In Search of Sunshine

So now it's on to Florida! By all means, it's either face-falling-off cold here or snowing--I want CHANGE!

Anyway, Rudy Giuliani is supposedly tan, ready and rested, having been living in Florida for at least the last two weeks, now facing the onslaught of the rest of the GOP field.

We lost Fred, and the Huckster got slapped back in South Carolina, his made-to-order state. Sen. John McCain squeaked by in the Palmetto State, in what one sage described as "Revenge of the Geezers", while Gov. Mitt Romney won the West and Midwest--Nevada and Michigan and is tops in the delegate count. (Romney was on FoxNews Sunday, great clips here on his record and the economy, which has emerged as the number one issue.)

According to Drudge, latest Rasmussen has Romney in the lead: FLASH: RASMUSSEN Florida poll to be released: Romney 25, McCain 20, Giuliani 19... Developing...

[Note: updated Rasmussen poll here.] RCP average as of this morning here.

Florida is the first big state primary only open to Republicans, where they are all competing.

I'm in search of clarity in the race, in search of sunshine.

UPDATE: George Will, Waiting for Straight Talk from McCain. One excerpt:

In the New Hampshire debate, McCain asserted that corruption is the reason drugs currently cannot be reimported from Canada. The reason is "the power of the pharmaceutical companies." When Mitt Romney interjected, "Don't turn the pharmaceutical companies into the big bad guys," McCain replied, "Well, they are."

There is a place in American politics for moralizers who think in such Manichaean simplicities. That place is in the Democratic Party, where people who talk like McCain are considered not mavericks but mainstream.

Republicans are supposed to eschew demagogic aspersions concerning complicated economic matters. But applause greets faux "straight talk" that brands as "bad" the industry responsible for the facts that polio is no longer a scourge, that childhood leukemia is no longer a death sentence, that depression and other mental illnesses are treatable diseases, that the rate of heart attacks and heart failures has been cut more than in half in 50 years.

No surprises here--the Huckster continues his thinly-veiled campaign, built on bigotry.

UPDATE: How crude is this, the Huckster goes for broke. This is not legitimate compare and contrast on the issues (as Mitt did in Iowa). This is a personal attack. Very negative and gives you an ick feeling. (Is he going to take his shirt off next, in his pander for votes?) Huckabee is going to end by alienating every Republican: