The race for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate seat Mel Martinez is not seeking re-election to in 2010 — which pits liberal Florida Governor Charlie Crist against conservative former Speaker of the Florida House Marco Rubio — is not exactly heating up. But it’s taking shape. There’s good and bad news for the right.
The good news is that Rubio is demonstrating he can excite the conservative base of the Republican Party with his call to “take our country back” with policies that support family values, limited government, and leave stimulating the economy and creating jobs up to entrepreneurs. He did it again last weekend at several campaign stops across the Tampa Bay Area…
But the bad news for conservatives is that while Rubio has generated enthusiasm at events such as the one Friday night in Tampa, he’s not generating much in the way of campaign contributions. Rubio is grotesquely behind Crist in dialing for dollars.
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