After toppling moderate Republican congressional hopeful Dede Scozzafava in upstate New York, conservatives are making a Florida Senate race the next battle in the war for the party's future. Conservatives are pushing a Reaganite former state House speaker, Marco Rubio, over frontrunner Charlie Crist, the popular moderate governor who broke ranks to back President Obama's economic stimulus plan. Will Charlie Crist be the tea partiers' next victim? (Watch a local report about Charlie Crist being called "overrated")
He should be -- he's no Republican: "This election will be a litmus test to define the will power of party leaders to return to our values," says Armando Valladores in The Miami Herald. Charlie Crist "hoodwinked" conservatives by raising taxes after promising they would "drop like a rock," and he trampled conservative values by appointing a pro-abortion justice to the state Supreme Court over a "more-qualified" conservative. "No Republican should vote for Crist."
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