RINO Alert: Crist to Announce for Senate
2009 May 12
Apparently Florida Gov. Charlie Crist will be announcing plans to run for the Senate today (probably from his buddy Right Wing Yahoo’s front porch).
Would you vote for a man with orange skin?
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I’ll have to admit, on paper, Christ is a Consevative’s dream candidate.
From Ballotpedia. com :
Abortion: Is “pro-life and pro-family,” however, he has no plans to change abortion law in the state of Florida, stating in the August 21, 2006 issue of The Tampa Tribune that “I’d rather change people’s hearts than change the law.” However, Crist also said months earlier that he would, if elected governor, sign a ban on abortion similar to the one in South Dakota.
Adoption: Provide a $3000 subsidy to adoptive families. Crist has not yet decided if he would repeal the ban on adoption by same-sex couples.
Death Penalty: Defends the current law allowing non-unanimous juries to recommend the death penalty. He will be reviewing how the penalty is carried out after it took 34 minutes for Ángel Nieves Díaz to die from lethal injection December 13, 2006. “You wonder about the dosage and if there may have been some better medical diagnosis done prior to that” Crist said.
Education: Continue to be an advocate for parent choice in education, including stringent testing and vouchers. Crist encourages standardized testing “to guarantee that each student receives a year’s worth of learning in a year’s worth of time.”
Eminent Domain: Strengthen current legal protections. Crist has stated that he believes the Kelo decision could have negative ramifications for Floridians.
Environment: Supports ban on oil drilling near Florida’s coastline. Continue the net “ban” (limits on allowable size) aimed at protecting aquatic wildlife.
Foster Care: Provide a $5000 subsidy to those providing foster care to families who adopt foster children.
Gay Rights: Crist’s website says Crist strongly supports Florida’s Defense of Marriage Act which is generally opposed by gays and lesbians. Crist’s primary opponent Tom Gallagher claimed Crist supports gay civil unions and Crist was a signatory to the gay marriage amendment petition in Florida.[//citation needed//]
Gun Rights: Balance gun owner rights with private property rights of employers. Crist has been endorsed by the NRA as an “A+” candidate on gun rights. A+ is the highest endorsement given out by the NRA.
Hate Crimes: Stop the “clear pattern of growth” in crimes motivated by sexual orientation.
Health Care: Require prescription drugs to be tracked from the manufacturer to the pharmacy to ensure drug safety. Endorsed by the Florida Medical Association and the Florida Nurses Association.
Homeowners Insurance: Provide affordable reinsurance. Report Card for Insurance Companies. Stop the Cherry Picking by Insurance Companies for the type of coverage they will provide. Abolition of Citizens insurance
Immigration: Support closing borders for illegals and policies that promote legal immigration. Supports Senator Mel Martinez’s immigration bill giving amnesty to illegals.
Legalized Gambling: Oppose any expansion of gambling, but not support the repeal of the Broward County slot machine amendment.
Lawsuit Reform: Support elimination of joint and several liability.
Property Tax: Allow homeowners to move within the same county and between different counties while maintaining their previous property tax level.
Right to Die: Promote the availability of end of life choices, including living wills and coordination with hospice care.
Data from Wiki inidcates (on paper at least) that he’s moved even more to the right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Christ
Just reporting what I found. Don’t shoot the messenger.
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He needs to fall under the influence of Jim Demint rather than John McCain.
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DeMint is fine although he recently said one of the dumbest thing in politics. The idea that he is fine with 30 solid conservatives in the Senate that would sit, powerless watching the Dems pass legislation is just plain stupid.
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Crist has gorgeous eyes. Good looking man.
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That wasn’t stupid, Chekote. Conservatives knew what he meant when he said it.
I’ll explain it: If these 30 vote consistently vote with Conservative prinicples, then the people will reward them by electing other Conservatives, who, in turn will vote with a Conservative mindset, thus getting even more Conservatives elected, who………………………
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Tony
And how many election cycle will it take for conservatives to increase their numbers? In the meantime, how much socialist crap will be passed by the Dems?
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Would you vote for a man with orange skin? — bc3b.
You sure he’s a man?
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Conservatives may buck Charlie Crist
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Chek,
I’ll say it again. If a block of 14 independent Senators were elected to that body, they represent the Wall that the democrats would not be able to overcome. Legislation grinds to a halt.
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The Liberal/Moderate coalition vs Conservatives is 65-35 right now.
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Love the title of this one.
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Politico is a worthless rag of a piece a crap.
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Too bad Crist didn’t attend Syracuse. He could have been the school mascot (and wouldn’t have needed a uniform).
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chekote wrote;
“Crist has gorgeous eyes. Good looking man.”
