It’s really no surprise that Florida’s loud mouthed Rep. Alan Grayson has produced what’s become the most talked about attack ad of the season. In a 30-second spot that began airing in Grayson’s Orlando-area district last week, the first term Democrat compares Republican opponent Dan Webster to religious fundamentalists like…
The sunshine state is set to gain two spots in Congress, according to a study of new census data released this weekend. While undoubtedly good news for Florida, Riptide is left to wonder: Who will fill the pair of seats?Our vote goes to the two men most responsible for Florida’s…
State Sen. Alex Villalobos, the former Republican majority leader of the Senate, has looked at the top of the Republican ticket in Florida this year and he doesn’t like what he sees. He’s already endorsed independent Charlie Crist in the Senate race and democrat Dan Gelber in the Attorney General…
After months of speculation, Jeff Zucker has involuntarily resigned as head of NBC Universal. The Homestead native and graduate of North Miami Senior High who did time as a freelancer for The Herald, was largely believed to have “failed upward” into his role President and CEO of NBC Universal. His…
How desperate are backers of Charlie Crist’s independent Senate campaign? Apparently desperate enough to send a flyer to Republican voters picturing Republican Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, juxtaposed next to an image of Che Guevara while claiming the conservative former state House speaker “voted like a liberal” on…
New poll numbers released by Mason-Dixon today continue to be encouraging for Democratic governor nominee Alex Sink. She holds a seven-point lead over Rick Scott. While the pollsters warn that a Sink victory is far from guaranteed, think don’t look so good for Scott. Nearly half of likely-voters don’t like…
Marco Rubio talks a lot about fiscal responsibility and his ideas to save the economy. He also talks a lot about the national debt and ways to balance the budget. So you’d think the guy would have his own finances in order. Not true. Today, The Wall Street Journal singles…
Despite winning the Republican nomination to run for Governor, Floridians may not know that much about the early life of Rick Scott, the self-funded Naples billionaire with a shady business past. Despite rumors to the contrary, he apparently is not Lord Voldermort. Nor did he run in Minnesota’s 2008 senate…
Conventional wisdom says that the 2010 midterm elections are supposed to be tough for Democrats. There’s already some conservative pundits who think that Republicans taking over the house is a done deal. Of course, national conventional political wisdom doesn’t always translate to Miami-Dade, and a new poll shows that Democrat…
Standing before a row of undocumented Miami-Dade College students downtown this morning, Senate hopeful Kendrick Meek urged Congress to pass a long-debated bill that would give college graduates and military members a quick path to full citizenship. Democrats plan to attach the DREAM Act to a defense bill this week,…
Sarah Palin, the world’s foremost political performance artist, has announced a Miami Date for her 2010 Tea Baggin’ ‘Round the Map American Tour! Yes, the pit bull in lipstick will be unleashed October 6 at the American Airlines Arena at the behest of a local Tea Party group. That’s just…
Inside the haute Doral Golf Resort & Spa, Ron Martin’s huge vinyl sign leaps out from the clutter in the Taking America Back conference exhibitors’ hall.Past slick booths selling Ron Paul-approved gold bars and offering “patriot coaching” — a two-day boot camp teaching the fine art of “turning the tables…
Do you love arguing about the liberal socialist agenda to destroy America but wish you could quote the Constitution in a more nautical setting? Do you love cruising the Caribbean, but think constantly about how much more you would love it if you could share those golden sunsets with Tea…
Following his stops at Gloria Estefan’s house and a fundraiser at the swanky Fontainebleau President Obama is coming back to Miami for the the third time this year for yet another cash grab. Miami Heat legend Alonzo Mourning will host the even at this house on October 11…
If your daily commute takes you through Doral — and may god have mercy upon your soul for that — you may notice some unusual sights around the exclusive Doral Golf and Spa Resort this morning: grown men dressed in colonial-era britches; hastily drawn signs equating Obama to socialism; Michele…
Riptide’s favorite hometown SNL star turned wacko tea party songstress, Victoria Jackson, is back writing columns for Andrew Brietbart’s Big Hollywood. She’s decided Sarah Palin is “the perfect feminist.” Unfortunately she doesn’t seem to have much of a grasp on what feminism actually is, and take swipes at single mothers…
Miami’s large, GOP-leaning Cuban-American population is an important vote for Republicans running for statewide election, so it doesn’t bode well for gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott that he has picked up few endorsements from the area. Despite the fact that Miami-Dade politics are nonpartisan, newly elected school board member Raquel Regalado,…
A little more than a year ago, former Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer made headlines by condemning President Barack Obama’s address to the nation’s schoolchildren on their first day of school as a “use of taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s children to his socialist agenda.” Greer, at the…
Sure, there are pressing issues out there like health care, the economy and wars, but going by America’s ever growing obesity rate, the most important issue in all of America continues to be French fries. With the exception of the 2003 “freedom fries” controversy, politicians hardly address the issue that…
Yesterday we noted Alex Sink’s tricky new TV ad that put distance between her campaign and President Obama. Today on MSNBC, she explicitly sided with Republicans against Obama on the issue of permanently extending all of the “Bush Tax Cuts.” She claims they help small businesses, but the fact remains…
CNN and Time magazine just released the latest poll in both Florida’s Gubernatorial and Senate races. While the poll conducted by Opinion Research shows Democratic Alex Sink with a surprising and comfortable seven point lead over Republican Governor candidate Rick Scott, the poll still shows Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist in a…
Anyone out there confusing Alex Sink, the white lady with the slight Southern twang who’s running for governor of Florida, with Barack Obama, the African-American man with a powerful speaking voice who’s running the country? Apparently Sink is worried that her opponent, Rick Scott, might be confused that the two…
