Monday, May 17, 2021

Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues

Former Florida governor Charlie Crist, not being content with his secure U.S. House seat, is running for Governor of Florida again. 

Can someone give me his address, so I can send him a Harold Stassen bumper sticker?

A lot of people don't remember who Harold Stassen was, so let me tell you - he was a former Minnesota governor who ran for President nine times Not a lot of Floridians don't remember Charlie Crist from his first and only term as Governor of Florida.  Back then he was a Republican, though he's long since become a Democrat.

Trouble is, he ran for Governor of Florida as a Democrat in 2014 and lost to incumbent Rick Scott, a loathsome man who somehow turned fifteen minutes of fame into a fifteen-year political career (he's now the state's junior U.S. Senator).  Crist also ran for the Senate in 2010 as an independent, only splitting the anti-Republican vote and helping to put Marco Rubio in the Senate.

Now he's running for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Florida again against U.S. House member Val Demings Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried - both women, one black the other Jewish, at a time when being Greek, as Crist is, hardly counts for "diversity."  And of course, he has to deal with the fact that he hasn't won a statewide race in Florida since 2006 and Florida Republicans are making sure no Democrat can ever do that again.

I wish Crist good luck, because he's going to need it.

Oh, well, maybe this time Joy Reid won't question his manhood again. 

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