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Crist Won’t Endorse Sotomayor

Crist throws a Hail MaryAmerica’s favorite orange-skinned reformed bachelor, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, is a pretty OK guy stuck with the unenviable task of governing a drooping land-phallus stuffed with meth fiends, unemployed real estate agents, and pythons. But now Crist has chosen to act like something of a dick to nice Sonia Sotomayor, for whom he would not vote if he were a senator due to her maybe being wishy-washy on the Second Amendment — which is Governor Crists’s favorite amendment of all.

Without warning, Crist took a stand on her nomination on a day when he had no public appearances scheduled. “I have strong concerns that Judge Sotomayor would not strictly and objectively construe the Constitution and lacks respect for the fundamental right to keep and bear arms,” Crist said.

If you’re running for the US Senate in a heavily Hispanic state, why would you not support a Hispanic Supreme Court candidate? Because your primary opponent, who has already unfairly “played the race card” by being Hispanic, is more of a threat than you’d like and you have to pretend that you are equally conservative.

So now Crist has to say that, just like Marco Rubio, he does not care for this Sotomayor character. And he will have to hope that people remember this principled belief of his right up until primary day and not a day after that.

Gov. Charlie Crist says he opposes Sonia Sotomayor [Miami Herald]


10:49 AM on Wed July 22 2009
By Sara K. Smith
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  1. Speed Ball says at 10:54 am, July 22nd, 2009

    Good luck with that whole coming out of the closet thing.

  2. x111e7thst says at 10:54 am, July 22nd, 2009

    The last poll I saw on the Crist / Rubio primary showed that among people who had heard of Rubio the two were running neck and neck. But there were only about 200 people who had heard of Rubio. Still, that was a while ago.

  3. Who wears short shorts? We wear short shorts!

  4. CrunchyKnee says at 10:54 am, July 22nd, 2009

    Crist wept.

  5. Mario is cuter. Charlie must HATE that!

  6. finallyhappy says at 10:55 am, July 22nd, 2009

    really, he was just needs - I mean - wants another man on his court.

  7. donner_froh says at 10:56 am, July 22nd, 2009

    Brilliant.

    His views are irrelevant since he is not one of the select 100 who must advise and consent. Even if elected Sonia will have been confirmed and, if the longevity of her mother is any indication, will be a member of the Supreme Court long after Crist has gone to that great spray-on tanning booth in the sky.

    These people are amazing in their own completely retarded ways.

  8. SnarkNotFark says at 10:57 am, July 22nd, 2009

    I’ll tell you how Crist can win the Senate seat: Bring Back the ‘Stache. Bring Back the ‘Stache. I would move to Florida just to be closer to that Magnum (and I do mean Magnum) P.I. sexy-timer.

  9. Don Juanquete says at 10:57 am, July 22nd, 2009

    He was expecting a Guy’s Latino.

  10. Cape Clod says at 10:57 am, July 22nd, 2009

    Well, given the disdain the Cubans have for all other latinos, and how everybody in that insane state has orgasms over guns, this is a pretty safe political play.

  11. cal: Oops, Marco. Sorry Marco, call me!

  12. Harvey Birdman says at 10:59 am, July 22nd, 2009

    Balls.

  13. Airborne Toxic Event says at 11:04 am, July 22nd, 2009

    Whereas California is an under-stimulated land-vagina. Florida, you’re always such a disappointment.

  14. SayItWithWookies says at 11:08 am, July 22nd, 2009

    I’m starting to like this primary system — ideally the Republican ones will guarantee that whoever gets the party’s nod will be completely crazy unelectable.

  15. El Pinche says at 11:08 am, July 22nd, 2009

    Crist wants to endorse Rubio’s BALLS.

  16. donner_froh says at 11:10 am, July 22nd, 2009

    x111e7thst: Rubio and Crist necking? Quel scandale

  17. Buzz Feedback says at 11:10 am, July 22nd, 2009

    Why the picture of Ron Jeremy?

  18. Pride Week touch football is THE BEST!

  19. Prommie says at 11:12 am, July 22nd, 2009

    The resemblance to Burt Reynolds, also an FSU fucktard, is amazing, and works on many levels.

  20. x111e7thst says at 11:13 am, July 22nd, 2009

    donner_froh: Not surprising if you contemplate Crists expert demonsration of the wide stance in the photo.

  21. Cape Clod: Gungasms.

  22. loquaciousmusic says at 11:18 am, July 22nd, 2009

    Crist on a cracker, that guy’s a douchebag!

  23. Not_So_Much says at 11:23 am, July 22nd, 2009

    Would a Crist-Boehner love child use up all the rest of the orange on the entire planet?

