The two-party system works only when
both parties offer satisfactory candidates who elevate each other
beyond the low bar of their rhetoric. In Florida the GOP has
forfeited this responsibility. When Republicans can win no matter
whom they nominate, it seems they'll nominate just about anybody.
It's more about getting their adherents to the polls than presenting
a candidate who will be good for the state. As of the current
gubernatorial contest, any Florida voter still proud to be a
Republican has a mighty high threshold of shame.
I sell fishing stories to Florida
Sportsman Magazine but if I were writing speeches for Andrew Gillum,
he'd open the first debate like this:
“ I have striven, as most
people, to educate myself, gain valuable experience and to be the
best person I can be. I am ready now to make my case to represent
Floridians as their governor. It is with a sense of the surreal that
I am here to debate a man who parades ignorance as a virtue to be
carried into that office. All I can do this evening is demonstrate
as clearly as I can, the difference. “
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