Florida's Republican in Name Only governor Charlie Crist made it official Thursday. He won't even be a Republican in name on the ballot in November. He will run for the U.S. Senate as an independent because conservative former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio ran him out of the Republican primary.
Of course, Crist didn't frame his move this way yesterday. Rather he made yet another attempt to conflate his own self-interest with that of all Floridians. It's unlikely a large fraction of Florida voters will buy it. .
"My decision to run for the United States Senate as a candidate without party affiliation in many ways says more about our nation and our state than it does about me," Crist unctuously intoned to a small crowd in downtown St. Petersburg gathered to hear his announcement. "Our political system is broken," he added.
Nonsense on steroids. Crist's desperate decision to bolt the Republican Party came entirely because Republicans in Florida clearly prefer Rubio, who has run an effective retail campaign based on principles of limited government, free enterprise, a strong national defense, and opposition to the Obama agenda.
Crist tried to counter Rubio's solid record in the Florida House and Rubio's conservative campaign with a record as governor that's all over the ideological map:
Friday, April 30, 2010
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