Conservatives continue to pile on RINO Crist
July 10, 2008 at 10:45 am by Wayne GarciaGetting ready to be hitched has done very little to endear Charlie Crist to conservatives. Today’s thumping comes courtesy of the Washington Times. In an op-ed, Burnie Thompson writes of Crist:
Mr. McCain would be hard pressed to make a worse choice.
True, Mr. McCain won Florida’s primary on the wave of Mr. Crist’s late endorsement, which Mr. McCain rode to shore as the Republican presidential candidate. The Florida governor is especially popular in the state’s liberal precincts, and he likely would deliver the Sunshine State in November.
But this would spell victory for big-government Republicanism, and a definitive departure from the virtues of small government and personal responsibility. Mr. Crist and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger are the bookend faces of the new Republican Party. Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater’s pictures on the grand old mantle have been turned to the wall.
Mr. Crist is the RINO poster boy. He’s a Republican in name only. He’s as politically calculating as the Clintons, and equally enamored of power. That explains why he’s been flying around the country on the Arizona senator’s left wing, vying for the vice presidency as his state’s economy sinks.
