How disgusted are Floridians with Gov. Charlie Crist? So disgusted they’d be willing to have Jeb Bush back in Tallahassee. A new poll shows 46 percent of the registered voters asked wish that Jeb were still in the governor’s mansion, while 41 percent would rather keep Charlie, even though he hardly ever spends any actual time in said manse. Among Republicans, who will be selecting either Crist or former state House Speaker Marco Rubio as their U.S. Senate candidate soon, it’s way worse news for Crist. A landslide 71 percent prefer a hypothetical Jeb as governor to Crist, with only 22 percent backing Charlie.

The grimmer detail to emerge from this poll, which was commissioned by the St. Petersburg Times, Miami Herald, and Tampa’s Bay News 9, is that Jeb Bush could have a future in the White House.

“This is absolutely a proxy war between two Republican clans,” MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, the former Republican congressman from Pensacola, told the St. Petersburg Times. “And it’s not just about Florida, but about what Florida politician gets to the front of the line to run for president. It’s a zero sum game. Any advantage Charlie Crist gets hurts Jeb Bush, and any advantage Jeb Bush gets hurts Charlie Crist.”

George Will on ABC’s This Week predicted Rubio would be the winner of the Senate primary, based on the recent upheaval in New York’s U.S. Rep. District 23 race. Republican Dede Scozzafava suspended her campaign after those backing third-party Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman ran ads that described Scozzafava as “Obama’s choice” and hit pretty much every FOX News note.

Dede Scozzafava is one liberal ACORN that’s fallen right from Barack Obama’s liberal tree. A tax-raising liberal who supports gay marriage and abortion for any reason at all — ACORN’s choice, NOT our choice.

The message, in case anyone could miss it, is that if Republicans want to appeal to fearful, angry, racist tea bag types, they better purge themselves of any shred of rationality or moderation. Translation for Charlie Crist: This whole Senate thing ain’t gonna happen.