Rick Scott Ignores Fla. Early-Vote Mess to Stump With Romney in town where Travon Martin was shot

[MrScorpio]

Mitt Romney's final pre-election visit to Florida Monday morning included a surprise guest: the state's Republican governor Rick Scott. "Tomorrow night, Florida is going to go big for Mitt Romney, and it'll be a precursor to what happens in the country," Scott told the crowd in his warm-up moments before Romney took the stage.

You might expect a presidential candidate to stump with a friendly swing-state governor on the eve of a tight election. But Scott's no ordinary governor, as we've written before. The political novice and former health care executive, who pumped $70 million of his own money into his successful 2010 campaign, has alienated conservatives and progressives alike with a failed costly legal challenge to Obamacare, a failed attempt to charge welfare recipients for their pee, and threatened cuts to disabled care, liberal arts education, rape counseling, and tuberculosis treatment during "the worst outbreak in 20 years."

A mid-October PPP poll, taken at the height of Republicans' post-Denver debate bounce, found 37 percent of respondents approving of Rick Scott and 46 disapproving. Incredibly, that was a near-all-time high in popularity for Scott. When asked if they'd vote for him or a generic Democrat in the next election, the no-name Dem won, 45-43. Numbers like those have led PPP to call Scott "the most toxic of the raft of Tea Party governors."

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But Romney and Ryan's efforts to pull out all the stops Monday morning could potentially backfire. Romney's rally was held at the airport in Sanford, not far from where 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was killed last February—a tragedy that Scott bungled, and that brought national scrutiny to the state's draconian "stand your ground" deadly-force law. That law was sponsored by the same Republican legislator who helped shepherd Scott's bill to shorten voter-hours last year.

"We need every single vote in Florida," Romney told the Sanford crowd. "We can begin a better tomorrow, tomorrow." Scott's voting tactics may have assisted the ex-Massachusetts governor. But given the anti-Scott voter backlash in Florida, Romney may have just frittered away his advantage by standing with Scott in Sanford.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/11/rick-scott-ignoring-fl-early-vote-mess-shows-romney-rally

[Enrique]

1. "Stand your ground against Barack Obama"

sorry.

[ananda]

2. So low they could play limbo under a snake!

nt

[MynameisBlarney]

3. To call him scum

would be an insult to scum.

He is a criminal, POS, fascist enabling, vote suppressing uber-capitalist PIG-DOG!

And then there's Romney, who is even worse.