Senator John Cornyn is the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). It’s his job to protect incumbent Republican U.S. Senators and elect more Republican Senators in Democratic-held and open seats. Seats like the one currently held by Senator Bill Nelson.

And he still has no faith in Mike “the Appeaser” Haridopolos nor in George LeMieux nor in Adam Hasner.

How do we know?

Cornyn recently said, “I remain convinced that the quality of the candidate still makes a big difference.” He then went on to say, “The primary, if I’m not mistaken, is August of 2012. So it’s still early and there’s plenty of opportunity for people to get involved.”

The St Pete Times suggested that he chose his words carefully to avoid another kerfuffle (like when he tried to recruit Joe Scarborough).

I suggest that his meaning is crystal clear.

You see, when an NRSC chairs likes the candidates, he says things like, “We have a really strong group of candidates running in Florida.” Maybe he praises the leading candidate, saying, “X has a strong conservative record of standing up Florida’s values.”

Instead, he said that the quality of the candidates is very important and noted that, hey, if someone else (perhaps someone of greater quality than the embarrassments currently running) wants to get in, that’s cool – he or she has lots of time to take the lead from the sad crop campaigning right now.