Charlie Crist has, I'm sorry, all the appeal of an insurance salesman: the shock of white hair combined with a too many visits to the tanning booth are the initial visual turnoff. But when he opens his mouth the nearly overt fence-sitter fails to convince me he has even a few deep convictions — he just seems overall shallow to me [again the nearly burnt perpetual tan suggests a fauxness].
Marco Rubio, powered by a true Florida story, speaks directly, focusing his stance on a least a half-dozen issues {refreshing}. While a darling of the tea partyists, he does not seem to pander to anyone splinter group; he considers himself the conservative candidate of the three. He at least seems genuine, even though I'd have issues with some of his issues.
But the race I watched the closest and was most pleased about was that of Miami congressman Kendrick Meek kicking sand in the face of billionaire Palm Beach real estate gambler Jeff Greene to win the Democratic nomination in the contest.
Having seen a few televised interviews with Meek you could just tell that he's a Florida man whose concerns about the state are bigger that his concerns about himself. {Although he has a few skeletons of his own}.
Meek is most definitely a man of the people whereas the carpet-bagging Greene [entering the Democratic challenge on the last day possible and who lost as a Republican a few years back in California] was clubbed at the polls after his bombardment of advertising. Maybe it was because he's only a 3-year resident of the state or that his greatest investment move was betting on the housing industry to tank. So his business acumen rests on making millions on the suffering of others. Didn't play too well in Florida.
But in any case, it's going to be interesting to watch Rubio and Meek [pictured] hammer home how one is a true conservative and the other a true liberal in the race, and how current Governor Crist will try to attach horns to his opponents claiming they are both extremists.
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