I don’t want to quote too much from this morning’s Jolt, but I think this point is worth repeating:

Most ambitious politicians would be love the chance to be governor of one of the nation’s most important swing states. (Ask Rudy Giuliani whether guys in that position get courted and schmoozed.) And ninety-nine percent of first term governors are hell-bent on winning a second term. Crist is jumping from one really big job to another, and has never given a really compelling answer as to why he wants to be a senator so badly.
Take a look at Crist’s campaign web site. There’s a personal testimonial about what Crist has done for Florida, from what appears to be one of the Golden Girls. A blog post justifying the veto of education reform that has most Florida Republicans, including Jeb Bush. A statement on the Florida House’s approval of a compact with the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Meet him and his wife, see photos of events, find your polling place, etcetera.
What’s missing? Almost anything about what he would do as Senator. It’s all about what Crist has done, not what he will do, or what he intends to do. It’s all backward looking – here’s my resume – and not forward-looking.

Now take a look at the front page of Rubio’s campaign site. There’s a statement that “the stimulus’s legacy will be one of wasteful spending, less jobs, and even more debt.” There’s video of him talking to Neil Cavuto about “standing up to the tax-and-spending Washington ways and offering conservative alternatives.” Then there’s the link to his eight key points on taxes and spending, including “freeze non-defense and non-veterans discretionary spending at pre-Obama levels” and “ban earmarks” and “instituting a civilian hiring freeze across the federal government.”

You may love these ideas or hate these ideas, but at least within the first minute or two of visiting Rubio’s site, you know what he wants to do as senator. With Crist, there’s what he’s done quite recently — the Seminole tribe agreement, the education bill veto — and what he’s done in the past (“Consistent Leadership: The Charlie Crist Conservative Record”), but not so much on what sending him to the U.S. Senate would achieve.