  24. Crank Tango says at 11:25 am, July 22nd, 2009

    Now if someone had nominated Ricky Martin, old Charlie Crisp would have been behind him. Er, backed, him. Supported him? Stuck up for him? Oh well I can’t think of anything that doesn’t sound a little gay. Sorry Charlie!

  25. SeminoleInDior says at 11:27 am, July 22nd, 2009

    “a drooping land-phallus stuffed with meth fiends, unemployed real estate agents, and pythons”

    Them’s fightin’ words, SKS.

    Prommie: You’re next. I would like to point out that FOUR FSU fucktards from the MS program in Political management were instrumental to Obama’s election. One was his Florida campaign director (a state we won), another was a GOTV coordinator in Nevada (a state we won), another was the GOTV coordinator for Indianapolis (yours truly–also in a state we won), and yet another was playing with fire in Ohio (a state we won). YOU’RE WELCOME, AMERICA. Love, FSU.

  26. WadISay says at 11:27 am, July 22nd, 2009

    The total crazy you have to bring to win a Republican primary any more is heading off into a new dimension. Why doesn’t Crist just get an AK-47 and a couple of bandoliers of bullets and start screaming, “Say ‘allo to my leetle friend!”

  27. proudgrampa says at 11:30 am, July 22nd, 2009

    loquaciousmusic: You mean Crist on a Ritz?

  28. Mapmonger says at 11:36 am, July 22nd, 2009

    Airborne Toxic Event: I guess that would be a Land-gina? Hmm. What with that, and the Floridian swamp-cock, the image of America fecking itself to death becomes so vivid. That both Florida and California would be instrumental in that process only makes sense.

  29. SeminoleInDior:

    How did they keep y’all away from the tailgating and keggers that long?

  30. tehbenton says at 11:39 am, July 22nd, 2009

    Way to pull a Romney there, Charlie. DIAF

  31. ForTheTurnstiles says at 11:42 am, July 22nd, 2009

    SeminoleInDior: Good for you. You’re still on the hook for Katherine Harris and that racist school nickname… that somehow evaded the trail of tears and didn’t get stuck in Oklahoma.

  32. Airborne Toxic Event says at 11:46 am, July 22nd, 2009

    Mapmonger: The best part is that California’s orifice is the central valley, which wishes Tom Delay would move there and run for governor. So what we’ve got is flaccid Florida fucking California while it is cross-dressing as Texas.

  33. gurukalehuru says at 11:46 am, July 22nd, 2009

    Yes, but what are the nice Puerto Rican lady’s views on not-gay pretend marriage?

  34. hobospacejunkie says at 11:46 am, July 22nd, 2009

    SeminoleInDior: Yeah, but what have you FSU fucktards done for us lately?

  35. donner_froh says at 11:53 am, July 22nd, 2009

    x111e7thst: Larry Craig only wishes his stance could be so wide and welcoming. Although for Craig it was just wide enough to invite some mutual cock-gobbling in a toilet stall while Charlie’s is an obvious invitation to bend him over and lube him up.

  36. SeminoleInDior says at 11:57 am, July 22nd, 2009

    Terry: Who said they did? I kept up with my college football in between screaming at volunteers to not incite social wars via telephone and door to door visits.

    ForTheTurnstiles: Katherine Harris was long before my time. I wasn’t even in college then or interested in politics. I was more interested in makeup and cute boys. But, if it counts, I beat her in makeup application techniques, which was one of her more egregious inflictions on Florida’s citizenry.

    hobospacejunkie: This is a very good question. When I am done grappling with Hizzoner Dick Daley, I’ll be sure to continue fighting the good fight.

  37. Kingbee says at 11:58 am, July 22nd, 2009

    Is that the strangest stance possible for a person about to throw a football?

  38. wallythepug says at 12:00 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    If there was any question that Charlie was a Mary, this photo pretty much settles it. Fab-u-lous!

  39. Ye Olde Fap-Smith says at 12:06 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    I actually had a chance to sleep with the intern that caused a bit of a kerfluffle with Charlena Crist but chose not to as said intern was just too sleazy, and that’s saying a lot as far as my tastes run. He did inform me of the good gay Gov’s sexual predilictions, and believe it or not, seems the Gov. is a top or at least vers! I always pegged him as a power bottom …

  40. SeminoleInDior says at 12:09 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    ForTheTurnstiles: Also, the Seminole Tribe of Florida loves FSU because we give them a shit ton of money every year, Florida pretty much lets them run the gambling industry in the state, AND they all get free tuition at FSU. Oh, and they aren’t on a reservation. They are still on their original land. We lurve the Seminole Nation. It’s not racist if they lobby the NCAA on your behalf, y’all.

  41. suchsweetthunder says at 12:16 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    Press releases like this make me remember why I hate politics.