Now we know what turns Chekote on – an orange-skinned RINO whose favorite “journalist” is Shep Smith.
I don’t know how Crist gets his hands on “Man-Tan.” I thought that stuff went away in the 1970s.
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He and his butt buddies in the tanning salon must be mainlining beta carotene between rounds of drop the soap.
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ip -
You have a way with words.
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BC
You are just jealous because you are not as good looking as Crist. You are probably pasty white and resent anyone who can tan.
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BC
You are just jealous because you are not as good looking as Crist. You are probably pasty white and resent anyone who can tan. coyote
Unlike you, at least BC knows how to shave.
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IP, what search parameters did you use to find that pic?
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“# Unlike you, at least BC knows how to shave.”
I think she’s made it clears she’s not a fan of Bush.
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IP
You need to find new pictures. Yawn.
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“Obama Trek: The Search for More Money” – lol nice Dr.
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Rubio’s first ad
H/T: Tommy Boy at HHR
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Let’s see what the closet homo does about this
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Rubio’s the former FL house speaker right?
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Yes.
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A RedState diary from last week:
Crist vs any Conservative
She links to this NRO article from April 2008 that contains some info on how Charlie likes to play the issues to his political advantage. He is an opportunist.
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She also links to this Orlando Sentinel op ed from April of this year:
Crist, Obama share scary similarities
It gives a take on how Charlie does this. He certainly is like Obama:
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Let’s see what the closet homo
IP’s obsession with anal sex continues unabated. So what if Crist is a closet anything? IP you really need to see a therapist and resolve your sexual orientation issues. We all love you here at BJG and wish the very best.
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But he has gorgeous eyes. Good looking man.
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Charlie goes with whatever will work for Charlie. He welcomed Obama to Florida re: the stimulus. More political opportunism.
Charlie does not have the best interests of Florida at heart. This is in stark comparison to other governors like Palin and Jindal who actually care about their state.
You think Charlie’s going to start caring for Florida if he manages to get to D.C.? No. He’ll move left as Gore and Clinton did, only he’ll have an R after his name. He’d probably switch to a D, if he thought it would help him.
Someone said (I don’t know if it was RWY or someone else) that Crist uses each office solely as a jumping pad for his next campaign.
I have yet to see any commenter from Florida at the boards I read who supports Crist. Maybe they’ll start now, but from what I’ve seen he’s always been roundly criticized.
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Erick Erickson has this up today:
Tax Hiker Runs for Senate in Florida: Charlie Crist Delenda Est
Erick closes by saying this:
I think Erick’s made an astute observation.
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Since I keyed in all of those comments, RedState has yet another post up on Crist.
Charlie Crist Picks A Fight Republicans Don’t Need
Dan McLaughlin picks up where Erick stopped.
Commence firing! Fire at will!
He has a nice photo up of Obama & Crist. All Marco Rubio needs to do is keep putting that photo out.
Dan’s main points:
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I’m glad to see all these articles coming out.
Now for future reference I just have to go back to this thread to pull out info on Crist.
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Coyote’s obsession with Palin, continues unabated. So what if she has speaking deficiencies? Chek you really need to see a therapist and resolve your female envy issues. We all love you here at BJG and wish the very best.
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Gorgeous eyes. Good looking man.
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IP
Bill Bennett and I have decided to go to therapy together regading to deal with our Palin problem. Just so that you know.
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Here’s a brief clip so you can see some of Mario Rubio’s speaking ability and humor:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qfBmA2qoaA&hl=en&fs=1]
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I like what I see INC. Instead of trotting out worn out faces like Mac, Romney and Jeb Bush, the GOP needs to have new faces like this Marco. Young, attractive. That’s the way to go.
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O/T for a minute; I saw this insightful comment at Conservatives4Palin the other day:
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They sort of hate the new girl on the block. After all, they haven’t been able to stir up in years what took her one evening to do.
And speaking of years, it’s been several of those since gambling Bill Bennett has had much relevance to the Republican Party…
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I dunno-
Everytime I look at that picture in the post, I keep thinking,
5 DOLLAR…5 DOLLAR….5 DOLLAR Foot loooong….
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Yeah beej! Bennett must hate her because she is beautiful and pro-life.
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Meet Charlie Crist’s challenger MARCO RUBIO
He was interviewed on FoxNews earlier today and spoke with much conviction about small government, simplified tax codes etc.
Don’t know very much about him yet (perhaps RWY and Inky can fill us in with more detail later), but Floridian Conservatives groups seem to be backing MARCO strongly and these groups are also against Crist’s advocacy of Odumbo’s wasteful trillions that
were lost in faux bail-out programs.
Do they love Marco, or just hate Crist (or a little of both???)
