No, I'm not making this stuff up. The Tampa Bay Times editorial team opened up a serious can of wup on Rick Scott. They did a point-by-point analysis of how he is using the same voter tactics as Governor Wallace. Here's a taste:
"This June, the governor of another Southern state is challenging the federal government's authority. Nearly 50 years after Wallace's showdown, you are standing between Floridians and their right to vote as U.S. citizens. We agree that only citizens should vote, but your approach to cleaning up the voter rolls is fatally flawed. The U.S. Justice Department and county supervisors of election have reached the same conclusion and told you to stop, yet you persist.
Gov. Scott, we do not believe you share Wallace's hateful views on race. Nor are we equating young African-American students of the '60s with noncitizens of today. But it was wrong then to deny those students their right to a public education, and it is wrong now to use an inaccurate database that could deprive U.S. citizens of their right to vote. Of nearly 2,700 voters the state identified as potentially ineligible because they were not citizens, hundreds already have proven they are citizens. Only a handful have been confirmed as noncitizens, and many Floridians who are citizens stand to lose their voting rights by not responding to threatening letters from elections officials. The practical result disproportionately affects poor and minority residents and prevents them from voting in much the same way that black students were denied entry to public schools and universities in Alabama."
Um, wow?
So the Editorial Board is not calling Scott Gov. Wallace, they are just saying he's acting like him. I would argue that the entire tea party are the last vestiges of the infamous Dixiecrats from the sixties.
Gotta love these good ole confederate, family values republicans.