The Political Whore

FLA is already drawing notice about its early voting as some screw-ups are reported. And Barack Obama flies to see his sick granny instead of campaigning. And say it ain’t so: UF’s Mr. Two Bits is calling it quits after this season?!? It’s Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008. Now the headlines:

• Cheatin’ Congressman Tim Mahoney’s wife files for divorce.
• And the political media consulting firm caught up in the mess complains.
• Mel Martinez compares Obama’s tax plan to Castro’s Cuba.
• LAT plans redesign launch next week.
• Obama drew 40,000 to Orlando rally.
• Or 50,000, take your choice.
• McCain headed to rally in Sarasota.
• Todd Palin NOT headed to Pensacola (apparently there is no snowmobiling in the Panhandle, he found out at the last minute).
• Our idiot attorney general and his ongoing war against ex-felons trying to regain normal lives.
• The Rose Garden strategy a la Ginny Brown-Waite
• Here’s a Sarah Palin animation from former Tampa Tribune artist David O’Keefe:

All of today’s top political and media headlines, plus some other crap I find online that makes me laugh, complemented nicely with updates in the box to the right:

• Mahoney boinked a second one?
• Rays make Forbes list of Top 10 sports teams likely to RELOCATE!?!
• Jeb! defends Sarah.
• The flu is here.
• Crist: Yeah, I’m still, uhh, behind John McCain. Ummm, 100 percent. Like I have an option?
• The FLA GOP still be freakin’ about McCain’s slide.
• Our hack Attorney General in FLA is steamed, STEAMED I tell ya, about felons being on the voting rolls.
• Great Schleppers in FLA find that their grandparents are already voting for Obama.
• Krugman wins first posthumous Nobel Prize in Economics.
• Tampa Bay incumbents to constituents who want to see them discuss the issues on television: Fuck you!
• Justice John Paul Stevens to speak at UF. Road trip!!
• Big Sugar Jr. and its Everglades ethanol plant.
• Conservative icon mag National Review sees writer go south on McCain.
• John Cleese knows his Palins: Sarah is like a ‘talking parrot:’