Uh-oh: “Scarborough for Senate?”

Because for Florida Republican officials, sending one hotshot plaintiff’s lawyer with socially conservative views to the U.S. Senate apparently isn’t enough. (Lesley Conn, Pensacola News-Journal, Aug. 17) (more on Joe Scarborough: Sept. 15, 2003, Jan. 3, 2004)(more on incumbent Sen. Mel Martinez: Dec. 15, 2003, Sept. 3, 2004, PoL Jan. 12 and Jul. 7). Scarborough […]

Because for Florida Republican officials, sending one hotshot plaintiff’s lawyer with socially conservative views to the U.S. Senate apparently isn’t enough. (Lesley Conn, Pensacola News-Journal, Aug. 17) (more on Joe Scarborough: Sept. 15, 2003, Jan. 3, 2004)(more on incumbent Sen. Mel Martinez: Dec. 15, 2003, Sept. 3, 2004, PoL Jan. 12 and Jul. 7). Scarborough was the headliner for the Republican Trial Lawyers rally at last year’s ATLA convention (PDF); another headliner at the same convention was perennial bete noire of this site Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose on-air chumminess with Scarborough, sometimes seen as an instance of mutual admiration across ideological lines, appears not quite so strange given that RFK Jr. has collaborated with Scarborough’s firm in the pursuit of big-ticket cases. Update Aug. 21: false alarm this time, though he’s pretty clearly expecting to run for something in future.

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