Two Republican sources said today that even as former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio campaigns for retiring GOP Sen. Mel Martinez’s Senate seat, he has been calling around to top Republican donors and activists in the state to discuss the idea of switching from the Senate primary against GOP Gov. Charlie Crist and into the open-seat race for attorney general, where a serious Republican candidate has yet to emerge.
Rubio has issued a bunch of weird, jokey non-denials on Twitter. It would suck if he dropped out, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he started bailin’ like Palin.
UPDATE: Some more claims by various media outlets that Rubio is “denying” his interest in the AG spot, but the only thing his camp has said is that “Speaker Rubio is an active candidate for U.S. Senate” and “He is squarely focused on winning this campaign for Senate.” Those are not denials.
That would serious harm our chances at the Senate seat. We need Crist to have to move to the right and get his hands dirty.
Oh well, we are back to Crist not being a particularly bad guy. It certainly frees him to be his own man.
At least that would make the heads of the wingnuts at Redstate spin around and pop off — and that’s always fun to watch!
Even if this is true, and Crist ends up winning both his party’s nomination and the general election, Crist is an improvement over Martinez. Heck, Crist might join a small coalition of moderate GOP senators (probably could count on one hand) and help us out on some key votes.
I’m not disappointed with the Florida race. Sure, I’d like to have the GOP on defense, but their love affair with Crist will be worth some yucks at a later date.
i still say that if unemployment hits 12%+ in florida crist will take a hit.