Posted on 08/27/2012 12:15:22 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
ST. PETERSBURG -- Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican-turned-independent, continued his political makeover Sunday by endorsing President Barack Obama’s re-election and calling him “the right leader for our times.”
“President Obama has a strong record of doing what is best for America and Florida,” Crist wrote in an op-ed column in Sunday’s Tampa Bay Times, “and he built it by spending more time worrying about what his decisions would mean for the people than for his political fortunes. That’s what makes him the right leader for our times, and that’s why I’m proud to stand with him today.”
Crist praised Obama for protecting the middle class, strengthening Medicare, guiding the nation through an economic collapse, supporting public schools and investing in highways, railroads and airports, but without using the word “stimulus.”
Crist’s opinion piece is the latest in a series of political steps in which he appears to be inching closer to becoming a Democrat and potentially challenging Gov. Rick Scott in 2014. That would complete a metamorphosis for a politician who once called himself a “Reagan Republican and a “Jeb Bush Republican.”
Crist’s career crashed to a halt in 2010 when he left the Republican Party, ran for the U.S. Senate as an independent and was soundly defeated by Republican Marco Rubio.
...“An element of their party has pitched so far to the extreme right on issues important to women, immigrants, seniors and students that they’ve proven incapable of governing for the people,” Crist wrote. “Look no further than the (U.S. Rep. Todd) Akin amendment in the Republican Party platform, which bans abortion, even for rape victims. ... The truth is that the party has failed to demonstrate the kind of leadership or seriousness voters deserve.”
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Lieing Ba$$ Turd has no political future.....even dems don’t trust this Arlen Spectre POS!!!
Rejected as a RINO by the GOP, Crist will fit right in with the Democrats. Charlie Crist’s rectum is a Log Cabin.
He’s a political version of a ‘Social Climber’, always has been. Now he’s just a ‘Has Been’............
Don't forget their long time rivals, 'Screwem, Bluem & Tattooem'. ;)
You're forgetting an even older firm: Bilkem, Milkem and Run.
Brit Hume: Fading Charlie Crist ‘kind of sad really’ | The Daily Caller
In an op-ed in Sunday’s Tampa Bay Times, former Florida Republican Gov. Charlie Crist endorsed President Barack Obama. But Fox News political analyst Brit Hume said on Monday that Republicans are “not at all upset.”
“Charlie Crist really is yesterday’s man in the state of Florida, and I think certainly nationally where he was once thought to have some ambitions and prospects,” said Hume. “Jon, I would say that his announcement for Obama falls clearly under the heading of things the world will little note nor long remember because he established a reputation here in Florida as being an extremely flexible politician. He was once thought to be a conservative Republican, now apparently he’s a liberal Democrat. It’s been a migration that has taken a number of years and it was marked by a number of political setbacks by him. He’s not a big figure anymore.”
In 2004 then-Democratic Georgia Sen. Zell Miller gave a fiery speech before RNC delegates in New York City, but Hume said that Crist’s switch in party loyalty was different.
“Zell Miller was a conservative, he was a Democrat, and at that stage there still were conservative Democrats around. But most of them have moved to the Republican Party, which required a party shift, but not a principle shift for them. So, Zell Miller’s presence was a symbol of a shift in the fortunes of the Democratic Party in the South … This is a different matter with Charlie Crist of course who was once a conservative and is now apparently a full-blown liberal.”
In 2010 Crist was initially the front-runner for the GOP Senate nomination in Florida. When his GOP bid flopped, Crist ran as an independent candidate, but was defeated by Marco Rubio.
“I guess he ran as an independent against Marco Rubio after losing to him in the primary and went nowhere. His star really had begun to fade. It’s kind of sad really,” Hume said.
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Thanks JulieRNR21.
Crist is an opportunist - for sale to the highest bidder. That isn't "sad" it's far too common in politics - follow the money and the love of power and you'll find a lot of unprincipled people like Charlie C.
@#%&*#@$ #@$#^%^%$&&.....LOATHE that fag. I wonder if he’s in Tampa cruising the green Iguana like he used to do.
Damn right!!! I hate the sorry POS. EVERYONE in Tampa that frequented the Green Iguana when he did knows he’s a fag.
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