Former Republican Governor Charles Crist (a/k/a "Sorry Charlie") presented himself to Democrats at this weekend's Democratic State Convention at a Disney resort, saying he's now a Democrat.
Charles Crist was the Republican Governor, who ran for U.S. Senate as a Repubican and lost. He then became an Independent and lost. He now seeks to be elected Governor as a Democrat.
He's constantly changing.
Got that "straight?"
It appears that "Sorry Charlie" Crist has no fixed principles other than getting elected to public office.
Several publications reported that Crist was or is a Gay man. That's a private matter. But then "Sorry Charlie" Crist campaigned for the 2006 state constitutional amendment that bans Gays and Lesbians from ever marrying, seeking to protect "the sanctity of marriage."
With fourteen states now legalizing Gay marriage (Hawaii will be next), GLBT's Constitutional rights are daily violated, while the tourist economy in the State of Florida daily misses out on all of the billion dollar Gay and Lesbian wedding business.
"Sorry Charlie" Crist is how sorry for his anti-Gay ctions, appealing to homophobes, KKK members, TaliBaptists and assorted right-wingnuts and bigots (whose Reichwing anti-Gay propagandists even mailed anti-Gay hate literature to a dead dog, a deceased canine from a Democratic household).
"Sorry Charlie" Crist persuaded his then-fellow Republicans in the Florida legislature to amend the "resign to run" law to exempt only federal elections. Yes, "Sorry Charlie" actually had state law changed in 2008 so that he could be John McCain's Presidential running mate. Crist didn't get the VP nomination, even after he changed state law (and married a woman) in a failed effort to get John McCain's eye for the Republican VP nomination. He did get a few news articles and magazine cover stories.
Naturally, mutatis mutandis, former-Republican, former-Independent, now-Democrat "Sorry Charlie" Crist is now backed by te "usual suspects" -- some gullible corporativist Establishment Democrats and wannabees, peope like Miami lawyer Daniel Saul Gelber (dodgy second generation prosecutor, former State Senator and former white collar criminal defense lawyer at Akerman Senterfitt corporate law firm, who refused to identify a singe one of his clients to me in 2010 when running for AG in the Democratic Primary against Dave Aronberg, now the Palm Beach County State's Attorney).
With advisers like oleaginous Daniel Saul Gelber, "Sorry Charlie" Crist is "about as sharp as a mashed potato sandwich with the crust off," as my mother would say -- his political persona is "Pander Bear."
We see right through "Sorry Charlie, don't we? Or, will we be "fooled again?"
Of course, controversial Governor Richard Scott ("Fifth Amendment Rick") is rightly, deeply unpopular.
Crist is ahead of him by ten percentage points in polls.
But Florida needs "Sorry Charlie" Crist as Governor "like a moose needs a hat rack."
Sorry, Charlie.
Nan Rich is a real Democrat. We like her.
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