No one knows for sure. Take a look at these numbers posted in and editorial from the Panama City News Herald are clues:

In the contest for the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat, public opinion polls show Crist trailing Marco Rubio by more than 20 points. However, a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday indicated that in a three-way general election race with Rubio as the GOP candidate, U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek as the Democratic nominee and Crist as an independent, the governor holds a slight advantage (32 percent for Crist, 30 for Rubio and 24 for Meek).

Cynics – especailly those whom are blindly partisan Republicans – are saying that Crist vetoed the bill for political expediency. However if Crist were a politician who takes such options, he would have not taken the stimulus money. He would have jumped on the Sarah Palin bandwagon. A early lurch to the right as Govenor would have marginalized Marco Rubio and we would never had witnessed his remarkable rise.

I’m starting to believe that Crist will be going the independent route and is holding fire for now to allow the SB 6 storm to subside. Crist may be wise to do so, too. Speculation is beginning that involves an endorsement by the state’s teachers.

This one’s a bridge too far as the FEA’s representation are AFL-CIO loyalists. They cannot let that happen, but they won’t actively go after Crist either. A Senator Charlie Crist wouldn’t necessarily be an automatics vote against something the NEA and AFT wants. Plus the FEA bosses are realists and know that 30% of it’s 130,000 membership are Republicans. Even more so, they know that Kendrick Meek cannot defeat either Crist or Rubio or win in a three-way race.

At any rate, Crist has earned my vote and Rubio has lost it. Voters will need to consider whether it’s better to consider Crist’s independent streak or the fact that Rubio doesn’t have one.

UPDATE (12:09 CDT) Here’s excellent look at some potential problems that Crist will face with both his supporters and major fund raisers.

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Unlike in the mythical Tea Party racist taunts at John Lewis, video and audio evidence exists of protestors acting badly. One of the victims was a member of Govenor Bobby Jindal’s staff.

As you won’t see any MSM coverage of the assault and you will on FOX, the incident will be further evidence that the former is little more than a propoganda arm of the Democrat Party.

Human Events is reporting that the couple were not wearing Sarah Palin pins as had been previously reported.

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I guess so if we apply Rachael Maddow’s rules. . And yes, I wish that I had been able to attent the Tea Party Convention in Nashville.

I wonder whom Maddow believed she is influencing. Does she feel that she’s converting mainstream Americans who just happen to tune in? Does she believe that by calling Tea Party or Sarah Palin supporters They were Obama voters and Democrats anyhow. Maddow is likliest to only steady the resolve of those she loathes so much.

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Sarah Palin didn’t use a teleprompter last night in her 40 minute keynote address at the Tea Party convention in Nashville. She doesn’t need one even in a speech she knows is televised nationally on C-Span.

A always lively exchange can be found at Just One Minute. I posted these comments earlier with respect to Palin:

I believe that it’s time we started to put an end to the idea that Palin is inexperienced.

Not only is his ideology a danger to America, but so is his lack of experience in making decisions. It should be of greatest concern to the nation that he surrounds himself with sycophants in the inner circle.

Palin is the antithesis to everything that is Obama and the extreme left wing of his party. While attempts to demonize her in some of the most disgustingly unacceptable ways imaginable, she’s evolving in a way those whom demonize her fear most. More than being an effective contrarian voice, she’s becoming a figure – even a symbol- of significance.

Not afraid to be an independent voice among her own party, she has endorsed and will campaign for John McCain against the popular conservative J.D. Hayworth. She’s thrown her support behind Rhan Paul in the Kentucky GOP senate primary against the establishment and Mitch McConnel supported candidate. She will also campaign for Texas Govenor Rick Perry going against the power of the Bush family and Dick Cheney.

She’s also grown and become more polished. In today’s interview with Chris Wallace, she gained the upper hand even when Wallace attempted to dismiss some of her statements. Any attempt by Wallace to get his Katie Couric moment was swatted aside by Palin.

And they sure loved her last night in Nashville.

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And what a stretch it was indeed. But somehow Tucker continues to display a need to play her brand of racial greivances to make innuendos against republicans:

They would oppose any judge nominated by a Democratic president who favors reproductive rights and supports civil unions for gay couples.

There are still some conservatives who deeply resent the social and demographic changes that have swept the country during the past four decades, leading to the election of the nation’s first black president.

Democrats have to keep the illusion going that republicans are racists and Tucker dutifully carries the water. Yes, of course the GOPs concerns are all about race. And lets also use this opportunity to take a whack at Sarah Palin.

Tucker uses a column by Pat Buchanan as her ammo. Yet she takes a throw away line by Buchanan about Palin to use it in a context that suits her preconceived racism. Tucker provides no link nor does she include Buchanan’s words in their entirity.

