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.
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Who the hell is Bonnie Erbe, and what business is it of hers to make such an observation?
Such good advice...isn’t that what we just did in the last election which turned out so well for us?
Who is Bonnie Erbe? I suspect a lib though or a Rino or just nuts.
PBS executives want to help the GOP regain power, we can trust them.
Scott Ott has competition.
wrong wrong wrong - we done did that with McCain and where did it get us.
Screw them.
I guess they think the RINO’s will listen to them.
The advice to “moderate” is coming from so many directions, it’s making me want to get out my tinfoil hat. Who is bankrolling this conspiracy?
MORE RINOS MORE RINOS MORE RINOS!
Yeah, right.
The US needs more FR and less USN&WR.
LOL
Quite the opposite.
Crist is in the wrong party.
UGG
Who the heck are these people?
And get the fudge out of our tent Bonnie! The place is beginning to smell.
Why would you take your opponents advice on how to win the game?
“So good that we are getting such sage advice to “moderate” from all the well meaning leftists, eh? “
...indeed...and I suggest that those left-wing maggots need more Zell Millers and fewer Pelosis, Reids, Schumers, Nadlers, Durbins, Feinsteins, Waxmans, Gores, Clintons, etc.
More cowbell too.
I think it’s hilarious how these Dems want to tell US how to fix the party. Why do they care so much about what we do..it’s NONE of their damn business what we do..more Crist, boy oh boy, looks like the Dems found their boy wonder. Charlie Crist needs to follow Spector and get the hell out of the Republican party. He is a Dem through and through
All I need to know about this twit.
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