"Shall we dance?"
Posted on 04/29/2010 5:50:47 PM PDT by mdittmar
Who knew?
Who knew that a Kodak moment in Fort Myers more than a year ago would help shape news headlines today?
When Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist took the stage with Democrat President Barack Obama, a political fuse was lit.
The photos of Crist embracing Obama, and his federal stimulus package, were portrayed by chief GOP foe Florida Rep. Marco Rubio as proof of Crist giving comfort to the enemy, and Crist’s political world would be rocked.
When Crist bolted the Republican field Thursday to run for the U.S. Senate as an independent, he did so with disdain for a political system he declared “broken.”
We will see how that will play out with our state’s 11 million registered voters, with 42 percent of them Democrats and 36 percent Republicans.
By changing from GOP to NPA (no party affiliation) after his name on the official roll call of 32 candidates, so far, Crist brings the number of independents to seven, the same as the number of Democrats, while 10 Republicans are seeking the Senate seat. Write-ins and other candidates fill out the field.
The political excitement and dynamics, with Obama and the tea party movement on either end, is bound to rub off on other races in Florida and the rest of the country.
Thus, Crist’s move for political survival makes this the most interesting political contest in America in an already interesting political year.
Crist, in shaking the Republican label, says the voters will decide. They surely will.
Yep!
REMEMBER NOVEMBER IS COMING!
Dear Ex-RINO Crist,
You are a Flaming Looser. Hopefully, after
November 4, 2010 You will have all the time
You have remaining on this Beautiful Planet
to spend with your “Boyfriend” in Key West.
Sincerely,
A Real Good Floridian
Since I personally would never support this scum, I have no dog in this fight. But, if I had donated to his campaign while he was a Republican, I would want my money back!!! People should demand their donations back. I’m just saying...
"Shall we dance?"
Why?
It has been crystal clear what he is for years. If you donated money to him, it means you support liberals with phony tans who don't believe in free enterprise or private property, and who lead double lives beside.
What has changed? That's what you donated to, that's what you support.
Be proud of yourself! Why would you want a refund?
I can’t wait until some of these corrupted politician are kick out of office. That mean both side; Republican that are not siding with the American people they should be thrown out of office also.
Ft. Myers is where the hug was?
Right next to Naples where that little jerk A*s Connie Mack the FOURTH is from - the idiot who called AZ law NAZI. Connie Mack was sissy Crist’s pal. Did Connie hug Obama too?
And WTF is the name Connie about that is girls name.
They will be...We are now watching them...Time to clean house!!!
And WTF is the name Connie about that is girls name."Connie" in this instance is short for "Cornelius." As in, Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy IV. He is the son of former senator Connie Mack III and the great-grandson of a baseball legend: longtime Philadelphia Athletics owner-manager Connie Mack. (For whom the former Shibe Park in Philadelphia was renamed for its final years.)
"Connie" is often a diminutive for Conrad, perhaps the most famed example of whom, of blessed memory, was Connie Kay, the longtime percussion colourist (it wouldn't be fair to call him merely a drummer) for the Modern Jazz Quartet, one of the best jazz ensembles in the history of American music.
So what's in a name?
Even as far back as when Crist was running for office a lot of us just knew that he was only a Republican because it benefited him. This is really no surprise.
Yep. All the Traitors must go!
Here is the list for Congress>
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406579/posts
ALL Congressmen who voted for Cap & Trade are either Traitors or simply too stupid to hold public office.
All MUST be REMOVED. NO EXCEPTIONS!
Well in this case a RINO who supports illegals and who cares what the great grandad did.
I saw where Connie Mack The fourth was a Crist man. Crist was biddies with Ponzi scammer Scott Rothstein (1.2 billion). Rothstein’s grandfather fixed the 1919 world series with the Black Sox. Connie Mack supposedly had some involvement in that as well.
“Which Bedroom? Yours or Mine?”
Well in this case a RINO who supports illegals . . .If so, no argument there.
. . . and who cares what the great grandad did.I wouldn't say that on the streets of Philadelphia or in the arterials of baseball if I valued my credibility.
(Ponzie scammer Scott) Rothstein’s grandfather fixed the 1919 world series with the Black Sox.Give the devil his due. Arnold Rothstein didn't initiate the fix. The masterminds of the 1919 World Series fix, first baseman Chick Gandil (who was said to have had underworld gambling connections over several years) and shortstop Swede Risberg, who sought out small-time gamblers including Sport Sullivan long before the plot got anywhere near Arnold Rothstein's ears.
It's one thing to know and to acknowledge that Rothstein made a none-too-inconsiderable pile of money once he knew the fix was in (he first dismissed the proposition but then sent his lieutenant, ex-featherweight champion Abe Attell, as the go-between, but only after he was convinced that the Series fix was going to go from plot to actuality), but it's something else to suggest that which isn't true, that the World Series fix was his brainchild to begin with.
Probably, the idea got really cemented in the public mind through two primary sources: a) The Great Gatsby, win which the title character rhapsodises about "Meyer Wolfsheim," of whom Gatsby flatly says he fixed the World Series in 1919. ("How did he happen to do that?" I asked after a minute. "He just saw the opportunity."); and, b) the Hyman Roth character (said to be analagous to Meyer Lansky) in The Godfather, Part II, in which Roth, relaxing with Michael Corleone in his Florida digs, says wistfully, while watching a football game, It's one of the things I like about this country, watching football in the afternoon. Baseball, too. I've liked baseball ever since Arnold Rothstein fixed the 1919 World Series.
This is magic! One piece of literary rhetoric and one passing comment in a film script, and both are enough to stick in the ear with history itself blocked at the entrance.
Connie Mack supposedly had some involvement in that as well.To the extent that Mack was in any way involved in the World Series scandal or with any of the people involved, it was in two ways alone, neither of which taints him in any way, shape, or form:
a) Shoeless Joe Jackson came up with the Athletics to start his career, had two cups of coffee with the team in 1908 and 1909, before he was named the player to have been named later in a deal that sent said player and Morrie Rath to the Cleveland Naps (eventually to be renamed the Indians) for outfielder Bris Lord.
b) The grand jury that investigated the World Series fix was seated in September 1920 . . . while the White Sox were in a three-way pennant fight with the Indians (from whom they acquired Jackson in 1915) and the New York Yankees. On 28 September, White Sox pitcher Eddie Cicotte and Shoeless Joe Jackson confessed the fix to the grand jury. (Cicotte testified to the grand jury first; the news of his confession spread like the proverbial wildfire, and thus broke the scandal wide open.) The Eight Men (Eventually to be) Out (actually seven men, at first: Chick Gandil had retired during spring training, rather than bend when White Sox owner Charlie Comiskey refused him a salary hike, and had gone home to California to play semipro ball)were suspended by the White Sox post haste, even with the final weekend to play and the pennant on the line.
Connie Mack---who was actually considered one of the most untainted owners of his era---was only one of the remaining American League owners who offered the White Sox the services of any players they might choose on a temporary basis to finish the final weekend and thus the race.
That, so far as has been known since, was the only connection Connie Mack ever had to the 1919 World Series.
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