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Source: Crist To Announce Independent Bid Today
Riehl World View ^
| 4/16/10
| Dan Riehl
Posted on 04/16/2010 1:25:56 AM PDT by Daisyjane69
LAKE MARY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35 News) - Thursday, Governor Crist vetoed the controversial teacher merit pay bill, breaking with conservative ranks. Then the head of the Republican U.S. Senate Re-election Committee issued a warning to Crist telling him his career is over if he tries to run outside the GOP.
Dr. Foglesong said, "A person I know in the Charlie Crist campaign has told me Charlie Crist would veto the merit pay bill, and he did. Further, he said he would announce tomorrow, that's Friday, that he would run as an independent."
(Excerpt) Read more at riehlworldview.com ...
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: crist; fl; florida; gop; hesafag; jasonwetherington; outofthecloset; rubio
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posted a few hours ago
To: Daisyjane69
In other words, if he isnt the GOP nominee, he’ll split the vote and sabotage the general election.
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posted on
04/16/2010 1:33:32 AM PDT
by
jerry557
To: Daisyjane69
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posted on
04/16/2010 1:35:50 AM PDT
by
Rome2000
(OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
To: jerry557
Helps us understand how the Dems feel about Lieberman.
To: Daisyjane69
What a dick.
We just gotta get rid of these rinos.
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posted on
04/16/2010 1:37:14 AM PDT
by
Bobalu
(Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
To: Daisyjane69
Instead of “to Perot” we now have a new verb “to Crist.”
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posted on
04/16/2010 1:38:44 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: Rome2000
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posted on
04/16/2010 1:40:11 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: HiTech RedNeck
He can be a member of Obamas commie fag baseball team.
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posted on
04/16/2010 1:43:56 AM PDT
by
Rome2000
(OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
To: Daisyjane69
You see that career light in his eyes, it is getting dimmer by the day. He is free to do what he chooses but I think he will regret it, and so will we probably.
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posted on
04/16/2010 1:48:22 AM PDT
by
JoSixChip
(It's time to embrace the madness! The sooner we default the sooner we can reorganize.)
To: Daisyjane69
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. | Gov. Charlie Crist has fallen far behind in Florida's Republican primary contest for the U.S. Senate, but he could capture a three-way race in November if he ran as an independent, according to a new poll released Thursday.
Mr. Crist must decide by April 30 whether to remain in the GOP primary, where former state House Speaker Marco Rubio, a rising star among party conservatives, is favored. The governor has refused to shut the door definitively on speculation he might bolt the party to seek the seat as an independent in November.
If the general election were held now, 32 percent of voters would favor Mr. Crist, compared with 30 percent for Mr. Rubio and 24 percent for the Democratic front-runner, Rep. Kendrick B. Meek, according to a survey of 1,250 registered voters taken April 8 through 13 by Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/16/poll-crist-trailing-in-primary-could-win-seat-by-l/
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posted on
04/16/2010 1:48:51 AM PDT
by
jerry557
To: Rome2000
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posted on
04/16/2010 1:49:52 AM PDT
by
thecabal
(Destroy Progressivism)
To: Daisyjane69
We’ll see what happens.
I hope that the REPUBLICAN PARTY understands that they CREATED THIS MONSTER by needlessly anointing him as their candidate from Florida early on.
Had they only stayed back and let the primary process play out, then maybe Crist would have gotten the message that this was not his year. Instead they gave him money and likely promised him the nomination...using their “connections”.
Spending their money to pick one Republican over another Republican in a Primary is not exactly a wise way for the party to spend its money - they might as well spend it on something that motivates and unites the party, like strippers, rather than on picking candidates in the Primaries.
