i wrote before about how the right's ploy to take NY-23 hilariously backfired last week. well it looks like they're going to try to do it again in florida.
as noted in the link, florida, unlike new york, does not permit fusion voting. that means that if charlie crist gets the GOP nomination, there's an even greater chance that the tea partiers' ploy will backfire than there was in the NY-23 election.
but i guess that's the tea partiers' point. right now, they're not trying to win the general election, they're trying to influence the primary. they can point to NY-23 and tell the party "if you nominate crist, we'll deliver the governor's mansion to the democrats." essentially they're playing game of chicken with the GOP leadership, trying to get their way and threatening to sink the party's chances if they don't.
for a party that has a hard time saying "no' to its right wing, it might just work.
