Why Charlie backed McCain
January 30, 2008 at 3:44 pm by Wayne GarciaOK, considering the source, gotta take this with a grain of salt, but I have heard similar buzz over the weekend:
McCain came out of his South Carolina victory 10 days earlier with a Florida lead, but Romney was pulling even until the endorsement for McCain by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. The word in Florida GOP circles was that Crist resented unofficial support for Romney by Crist’s intraparty rival, former Gov. Jeb Bush.
When viewed through the prism of the Crist-Bush rivalry, as well as the former gov facilitating Romney’s quick machine ramp-up here, Crist’s risky last-minute endorsement of McCain makes a whole lot more sense. The risk paid off.