  42. Prommie says at 12:18 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    SeminoleInDior: Jeesus, this is why I said “fucktard” to begin with. You’re still keeping score. Face it, Tallahassee is really a part of Alabama, all yer yelling ain’t gonna change it.

  43. SeminoleInDior says at 12:21 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    Prommie: Part of Georgia, actually. Your geography sucks.

  44. Crank Tango says at 12:21 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    SeminoleInDior: I am not sure I can resist commenting on you “grappling with Dick Daley”…

  45. CorkPopper says at 12:23 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    SeminoleInDior: I thought the Seminole Nation was still technically at war with US America?

  46. SeminoleInDior says at 12:23 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    Crank Tango: It makes me sad that you’re the only one that caught that.

  47. bumfug says at 12:28 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    Who knew that Freddy Mercury pledged Pi Kappa Alpha?

  48. Tommmcatt says at 12:31 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    If you look closely, you can see a lone ball, dangling in the wind…

  49. grendel says at 12:31 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    SeminoleInDior: Dick grappling is a required class for incoming freshman girls at FSU isn’t it?

  50. Prommie says at 12:31 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    SeminoleInDior: Okay, okay, I keed, I keed, lets call a truce. Its nothing to be ashamed of, most every state has an old Normal school that they started calling a “university” when the GI Bill kicked in.

  51. SeminoleInDior says at 12:33 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    grendel: I hate you. Grapple your own dick from now on.

  52. Cape Clod says at 12:35 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    CorkPopper: I believe they signed a peace treaty with the US, but it was one of the few times that it was signed as equals. The army couldn’t beat them.

  53. grendel says at 12:37 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    SeminoleInDior: LOL You’re just mad that Crist scored more peen on that campus than you did

  54. grendel says at 12:38 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    Cape Clod: That was back when Bowden was young and the SEC wasn’t as strong

  55. hobospacejunkie says at 12:40 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    SeminoleInDior: Keep fighting the good fight, comrade!

  56. SeminoleInDior says at 12:41 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    grendel: It would be a safe assumption that he still does. Mostly because I left campus years ago. Hey-o!

  57. Cape Clod:
    “…given the disdain the Cubans have for all other latinos…”

    From what I’ve observed, Puerto Ricans seen to send that distain right on back at the Cubans. Don’t order a Cuba Libre outside of the tourist areas in San Juan.

  58. Joshua Norton says at 12:49 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    Here we see Crist demonstrating how to throw a football while looking fabulous. It’s not as easy as it looks.

  59. norbizness says at 12:49 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    So we can either wait 10 years for most of Florida to be underwater from melting ice caps or embark on a job-producing 9-year program to cut through the state, setting it adrift, and seceding the fat east-west portions to the respective redneck states. Start sawing, motherfuckers!

  60. One Yield Regular says at 12:49 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    I can’t help turning to this useful article every time some closeted Republican starts waxing on about guns:

    http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28988

  61. hobospacejunkie says at 12:49 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    Prommie: Central Michigan Normal School and Business institute — now Central Michigan University, to name but one.

  62. jodyleek says at 12:57 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    cal: Charlie doesn’t use Nair any more…he gets a Brazilian. A Brazilian boy that is, on alternating Thursdays when the wife’s at book club.

  63. snideinplainsight says at 12:58 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    He’s being eaten by a sock-monster in that picture too!

  64. a4phantom says at 12:59 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    If only the tanned gays and wise latinas could get along.

  65. Joshua Norton says at 1:00 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    hobospacejunkie: UCLA was originally a Normal School. Really ironic that anything in SoCal would intentionally label itself as being merely normal.

  66. SeminoleInDior says at 1:05 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    Joshua Norton: FSU started off as a women’s college. Naturally, Charlie Crist chose it because of the availability of horny men flocking to the campus.

  67. laverneandsurely says at 1:06 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    I don’t blame him, I wouldn’t vote for her either.

  68. El Pinche says at 1:13 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    If you want to laugh and gag at this republican Lady GaGa parody :

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPF9-o-YHGM

    I wouldn’t recommend watching this after eating.

  69. Extemporanus says at 1:24 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    Maybe it wouldn’t be Greek to me if I were a wise Latina.

    Aww, what am I saying. Fuck the fucking classics, and their silly fucking Play-Skool-looking letters and un-American monopoly on scientific words and money and shit! If they were so great, why are they a dead fucking language, hmm?!

    Answer me that, Governor Cristopopoulusdopolous!

  70. Crank Tango says at 1:45 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    SeminoleInDior: Well I do have a residual 7th grade talent for seeing the dirty in everything. Some call it wishful thinking…

  71. 19kevin8 says at 1:54 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    Good thing he’s not a senator, since that would really change the outcome of the confirmation vote.

  72. DustBowlBlues says at 2:02 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    He does know his state is full of Mexicans, doesn’t he? No? Fuck, this guy needs a new campaign manager, pronto.

