NEVER A DOUBT IN OUR MINDS. Jennings is running around insisting to GOP hacks that she doesn't have a moderate bone in her body - pointing out, among other things, that the Christian Coalition and Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum love her. We have never had a doubt about her right wing bona fides, Jennings was always a Neanderthal in a hair helmet to us. Here's to hoping Jennings will take a run at the Gov. spot in 2006 - it will be great to see her an Gallagher go at it.
IT WASN'T MY FAULT. Peter Wallstein tells us how Bush will use the class size amendment to shield his abject failures as a Governor.
THE PRIMARY DATE. The Sun Sentinel editorial board thinks Florida needs to move up its primary election date - "Otherwise, at best, Florida risks losing much of its considerable political clout in helping choose Democratic and Republican nominees for president. At worst, Florida risks becoming muzzled and almost irrelevant in the candidate nominating process". Perhaps these are not bad things.
THE REST OF THE STORIES. Should supervisors of election try to enhance voter turnout? Lucy Morgan thinks "It's time to bomb Iraq. Or somebody. Anything to divert attention from Florida's budget problems." Mark Silva argues that Bush "let the people down . . . blew it big-time." Pamela Hasterok explains the "warped ways term-limits affect the Legislature". Mary Ann Lindley, the Tallahassee Democrat editorial page editor, agrees that "term limits contribute to a chronic lack of awareness of the history of laws." And leave it to the reactionary Florida Times Union to applaud the demise of the State library.
CLOSING SHOT. A writer to the Charlotte Sun makes a valid point: "I am writing you in total disbelief. I am shocked that I actually agree with something the governor has said. In his State of the State he suggested voters in the State of Florida do not know what they are doing when they vote for something. It blows my mind that Jeb Bush was actually re-elected as governor of our state. It is my suggestion that we include his name for reelection on this special ballot he suggested. This way we can get it right this time and elect a governor that is up to the task of implementing the will of the fine voters in the State of Florida."