(03-14-2022, 02:09 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(03-14-2022, 07:13 AM)mikesez Wrote: So you think a majority of Republican party voters want things that the leaders they elect don't want?  How can that be? I thought we had primary elections where Republican voters would make sure the Republican candidate represented their interests? I vote in those primaries. Sometimes my candidate wins and sometimes he doesn't. Do you vote in the republican primaries?

Florida has closed primaries, so of course I don't vote in them. And yes, the majority of Republican voters believe quite strongly that their elected leaders want what they want. They are wrong, as we plainly see every time Republicans get control on anything in Washington. GOPe Leaders just want to keep their cushy jobs and invites to Washington cocktail parties, so they tell you what you want to hear to get your vote then go up there and act just like their Democrat friends.

I have no reason to doubt that Rick Scott wants the things he says he wants.  If there were 50 other people in the Senate like Rick Scott, those things would pass, in the Senate, at least.  The problem is the other Republicans in the Senate, including Rubio, who is actually running this year, seem to agree with McConnell, not Scott.  If Rubio thought backing up Scott's 11 point manifesto would make him popular with voters, he probably would.  Do you doubt that? Rubio has yet to put out much of a campaign platform, and that's just fine for most of the people who are going to vote to re-elect him.  If that were not the case, Rubio would probably have a primary challenger.

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