Saturday, March 22, 2008

Dave Barry: Everyone involved in planning Florida's primary "turned out to be a moron"

American Idol meets the Florida primary. Miami Herald columnist Dave Barry suggests the solution to Florida's delegate debacle: the nation's first primary by text.

"Seriously, could the state of Florida look any more ridiculous?," Barry writes. "Why does this kind of thing always happen to us? Why can't we be a regular state, such as (to pick a random state) Minnesota? There were no hassles with the Minnesota primary. The Minnesotans simply chose an appropriate primary date, voted and resumed scraping ice off their bodies, confident that their votes would count.

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