Rick Scott Is the Dumbest Politician in the History of All Politicians [View all]

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Say you're an embattled conservative governor in Florida. Say you want to go out and glad-hand with voters who hate Obamacare as much as you do. What's the stupidest place to do that? How about a senior center in South Florida, where Barack Obama won in 2012 by half a million votes?

That was precisely the pooch that Scott, a millionaire former health care executive who famously "oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in the nation's history," decided to screw on Tuesday. He ended up chatting with 20 retirees in Boca Raton and found out that, hey, they mostly like their Medicare and, hey, they mostly like the Affordable Care Act, in no small part because, hey, older folks in Boca Raton mostly are Democrats who think Scott is the debbil.

Scott is not the debbil. The debbil would know how to stage a political photo op without it blowing up in his face. Scott, who as governor has been bumbling his way through an incoherent policy miasma of tea party bile, business-lovin' deregulation, and conservative gun-caressing for almost four years now, is an unmitigated tone-deaf idiot who can't even figure out the optics of being a good Republican. Via the Sun-Sentinel:

Scott visited a senior center Tuesday to warn about cuts he said Obamacare is forcing in a popular version of the Medicare health program and to collect their horror stories. What he found was a satisfied group with few complaints. The 20 seniors assembled for a roundtable with Scott at the Volen Center were largely content with their Medicare coverage and didn't have negative stories to recount. "I'm completely satisfied," Harvey Eisen, 92, a West Boca resident, told Scott.

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