Bud Day is an 85-year-old retired U.S. Air Force Colonel who keeps poking his nose into Florida and national political controversy. You might remember those classy “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” from the 2004 election that questioned John Kerry’s service and patriotism, even though opponent George W. Bush notoriously stayed…
Our old friend, Miami native and Saturday Night Live alum Victoria Jackson, was on the Fox News show Fox & Friends today. She’s as crazy as ever, or as Gawker put it: “just a touch too crazy for Fox.”She was plugging her appearance with Sarah Palin (“my hero”) this weekend…
Fidel Castro took some time out of his busy schedule of not dying to pen a piece for a state newspaper that said President Obama and the Democrat’s recent passage of health care reform is a “miracle.” Well, the Republican Party of Florida took time out of their busy schedule of…
Charlie Crist has been hemming and hawing about Marco Rubio’s “questionable” spending on the Republican Party of Florida’s American Express cards, saying stupid things about back waxes and “true conservatives.” So naturally, campaign finance reports show that Crist’s campaign also charged money on RPOF cards, according to The Herald/Times…
Yesterday we showed you Charlie Crist’s first television ad for his floundering bid for the US senate. It’s an attack ad against his tea bagging superstar Republican rival Marco Rubio. Well, now Rubio has produced two ads of his own, and his campaign plans to buy up the 15 seconds before…
Charlie Crist keeps free-falling in the Republican Senate primary, but he’s not going down without a fight. He has a sizable war chest, and the campaign’s first attack ad against Marco Rubio is set to air with a “sizable buy” of air time. If you can’t wait to see it…
Corey Poitier, the lone Republican in the race to replace Congressman Kendrick Meek in District 17, has a message for President Barack Obama: “Listen up, Buckwheat.” Poitier, a teacher at North Miami Beach Senior High who is also African-American, made the comments at a Broward County Republicans meeting while giving…
As the former president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, ex-mayor of Miami Manny Diaz was able to squeeze himself into national issues in a way few of his predecessors did. Now that he’s out of office, he’s taken on the role of vice chairman of the Alliance for Digital…
A bill that defines sexting as its own distinct crime is gliding through the Florida House. While the bill would shield horny teens from harsher child pornography laws, repeat offenders could wind up in jail for up to five years. The bill defines sexting as the use of “a computer or…
Marco Rubio’s stunning gains against Charlie Crist in the Republican Senate primary largely stems from the Tea Party movement, whose main focus over the past year has been to defeat the Democrat’s health-care reform efforts. Well, it passed yesterday, so what’s a politician like Rubio to do? Well, he’s starting…
We’ve had a hard time figuring out where presumptive gubernatorial nominee Alex Sink lies on the Democratic Party’s spectrum.Is she a dyed-in-the-wool, bleeding-heart liberal? Eh, probably not.Is she a staunch Blue Dog? Doesn’t quite seem like it.Is she, like so many Florida politicians, a cautious moderate whose vaguely expressed public…
It’s looking more and more like Charlie Crist won’t survive the Republican primary. That’s a tremendous coup for Marco Rubio, but it’s looking more and more like he could be vulnerable against Democrat Kendrick Meek in the general election.A new poll from Daily Kos/Research 2000 (yes, Democrat leaning, but generally…
A senseless bill that would prevent adoption agencies from discriminating against gun owners overwhelming passed the state legislature, and is headed to Gov. Charlie Crist’s desk.The problem: there’s absolutely no evidence that prospective adoptive parents in Florida have ever been “discriminated” against based on gun ownership, and as The Post…
A bill that would classify certain attacks against the homeless as hate crimes is moving through the state legislature. Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti is championing it after a spate of unprovoked brutality on the homeless in his county, with security camera footage of some of the attacks making the local…
Is President Obama planning on taking away your right to fish? The short answer is no, but that hasn’t stopped a bunch of right wing bloggers from causing a fuss over it.ESPN Outdoors columnist Robert Montgomery wrote a slightly misleading piece about an obscure committee suggestion regarding marine wildlife management…
Haircuts and back-waxes have gotten a lot of attention lately on the campaign trail. In March, the Miami Herald mocked Marco Rubio for spending $134 on a haircut at flossy-flossy downtown Miami barbershop Churchill’s. Then Wednesday, Charlie Crist took a misguided jab at Rubio’s hairy back. Who could settle this…
Apparently there’s very few details yet, but President Barack Obama is planning to visit Miami on April 15 to help the White House’s political wing Organizing for America. Sounds like a fundraiser.Naked Politics points to this email from the Democratic Party:We have exciting news and wanted you to be the…
The Democratic National Committee couldn’t keep its paws off Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist’s war of the wax, and produced this “rapid response” web ad to basically paint the Republican primary race as a giant mess of unadulterated silliness…
Public Policy Polling is back today with its full-fledged Florida Senate general election polling, and it’s more or less bad news for Charlie Crist.Yesterday it was announced PPP’s new numbers show Crist losing the Republican primary by a whopping 32 points. In fact, as the numbers stand now, there’s no conceivable way…
Charlie Crist’s flippant suggestion that Marco Rubio got his back waxed on Republican donors’ money was certainly an ill-advised attempt at humor, but the conservative conspiracy theorists and fervent Rubio supporters at RedState.com wonder if the remark was somehow gay baiting or racist.Writes Erick Erickson:I don’t know if he was trying to…
Charlie Crist can talk about back waxing all he wants, but the polling situation he finds himself in is a hairy one.According to a new poll by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic-aligned pollster, Crist now trails Marco Rubio in the Senate Republican primary by an astounding 32 points, with 60…
Charlie Crist went on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show to talk about the allegations brought up in yesterday’s negative front-page New York Times story about his controversial deal that might or might not “save the Everglades.”We didn’t learn much from the interview, other than that Crist dropped religious allusions a…
