You know your candidate stinks when...

Interesting analysis from Peter Schorsch at SaintPetersblog on the Florida Senate race...

The latest twisted logic for Florida Democrats: Vote for Meek, so Greene doesn’t win, so Crist can beat Rubio | Saint Petersblog

I think I understand what Peter is saying here as a general concept, but what sticks out in my mind are two things:

1) Wow, the D candidates really stink, huh? How bad must you be when even those who you should be able to count on as your base are voting for you not in real support for your candidacy, but only as an attempt at damage control?   Sad. Just sad.

2) I'm prouder than ever to have endorsed and donated to Marco Rubio in June 2009. His message from the beginning has been that he's a conservative, he's running for the Republican nomination, and looks forward to facing the Democrat nominee in November. Nothing has changed.

Any Democrat who is voting for Crist is just as much of a sellout political opportunist as Charlie. I'm not voting for Kendrick Meek, but he seems like a nice enough guy and has certainly paid his dues to your party.

Money can't buy you class...or Facebook friends

Florida's 2010 election season is already shaping up as one of the most drama-filled in recent history.

Whether it's Charlie Crist managing to shift the state's political gossip-mongers from speculating whether his marriage was a sham (not that there's anything wrong with that) to speculating whether his Republican party registration was a sham, or Alan Grayson trying to have Angie Langley thrown in jail for daring to exercise her First Amendment rights just a few months after mailing all of us in District 8 a copy of the constitution, it's been one heckuva roller coaster ride, and there's still almost three months left before the primaries, and five months before the general elections.


Recently, we've seen two new candidates toss their hats - along with several million dollars of their personal wealth - into the ring: Rick Scott aka Voldemort aka Skeletor, and, most recently, Jeff Greene.

Well, as fans of the Real Housewives of New York City know, Money can't buy you class.

Apparently, money can't buy you Facebook friends either, at least in Jeff Greene's case anyway.  Despite having announced his candidacy over a month ago, a television ad campaign with estimated costs of $1.3 million per week, and repeated proclamations to the press that he's willing to spend "whatever it takes to compete" from his personal billions, Greene seems to be encountering serious difficulties making headway with actual voters.

Greene has a nice shiny website, Twitter account, Facebook fan page, and YouTube channel, but [sob!] the internets aren't showing him much love.  Rick Scott doesn't measure up very well either.  Here's the breakdown comparing Greene's online footprint to other candidates for statewide office (all numbers as of 6/1/2010):