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Charlie Crist: I'm no RINO ("if I’m a RINO, then so is Ronald Reagan")
Politico ^
| 2004-02-04
| Andy Barr
Posted on 02/04/2010 5:09:30 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said Thursday that despite being attacked from the right by former state House Speaker Marco Rubio, his rival in the state’s GOP Senate primary, he is no “RINO.”
Asked during an interview with CBS’s “Early Show” for his response to critics who have called him a “Republican in name only” — better known by the acronym RINO — Crist said “if I’m a RINO, then so is Ronald Reagan.”
“I’m a less taxing, less spending, less government, more freedom kind of guy and I just take a pragmatic common sense approach to government,” he said. “And if that’s not what the people want, they’ll let me know. But I’m confident that it is. I really am.”
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: crist; florida; rino
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posted on
02/04/2010 5:10:17 PM PST
by
rabscuttle385
(Purge the RINOs! * http://restoretheconstitution.ning.com/)
To: rabscuttle385
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posted on
02/04/2010 5:11:17 PM PST
by
bt579
(America elected a reader when it needs a leader. Clean the House in 2010, Right the Wrong in 2012.)
To: rabscuttle385
Makes me want to move to florida just to vote against him.
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posted on
02/04/2010 5:11:18 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: rabscuttle385
BS. And Ronny wasn’t a Homo either. Go away you piece of crap!
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posted on
02/04/2010 5:11:19 PM PST
by
Drill Thrawl
(Another day, another injury, another step closer. Are you prepared?)
To: rabscuttle385
Charlie, Ronald Reagan was my Second Commander-in-Chief and Charlie, YOU, are NO Ronald Reagan!
To: rabscuttle385
A picture is worth a thousand words. “You Lie!”
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posted on
02/04/2010 5:11:55 PM PST
by
kempster
To: rabscuttle385
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posted on
02/04/2010 5:11:56 PM PST
by
happinesswithoutpeace
(We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference.)
To: bt579
Guys like that aren’t RINOs - they’er Vichy Republicans. That’s what we ought to start calling the RNC crowd.
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posted on
02/04/2010 5:12:19 PM PST
by
Noumenon
("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
To: rabscuttle385
Pragmatic common sense approach to government ==> RINO.
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posted on
02/04/2010 5:12:20 PM PST
by
quantim
To: rabscuttle385
Sorry Charlie, Butt-Kist wants RINOs that taste good (roasted over a slow fire).
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posted on
02/04/2010 5:12:51 PM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(They were the Slave Party then; they are the Slave Party now.)
To: rabscuttle385
Charlie Crist, you’re no Ronald Reagan.
To: rabscuttle385
Hey fellow Florida residents! List the taxes that went down since Charlie became Governor...I can't think of any.
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posted on
02/04/2010 5:13:35 PM PST
by
darkwing104
(Lets get dangerous)
To: rabscuttle385
Chritth, Chritth, Chritth!
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posted on
02/04/2010 5:14:17 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: Noumenon
You know it FRiend, and here is the king of Vichy Republicans!
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posted on
02/04/2010 5:14:54 PM PST
by
mkjessup
(If you admire, support and make excuses for RINOs (like Charlie Crist) that makes YOU a RINO!)
To: rabscuttle385
Crist’s only ideology is a belief in spending other peoples’ money.
Go away, Charlie.
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posted on
02/04/2010 5:15:26 PM PST
by
Terpfen
(FR is being Alinskied. Remember, you only take flak when you're over the target.)
To: rabscuttle385
It’s good the RINO term is getting the visibility it deserves.
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posted on
02/04/2010 5:15:34 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
To: rabscuttle385
OK Charlie Crist... NO RINO...sure...you bet...
OH BY THE WAY, get your resume ready because your RINO butt is gone!
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posted on
02/04/2010 5:15:37 PM PST
by
JohnD9207
(REGISTERED RIGHT WING THUG!)
To: Noumenon
Well said! I remember the days when *Frist* could have used the nuclear option. A Vichy Repub if ever there was one.
To: rabscuttle385
Two straws, please.
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posted on
02/04/2010 5:18:14 PM PST
by
maggief
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