Charlie Crist perpetuates his lying

Charlie Crist, when he was running for governor of Florida, promised that he would be a Jeb Bush Republican, since Bush had been a popular governor for the folks in that state, but his actions didn’t match his deeds. He raised taxes and named liberals to the judiciary.

Then he decided that he wanted to be a Senator, but he got slammed by Marco Rubio in the primary, so he left the Republican Party and joined the Democrats in time for the gubernatorial election this year. Now, he says that he left the Republicans because they’re a bunch of racists, since he was defeated after he shared a moment and a hug with the President. Says the Washington Times;

Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said in an interview Tuesday that the primary reason he left the Republican Party is because of its “intolerable” racism.

The Republican-turned-independent-turned-Democrat told Fusion TV’s Jorge Ramos that he saw so much hostility toward President Obama that he just “couldn’t take it anymore.”

“They’re perceived now as being anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-minority, anti-gay, anti-education, anti-environment,” he said. “I just wasn’t comfortable.

“I couldn’t be consistent with myself and my core beliefs, and stay with a party that was so unfriendly toward the African-American president, I’ll just go there,” he said.

Also, he couldn’t be a republican because he couldn’t win Republican primaries, so the LSOS joined in the meme about racism. He belongs in the Democrat party. You know his sauce is weak when the Washington Post calls him a liar;

Crist’s rhetoric reflected reality. He needed to win both Democratic and Republican votes if he had any chance at winning the general election. (He didn’t win — or come very close.) Alienating either party would have badly hurt his standing. Crist did what made sense politically: Cast his decision as an act of conscience when faced with a two-party system that was not serving the needs of its people.

So why then is Crist changing his story now? Again, politics seems to be the obvious answer. Crist is running for governor in 2014, this time as a Democrat. (Crist officially became a Democrat in December 2012.) His biggest problem in that race against Gov. Rick Scott (R)? Ongoing trepidation from some within the Democratic base about his commitment to core party principles.

I’m not a registered Republican or Democrat, so what bother me most about Crist’s proclamation is that it doesn’t serve the political process at all. Not everyone who opposes the president’s policies are racists and I think the folks who do are a damn sight fewer than what’s portrayed in a media desperate to cover for him.

I don’t oppose Ric Shinseki’s occupation of the director’s seat of the Veterans’ Affairs Department because he’s of Japanese ancestry, I oppose him because he’s a miserable failure. The same goes for the President. He’d be a miserable failure if he was all white. He’s had more than five years to fix the economy, he could have authorized drilling oil in the beginning and we wouldn’t have the high gas prices and the resulting inflation that comes from hauling our goods to market on the roads.

Building a simple pipeline would have put thousands of Americans back to work, but the President clings to his liberal principles harder than he does to common sense. This is the 21st century, for Pete’s sake, no one with a drab of intelligence thinks that failure is exclusive to any particular skin color, but a lack of intelligence when it comes to the real world is exclusive to a particular party. Someone once said that so much of what the Democrats think they know just isn’t true. That was the way it was when Jimmy Carter was president and it’s true today. Irrespective of the melanin content of a person’s skin.

Richard Nixon was that kind of moron, too. Remember that his stupid “Wage and Price Freeze” to curb inflation was about the most dumbass thing that ever came out of the White House until recently. So stupidity isn’t exclusive to one party or the other either, but the difference is that Nixon stopped his asshattery when it made inflation worse.

This administration, however just plows straight ahead despite their obvious failures – failures like Shinseki. They’d rather distract us with gun legislation to cover up for their poor economic record, along with all of their policies. And Crist is doing the same thing in Florida, trying to make himself a darling of the Democrats by calling the Republicans racists to distract from his disastrous term in the governor’s mansion. So how many Floridians went back to work because of Crist’s remarks? How many pennies fell off the price of gas? How much did the price of milk go down?

I will admit, however, that I don’t like orange people and I don’t think I’m alone in that particular prejudicial proclamation.

Oh, yeah; fire Shinseki!!!

Category: Politics