All Posts Tagged With: "Charlie Crist"
Crist Pulls Ahead In The Polls
I’ve been watching Florida very closely mainly because it’s one of the most prominent tests the Tea Party will face. And while a lot can happen until the election this can’t be good news for the “purge the moderates” group.
Gov. Charlie Crist has a large lead in the three-way race to the be the next [...]
Don’t Count Your Chickens…
Harry Reid as the Comeback Kid?
A Republican civil war and some rather, well, fowl comments about health care might just be giving Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a fresh chance at reelection this fall.
For months Reid (D-NV) has seemed like a goner as each one of his potential GOP rivals held solid leads in polls. [...]
GOP Grooming Obsession
The Crist-Rubio Senate primary race down in Florida is beginning to be a blowout for Marco Rubio. There’s been all kinds of rumors that Crist would switch parties or become independent, which he denies. There’s a brewing scandal on some expenses that Rubio charged to a state party credit card, including $130 at [...]
9Mar2010 | Unstable Isotope | 2 comments | Continued
GOP Civil War Explodes In Florida
The Florida Senate race has been a leading indicator of the trends of the national GOP this year. When Senator Mel Martinez decided to retire, the very popular, moderate Republican Governor Charlie Crist decided to seek the seat. However, Club for Growth favorite Marco Rubio also jumped into the race. No one [...]
5Jan2010 | Unstable Isotope | 2 comments | Continued
Someone Is Confused
Poor Charlie Crist is under a lot of pressure by the purgers and it’s obviously making him a bit confused:
“I didn’t endorse it. I didn’t even have a vote on the darned thing,” Crist told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in an interview Wednesday on The Situation Room. “But I understood that it was going to pass [...]
Moderates Need Not Apply
The GOP purity purge is accelerating, despite their loss of NY-23. It’s no wonder the teabaggers feel empowered – they were being interviewed all over the media yesterday. They see the loss of NY-23 as a big win for their movement – the movement to make a smaller, purer GOP. The purgers [...]
5Nov2009 | Unstable Isotope | 21 comments | Continued
Meet Florida’s Next US Senator
Gov. Charlie Crist has reportedly appointed his former Chief-of-Staff George LeMieux to fill out Senator Mel Martinez’ unexpired term. Here’s a bio of the political operative turned US Senator.
He appears to be nothing more than a corporate litigator-turned-Party aparatchik.
In other words, a typical Rethug.
Hurricane Charlie (Or How To Win Votes In The New Republican Party)
No, that’s not the name of the storm after Bill – It’s Charlie Crist’s new approach to the Religious Right.
Town Hall reports that Crist was speaking to a group of real estate agents, and credited prayer notes in the Western Wall in Jerusalem with preventing his state from being hit by hurricanes during his time [...]
Florida Senator Mel Martinez To Resign
h/t to MJ for sending the tip.
Intriguing news today:
Florida Sen. Mel Martinez (R), who had previously announced he would not seek re-election in 2010, has now decided to resign his seat — a move that will allow Gov. Charlie Crist (R) to appoint a replacement to fill the remaining months of Martinez’s term, according to [...]
A Sign Of Who’s Winning The Battle For The Soul Of The Republican Party
GOP Senate Candidate Charlie Crist, as Governor of a state with many many Hispanics, fears the right wing of his party so much that he announces his opposition to Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination. Thus, the Crazy Right wins control of the Party.
22Jul2009 | pandora | 8 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
