I am sick to death of Florida

[peaches2003]

Sorry for you FL Dems, but I am so sick of FL. For the past 8 yrs they have been allowed to be shills for the Republicans and are pretty much responsible for the election of Bush. Now this crap with the primary. (Not crazy about TX either.)

[katmondoo]

1. Me too and I live here

I consider myself a New Yorker here for the weather.

[Beregond2]

2. I've never understood that.

Why do New Yorkers want to move from one steam bath to another?

[tridim]

7. Well, Florida does smell less like urine.

Sorry NYC, it does.. You've just become used to it.

[Beregond2]

12. LOL.

I never noticed it when I lived there, but my sense of smell has been pretty much killed by too many years of allergy medications.

[BeyondGeography]

15. Take that back or I'll sick one of our overfed rats on you

[sfam]

3. I guess some states LOVE election drama. Either Florida is corrupt or

insanely incompetent or both, regarding the election. Either way, its getting a bit old to continually see Florida in election hassles.

[peaches2003]

10. Corrupt, yes

FL is corrupt because it is a state run by Republican politicians where a big majority of the citizens are of the age where they can be manipulated and FL can convince the country that the Dem enclaves in south FL are just too old to know what they are doing and their votes get thrown out. Then you've got a huge Cuban population that votes Repug based on the politics of 50 yrs ago. (Don't flame me- one would just think that the younger Cuban-Americans would realize that the Repug policy of ostracizing Castro and Cuba obviously isn't working and they are only hurting their relatives still in Cuba.) Sick of FL wielding so much influence over our Presidential elections.

[Tom Rinaldo]

4. Florida voted for Gore in 2000. We all know that

Their vote should have been what gave the White House to Gore. The Supreme Court stopped Floridas voice from being heard. And Florida gave more votes to Gore than Bush even though Nader was on the ballot pulling in a hundred thousdand left of center votes into his camp. And Florida voted for Gore even though that ridiculous Butterfly Ballot used in a heavily Democratic county shifted large numbers of votes accidently to Buchannan. And Florida voted for Gore in 2000 even though tens of thousands of African Americans (minimally) were illegally removed from the voting rolls. Florida tried to save us from a George W. Bush Administration.

[glowing]

5. Believe me, there were many Dems hoping someone would run agaisnt Nelson.

He's such a fucking waste of breathing space.. Most Dems hate this asshat, but didn't want Katherine Harris to take a senate seat.

[lib2DaBone]

11. SO True....Republican Bizarro-World

..once again.. we in Fla are stuck with a choice between bad and ugly. Lots of old people in Florida (sometimes known as "God's Waiting Room" ). Retirees are gullible and easy prey for the Republicans. The elderly send money to Jim Baker and the PTL Club, (yes, he's back on TV again) and they believe that Republicans stand for smaller govt and balanced budgets. (A look at Homeland Security and the federal deficit would seem to prove otherwise?) None the less, we get stuck with Jeb Bush making sweetheart deals with Billionaire real estate developers and Katherine Harris fine-tuning the voting machines. All the local TV News Departments gush and fawn over the fact that the new Republican Governor, Charlie Christ, is going to be McSame's Vice President. (oh goodie) That just makes my little patriotic heart pump red, white and blue, as I sit here pondering the fact that tomorrow starts HURRICANE SEASON. I can hardly wait.

[tridim]

6. I like the idea proposed yesterday that Puerto Rico assume FL's status as a state.

Florida has become rotten from within and most politicians in the state just don't care.

[Fovea]

8. Florida is going to be the next

Chicago, Las Vegas or Kansas City---

A place the Feds shut down and steam cleaned.

Sometimes more than once.

I am sorry for innocent Floridians who get caught in the blast.

[JVS]

9. I'd look the other way if Cuba took FL over.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. For all its flaws, I love my state deeply.

And couldn't imagine living anywhere else.

[Coexist]

14. pssst..... come here, my sweet

and let me seduce you with my rodent-themed fun centers, full of unnaturally happy people... with my snow-white sandy beaches full of sunburned tourists who insist it will fade to a tan by morning, and my confusing party affiliations, where Dixiecrat is the proper term for racist republicans, the odd geographical phenomenon where the further south you travel in my sunshine, the less in The South you are...

... you know you love me... admit it, baby...

[Skrelnick]

16. Hey, leave TX alone

We TX Dems have a hard enough time as it is!