The Senate three-way in Florida: Still happening, we guess! Rubio and orange-fleshed moderate Charlie Crist and whatshisname, the other guy, are duking it out for the right to a job that will allow them to get the hell out of Florida eight months out of the year. Charlie has a particularly tough task because he doesn’t have a major party machine backing him up with money or appearances from ex-presidents, so he has to get endorsements the old fashioned way: by wheedling them out of his friends. So far he’s managed to get some famous dead politician’s son and an actual fellow governor, though the governor could only be bothered to do it by Twitter.
OK now it is after the jump and we can stop being coy: Charlie Crist got endorsed by ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, oh my goodness! Oh, wait, you say it’s the year 2010 and he’s neither a movie celebrity nor a political celebrity but rather a washed-up lame-duck has-been failure? Tell that to the people who put together the preview for The Expendebles where his cameo was framed like it was the second coming of Christ, buddy. Anyway, here’s the Twittering in which Schwarzenegger says that sure, Charlie Crist should be a senator or whatever.
There he is, grinning maniacally at his own BlackBerry®’d words! But maybe a thumbs-up from the pot-legalizing gay-marriage-supporting governor of a bankrupt state isn’t enough for Florida voters. Why not try to find some charismatic ex-president, or, if he turns out to be dead, his nephew? Hooray, RFK, Jr.! The Kennedy scion will take time out of his busy drunk wife dumping and vaccine-trashing schedule to endorse Crist in person today. [Orlando Sentinel/Twitter machine]
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oh man i just googled "senate three-way" and it was not what I was expecting…
Three olds, one cup?
It's good that Arnold Shriver endorsed Crist–his candidacy is a kind of political Special Olympics.
Gray Davis is probably sitting by the phone crying right now — why not see if he'll endorse somebody?
Unfortunately Florida is filled with red necks and red neck wanna bees (My brother from a union family in upstate NY falls into this catagory).
Having lived in Florida and being thankful to be out, I can say that they will get the loss of rights and economic hardship they demonstrate they desire by voting for Rubio.Couldn't happen to a nicer crowd.
Much of Florida is really extreme South Georgia.
And the rest is Brooklyn South or Cuba Norte.
After he was driven by them from the party, it would be nice to see Crist crust the teabaggers, see them driven before him, and hear the lamentations of their women.
Charlie Crist did not know the answer to the riddle of Steele so Crom cast him out of the republican party.
I believe that is :"labidashun uf dare wibbin…" not to be elitist…
"Crust" the teabaggers? More proofreading, please, it's hard enough to keep up with Wonketeers as it is.
I heard this Crist guy is a closted McGreavey. And speaking of Florida, the name of the band I never formed, because I don't play an instrument and cannot sing and have no musical talent (should I take up drums?) is "Marisleysis and the Miami Relatives."
He secretly eats at TGI Fridays?
HA! that's my favorite onion.
Parallel evolution, really, I know not that onion.
superior evoluion then…
from the days of elian gonzalez fever: '29 punk bands change name to miami relatives'.
Parallel evolution would be a good band name, Green Day could use it to explain their plagiarism. Hope Ian Hunter is getting royalties from that play on Broadway.
So the bearded Oompa Loompa has received the coveted Terminator endorsement!
It was bound to happen, since neither of them has any rumors concerning homosexuality in their past.
It's not a Toomah, it's a Twitah.
"…he’s neither a movie celebrity nor a political celebrity but rather a washed-up lame-duck has-been failure"
You shouldn't talk about Chuck Norris that way. The wattles under the chin that's behind the fist behind his beard will flap at you furiously.
Chin? What chin? Why do you think he wears a beard?
"Works with both parties?" I assume this is a reference to reach-arounds and tag-teaming?
Two (sick) minds, one thought.
today we are all dumped drunk wives.
yeah what's up with that? since when does a drunk get kicked out of the Kennedys?
Most of the fruit in Florida is orange.
Vaccines are bad! Jenny McFakeboobs said so, and I get all my medical advice either from Bill Maher or washed-up nudie-pic veterans who happen to have autistic children and are therefore stone fucking experts on epidemiology, genetics and science in general. And by the way, since it's breast cancer awareness month and all the steroid mutants in the NFL have festooned themselves w/pink accents to commemorate it, let me say that because my ex-wife died of breast cancer, I'm an expert on that, so direct all your questions to me in the comments. You're welcome!
WTF???
"works with both parties" – Jeebus, the guy is running for the US Senate, not Junior League Chapter President!
Probably the Christmas party and then the Spring Formal.
In general, I find it kinda strange that candidates will talk about politicians being corrupt, out of touch, self-absorbed….and then they get politicians to endorse them.
Nice that RFK Jr took time out against his fight against Wind Farms to make the endorsement.
works with both parties
That trumps that Lazarus thing. Is he Jeebus Crist?
I suppose this is as good a place as any to mention Sean Wilentz's New Yorker Article about the roots of Glen Beck's notions about "American history"…big surprise! It's straight out of the John Birch Society and related whackdoodle ideologies. Wilentz was interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air today, which just goes to prove how the Liberal Media are conspiring to destroy Glenn Beck.
Speaking of 3 Boobs, Total Recall was a pretty good movie.
Eh…"Total Recall" was a great SciFi idea for a movie (implanting false memories of vacations you can't afford to take), but devolved into the typical shootie-shootie Schwarzenegger vehicle. Sort of like "Avatar." Pretty soon California's going to devolve into a shootie-shootie environment, so maybe they were both just trailers for the coming reality.
Well, Well I wonder how Mr. Orange Right is gonna take Crist being called Mr. Orange Light. Save your Confederate Money, I see a copyright violation lawsuit coming soon.
Has Blago endorsed anyone yet? That is a fucking valuable thing. You don't just give that away.
"Works with both parties?" Now that's a flat-out lie. Republicans don't work with anybody else, and Democrats don't even work with themselves.
Independent Crist has been spending the entire campaign trying to convince people that Republican Crist isn't really him, but actually his evil twin bother.
The current numbers are something like 50% for Rubio, and 25% each for Crist and "the other guy." About the only way he'd lose now is if it comes to light he used his party credit card on Rentboy.com
This was a smokescreen move by the Austrian Mistake to distract the media from writing about Mr. Special Olympics line-item vetoing most of the money budgeted for state-funded special education. Nobody does hypocrisy like the Repubs. And the Pete Wilson wing of the CAGOP houses the most incorrigable hypocrites, including Arnold and Whitman.
Little known fact: Rubio is an anchor baby.
"Orange, closeted frat boy"…Nail, meet head.
Arnold and Whitman, hmmm. I'm betting she can take him in arm wrestling.
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