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posted on
04/16/2010 1:51:57 AM PDT
by
BobL
To: thecabal
Endgame: Jeb Bush slams Crist, Connie Mack resigns as campaign chairman
posted at 9:56 pm on April 15, 2010 by Allahpundit
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Rarely will we devote three posts in a day to a single state race but theres a campaign imploding in real time here. First Jeb administers the kiss of death:
I am disappointed by the veto of Senate Bill 6. By taking this action, Governor Crist has jeopardized the ability of Florida to build on the progress of the last decade, which includes raising student achievement across the board, narrowing the achievement gap for poor and minority students, and improving graduation rates. Floridas sustained improvement is the result of bold reforms that were challenging, controversial and sometimes even unpopular. Reform is hard work but without a commitment to change, Florida would not be 8th in the nation today.
And then Mack abandons ship:
Gov. Charlie Crists political mentor, former U.S. Sen. Connie Mack, resigned Thursday as Crists campaign chairman in his race for the U.S. Senate
As you know, I strongly disagree with your veto, Mack wrote his fellow Republican. Your veto I believe undermines our education system in Florida and the principles for which I have always stood.
Mack went on to say that Crists decision to veto the bill was unsupportable and wrong.
As you can understand, I can no longer serve as chairman for your campaign for the United States Senate, Mack wrote.
I know todays veto was a big deal but it surely wasnt so big that Mack would cut ties to his own protege over it in an act of conscience. Either hes using this as a pretext to head for the lifeboats because the Republican nomination is now officially unwinnable or Crists told him privately that hes running as an independent and Mack refuses to go against the party. Either way, Crists days as a Republican Senate candidate are over. Say, John Cornyn you and the NRSC endorsed Crist almost a year ago, didnt you? How are you feeling this fine evening?
Cornyn says the governor will face an intense backlash from the Republican establishment if he runs as an independent.
I would think that would be the end of his political career as a Republican, Cornyn, chairman of the NRSC, told POLITICO. So I doubt that will happen. My hope is that this is all resolved in the Republican primary by Florida voters.
Cornyn said that Crist would be a man without a party if he decided to mount a three-way race against Rubio and Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek, who is pursuing his partys nomination in the state.
And I think hes got other potential and aspirations, so I think from that standpoint, it would be a bad decision, Cornyn said.
Exit question: I know Crist is momentarily leading a three-way race, but how does that play in the long run once voters watch him break his vow not to run as an indie? Even if theres 30 percent willing to vote for him right now, is there a donor base among those people? Rubios fundraising is skyrocketing and will soar further once grassroots conservatives get motivated to punish a traitor to the party. How does he possibly sustain this lead, especially with Kendrick Meek starting to assert himself?
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posted on
04/16/2010 1:58:47 AM PDT
by
Rome2000
(OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
To: jerry557
Gov. Charlie Crist has fallen far behind in Florida's Republican primary contest for the U.S. Senate, but he could capture a three-way race in November if he ran as an independent, ...I saw that story a few days ago; it makes no sense.
It's essentially saying that Rubio can beat him in the Primary but can't beat him in the General election.
WTF?
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posted on
04/16/2010 2:06:35 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Daisyjane69
With two liberals to split the parasite vote, Rubio looks like a lock.
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posted on
04/16/2010 2:12:32 AM PDT
by
mike-zed
To: Daisyjane69
If he wins as an Indy,who is he gonna caucus with?
The fact that nobody really knows shows again how the GOP RINO elite is still screwing America.
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posted on
04/16/2010 2:16:31 AM PDT
by
Happy Rain
( "Tyranny's End In 2010--Delivered From Hell In 2012!")
To: mike-zed
Nothing worse than the vindictivness of a scorned gay.
To: Rome2000
He will become an instant media hero.
To: jerry557
I’m not buying these numbers as legit on election day. Democrat voters will vote Democrat and Conservative voters will vote for Rubio. Not enough of those who were Crist voters will not lose an election by throwing away their votes when they know by voting for Crist they will ensure a Democrat wins.
Lets remember here that the liberal running only has 24% of the vote (76% of the voters DO NOT want this guy). That is abysmal by any stretch of the imagination.
To: Daisyjane69
We should note that it was us, the GRASSROOTS, that drove Crist out of the party.
THIS IS A VICTORY!!! - even if he is a sore loser.
Next target is McCain...
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posted on
04/16/2010 2:23:04 AM PDT
by
BobL
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