Last Call

Yet another reason why I'm not worried in 2010 about the GOP: they keep ending up in scandals. Today's contestant: Gov. Charlie Crist, who has a few problems with some fundraising pals.

With the accusations this week that Scott Rothstein, fast-living Fort Lauderdale attorney and friend and donor to Gov. Charlie Crist, orchestrated a massive fraud out of his law firm, there are now three Crist moneymen caught up in alleged criminal or extremely shady activity.

Crist, whose career has been fueled by his skill as a fundraiser, finds himself entangled with the trio of scandals just as his U.S. Senate primary campaign against conservative Marco Rubio is attracting national attention. And there's already talk down in Florida that the Crist-linked scandals may become a factor in the primary contest.

Not that anyone's giving Democrat Kendrick Meek much of a chance against either Charie Crist or Marco Rubio, but the messier this GOP primary gets, the better the chance Meek has...and this primary keeps getting uglier.