(2010-04-29) — Hammered in the polls in recent weeks by Republican rival Marco Rubio, Governor Charlie Crist announced today that he’ll continue his run for U.S. Senate outside of the Republican Party, and outside of Florida.
“I’m not going to let my political future be decided by a bunch of misguided Republicans and Floridians,” Gov. Crist reportedly told major donors in a series of hasty phone calls. “The failure of these people to appreciate how intensely popular I am cannot hinder my aspirations to become even more so.”
Rumors had run amok lately that Gov. Crist would either go Independent or would join with Sen. Arlen Specter, D/R/D-PA, to form a third party comprised of right-wing Democrats, leftist Republicans and Independents committed to indecision.
Meanwhile, Crist associates downplayed the significance of his departure from the state, noting that it was merely “a change of venue so Charlie can get a fair trial in a state where there has been less negative publicity.”
“If there are states willing to take Gitmo prisoners,” one Crist friend noted, “certainly one of them will put Charlie on the ballot for Senate.”
Although, Gov. Crist recently pledged to Fox News reporter Chris Wallace that he would run as a Republican and would back the winner of the U.S. Senate primary, aides say that the governor had “spoken under duress after particularly grueling tanning session.”
14 responses so far ↓
1 ChileSerrano // Apr 29, 2010 at 4:07 pm
"I didn't leave the Republican party; the Republican party left me!"
~Charles Joseph Crist Jr.
2 Upnorthlurkin // Apr 29, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Well, if hillary can run and win in NY (where she didn't live…) maybe Crist can run in Puerto Rico, our next state?! (I've lost count…will that be 58th or 59th?!)
3 onlineanalyst // Apr 29, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Did Crist pay the tax for his latest ManTan session? Was Crist absolved from this tribute to O-care since he had formerly indulged in a Judas-hug with ObaMao?
Squishes don't campaign nor vote based on convictions and principles; they campaign and vote meet their daily dose of ego-stroking, power-grabbing, and monetary influence.
BTW I love your description of Specter as a D/R/D-PA, Scott.
4 boberin // Apr 29, 2010 at 6:45 pm
They say those tanning booths are as addictive as many drugs. He appears to bear this theory out. kind of a reverse Michael Jackson thing going on there.
5 ChileSerrano // Apr 29, 2010 at 9:06 pm
For shame, bob. Mocking a Person of Color. It's noticed, you … you …racist !
/s
6 onlineanalyst // Apr 29, 2010 at 9:15 pm
I wouldn't know about tanning booths, but I am addicted to my computer. Will Internet taxes be next?
7 Hawkeye_R // Apr 29, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Yes.
8 Hawkeye_R // Apr 29, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Scott, was the "particularly grueling tanning session" you mentioned a reference to the latest poll numbers? (:D)
9 camojack // Apr 30, 2010 at 4:31 am
ChileSerrano
"I didn't leave the Republican party; the Republican party left me!"
~Charles Joseph Crist Jr.
He said, paraphrasing Ronald Reagan. Indeed, Crist left the Republican Party in an ideological sense some time ago…
10 boberin // Apr 30, 2010 at 12:19 pm
Which person are you referring to? Only one has any color…and that's the caucasion one…I think…I'm soooo confused!
11 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 30, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Crist: "I PLEDGE to you…yadda…blah…woof…"
Wallace: "Yeah. Right."
12 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 30, 2010 at 10:53 pm
For some reason, Iran's selection to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, seems vaguely Orwellian — civilisation is unravelling before my eyes; I'm not liking the show.
The self-centeredness of the 1960's is alive and well in people like Crist, a 3rd-rate has-been, but he wants what he wants. As Jim Morrison once screamed into a microphone, "We want the World and we want it NOW!!!!"
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.
~~1John 2:15-17
13 JamesonLewis3rd // May 2, 2010 at 12:48 am
Whereas they had always been known to be quite docile, "Rumors had run amok lately," he said.
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