Florida Democratic Party Chairman Scott Maddox, as I predicted a few weeks ago, is about to enter the Democratic primary for governor.
I'd like to go ahead and be the first person to blame Maddox personally for the fact that Florida's next governor will have an (R) after his name. Late entrants to a race with quality candidates already in have to enter the race under the assumption that the two existing candidates are not very good. In this case, since it's the state party chairman, he's saying that two of the state's elected members of his party aren't good candidates. Yet he himself has never been elected to any post bigger than Mayor of Tallahassee--which is an extremely democratic city anyway.
Why does Scott think he's a better candidate than Rod Smith and Jim Davis? And can he seriously defend that position without tearing Smith and Davis apart in a divisive primary? No, not really. Whether Maddox gets the party nomination or not, he'll do enough damage to the eventual nominee to ensure that the GOP candidate (none of the three current candidates are weak) gets a win.
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