  73. bitchincamaro says at 2:20 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    He’s got some ’splainin’ to do.

  74. SeminoleInDior says at 2:21 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    Crank Tango: And who doesn’t wish to grapple with dick daily? I’d personally be a lot happier.

    One dick per day maximum, please. No purchase necessary. See official rules for details.

  75. S.Luggo says at 2:58 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    Thank God they’re getting their messages straight.
    ********
    http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/dcblog/2009/07/charlie_crist_i_cant_support_s.html
    July 21, 2009
    • Gov. Charlie Crist, who has made diversity a hallmark of his own judicial philosophy, today came out against President Obama’s selection for the U.S. Supreme Court of Sonia Sotomayor, who would become the first Hispanic on the nation’s highest court.
    • Crist is running for a U.S. Senate seat in 2010.
    • …. “JUDGE SOTOMAYOR is worthy of respect for her many accomplishments and her remarkable story of success. However, I have strong concerns that Judge Sotomayor would not strictly and objectively construe the constitution and LACKS RESPECT FOR THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS. For these reasons, I cannot support her appointment to the highest court in the land.”
    *****
    http://kcpw.org/article/8080
    July 21, 2009
    Utah Senator Orrin Hatch hasn’t yet decided how he’ll vote next week when the Senate Judiciary Committee chooses whether to send Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate. He says he’s still reviewing her cases, and is trying to be as fair as possible.
    “I generally want to support the President’s nominee, and frankly I like her very much,” he said. “I think she has a great life story, but there are a lot of problems that arose during the hearings that are bothering me tremendously.”
    Hatch has said he believes JUDGE SOTOMAYOR HAS CONSISTENTLY RULED TO LIMIT THE SCOPE OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT. Concern about THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS also led Senator Bob Bennett to announce last week that he would vote “no” on Sotomayor’s confirmation
    *********
    • Miss. Republican Wicker to vote against Sotomayor
    Associated Press - July 21, 2009
    JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi says he will vote against confirming Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
    Wicker said in a statement Tuesday that Sotomayor has shown AN “ALARMING HOSTILITY” TOWARD GUN OWNERS.

  76. Joshua Norton says at 3:28 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    Miss. Republican Wicker

    When I first read that I thought Miss Republican Wicker was a beauty pageant.

  77. S.Luggo says at 3:35 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    Joshua Norton: You’re thinking of Kentucky Senator Miss McConnell.

  78. brewkrew says at 4:11 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    “drooping land-phallus stuffed with meth fiends, unemployed real estate agents, and pythons”

    SKS, I appreciate your succinct ability to grant monikers. You forgot “dumping ground for northern rejects.” After all, I resemble that remark.

  79. Crank Tango says at 4:43 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    SeminoleInDior: I grapple with my own quite regularly. And lend it out for special occasions as well. Will be consulting those official rules now…

  80. SeminoleInDior says at 7:14 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    Crank Tango: This warms my heart. If you came to the Wonkette chat room, you’d know the dirty shit your fellow members of the Wonketariat were up to.

  81. Crank Tango says at 8:39 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    please please please say it warms the cockles of said heart. LOL and I had no idea there was a chat room…

  82. SeminoleInDior says at 8:59 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    I thought saying cockles would be overkill. Only a few of us really go to the chat. We’re a tight-knit, horny (and ornery) lot.

    wonkette.chatango.com

    You must create a name, or I will ban you.

  83. widget09 says at 9:21 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    Jesus fucking Christ

  84. SeminoleInDior says at 9:25 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    widget09: Yes, my child?

  85. S.Luggo says at 10:19 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    The Roman Gabriel method of throwing the ball.

  86. S.Luggo says at 10:21 pm, July 22nd, 2009

    Charlie throws the football like he’s heaving a papaya to his lover.
    “Now, Mister Raul. Run swiftly, swiftly to the table with the shaker of Pink Martinis, and swivel right. And for Nelly’s sake, don’t break any of the stemware. They cost a fortune to replace.”

  87. LoweredPeninsula says at 2:54 am, July 23rd, 2009

    Charlies Crist and Republicans love the Second Amendment. I mean, what Republican wouldn’t love the right to bare arms? Muscular, tanked topped, bare arms…

  88. widget09 says at 6:53 am, July 23rd, 2009

    SeminoleInDior: Why are most of your followers morons?

  89. SeminoleInDior says at 10:40 am, July 23rd, 2009

    widget09: Well, I think it’s a large sense of self-loathing, coupled with a crippling sense of entitlement and superiority. You would think my making them obese and/or terminally unattractive would break them of this, but they’re persistent little shits. They keep donating money to me, but all I really want is a box of doughnuts..and maybe some cute shoes.

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