How very strange
If the rumors are true, this rather emphatic April 8 posting on the website of Governor Charlie Crist of Florida is about to expire:
as we have said countless times before, Governor Crist is running for the United States Senate as a Republican. He will not run as an Independent or as a No Party Affiliation. The Governor is proud of his conservative credentials and stands firmly behind the principles of limited government and more personal freedom, the bedrock values of the Republican Party. He is proud to be a member of the Party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan. This should completely and utterly put to rest any of the unfounded rumors coming from the Rubio campaign that Governor Crist would run as anything other than the Republican that he is.
The ads against Crist write themselves. And as Jay Cost noted: “it would be hard to come up with a strategy that goes against the zeitgeist as much as Crist’s plan to run as an Independent.” These are strange times indeed. HT: Ace
April 30th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
“Pathetic lackey for proven-wrong policy that he is, Crist is actually making a wise long-term move. The GOP is currently being overrun & split by extremists seething with bully and violence undertones, unwilling to accept electoral outcomes and demanding a cut taxes / cut govt. platform – that just failed to deliver prosperity during the last 3 decades of the Reagan/Bush Error. It delivered 15 million unemployed instead, millions foreclosed from their homes, tens of millions 1 illness away from financial ruin. Some track record, to advocate anything resembling a reprise of it… Wise GOP’ers who want to avoid being taken down will admit that Trickle-Down failed utterly and bail out now.”
May 1st, 2010 at 2:44 am
“Unwilling to accept electoral outcomes” – would that be anything like Washington, where the votes were counted and recounted until the Democrat was ahead? Democrats ought not go there… Violence seems to be far more common from the left as well, but why waste a good smear?
As far as that “failed to deliver prosperity” bit goes, you ought to think again. Thirty years ago, nobody had a cell phone, ipod, flat screen TV, or a PC. I’ll wager the inflation adjusted GDP was lower as well. We live longer, and better, and richer, now. It was a few years more than 30, but the economic nadir of my lifetime was the Carter years… I don’t miss the 12% mortgage a bit.
Yeah, the unemployment rate stinks. I guess the Democrats shouldn’t have forced Fannie Mae to lend to the non-creditworthy.