Not So Great Scott

GOP Gov. Rick Scott of Florida has a bit of a problem.  It's just three months into his job and the people of the Sunshine State already want to throw his ass out on the curb.

Only three months removed from Governor Rick Scott's (R) inauguration, a majority of Florida voters now say the state is headed in the wrong direction and that, if they could do it all over again, they wouldn't have elected Scott in the first place, according to a new Suffolk University poll.

In the poll, 54% of voters said the state was headed in the wrong direction, compared to 30% who said it was going the right way. Further, just under half (49%) of all voters said they disapproved of Scott's job performance, versus only 28% who said they approved.

Scott's approval rating is so bad that the poll found him losing a hypothetical do-over election to Democrat Alex Sink by a ten-point margin, 41% to 31%.

Previous polls have also found Scott's job approval deep underwater, including a Quinnipiac poll released earlier this month that pegged his approval to disapproval split at 35% to 48%. A March PPP poll showed Scott with an even worse 32%-55% split, and found him losing a do-over election -- by a 20-point margin.

Poll after poll finds that Scott and the state's GOP super-majority in the state legislature are pretty much already despised at this point.   They have unrestrained power because Florida Dems stayed home in 2010, and independents went for Republicans, blaming Charlie Crist and Barack Obama for the dismal Florida economy.

And then they got a major dose of perspective:  Rick Scott destroying tens of thousands of jobs to scrap high speed rail and then pushing to line his own pockets by sending state employees and those who receive state aid to his own chain of clinics for drug testing and privatizing the state's schools and hospitals as the state's wingers plan one-party rule through disenfranchising as many Democratic Party voters as possible, eliminating corporate taxes for Florida's fat cats and basically legalizing bribery for state lawmakers.

Yeah, no wonder Floridians are pissed off at the guy.  He's Lex Luthor in a bad suit.  But you're stuck with him Florida, because "There's no difference between the parties so why bother."  Keep Rick Scott in mind heading into 2012.  One party Republican rule at the federal level means Scott's Galtian utopia for everyone!