Discussion: WATCH: Rick Scott Refuses To Take The Stage Over A Fan In Bizarre Debate

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What’s truly bizarre is that a Medicare bilker of this magnitude is the sitting governor of Florida and is involved in a reelection debate at all. This freakish apparition should be in prison. The only thing this man has in his favor is that Halloween is coming.

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Man if there’s a way a republican can throw his own campaign and end up looking like Sarah Palin handing out poisenous candy on halloween to black kids he will by god take that route.

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Governor Voldemort is going down!

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Scared bald crook scott is a disgrace to Florida.

GOTV Crist…

Kick the crook scott to the gutter where he cam from

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Loved the gifs that were produced after the debate. My favorite was “I’m a fan of Charlie Crist” .

Scott’s fantrum was a huge gift for Gov Crist.

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“…the governor refused to debate Crist…”

Rick Scott, leading from behind the curtain.

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I don’t hold any brief for Scott, but the two versions of the rules do seem to contradict each other. It’s reasonable to assume, though, that the Scott campaign would have been informed of the Crist campaign’s handwritten “understanding” statement on their agreement to the rules.

And then there’s Melissa Sellers’ rather testy statement, which if nothing else seems to be a tacit admission that Scott looked bad in this, no matter the truth about fans.

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Sorry–that’s just a lot of talking to myself there.

who knew Lex Luthor could be such a pussy?

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It’s pretty obvious that the fan is the culprit here. The prudent response of the fan should have been, “I’m no fan of Crist and I refuse to blow Scott.”

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“But Charlie Crist can bring his fan, microwave, and toaster to debates - - none of that will cover up how sad his record as Governor was compared to the success of Governor Rick Scott.”

That’s funny. When he was Governor, he was a Republican. So interesting to see a Republican trash a Republican Governor’s record.

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It would be hilarious if it weren’t so pathetic. We have a nation of constituents that need grown-up mature help and our politicians are nitpicking over having fans at debates. How out of touch with reality is that? Well, this is why Fark has a Florida tag.

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I suppose if you think ketchup is a vegetable, you’d consider a fan to be an electronics device.

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I gotta git me one of doz newfangled electronic fans!

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Glad to see Scott standing his ground against a threatening fan.

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This is just like how JFK had nice dry balls but Nixon didn’t have a podium fan and his balls got all Schwetty, and he had a Shwetty Weiner too… and it made him all untrustworthy-looking. People listening to the balls over radio thought Nixon had the dry balls.

~derp! derp!~

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Can’t have a fan…in Florida!!! An actual rule ?!?!

Hmmm…this rabbit hole is deep!

(BTW: I’d demand a fu*king block of ice.)

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OK…wait! In total fairness to lizard person pRick Scott (*The way he licks his eyeballs confirms this.), as a reptile he is at a metabolic disadvantage when the stage is cooler.

LIZARD PEOPLE FEAR FANS!

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What this says is that Scott does not know the difference between a mechanical device and an electronic device. A fan is not electronic it is mechanical, that it runs on electricity does not make it electronic.

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