Florida Governor Rick Scott briefly refused to take the stage at a debate tonight because Democratic challenger Charlie Crist's team installed a small fan at the base of Crist's podium. This is terrible politics, right here:

According to the Tampa Bay Times, Scott did join the debate after holding out for about seven minutes. I'm not a Crist fan—I got a few dozen pages into his memoir about switching political parties before the unctuousness and opportunism started choking me to death—but Scott looks like a prissy little primadonna here. And in a race as tight as this one, Scott simply can't afford to look like an asshole.