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Gosh, I thought I made that post pretty short so that even you could skim it and see the point. Guess not.
I said they hate the new girl on the block. She stirred up more enthusiasm in one evening than they have in years. NOT because of being pro-life and beautiful.
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Note to bc3b and Che:
Here’s a much better look at CRIST’s ORANGE skin and gorgeous eyes
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You guys are just jealous of Crist’s looks and manners. Very warm, thoughtful in his delivery.
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INC
The clip of the man speaking about “getting lost and asking for directions,” is titled “Marco” not “Mario.” ??????? I never heard nor have seen this guy. He seems mild, comfortable and wow, very young! How old is he? Anyone know?
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Crist’s orange skin and gorgeous eyes……
ROFL
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I never heard nor have seen this guy. He seems mild, comfortable and wow, very young! How old is he? Anyone know?
–Jan
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Jan click my link above.
Not the ‘orange skin’ link
but the one called: MARCO RUBIO.
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You guys are just jealous of Crist’s looks.
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We didn’t know you had a thing for Oompa-Loompas.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…..
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”You guys are just jealous of Crist’s looks.”
Che, Here are a few Crist photo that you can blow-up and hang on your wall:
Crist picture #1
Crist picture #2
Crist picture #3
…I wonder why I get the feeling that these photos might be cropped first?
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Great looking man!
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Jan, sorry I misspelled his name.
Here’s Wiki on Rubio.
He’s 37, almost 38, with four kids, born in Miami, Cuban heritage. One thing new to me I saw there: “While studying law, he interned for Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.”
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Crist has never appealed to me. I always thought he had the persona of a Ken doll.
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Crist is also hedging his bets about Cuba. From Babalu Blog:
Chummy Charlie on Cuba
They link to a Miami Herald article and quote this:
Val Preito says: “…taken in, by a suntan and a grin….”
I’ll tell you, this is not someone with principles.
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I didn’t see James’ link until after I did the Wiki one. Thank you, James.
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Marco Rubio, with his football background, and clean fresh looks kindna reminds me of a young Jack Kemp.
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James– BTW, thanks for the link!
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Chekote’s hatred of Sarah Palin is actually therapeutic.
If Chekote is ragging on Sarah (which she hardly ever does/sarc.), it means she’s not b!tching at her husband, cursing at the kids next door, handing out Planned Parenthood business cards to pregnant women at shopping centers, picketing Catholic churches and schools or trying to knock the 85 year old lady down the street off her Hover-round.
Sarah is a loving person with a big heart. As a devout Christian, I’m sure she would be happy to accept the 24/7 hatred knowing that it is serving a greater good. She refers to this as having “a servant’s heart.”
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You guys are just jealous of Crist’s looks and manners. Very warm, thoughtful in his delivery.
I thought I heard crazy warming up, but then I realized it was already talkin’.
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patton
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I would tend to support Rubio, but then I am afraid that he would come out for amnesty, and is fibbing about it like Mel Martinez was. Only concern I have about him so far, but I don’t know anything about him really.
But Crist is certainly for amnesty and has not a principled bone in his tiny metro body. Some guy on local radio today said he’s the Clinton of the R party.
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You guys are jealous of Crist because he is good looking and pro-life.
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Sarah is a loving person with a big heart. As a devout Christian
You don’t know that. You don’t have any interactions with her. You remind me of all those idiots getting hysterical over Lady Di. Accusing Prince Charles of being mean, while Di was the one screwing everything in sight.
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Chekote you are bizzarro woman. There is no other explanation. Prince Nancy is the poorest excuse for a man that ever walked the earth.
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You really are a basket case. Plus, you fall for tiny little shrunken headed gay men. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Hey, it’s a free country.
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shrunken headed gay men. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
You and IP definately have some sexual orientation issues. Constantly bringing up gay this or that. Go to therapy. Please.
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Just reporting what I found. Don’t shoot the messenger.
Ok, we’ll let you live.
Honestly, there are worse governors than Crist, but his is not as conservative as the tape makes him. He is always taking whatever is the most popular side, and splitting the difference.
Better than a liberal, but like McCain and Specter, you are always waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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You and IP definately have some sexual orientation issues.
Just because I say “gay” does not make “moi” a homophobe. K? Thaaaaank you.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGhg5mqmcm8&NR=1
See 4:40 or so …
Oh yeah? Peter’s gay….. GAY!
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Funniest movie of the 90s……
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Speaking of gay. This would NEVER be possible today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dKpHtc9F9M
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holy monkey….lol
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LOL who’d a thunk it-Archie Bunker was a cultural Nostrodamus.
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Archie was the chit, trying getting that on network TV today.