if we ask for a little background / evidence that supports the claim that McCollum will endorse Sink.

There was that unfortunate business concerning scurrilous claims about Mike Castle based on nothing in particular, remember. McCollum is a conservative, and he deserves certain leeway.

I voted for McCollum because I think Scott is a crook. Though I also flirted with the idea of voting for the “none of the above” candidate Col. McWhatshisface with all the sleaze that what going on in this campaign. I think we just like to make a big mess of things in Florida.

That goes back to his days in Congress. He’s struck me as one of the most statist republicans I’ve ever seen, along with Orrin Hatch.

I’m really not surprised by this.

Bill M. needs to be quiet about such things. Endorse Scott or do nothing. But endorsing Sink or Chiles is not acceptable. He should take a few days and do what he must. This is not easy for me and I’m just a voter . . . but except in rare and extraordinary circumstances, we do not jump ship.

watch the Florida campaign up close. I do know that the Gov primary here in TN got very nasty. Oh it was silly the back and forth negative ads. I can only imagine Florida was like.

I just hate the negative nature the primary campaigns this year. I know Scott had a positive platform too but apparently he also attacked McCollum

I suspect McCollum will come around to endorse Scott. Perhaps even before Didier endorses Rossi. VanderPlatt waited nearly a month before endorsing Branstad. Sometimes it takes a while to heal wounds.

I used to be a huge supporter of McCollum. As a single-issue voter (gun control), I couldn’t find a better protector and champion of the Second Ammendment than Bill McCollum. But he failed to recognize the electorate is in a transition away from blindly following the guidance of a party’s leaders, and are moving towards more self-determination based on doing their own research and discussing opinions with other voters.

McCollum acted like his record of being a conservative and Republican entitled him to his turn at the Big Chair, and that view isn’t going to win nowadays. Voters want to hear why they should vote for you, not why they shouldn’t vote for your opponent. Scott gave reasons to vote for Scott, while McCollum gave nothing but reasons not to vote for Scott. If McCollum had run a campaign based on lowering taxes, protecting and defending our rights, and increasing employment in FL, he would have won.

And this latest action of his is just going to sink his political fortunes even lower. McCollum lost largely because he felt he was entitled to the job and expected voters to vote for him without giving them any reasons to do so. He lost the election despite having the endorsement of just about every member of the Republican Old Guard here in FL, and now he wants to prop-up his profile by holding himself out as a king maker with the Old Guard who just went down with him. It’s a sad day indeed!

In 2004, McCollum lost to Mel Martinez in the FL Senate primary. He claimed that Martinez unfairly labeled as a RINO. Plenty of McCollum supporters were slow to get behind Martinez.

If their personal sour grapes can trump their party loyalty then they are nothing but whores anyway.

Oh yeah, now I remember: http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/06/16/an-inconvenient-truth-bob-bennett-and-tim-bridgewater-together/

Bitter, self-absorbed losers.

I am disappointed in Mr. McCollum. It is one thing to have concerns about Rick Scott. Hash it out in private and sit it out if they go unresolved. Otherwise let Rick Scott make his case without the sour grapes.

nastier now? I have been shocked by how nasty the GOP primaries have been this year. I think of CA-TX-KY-TN-CO-AL-GA-FL statewide races. Have I left any out. Oh yes KS senate was nasty plus Iowa Gov. I forgot Nevada senate and Mercy the South Carolina GOP govenor primary.

Whatever happened to just running on your own views and without tearing down your foe?

I have raised this point several times here and I get the arguement back “politics is a contact sport and it always has been”. Not always and not in every state.

The senate race-on the GOP side at least-in AR was a polite affair.

I might add that sore losers in primaries range from Didier in WA to Vader Platt in Iowa to McCollum in FL. Its not an ideological issue so much as personal.

Is Rick Scott the ideal candidate? No. His Columbia tenure makes it clear that there is something amiss with him. On the other hand, what is the alternative? If it shows nothing else, Scott’s win shows the power of money – lot’s of money. He is a poor candidate, with no track record on which to base an opinion, but lots of the green. The next multi-millionaire might be a Jon Corzine… Is it time for campaign finance reform? Anyhow Floridians, hold your nose(s) and vote for him.

I wish I could say I am surprised.

when he was in the House, and hoped he would win the Senate seat in 2004.

He does seem to suffer from that sense of entitlement which spending too much time sucking at the public teat, I mean serving the public in elective office, always seems to bring as a side effect.

He should endorse quietly, and go away if he can’t support enthusiastically (and that’s understandable, it was a vicious race). He could preserve some dignity that way, and perhaps even remain viable for some future office.

Those who have to be dragged out kicking and screaming are never invited back.

Since when does the Republican candidate abide by this? The only times I have seen it enforced is when someone the party wants in office is attacked. Attacks on other Republicans, besides the inside group, go ignored.