Demagogue

Ugh.

In choosing a new secretary of state, Gov. Jeb Bush picked a woman with impressive credentials in every aspect of the job except the most important one: overseeing fair and accurate elections.

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She also has been a generous partisan, befriending the governor and president and financially backing Republican candidates.

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Cobb's only obvious involvement in an election was as a volunteer coordinator of Republican lawyers in the 2000 presidential recount, hardly Florida's finest hour.

I wonder if she'll still be secretary of state in 2008. If she is, I've got a prediction of who will chair Jeb Bush's presidential campaign committee in Florida.