Scott Maddox needs to take a page from Howard Dean's book. He manages a party that hasn't had a single noteworthy victory since 2000, and certainly none since he took over the party chairmanship. Maddox's role in 2006 is rebuilding a shattered party infrastructure and trying to figure out how best to put one of the two existing quality candidates (Jim Davis and Rod Smith; I can't speak for Bud Chiles yet) in the governor's office and chip away at the GOP hold on the state legislature. If he manages that, he'll do more for his party and his reputation (and thus his future in politics) than he could possibly do by mixing himself up in an already crowded primary. Maddox is young. If he has any brains at all, he'll work behind the scenes instead of grabbing a headline.
I don't know if he's capable of that.
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