Florida Just Can’t Seem to Shake Off Its Banana Republicanism
This is what Florida politics looks like.
My goodness, all this drawn-out brouhaha about how Florida Democrats did or didn’t really stick their feet in it this time by going along with the Republican-dominated legislature’s scheme to move up the state’s primary. But it’s just the latest episode in the ongoing saga of this state’s hapless Dems since they lost both executive and legislative branches back in the 1990s. The only reason there are any at all in office statewide now is because the Repubs pulled a howler of their own in ‘04 by saddling themselves with Katharine Harris running against Senator Bill Nelson; the Florida Secretary of State who helped pull off the Great Election Robbery of 2000 turned out to be such a ditzy disaster that by comparison Lil’ Bush comes across like Winston Churchill. But I digress. My point is that after observing local Democrats at close hand for years now, I must say the “circular firing squad” (as their Broward County chairman has put it) they formed over this past February’s notorious primary is — yawn — just par for the course when you know the context.