In a recent column, Buchanan railed that “pundits here get hoots of appreciation for doing to a white Christian woman what would constitute a hate crime if done to a ‘wise Latina woman.’” (Note the designation of Sarah Palin as “Christian” as if Sotomayor, who grew up Catholic, is pagan.) Buchanan advised his fellow Republicans to “expose Sotomayor … as a political activist whose career bespeaks a lifelong resolve to discriminate against white males.”

Here is a more inclussive record of Buchanan’s column:

Pundits here gets hoots of appreciation for doing to a white Christian woman what would constitute a hate crime if done to a “wise Latina woman.” But, as no Republican who followed the script of the mainstream media ever won a national election, why should the party pay them mind?

That beltway crowd includes the race baiter, Tucker. she finishes this way.

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As long as the Republican Party is held hostage by a group of voters who refuse to let go of that image of America, it cannot hope to be a national party. Sonia Sotomayor represents the future, not Sarah Palin.

Tucker’s disturbing simple-mindedness and racists taunt against conservative voters “Resentment of high-achievers like Barack Obama and Sotomayor runs deepest among Palinites” is a remarkable assertion. Her use of the the term “upity” archaic and sophmoric.

Perhaps it is Tucker and those who think like her the ones with hate issues.

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A once gifted and inspired voice of conservative principles, Peggy Noonan’s rambling and condescending column on Sarah Palin is clear indication that she has joined the arrogant elitism of her Manhattan diggs. Today’s takedown of Noonan’s transformation to her upper west side sensibilities by Doctor Zero at Hot Air is a worth read.

Of the idea that Palin made the Republican Party look inclusive, Noonan snarls, “She makes the party look stupid, a party of the easy manipulated.” Well, that’s what they say at the high-toned Washington cocktail parties, where the elite liberals keep Peggy Noonan as a pet, so it must be true. The vast number of Palin admirers will be thrilled to know that Peggy Noonan thinks they’re stupid. I’m sure that will make them rush right into the waiting arms of Noonan and her weak-tea wing of the GOP.

Essentially, Noonan is saying that she thinks a significant part of the republican electorate are stupid. Her slide to a haughtiness that only is found in a handful of area codes is astonsihing in ways that are hard to even contemplate.

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Jay Newton-Small of TIME puts Sarah Palin real time as no other journalist ever attempted to do. Those whom loved her were right. Those whom doubted or hated her were…and still are…wrong.

Yes, we were right about her. She is the real deal. She was hated beacuse she is America and is so much more than any public figure in history. We craved her wisdom. Her real life and real world experience thats beltway types – both of the left and right – was what our country still aches for. Yet they taunt. They redicule. Its clear to us now through this wonderous women that it is they who have lost touch with America.

Sarah, I want you to be there for America. But after knowing what it is that you find as love and family, I want you to stay in Alaska. And go fishing with Todd and Piper and Trig.

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My rant as published on Just One Minute:

Republicans and conservatives have to stop the circular firing squad that takes out pols who share our values that we do like Sarah Palin and Marco Rubio. Stop trying to impress everyone with a self absorbed opinion of your own intelligence by finding a reason to do Democrats bidding for them. People like Palin and Rubio have guts to represent values we clutch to. Stop giving Dems ammunition to take American for themselves

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The remarkable senatorial candidate whom dared to take in the Republican estanblishment has received another key endorsement from a GOP pol in Rep. Jeff Miller on the crucuial Fla CD #1 in the panhandle of Florida. Miller, a solid conservative in a key Forida district, gives Rubio another key endorsement from a key GOP stronghold. Charlie Crist is not popular with Panhandle voters as his negative comments aboit Sarah Palin caused outrage within one of the nations most conservative bases.

Rubio’s candidacy continues to be ridiculed by the Democrat leaning Buzz Florida Politics blog of the St. Petersburg Times who hid the key endorsement in a post. Today it scoffed at Rubio’s funraising and attempted to slander his personal finances while giving glowing reviews of both Democrat senate candidate Kendrick Meeks and centrist govenor Charlie Crist.

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Dems hate Rep. Michele Bachmann. She’s smart, beautiful, communicates, and she’s a Republican. Dems just can’t have that combination. Say, doesn’t thank description remind of Sarah Palin? Maybe there’s some sort of pattern in their curious stereotyping. Yes, Bachmann and Palin were both on that disgusting rape list. Anyway, Bachmann has posting priveledges at Townhall and pens and excellent compare and contrast:

Clearly, this isn’t the path to effective reform we should be choosing.

Americans have already woken up to Democrat plans the nation in the stimulus plan, the Auto buyouts, and cap and tax. Like they did to get elected, they lied about these bills. What makes you believe they can be trusted with your health care? The only thing that’s resulted from these bills has been to empower the Dem party.

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