african-americans. are they coming out for charlie after meeks is defeated? they will because he is defeated by the other democrat, not by charlie crist. the onus is on mark rubio. he has to find a way to go after crist and get more of the center of the electric because that is where charlie crist is so strong. rubio can still win but he has to have a second act. we were talking about mike allen as a rock star a few months ago. what happened since then? well, he still is among republicans and he is the template of the kind of republican that can win in an environment that increasingly is going to have bad demographics for republicans. he is hispanic, he is young, he can appeal to all types of conservatives. but he s had a number of bad press stories about him, including his use of the state republican credit card to repairs to his wife s minivan. he paid it back, but it looks shady when you add it in to the
going in washington, two people are running for u.s. sean and you should vote for one of them. that s a kick in the fannie, you were leading mr. meeks by a lot. he becomes an independent and now he s out front. every election in florida is close. we have a tradition of close races in the state. we have to earn that. you don t get to the u.s. senate without earning it. we have a concrete plan. he have represented 12 specific ideas on growing the economy, what government can do to excite the private sector into creating jobs. yesterday we rolled out 12 more ideas to reduce spending. we have a difference it between our idea based campaign and the other two campaigns who think it s okay the way we re going on. neil: we got word earlier that former governor jeb bush is not interested in running for president in 2012.
environmental of the first order and for my home region but particularly for barack obama, this has been a political disaster. it sure has. the perception that the government was not terribly competent in this. the distraction that norah mentioned for all of that period of time is very damaging. i think, joe, if you go down to your home state of florida, charlie crist has written this and like bobby jindal and moved up. i think now his role is leading in the battle diminishing somewhat if you get that democrat down there running against meeks, he wins the primary. i think you could see marco rubio coming back up. i think crist could ride this to victory in november. i m not sure quite frankly, it s over. we have this spill underneath this pressure is building. this thing isn t over yet. they are going to test this thing in 48 hours to see if that pressure starts seeping through the ocean floor and, god forbid
but i still think it s rube yo s race to win. whatever they want to do and whatever crist wants to do i think it s rubio s. if the democrats decide they want to do anything to stop robuio it s a tough swallow. we have our problems. i think mr. meeks, mr. green, we ll see what happens. if you want to keep tossing us some republicans we ll take them. as long as we can pick the ones we send you, that s fine. thanks very much. jack cafferty is asking in light of the oil spill would you vacation on the gulf coast. back in a moment with your e-mail. scientists believe up to 60,000 barrels of oil are gushing from the leaking well every day. i ll ask an expert if this estimate is really reliable after so many others were not.
a republican. cheney then went on and urged cr crist to stay went or drop out. i ve talked to some florida insiders over the past 24 hours. forget about rubio s problems, which they believe will stay with him. they believe if rubio survives, charlie crist has a great shot of being elected as an independent. you know, when crist goes and goes independence, he loses his support. chuck todd thinks if charlie crist is elected he has to take his support from meeks. in other words, rubio will have a conservative republican/base which is solid at a certain level. he s going to take a lot of democratic support. that s where he ll have to get it. and charlie crist is very popular in the south florida jewish community. he s going to take a lot of that