Florida's Republican Ultras - Bulletin from the Dark Side

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http://counterpunch.com/farago11202009.html


The Wall Street Journal reports that the same Republican forces who attempted a putsch on a safe GOP seat in the NY 23 Congressional District against an incumbent deemed to be too moderate, Dede Scozzafava are now planning to turn to the US Senate primary race in Florida. Their plan: to purge Gov. Charlie Crist who is running in the GOP primary against Marco Rubio, a telegenic former House majority leader from Miami who is a stand-in for former Governor Jeb Bush. What are Gov. Crist's sins? Last February he stood with President Obama and supported the $787 billion federal stimulus plan. But what really is the nature of that sin?

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One; that he supported President Obama's stimulus package. It seems not to matter that the $787 billion fiscal stimulus plan sprung from a three-page document hastily drawn up by former US Treasury Secretary under President Bush, Henry Paulson, within hours of what experts believed was a near meltdown of the financial system. So, are the conservative Republicans who support Rubio/Jeb Bush repudiating President Bush, too?

The question needs to be answered by the radical wing of the GOP that is obsessed with purging moderates from within its midst: does the party also oppose the trillions of taxpayer dollars that have been thrown into the nation's banking system-- mainly benefiting Republican bankers skimming bonuses-- in order to maintain the illusion of capital ratios to prevent the federal government from having to shut them down? Do the conservatives also oppose the $8,000 tax credit for first time home buyers, that is propping up production homebuilders who are also, for the most part, Republicans?

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To block out Marco Rubio, Charlie Crist sold Florida down the river. Jeb Bush chased him there. Will this story emerge in the GOP primary for US Senate? It is a story that will need to be told if Congressman Kendrick Meek, the Democratic candidate for US Senate, will be competitive in November, 2010. When he was state representative, Meek and a colleague, state representative Tony Hill, sat in the dark in the anteroom of Governor Jeb Bush's office all night long, with the TV cameras rolling bad news of the fuming governor until Poppy told his son to turn the lights back on. So far, what passes for insight is being waged as a battle of conservatives, not unlike medieval monks arguing proofs of the number of angels who fit on the head of a pin.
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may they all fall down and never get up

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1. If the Republicans want to form a circular firing squad, who are WE to stop them?

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We'd much rather face off Meek against an unknown right wing wacko Rubio than against a well known, moderate, pragmatic and relatively well liked Crist any day of the week (especially on Tuesdays!).

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2. Amen!