What the hell is wrong with Florida democrats?

[Lyin' Steve]

Chris Murphy is a lying pretty boy, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is incompetent and threatened to call Obama anti-semitic and anti-woman if he removed her, Charlie Crist is the definition of sleazy career politician, and Alan Grayson is one of the worst human beings in the country.  What on earth is wrong with Florida?  At least Bill Nelson seems like a decent guy.

[Illiniwek]

Bill Nelson seems like a decent guy.

We at least have him.

I think it speaks more for the type of people from Florida rather than Florida Democrats.

[Green Line]

I think it speaks more for the type of people from Florida rather than Florida Democrats.

If that were true, we wouldn't have great statesmen such as Marco Rubio.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Chris Murphy is a lying pretty boy, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is incompetent and threatened to call Obama anti-semitic and anti-woman if he removed her, Charlie Crist is the definition of sleazy career politician, and Alan Grayson is one of the worst human beings in the country.  What on earth is wrong with Florida?  At least Bill Nelson seems like a decent guy.

Chris Murphy is the guy from Connecticut. I assume you mean Patrick Murphy?

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Bill Nelson seems like a decent guy.

We at least have him.

I think it speaks more for the type of people from Florida rather than Florida Democrats.

"Democrats" who voted to permanently repeal the estate tax are not decent guys.

[136or142]

Chris Murphy is a lying pretty boy, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is incompetent and threatened to call Obama anti-semitic and anti-woman if he removed her, Charlie Crist is the definition of sleazy career politician, and Alan Grayson is one of the worst human beings in the country.  What on earth is wrong with Florida?  At least Bill Nelson seems like a decent guy.

if the comment on Patrick Murphy being a 'lying pretty boy' is based on the first part of the CBS story that ran today, I'd say that story engaged in some pretty dishonest tactics as well, especially the first half in regards to him being a CPA.

1.The story said it took him nine times to pass the CPA final exam.  And?  He passed it in the end.

2.The story said he was certified in Colorado and not Florida, but that he was working for a CPA firm in Florida.  And?  CPA firms hire lots of non-certified people with a background in bookkeeping or accounting.  I would guess that in most firms, the largest number of employees, if not the majority, are 3rd level accounting students who do the grunt work.

At most, they showed that Murphy stretched the truth in his claim that he was a CPA, when he only had a certification as a CPA in Colorado and not in Florida.

3.The story referred to 'accounting experts who suspect Murphy...'  So, no names given, just 'experts' who have 'suspicions' but no evidence or proof.  Textbook yellow journalism.

I thought the second half of the story on Murphy's claim that he was a 'small business owner' were fairer. Based on that story,  he should refer to himself as an executive in a family owned business and not as a small business owner.  Still, if Rapist Trump's only lie was that he was 'self made' and not that he lies about everything all the time, I wouldn't consider that to be a very big deal.

So, if that's the only evidence that Patrick Murphy lies or stretches the truth, I'd say there isn't much there. I'll wait for the second part of this 'expose', but I'd take it with a grain of salt, as the first half of the first part was either a deliberate hatchet job or was based on a complete misunderstanding of how accounting firms operate.

As to Alan Grayson, he'd be considered fairly mild if he were a Republican compared to the likes of Louie Gohmert, Steve King,  Pete King and a whole bunch of the others in that gang of idiots.

[Mr. Smith]

And just what makes Florida GOP so great?

Rubio the pretty boy who can't control his money at all? Mel Martinez the corrupt? Voldemort Rick Scott?

And where's their Gwen Graham exactly?

P.S. Crist was GOP first too.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

First off, lets see how it plays out.


But secondly, this forum is filled with endless with stories of these awesome red state/swing state/Southern Democrats who are going to just crush the Republicans and the forum falls in love with them based on what "they will" accomplish, usually only to get heart broken in the end. Typically, it is indeed scandal that destroys them.

[Santander]

And just what makes Florida GOP so great?

They win.

There hasn't been a really good Florida Dem since the Old He-Coon died.

[RaphaelDLG]

Your observation is obviously sample size/variance, as much as I'd like to make jokes about Floridians being crazy meth-addicted rednecks.  We could EASILY do a post where we picked five Illinois or New York Democrats from one election cycle and say "what the hell is wrong with Democrats from X?!?"

[Associate Justice PiT]

Bill Nelson seems like a decent guy.

We at least have him.

I think it speaks more for the type of people from Florida rather than Florida Democrats.

"Democrats" who voted to permanently repeal the estate tax are not decent guys.

     Because disagreeing with jfern on a particular issue is deeply indecent.

[Mr. Reactionary]

"Democrats" who voted to permanently repeal the estate tax are not decent guys.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

^Pete King is a very moderate Republican. A loud moderate, but a moderate.

[Ebsy]

FL Dems are the most lmao state party in the country. Only the Mississippi Dems rival them for sheer incompetence.

[Badger]

^Pete King is a very moderate Republican. A loud moderate, but a moderate.

I think he meant Steve King

[Zioneer]

Gwen Graham and Kathy Castor are okay.

[136or142]

^Pete King is a very moderate Republican. A loud moderate, but a moderate.

I meant both Kings.  Pete King is trash who supported the IRA.

[IceSpear]

I think you should be focusing on Florida Republicans. Their governor is a literal criminal who stole $1.7 billion dollars from Medicare. Maybe it's just me, but I think that's a bit more serious than DWS having a persecution complex.

[Beet]

Warning to state parties: Never, ever, ever, ever, ever lose a national election by 537 votes. 536, if you must. 538 perhaps. But never 537. The PTSD will last 15 years and counting.

[Antonio the Sixth]

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FTFY

[The Arizonan]

Warning to state parties: Never, ever, ever, ever, ever lose a national election by 537 votes. 536, if you must. 538 perhaps. But never 537. The PTSD will last 15 years and counting.

Why is the Florida Democratic Party getting all the flak? If the Democrats in Nevada, Colorado, Missouri, Ohio, and New Hampshire worked harder, then Dubya wouldn't have won.

[Chief Justice Keef]

[President Johnson]

FL Dems are the most lmao state party in the country. Only the Mississippi Dems rival them for sheer incompetence.

And MA Dems. See Martha Coakley.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Jesus...the hate for my state on here...

[Kingpoleon]

^Pete King is a very moderate Republican. A loud moderate, but a moderate.

I meant both Kings.  Pete King is trash who supported the IRA.

Peter King is a moderate, but he also has neoconservative tendencies. It's very much, in your words "yellow journalism" to say he supported the IRA. He was far too sympathetic to the terrorist organization, but he didn't want us to support them. Unless you found yourself some experts with suspicions....

Also, as an actual independent and centrist, I prefer Peter King and even Steve King to Alan Grayson. Gohmert and Grayson are about equally terrible.