Mar
9
Daniel Foster reports on the Corner about the latest poll showing Republican US Senate Candidate Marco Rubio leading Governor Crist by more than a 2:1 margin, 60-28. What’s worse for Crist is that dropping out of the Senate race to run for governor is not much of a viable option:
GOP voters say they’d prefer likely nominee Bill McCollum over Crist by a 49-35 margin. In fact Republicans generally just want Crist to go away- 56% say they’d like him out of office a year from now to 19% who’d like to see him continue as Governor and only 14% who want him in the Senate.
Crist’s biggest problem is that 56% of Republican primary voters disapprove of the job he’s doing as Governor to just 29% who approve. Any time that disapproval figure goes over 50% it means you have to actively change voters’ minds about you to have any success, and that’s a tall order.
It’s possible that Crist, had he never engaged in this quixotic pursuit of a Senate seat, would still be in big electoral trouble anyway. But he has severely burned his bridges with conservatives with his petty assaults on Rubio, and now he looks like a man who will be out of a job come January 2011. And to think this was a guy some considered to be a presidential candidate about a year ago.
Bye bye Charlie.
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Smooth, Senator Cornyn. Very smooth.
Heh. Speaking of Cornyn, this is him backtracking yesterday.
“So I think our posture here is I endorsed Gov. Crist early on, really before this became a real contest. I’m not going to do anything to change that. I think I’m honor-bound to leave it as it is, but it doesn’t mean that we’re going to be spending any money in the primary,” Cornyn added. “It doesn’t mean we’re going to be saying anything bad about Marco Rubio. To the contrary, I think Marco Rubio, if he wins the nomination, will beat Kendrick Meek (D).”
Wow, what a ringing endorsement indeed.
It’s a shame he was just re-elected. I’d like to see him go next. T e x a s deserves so much better. That being my native state, I have an interest.
Back to Crist/Rubio, I actually had the opportunity to listen to some Rush today, and he had this interview on audio. The governor’s attempt at humor with the back wax comment was a complete failure. He does simply need to go away.
The actual URL since my HTML skills are apparently lacking
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588545,00.html