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Posted on 08/28/2022 5:52:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“I became a Democrat because I am sincere.” So insisted Florida gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist while campaigning earlier this year. Crist is so sincere, in fact, that he is the only person in American history to have run for state-level elective office as a Republican, Democrat, and an independent. He has lost at least once in all three guises.
Crist has been pro-life and pro-abortion. He has opposed and supported LGBTQ rights. He has opposed tax increases and raised taxes. He has been for and against gun control. He has wanted to repeal and to maintain Obamacare. As Buzzfeed accurately put it the last time Crist ran for governor in 2014, “there is almost nothing Charlie Crist hasn’t flip-flopped on.”
Florida Democrats don’t seem to mind Crist’s shapeshifting or his staggering, career-long lack of political conviction. In the August 23 primary election, he soundly defeated Florida agriculture commissioner Nikki Fried — the only Democrat who holds statewide office — receiving 60 percent of the vote. In November, he will face Governor Ron DeSantis in the general election in what is easily the nation’s most important gubernatorial election in living memory.
For those who know nothing of Crist beyond his three undistinguished terms as a Democratic congressman representing Florida’s 13th district (which was made conveniently bluer by state court order the year before he was elected), he’s followed a long, winding path in the unusual forest of Florida politics. After passing the bar exam on his third try, Crist worked briefly as an attorney before running unsuccessfully in 1986 for the Republican nomination for his district’s state senate seat. After some tutelage from Republican congressman and later senator Connie Mack, he ran again in 1992 on a strict law-and-order platform.
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Game over....Floridians.....Governor, Ron DeSantis will wipe up the ground with clown & buffoon, Charlie Crist!!! End Of Stroy....Case Closed!!!
McConnell must get a lot of campaign cash from democrats.
“the DNC over the last few years has often been resorting to recycling has-beens in their election efforts.
I noticed that, and the use of electioneering to cheat.
Let’s not forget…after he got kicked out of politics for a while, he worked for Central Florida’s “favorite” ambulance chaser…John Morgan.
It didn’t take long not much to work with.
Rubio is running against Val Demming. Probably his most difficult election to date. Thank God DeSantis will pull him to victory. If it was just the senate seat, I’m not convinced he win.
One thing about Crist, he LOOKS like a crooked and corrupt politician. If he was an actor, that’s the jobs he’d get.
Put that pic in the dictionary next to the word ‘WHORE’
The gibberish of the mind of a lifelong opportunist, pole smoker (with a former billionaire wife as a knowing beard for his queer roundings). This clown needs to shut up and go away. Oh, and he now has a full Congressional pension, not to mention FL governor’s pension and his kickback money from John (for the “people’) Morgan and his former stripper wife/law partner.
One other thing: when governor created a second FL State song (held a contest for it- ridiculous POS pop song no one knows about)— to replace.. Stephen Foster’s Old Folks at Home/Suwannee River. The Stephen Foster State Park is on the Suwannee River, and annual Folk festival held there).
Quite a crew of his supporters. He’s Soooo sincere!!/s
[snip] “I became a Democrat because I am sincere.” So insisted Florida gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist while campaigning earlier this year. Crist is so sincere, in fact, that he is the only person in American history to have run for state-level elective office as a Republican, Democrat, and an independent. He has lost at least once in all three guises.
Crist has been pro-life and pro-abortion. He has opposed and supported LGBTQ rights. He has opposed tax increases and raised taxes. He has been for and against gun control. He has wanted to repeal and to maintain Obamacare. As Buzzfeed accurately put it the last time Crist ran for governor in 2014, “there is almost nothing Charlie Crist hasn’t flip-flopped on.” [/snip]
Given these factors and the scramble of redistricting, the Democrats have some hope of netting two or three US House seats in Florida and of beating a poorly performing Rubio in the Senate. Crist could threfore lose and still prove to be of great benefit for the Dems in Florida's Congressional races.
Very astute. That makes a lot of sense; thanks for your insight.
Somebody check if Charlie is wearing black Nikes with a white swoosh....
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