Unbelievable (With Update)

I have no words for this . . .



Fortunately, The Miami Herald's Mark Caputo has words. He tweeted: "Privately, Republicans/Rick Scott loyalists are telling me the moment he didn't go onstage over fangate was the moment he lost the election."

UPDATE:  From Josh Marshall:

I'd like to think that Charlie Crist's team or Crist himself were such utter geniuses that they knew somehow that pulling out a little hand fan would trigger Rick Scott meltdown and lead him to make a fool of himself just as he seems to be falling behind in his reelection effort. But I figure they probably just got lucky.

That's undoubtedly a correct assessment. Crist and his team were probably as shocked as everyone else over Rick Scott's refusal to take the stage.  Forget the whole issue of the fan itself -- Scott's hissy fit reflects very badly on his character.

On the issue of a candidate's character, it's comparable to Mitt Romney now-infamous 47% speech, except Romney did not know he was being filmed when he made those remarks.  Scott knew this event was being televised.