Former State House Majority Adam Hasner is really running for Senate. He kicked off his exploratory committee (despite the name, no one actually starts an one of these and then doesn’t run) and even said that he planned on following the “Rubio path to victory”™ (patent pending).

This is a cunning plan wherein some one deeply ingrained in the corrupting and corrosive, special interest dominated culture of Tallahassee runs as an outsider. They do this on the basis on not being in Tallahassee at this exact instant, as opposed to their primary opponent, who is currently serving in office in Tallahassee (for Rubio, this was Crist; for Hasner, it’s current Senate President Mike “the Appeaser” Haridopolos).

This will probably work (unless former Hooters employee, Connie Mack IV runs). Haridopolos’ career as a U.S. Senate candidates has opened up with controversy about the time he wrote a children’s book, when he was actually paid (using taxpayer dollars) to write a college textbook on the history of the Florida legislature. And then there was that time last week when Gary Fineout pointed out that Haridopolos’ fundraising during the legislative session may violate the Rules of the Florida Senate.

Hasner is laughing to himself and thinking that Haridopolos has set the bar, as regards ethics and basic competency, so low that the entire Miami Heat basketball team, standing on each others’ shoulders, could limbo underneath it.

Of course, what most people think when they look at these options is, “Congratulations on your re-election, Senator Bill Nelson.”