Where there’s political protocol, there’s politeness and plaudits–and hyperbole. It all comes with the territory. Politicians, like Art Linkletter children, say the darnest things.
Hence, the love-in dynamics the other night at Tampa’s GOP Lincoln Day Dinner. All the movers and shakers were there, including Gov. Scott, who had been shunned by the Republican establishment until he actually became governor. Now he’s the head True Believer, the outspoken antithesis of everything Obama, and the recipient of gratuitous compliments. Of course he is.
But was it necessary for Attorney General Pam Bondi to go for the gushing? In her fawning introduction of Scott, Bondi rhapsodized that the governor was “the kindest, smartest, most generous man … .”
Does Bondi know so few men?