Many Americans love right wing conservatism in theory, but not so much in practice. As long as it is other people suffering, it is fine. But when the pain hits home and affects their own families, people are not so enthusiastic about draconian, mean-spirited budget cuts.
This reality is affecting the poll numbers of Florida’s ideologue Gov. Rick Scott. A May Quinnipiac University poll put Scott’s approval rating at a dismal 29 percent. His negative rating has rocketed from 22 percent in February to 57 percent in May.
The extremist governor’s unpopularity is worrying Republicans who think it might drag the party down in 2012 and hand this important swing state to Obama.
Unless his personality improves and his politics change, Rick Scott seems like a one-termer.
A recall referendum could make him a lot like Sarah Palin, half termed too.
Not surprising. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Scott Walker of Wisconsin aren’t exactly winning Miss Congeniality prizes either. But don’t ask me to have sympathy for any of the idiots who voted for these thugs and bullies. I lived in New Jersey long enough to know that the average voter in that state, if the incumbent is disappointing (which Corzine to a certain extent was), will close his/her eyes and blindly vote for the opposition without knowing a thing about the candidate. The same thing happened with Christine Todd Whitman a number of years ago.
And let’s not forget the Progressives who sat at home on their asses last November “in protest” to “teach Obama a lesson” because the President (who wasn’t even running for anything) had not delivered all their toys on time. If they are in a mess now, and did not vote last November, they have no right in my mind to b***h about it.
Scott,
Some of us voted our consciences and voted for the candidates who supported us. In my state of Maryland our governor O’Malley said he would sign a marriage bill if it made it to his desk but he was really for civil unions. When the marriage debate came up unlike Gov. Cuomo he sat on the sidelines and the bill that people thought was going to pass failed. Why would I give my vote to someone like this when I could vote for the Green Party candidate who promised if elected to fight for my rights.
Didn’t the Green Party bring us the wonderful presidency of George W. Bush?
Thanks!
Tim W, in answer of your question, because the Green candidate has no chance of winning, and this is not a parlimentary system.
O’Malley was a schmuck. A republican who is a full fledged a*****e and OPPONANT of gay rights is a step up in what way?
Also, the candidates the Green Party puts up on the presidential level are a laugh a minute.
I remember when Cynthia McKinney went on Democracy Now last election, a show which is definitely so far left it’s off the deep end, and even there she looked like a moron.
Yes, Cynthia McKinney is awful.
Cynthia is my former rep, I cannot STAND the lady!She was impossible to work with (I was a get out the vote organizer). Even in my district (and yes, its in Georgia), and it is a district that now has an African American Buddhist as its rep, no ethnic majority, and one of the highest concentrations of lesbian couples (and a ton of gay men) in the nation, and a ton of counter cultural types (I recently walked into, purely by accident, a “young communists group” in a local coffee house, with about 50 people attending), Cynthia, towards the end of her term, was seen as a demented “way too out there” dingbat. She is at best a buffoon who we all wondered “why did I vote for her?”. Now, she has found her home in the Green Party, and seems to enjoy tilting at her windmills. The fact that the Green Party would TAKE HER say sooo much about the party.
She is good for humor though! And we southerners DO so love dark Gothic humor. ;)
OMG! Rick Scott looks like Bat Boy with his ears cropped.
@ Scott- I’ve lived in NJ for most of my life and totally agree with you! When Christie was running, everyone was complaining about their state taxes and i told them, if you vote for him, he’ll cut your taxes and then the municipalities will have to raise them to make up for the shortfall and that’s exactly what happened. Our municipal taxes went through the roof and we even had services cut, like trash pick up once a week instead of twice. And yes, Christie’s popularity is in the toilet–he just succeeded in virtually destroying state unions and now the average family with a member who works in the public services sector will have to cough up an extra $6000 a year to make up for the benefits cut–retirees will have NO cost of living increase for the next 30 years, which means for them, until death. Of course the very rich got a tax break. Any poor or middle class person who votes republican is getting what they asked for, but now the rest of us are being dragged down with them.
I have to say when I watch Scott talk and listen to his knee-jerk, nasty approach to gay issues, consider that he has been married for something like forty years and has no kids, and , when speaking off the cuff is about the most effeminate sounding politician I can think of I am not going to be one bit surprised if he’s the next republican windbag to be caught in a gay tryst.