Well, well, well.
Just when I'm about ready to erase the Jeb Bush photos from the Frog forever, Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) decides "there's no place like home" and starts planning his retirement from the Senate in 2010.
And guess who's back in the picture?
Mr. 666 himself.
John Ellis Bush--the governor quite responsible for the hellhole Florida has become--is considering a run for the Senate seat vacated by Martinez.
Per Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic:
"He is receiving a lot of encouragement from both in and out of the state," an longtime Bush adviser said tonight. "He is going to take his time and approach this very methodically." Bush will weigh, according to this adviser, how a run would impact his family, his business, and whether the Senate would be the best platform for the causes he'd advocate -- education, immigration, GOP solutions to health care and energy."
Not so fast, Jebbie.
"Gov. Charlie Crist, with whom Bush has not had the warmest of relations, is said to be interested in moving to the Senate. Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is weighing a bid, as is former state House Speaker Marco Rubio, Orange County executive Richard Crotty, and U.S. Rep. Connie Mack."
Bill McCollum--Florida's horse-toothed jackass AG--will certainly run on the Protect the Children vote. Rubio doesn't translate well beyond his neck of the woods. The Senate is in Mack's blood, so he likely feels he deserves it. Crotty--don't know much about him--but what I do know is this.
Charlie Crist restored the rights of felons to vote. Governor, I'd get busy expediting that process and driving it home as Mr. Bush and many of the above are quite responsible for the dire straits of many Florida families segregated by barbed wire lawmaking.
If anyone is looking like a Messiah for the Republican party, it's the Crist kneecapping the Bush.
Call me a Frog a conspiracy freak, but I'm pondering who got to Martinez in order to set up Jeb for a Senate race? Who sat around whose kitchen table and said, "That Mel. He'll fall on the sword for Jeb." Because you know the GOP wants to set John Ellis up for a 2012 stab at the Rep nomination for Prez.
As far as our shining blue Democratic side?
Although Wasserman Schultz could take the wind out of a Bush Senate run, I'm proclaiming, Bring on the Sink.
"Alex Sink, Florida's chief financial officer, has said she'll run for re-election in 2010 but might change her mind in the wake of Martinez's announcement."
You. Go. Girl.
