Why I Voted for Charlie Crist
Nov. 7th, 2014 01:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ericadawn16This is the third time I've voted for Charlie Crist.
In case you don't realize the significance of this, the first time I voted for Charlie Crist was when he ran against Bill Nelson and he was a REPUBLICAN!
I believed in him. Even as Attorney General, he was never afraid to stand up against corporations or his own party or his own governor. While his attitudes towards certain things have progressed in a natural course, it was really the party around him that changed and became too conservative for him. The Republicans have done their best in the last ten years to chase away all the moderates more willing to work with Democrats like Crist, Lugar and Mike Fasano.
I still believe in him even though hard-core Democrats aren't supposed to support him. Instead, they blame him for every Republican victory since he was governor. My mom is so miffed at WMNF that she refuses to listen to them at the moment because they spent all morning blaming Charlie Crist for everything and how he's an opportunistic flip-flopper...without mentioning that even Obama and Clinton have progressed on issues in the last ten years like gay rights, but I don't hear any fellow Democrats calling them flip-floppers because it's NORMAL to change feelings on subjects as you become more acquainted with what they really mean to people, people you know.
This was in today's paper:
"Later, [Crist] said, he'll look for a way to stay active in politics and "help the quality of life for Floridians. That's enough for me."
He said he went back to his St. Petersburg headquarters on Wednesday and shook hands with a man working on a loading dock.
"I realized, he's never going to receive a minimum wage increase," Crist said."
I don't regret any of my votes.
In case you don't realize the significance of this, the first time I voted for Charlie Crist was when he ran against Bill Nelson and he was a REPUBLICAN!
I believed in him. Even as Attorney General, he was never afraid to stand up against corporations or his own party or his own governor. While his attitudes towards certain things have progressed in a natural course, it was really the party around him that changed and became too conservative for him. The Republicans have done their best in the last ten years to chase away all the moderates more willing to work with Democrats like Crist, Lugar and Mike Fasano.
I still believe in him even though hard-core Democrats aren't supposed to support him. Instead, they blame him for every Republican victory since he was governor. My mom is so miffed at WMNF that she refuses to listen to them at the moment because they spent all morning blaming Charlie Crist for everything and how he's an opportunistic flip-flopper...without mentioning that even Obama and Clinton have progressed on issues in the last ten years like gay rights, but I don't hear any fellow Democrats calling them flip-floppers because it's NORMAL to change feelings on subjects as you become more acquainted with what they really mean to people, people you know.
This was in today's paper:
"Later, [Crist] said, he'll look for a way to stay active in politics and "help the quality of life for Floridians. That's enough for me."
He said he went back to his St. Petersburg headquarters on Wednesday and shook hands with a man working on a loading dock.
"I realized, he's never going to receive a minimum wage increase," Crist said."
I don't regret any of my votes.
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Date: 2014-11-07 07:45 am (UTC)I think he changed his mind about gay marriage only because he was basically forced to by VP Biden.
Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2014-11-07 02:23 pm (UTC)Of course, most of the people who yammer about flip-flopping probably can't spell most of those words.
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