Cruising

Unfortunate sentence of the day, from the WaPo: “[Mark Foley] was a respected House member cruising toward a seventh term when...”

By the way, it is ridiculous that votes for Foley, who cannot be removed from the November ballot, will be interpreted, according to Florida law, as votes for whatever candidate the R’s (or possibly NAMBLA) pick to replace him. We vote for individuals not parties in this country (counting the votes in Florida, as we know, is another matter entirely).