The GOP is in deep shitnola in Fla ... too fing bad !!!

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(CNN) -- The Republican fratricide in the Nov. 3 special election in upstate New York may prove just an opening round of an even more spectacular bloodbath in Florida in 2010.

In New York, Republican feuding lost the party a seat in the House of Representatives. At stake in Florida is not only a senatorship -- but very possibly Republican hopes for 2012 as well.

The battle in Florida pits Gov. Charlie Crist against former Speaker of the Florida House Marco Rubio. Both men claim to be conservative, pro-life, tax cutters. On the issues, they would seem to agree far more than they disagree.

But on one issue they have disagreed passionately: President Obama's fiscal stimulus. Squeezed by his state's desperate fiscal condition, Crist endorsed and campaigned for the Obama stimulus. Inspired by his conservative ideology, Rubio opposed stimulus.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/11/16/frum.gop.florida.... /

I do agree with the article that these smaller races are a preview of what is coming for the Pubblies. IMO, they appear to have marginalized themselves to where the mainstream Pubbie is somewhere to the right of Mao.

Rubio is the darling of conservatives. He is giving the keynote at next year's annual CPAC conference. While the most vocal and most organized part of the Repuke Party may love him and are willing to cut out the middle of the road Pubbies, people like Rubio have little appeal, IMO, to those in the middle -- the Independents -- who are necessary for wins. And, most importantly, Rubio Pubbies do not have appeal across the board to those who usually vote Repuke.

JMHO