Humiliating Double Defeat For Charlie Crist-- Rubio Crushes Him In Pasco County Straw Poll

The bloom is off the rose-- at least among Pasco County Republicans. The west Florida county's executive committee met last night and unanimously passed a formal resolution rebuking the state GOP chair, Jim Greer, for dragging the state party into the U.S. Senate race on Crist's side, when a far more right-wing Republican extremist, Marco Rubio, is also in the race.

The Pasco County grassroots, much to the embarrassment of Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite then held a straw poll which Rubio won-- by a landslide. He got 73 votes and the closet queen governor only had 9 supporters. Polls aren't showing it but Rubio has all the momentum in the GOP primary contest. He's captured the imagination of the Republican grassroots, who would rather lose with an extremist maniac than win with a wimpy moderate. Similar resolutions against Greer have already passed in Brevard, Hillsboro, Okaloosa and Palm Beach and the only thing that kept the resolution from passing in Broward County was the sudden cancellation of the meeting. A Recall Jim Greer Facebook page is already active.

Greer has disgraced his title and the party through his gross abuse and misuse of the party's treasury for personal lavish expenses, his transformation of the once-respected organization into nothing more than a Charlie Crist fan club, and equating Florida's first Cuban-American speaker of the House to a "fringe" candidate by pushing for the exemption of a rule that prevents it from endorsing one candidate over the other in a primary.

Jim Greer has become an embarrassment and a liability for Florida Republican elected officials, candidates, and the party organization. His actions have earned the party negative press and have endangered its fundraising ability. Party leaders should remove him immediately and be clear that the Florida Republican Party is not a Chicago-style party boss machine bent on promoting one politician's career, but rather an organization that represents all Florida Republicans and key fundamental principles that are not up for compromise or negotiation.

Led by county chairman Randy Maggard the party members blasted Greer, saying he "contravened and ignored the principles and ideals of the Republican Party" and "such actions have in fact been in furtherance to support one Republican candidate over another."


UPDATE: Rubio Could Actually Win The Primary

And that's Meek's only chance to get into the Senate.