|
I am voting for Kendrick Meek for one reason and one reason only and that is because he has a (D) after his name. He has ran a lackluster campaign and has no chance of winning. Truth be told, he was the Democratic sacrificial lamb because most of the other Democrats who were interested in the race thought Charlie Crist was a shoo in.
Charlie Crist was a shoo in until he embraced President Obama and the stimulus. You can say this and you can say that about Charlie but he has always been great on race issues and never showed a hint of prejudice. Next to Arnold no Republican officeholder treated President Obama as deferentially as Charlie Crist. He's a lifetime member of the NAACP and removed the prohibition on felons who served their time from voting; a prohibition that fell disproportionately on African Americans. Without this prohibition George Bush would not have "won" Florida and the presidency. That's why Charlie was Teabagged.
African Americans in the state might like Meek but I assure you they don't dislike Charlie. African American Democratic Representative, Terry Fields, of Jacksonville called him Florida's "first black governor".
He's everything Marco Rubio isn't. Marco Rubio is a Latin Jim DeMint. We will all rue the day he was elected.
P.S. If I knew Rubio had 1,000, 000 votes, Crist had 1,000,000 votes and Meek had 600,000 votes I would be a fool to vote for Meek and I'm no fool.
|