Florida’s bitterly contested governor’s race just got more controversial. When Tea Party-backed Rick Scott won the Republican nomination the (also very conservative) defeated Republican, Bill McCollum, refused to endorse him (Scott has “character issues” in terms of Medicare fraud) with some pundits even speculating that McCollum might endorse the Democrat Alex Sink. The race remains neck and neck, according to last week’s Quinnipiac poll.
Now, Rick Scott may be trying to secure some of McCollum’s supporters to tip the balance. In the primary, McCollum and Scott tried to out-conservative each other on the abortion issue. McCollum opposed abortion in all circumstances but Scott, who made exceptions for the hard cases, tried unsuccessfully to argue that McCollum made such exceptions too.
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