Posted on 05/13/2009 5:15:49 PM PDT by pissant
The GOP needs more Charlie Crists, fewer Rush Limbaughs, Dick Cheneys and Sarah Palins as it seeks, phoenix-like, to rise from the funeral pyre.
Crist has agreed to do the party a major favor and run for the Senate, instead of for reelection as Florida governor. As CNN reports:
The Senator from Texas and chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee on Tuesday reeled in a big catch as popular Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist announced he'll forgo a re-election bid and instead run for the seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Mel Martinez.
Crist is a moderate, a tree-hugger (by Republican standards, anyway) and supports civil rights, unlike high-profile members of the Bush administration (Cheney et. al.) who seem to revel in trashing them. From Time:
Crist is a peppy populist who has bucked his party on the environment, civil rights and the stimulus bill.
Go, Charlie! You're just what the party needs to start reopening the doors of the big tent.
(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...
I wouldn’t vote for Crist for dog catcher.
“Who is bankrolling this conspiracy?”
Soros and the taxpayers.
I guess that is why I don’t know who she is. I never read U.S. News and World Report and never watch PBS and now I know why.
Just another stupid lib trying to tell the GOP how to behave......LOL!
I don't know of a republican, or even a conservative/libertarian that doesn't support "civil rights". What conservatives/libertarians oppose is special rights for certain favored groups. We believe everyone should be treated EQUALLY!
Thanks cupcake. Now don't you have some water to carry or something?
What would Republicans do without 'em?
Pushing RINOism has to be working. If the push for people like Crist is on, I won’t be voting for any socialst RINO again.
No more nose holding, evah!
I guess she will have Engels over Marx...it is the Liberal way...RINO or Lib, same difference.
Funny how all the liberals are coming out of the sewers like rats to offer their suggestions on how the GOP can retake the majority.
Maybe they have a point, I mean Reagan was a moderate and all...
The gays love him
He hasn’t come out yet.
GAY GAY GAY
More “gay” RINO’s. Just what we need.
:o /
A populist? Isn’t that going back, way back into American politics?
Listen to Bonnie! She really knows what she’s talking about. Like this article:
http://www.seattlepi.com/opinion/267125_erbe19.html
“United States is no help to Iraqi women” By BONNIE ERBE
GUEST COLUMNIST
A new poll of leaders of Iraqi women’s-rights groups finds that women were treated better and their civil rights were more secure under deposed President Saddam Hussein than under the faltering and increasingly sectarian U.S.-installed government.....
Erbe is a radical abortion-rights feminazi who would not vote for any Republican ever, even a gay liberal one.
Exactly
Ewwwwwwwwwww...THE charlie crist?????? The one who helped to MURDER Terri Schiavo....I don’t think we need THAT creepy thug as a role model for anyone but liberals who thinks if it doesn’t function up to speed, or is inconvenient....KILL IT!
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