Today's St Pete Times has a front page article about Marco Rubio raising more than one million dollars for his US Senate campaign which forced me to think maybe I should switch parties for the 2010 primary election. Then I could vote for Rubio against Charlie Crist--thinking that the far right Rubio would be such a contrast to Kendrick Meek, that Meek could win the middle (where elections are won or lost most of the time anyway).

Yet, then it dawned on me, that Rubio could actually win the election (as Floridians refuse to vote for a black man for US Senate in 2010 as they refused to vote in 1968 for a white man--LeRoy Collins who just happened to walk alongside a black man--MLK at Selma, Alabama representing the President--LBJ in negotiating "peace" terms for blacks and police officers in the South). So, would Rubio be worse than Crist--absolutely, at least for Democrats and probably for Floridians.


Now, I know that many Republicans don't seem to really like Crist much these days--and who's to blame them. He is certainly Mr. Wishy-Washy! -- He runs for a political office just to get ready to run for the next political office--certainly not to actual "govern." But, if you check into what Rubio is saying, we might as well go backwards to the McCarthy years.

Bottom line, I think that Rubio would be such a contrast to Meek that it would be a clear choice for anyone to vote; but I also know how few voters get out to vote in the non-Presidential election years, even with a governor's race on the ballot.


Oh well, I guess I need to save up my pennies and get out my walking shoes and start to really hit the pavement for Kendrick Meek--I wonder, could this election be the Lawton Chiles campaign in 1970--a new face for Florida that took our state out of the old confederacy into the New South?