Dear lord, we beseech thee to grant our prayers so that in the last week of this 2006 campaign season we can witness:

  1. Charlie Crist agree that Jim Davis' attendance record in Congress while he was trying to run and win a Democratic primary campaign isn't relevant.
  • Davis and the St. Pete Times agree that two temporary signs on downtown Tampa buildings touting Crist's campaign — and the brouhaha over the legality or illegality of them — doesn't matter one bit to Florida voters.
  • More funny ads of an animated Phyllis Busansky.
  • Davis no longer using the phrase "stay the course" to describe Crist.
  • Crist no longer staying the course.
  • The end of 15-second political TV ads.
  • Katherine Harris pull even with Bill Nelson so that the daily press will have to start writing about her again. I know this is wrong to wish for. But I miss the wackiness.
  • Both Kim Berfield and Charlie Justice being legally removed from the ballot and a permanent injunction filed against either campaign running more TV ads.
  • Any of the following candidates actually show up at a debate: Jim Norman, Ronda Storms, Gus Bilirakis.
  • Just one more Donald Rumsfeld meltdown.

This article appears in Oct 25-31, 2006.