Why is Charlie Crist no longer welcome in the Republican Party? Because, when confronted by a common Waffle House employee pinned in a car crash, Crist failed to laugh at the man’s predicament or throw a dollar bill at him, “for health care.” Instead, Crist comforted the man and offered him water. Why doesn’t Charlie Crist know that working-class people are just supposed to die in the street while lower-middle-class white people laugh and hold up signs about socialism?
CBS 4 in Pensacola reports that Crist was headed to the Naval Air Station there when his car came upon a rollover accident scene. Charlie got out, talked to the guy — who apparently wasn’t gushing blood or anything — and waited there until the ambulances arrived.
“I was in an accident once in high school. I was in an SUV. It flipped and went into a ditch. You’ll be OK,” Crist reportedly told the Waffle House worker. Why does Charlie Crist support socialism when a real man like Marco Rubio would’ve sent the guy back to Cuba? [CBS 4 Pensacola via Wonkette Operative "Monsieur Grumpe"]
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He must be younger than we thought (fake hair and skin notwithstanding); They didn’t start making SUVs until the mid 1990s. Before that, there were only station wagons and minivans. Or perhaps he meant “My boyfriend and I crashed when I tried to flip him over.”
I wonder if Charlie C will end up as the actual Democratic candidate in the upcoming race. The way that piece of shit Lieberman was the de facto Repuke.
[re=568765]bureaucrap[/re]:Win.
No blood?
Waffle House worker?
Crist just happens to be the first on the scene?????
I smell a conspiracy.
No, really, something truly stinks around here.
A bit of compassion? Yeah, he in no way fits in the Republican Party.
[re=568765]bureaucrap[/re]: Not so sir/madam. The International Scout was manufactured as early as the 1960. And the classic Landy even earlier.
Once he returned his R credentials, Satan returned his heart?
Meh. Barack Obama would have given the guy a bailout. Bill Clinton would have cried along with him. And Hillary Clinton would have pulled him from the wreck singlehandedly.
Good job, Mr. Softee!
[re=568775]BlueStateLibtard[/re]: Grew three sizes, that day.
That was a terrible accident Crist was in. The biker nearly died on impact, the Indian and sailor were thrown from the car, and the first cop to the scene reported that it was raining men.
If he will just grow back the moustache and get Burt Reynolds to be his campaign manager, he will prevail.
[re=568782]Noodle Salad[/re]: You have won the morning, dear Wonketteer!
A real Republican would have given the guy a lecture on personal responsibility, urinated on him and stolen his wristwatch.
[re=568776]Katydid[/re]: And Geo. W. Bush would have shot him, put his hands on his hips and thrown his head back, and crowed, “Mission accomplished!”
[re=568774]x111e7thst[/re]: Yeah, there were many models that would be lumped into SUV.
[re=568774]x111e7thst[/re]: I’ll happily take your word for it (I’m not a car guy). But they certainly didn’t come into my consciousness until after the great blizzard of 1996, when suddenly everyone HAD to have an SUV, lest their little ones be crushed in a collision with a Honda Civic.
Sounds like a setup to me.
“Crist left the Republican Party after numerous polls put him 20 to 30 points behind Rubio, an unprecedented drop for a candidate (in the words of former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards) not found in bed with a dead girl or a live boy. Instead, Crist is going to run as independent against Rubio and Democrat Kendrick Meek.” http://www.electoral-vote.com/
As a Floridian, I have to wonder, why hasn’t Charlie Crist ever rescued me from a car crash? Granted, I haven’t been in one besides a mild fender-bender but it would have been nice for someone to bring my a glass of water while I was waiting on the police to show up in 105 degree weather. Why does Crist cater to Big Waffe House/Car Crash Victim special interest?
You had me at Waffle House.
Maybe I haven’t been keeping up with my southern politics, but is there some reason, (other than the fact that he made the mortal mistake of being a Republican), that we shouldn’t be supporting this Crist guy? I mean, Rubio is obviously a douche, and Meek seems likeable enough, but doesn’t appear to have the wind to his back, so, hmmm, am I wrong? After all, Crist seems human enough, that says alot as far as politicians go. Please correct me, tell me I’m mistaken, I’m feeling a little sickly as I ponder the possibility.
[re=568782]Noodle Salad[/re]: There’s your winner. Well done, mon ami(e).
[re=568787]Dashboard_Buddha[/re]: [re=568823]Troubledog[/re]: Thanks! Now if we can only get a photoshop guy to turn one of the Village People orange.
[re=568820]Iam[/re]:
I just can’t vote for a guy who campaigned as “Chain-Gang Charlie” back in the day. Crist never has actually had an agenda. That’s why he is a much better governor than Jeb! whose agenda, being a Bush, was looting the state treasury for himself and his friends and just generally destroying the State government.
[re=568771]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: It might not be a set-up, people crash their cars in FL all the time.
