUBA"
SAY THEY ARE BEING "PUSHED OUT" BY CONSERVATIVES
by Di N. Day

Coast Guard authorities are having a tough time keeping the throngs of people from departing Florida's shores via wooden ships, lifeboats, rafts, inner tubes and various other modes of transportation. One officer points out a tired and wet liberal womyn drifting out to sea, the only thing keeping her afloat the empty bottle of Evian water she hopes will take her to a country that is more accomodating to her beliefs. Before taking to the brilliant blue waters of the Atlantic, she cried out to her fellow travelers preparing to follow, "It's the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy that's at fault! Thank goddess for Castro!"

We look through the telescope aboard the Coast Guard's ship and see she is wearing only a Dixie Chicks T-shirt, hoping its light weight will allow her to keep her backpack on and prevent her from sinking to the depths that all liberals are likely to descend. We heighten the magnification of the 'scope to see a signed copy of Living History and yesterday's New York Times sticking out of the backpack. The colorful stickers, "No War for Oil" and "Bush is Hitler" have become saturated and are peeling off, and it looks like the 8:30 tonight, my place in Georgetown, Hillary Rodham Clinton signature is getting a soaking from the salty spray. One hopes the rolled-up New York Times will still be able to serve its purpose as fish wrap when she reaches Havana.

This womyn is only one of the hordes of leftists swimming with mad intensity, gulping for air and getting serious stomach cramps as they struggle in the ocean like flotsam in the wake of a garbage barge on a New Jersey shore. "It's something we'll need to take care of eventually," says the Coast Guard officer, "but we're awfully busy with the traffic coming the other way. We wish them well in their pursuit of their goal of "Freedom through Communism" but we're certain none of them will make it."