I’ve mentioned two weeks ago my dismay aboot that National Republican Senate Committee deciding to endorse Charlie Crist over Marco Rubio well over A YEAR before the Florida Republican primary. This may surprise you, but I’m far from the only eCon who is upset by this…with cats like Eric Erickson and Robert Stacy McCain leading the charge. Apparently people disagree with the NRSC actively working against the type of candidate everyone agrees the GOP needs. Go figure.
The sad thing is the more you read aboot Marco Rubio the more you realize what a great candidate he would be and the stronger the desire is to kick NRSC Chair John Cornyn square in the nuts. Case in point: 100 Ideas. When Rubio was the Florida Speaker of the House, he travelled across the state holding what he called “Idea-raisers,” town hall meetings where the people of Florida got to express what their concerns were and what they wanted out of their government. He collected the top 100 into a book called “100 Innovative Ideas for Florida’s Future.”
Have you heard the media claim the GOP is bereft of ideas? Do you sometimes feel yourself agreeing with them, especially when the NRSC endorses a candidate who says he’ll be “just like Arlen Specter?” Marco Rubio, with the help of the people of Florida, has at least 100 of them, as was highlighted recently on Slate.com…
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