But if teevee crews are there when Rubio single handedly rescues a telegenic (white) widow and her two disabled children from a burning house tonight, I’d be suspicious.
[re=568788]WadISay[/re]:
And docked him a day’s pay for being late to work.
[re=568820]Iam[/re]: This facesitter gave Florida to McCain in the GOP primaries last time around. McCain gave us Drill Baby Drill.
[re=568782]Noodle Salad[/re]: well played.
Mmmmm, waffles.
Naval Air Station??? Was he doing his own “investigation” on the current status of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”???
[re=568765]bureaucrap[/re]: Chevy Bronco was introduced in 1966. Jeep and International Harvester used to make SUV like vehicles too but I don’t think the term SUV came into use until the ’90s.
[re=568765]bureaucrap[/re]: American SUVs were first marketed in the ’60s. They just weren’t termed “SUV” until the ’90s. The Jeep Cherokee is probably the one model with the longest sport-utility history.
Charlie is lucky he quit the GOP last week, because as a card carrying member it is against the rules to help poor people. In the GOP a poor person is anyone with a net worth less than two million dollars.
I like Charlie. I might not agree with all his policies but he doesn’t have an agenda. I honestly think he does what he thinks is best for the state even if it isn’t very politically savvy (his vetoing of the Republican Education bill is one example and the thing that really killed him in the eyes of the party). He worked openly to get federal stimulus money for the state even while most of the other Repub Govs were publically screaming against the stimulus while still taking the cash.
But, most importantly, he supports my god damned high speed train. My whole life I’ve been promised that one day a train would run from Tampa to Orlando. We passed a Constitutional Amendment to get my train, only to have another stupid amendment take it away when every other city in the state decided they didn’t want to pay millions of dollar just so that I can go to Disney World more often. Stupid rest of the state.
But Charlie (a Tampa Bay native) understands.
Also, Kendrick Meek has been sending me really pitiful emails to remind me that he’s still running too. If you have to keep reminding people you are a viable candidate then you aren’t actually a viable candidtae.
Well, I as a non-florida voter, but a progressive at heart, I hope Meek all the best, but when it gets close enough I might throw a few bucks toward Florida just to make sure that tea-bagger douche doesn’t get the seat; and who I throw the money at will probably depend on who has the best chance. I’m feeling a bit optimistic for Crist, sounds like he’s got a bit of support from us radicals, so maybe he’s not all bad. I saw a bit in the news about the fact that he just might be screwed cuz he’s non-party affiliated, putting him somewhere 6, 7, 8 spots down the ballot… making it way harder for lazy s.o.b.’s to find him. It’ll be a damn shame if the right guy loses just cuz people are too damn lazy to scan a ballot.
From that photo I see “Take Your Gay Uncle To The Rave” is still a very popular weekend event at FSU.
What’s up with the person hanging on Crist’s left shoulder? Did Charlie go to a kegger party and comfort a drunken college kid after the accident?
What is the betting that after his defeat he becomes a hobo living in the Everglades? Florida is basically a Hiassen novel anyway.
[re=568774]x111e7thst[/re]: There was also the Cherokee Chief. Joan Didion says this was the most popular vehicle among the death squads of Central America during the 1980s. It was great for transporting corpses. You just pull down the rear hatch, throw the body in the back and take it to the dump. Muy facil.
[re=568945]edgydrifter[/re]: Oh heck, it is just a short three block walk/drive from the Governors mansion to the FSU strip. I’m half surprised he is not at Bullwinkles every weekend he is in town.
[re=568820]Iam[/re]: I’ll go with the fact that once he gets elected he’ll probably go back to caucusing with and voting like a republican in order to keep his ass in office. he can claim to be as independent as he wants when he’s running the show down in florida, but once he hits the senate he’ll be as much of a team player as he needs to be in order to keep the campaign cash flowing. so yeah, i’ll still take the one with the (D) officially next to his name, when he casts his votes at least i’m pretty sure that he’s going to be sucking up to the idiots in my party for cash come election time. i’m not in favor of throwing a fairly reliable vote to the republicans, just because charlie crist seems like a semi decent human being.
[re=569036]Red Zeppelin[/re]: Waddaya mean, “basically”?!
[re=569122]Rasvar[/re]:
That three block walk ain’t for the faint of heart, though. It goes right through Crack Village.
But Charlie has a police force.
Chuck’s more of a Club Park Avenue sort, anyway.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I thought the term SUV (we call them Suburban Attack Vehicles) wasn’t coined until the ’80′s or 90′s. This leads me to think that Mr. Crist looks extremely old for someone who should be in his mid-twenties or mid-thirties.
Bill Frist once stopped at a really nasty car accident in Fort Lauderdale and performed first aid which might have saved one of the victims’ lives. This is all part of a confusing strategy practiced by Tennessee politicians of not being an asshole 100% of the time forever.
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