In 2006, Charlie Crist was elected Florida Governor as a Republican. Unfortunately, under his tenure, the state’s economy collapsed. When Mel Martinez decided not to run for re-election to the Senate in 2010, Crist opted to run for that seat rather than seek re-election.
In the primary for the Senate seat, Crist was defeated by Marco Rubio. Crist blamed his defeat on the movement in the Republican Party to the right, so he decided to leave the party to become an independent candidate. Once again, he was soundly defeated by Rubio.
But Christie was uncomfortable as an independent politician. He, in effect has been a DINO for a long time. Recently, he charged that Republicans in Florida were suppressing the vote in last month’s election. He also spoke at the Democratic National Convention this year advocating the re-election of President Obama. Crist also spent much of the fall campaigning for Obama.
So now Crist has made his move to the Democratic Party official. Presumably, this is important to him because he intends to run against the current Florida governor, Rick Scott. He has now joined the ranks of political chameleons like Joe Lieberman and Arlen Spector who switch parties whenever the voters do not select them. The state’s Republican Party had apparently anticipated this move, since it quickly released a comment: “Charlie Crist’s first official act as a Democrat was to tell a lie about why he is now pretending to be one. The truth is that this self-professed, Ronald-Reagan Republican only abandoned his pro-life, pro-gun, conservative principles in 2010 after he realized that Republicans didn’t want to send him to Washington, DC as a senator, especially after he proved he couldn’t do the job as governor.”
December 9th, 2012 at 10:41 am
You would think that Rick Scott would be vulnerable as his company Hospital Corporation of America was the target of the largest Medicare fraud prosecution in the history of the United States.
He managed to escape unscathed, but one would think an opponent could get some mileage out of that.
December 10th, 2012 at 5:26 am
I am sooooo happy that Charlie Crist has finally declared himself to be a Democrat. Good riddance to him! GOP-RINO Purge 2012-13 is underway!
December 10th, 2012 at 8:39 am
” GOP-RINO Purge 2012-13 is underway!….”
Keep purging. The GOP will be down to Palin and Joe the Plumber…..:)
December 10th, 2012 at 9:18 am
He sort of looks like a Democrat. A little insecure looking, cross between Thomas Jefferson and Richard Simmons.
December 10th, 2012 at 9:27 am
Ron, you really need to lose this fantasy of yours that he GOP will become irrelevant.
History proves that in a most reliably chronological manner we’ve always bounced back n forth between government being the answer and the problem.
Four years from now many who love todays policies will see the damage being done as a result of progressive socialist politics in both parties and vote more conservative even if its for liberals who are or claim to be conservative liberals.
In 4 years, many on both sides will “flip” as we call it only to cowtow to the present electorate atmosphere which will no doubt be calling for a retraction/reversal of what got us here.
The GOP will win in 4 years as it always has at least every other 8.
Only the GOP has retained the presidency more than 8 years in a row because of HW Bush.
That was after 8 years of Reagan. Obviously, due to Reagans policies, the country had some faith in “true” conservative policy or they would not of stayed with conservatives for a record term of 12 years.
No matter what mask it wears, conservatism will be in full bloom in 2016.
The laws of nature assure this unless theres a catastrophic collapse before that.
December 10th, 2012 at 9:32 am
“He sort of looks like a Democrat. A little insecure looking, cross between Thomas Jefferson and Richard Simmons.”
He looks like Christine Lagarde
December 10th, 2012 at 9:33 am
He may not be as smart
December 11th, 2012 at 5:19 am
Micky, Crist and Lagarde are probably related, maybe even spawned by the same shape-shifting Reptilian alien-hybrids.