On Tuesday, Florida Senate Majority Leader Lizbeth Benacquisto, R-Wellington, took aim at former Gov. Charlie Crist who launched a bid against Gov. Rick Scott on Monday. Benaquisto bashed Crist for his ambitions, insisting he was always in campaign mode. While Crist held three statewide offices, he never bothered to run for a second term in any of those posts.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., ripped into old rival former Gov. Charlie Crist on Monday. Crist announced on Monday that he was running for the Democratic nomination to challenge Gov. Rick Scott in 2014. Rubio caught Crist in the 2010 Republican U.S. Senate primary, chasing the then-governor out of the GOP and to continue his bid with no party affiliation. Crist joined the Democrats at the end of last year.

Former Gov. Charlie Crist announced on Monday that he was going to run for governor again, this time as a Democrat. Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach, weighed in later on Monday morning and ripped Crist in very personal terms.

Keep Vern Buchanan in Congress, baby? Is Buchanan a PTP or an isolation man? Was he a diaper dandy in his first term?

As readers familiar with the catch phrases of one of the most popular commentators on ESPN may have guessed, Dick Vitale is supporting Buchanans re-election bid. Vitale and his wife Lorraine will be hosting a fundraiser for Buchanan on Wednesday night. Based in Lakewood Ranch, in recent years Vitale has grown increasingly active in the area and has become a Tampa Bay Rays fan.

With former Gov. Charlie Crist announcing on Monday that he was running for his old job in 2014, this time as a Democrat, Republicans at the national level turned to Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana to take aim at the new candidate. Jindal is the chairman of the Republican Governors Association and a possible presidential candidate in 2016.

With the Virginia gubernatorial race looming on Tuesday, a poll released late Sunday and one released Monday morning find Republican candidate state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is a solid underdog against Terry McAuliffe, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

Quinnipiac University unveiled a poll on Monday morning which shows McAuliffe with 46 percent and Cuccinelli with 40 percent, while Libertarian Robert Sarvis takes 8 percent.

Former state CFO Alex Sink is claiming momentum after jumping into the Democratic primary for the special election for the open congressional seat previously held by the late U.S. Rep. Bill Young, R-Fla.

With former Gov. Charlie Crist set to announce later on Monday that he will be running for governor again, this time as a Democrat, the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) launched a preemptive strike.

The RPOF released a website -- www.CharlieForFlorida.com -- bashing Crist while Lets Get to Work, which has ties to Gov. Rick Scott, unveiled a television ad featuring quotes from prominent Democrats attacking Crist.

A national poll released on Friday gives U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius mixed marks after the continued problems plaguing Healthcare.gov.

Rasmussen Reports unveiled a poll of likely voters showing 40 percent of those surveyed think Sebelius should resign or be dismissed by President Barack Obama while 41 percent disagree. Almost a fifth of those surveyed -- 19 percent -- are not sure.

The poll of 1,000 likely voters was taken Oct. 30-31 and had a margin of error of +/- 3 percent.

Only in Florida ...

Former Gov. Charlie Crist is expected to announce on Monday that he will be running for his old job in 2014. Crists party changes in recent years have gotten national attention, of course, as he moved from the GOP to running for the U.S. Senate with no party affiliation in 2010 before jumping over to the Democrats at the end of last year.

As strange as it might be, Crist is not the first former Florida governor running again for his old job with a new party.