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$50 Million Buys Fake Grassroots Healthcare Profiteer A Chance for Governorship
Rick Scott is now the Republican candidate for governor of Florida. Have you read Rick Scott's Wikipedia entry recently? It's really amazingly off-putting! It's unfathomable that you could read it and think something like: "Yes! This man has my best interests at heart!" In any event, he spent $50 million and now the Republican party has to support him. Actually, according to his campaign, he won because of this: "We had a campaign of people who were tired of the traditional establishment. They are tired of the same old thing." But I guess they're not tired of billionaires who provide "Starbucks-style" medical care to the vast market of uninsured people while lobbying against healthcare reform.
Anymore, I feel like, real people, like they're just sort of in the way.
Mr. Scott – the billionaire Medicare cheat, courted the Tea Party against his opponent, "career politician" Bill McColluum, and won the primary last night. He dismissed the charges against him – that he is a billionaire, documented Medicare cheat – as "negative attack ads" insisting that we "get to work," all the while creating some of the most heinously misleading attack ads I've ever heard under a slew of patriotic-sounding PACs.
He proved once again that if you throw enough money at TV and radio buys and hammer home a message with relentless frequency – that message will eventually stick. But ya'll know how that works up there in the Big City with your moneybags mayor.
Scott goes up now against Alex Sink, who will be painted as a baby-killing, gay-loving, Obama worshiping Whore of Babylon – all while he smiles his movie-villain smile and pretends not to be involved in the negativity, touting his pro-life, family, "let's get to work" message.
Alex has been smart thus far to use her nickname instead of going with her given name of Adelaide. Perhaps enough misogynists will be fooled that she is a he and accidentally vote for her.
Rick Scott embodies everything that is wrong with American politics. He makes Satan proud.
appropriate, then, that he resembles nothing so much as a cackling death's-head.
He really, really does, doesn't he? It's positively eerie!
Ah yes, the founder of Conservatives for Patients' Rights. And by patients' "rights" he means the right to be forced into a life of bankruptcy and poverty if you get sick. This asshole will win in a landslide.
Your move South Carolina.
TPM doesn't think so: Now, after a brutal primary, the GOP has a nominee that not a whole lot of general election voters are fond of. The TPM Poll Average for the general election fight shows Democratic nominee Alex Sink leading Scott 34.7-27.8.
It will be nearly impossible for a self-funded candidate AND a Tea Partier to make himself palatable to moderate Republicans.
That's what I get for making a kneejerk statement without doing any research or due-dilligence. The Internet!
I haven't followed this race, and therefore this is pure speculation, but doesn't the fact that a moderate former-Republican will be running as an independent impact the results of this primary? By which I mean, did the moderates stay away and the crazier (for lack of a better word) folks turn out? Please answer this question, internets.
Yes – the crazies turned out – and throw in a little rain and you get a 12% turnout. Only the die-hardest showed up. McCollum even pandered to them at the last minute with a "tougher than Arizona's" immigration bill proposal. It was all about reaching out to the "disaffected by Obama-Pelosi-Reed" on the R side.
No, Crist is running for Senate, not re-election to Governor.
It is a horribly complicated thing, but we have Mel Martinez to thanks. If he didn't retire from the Senate, Alex Sink or really any non-horrible Dem just could have beat him for that seat and Charlie Crist still would've been the popular GOP Gov of Florida and we wouldn't have to deal with any of that Tea Party nonsense down here.
Sorry, coming from Canada and the UK, the phrase 'acquired a neighbouring hospital' seems utter madness to me, let alone following it with 'and shut it down'.