Could happen. Wasn't there once a guy named Lowell Weicker?

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Gallagher was 2006 I believe.

That is not a long time ago as you are trying to claim here.

As I have watched my country and my party turning to the right, I have been becoming more liberal. So have many others.

You are reading something that isn't there. This is a move to the right for our party. We are about to elect a someone who helped Bush get into office. Someone who worked his ass of to help McCain/Palin. Once again, he is better than Scott. Not by much on education if you look at his past actions. Pretty words he is using these days though.

I am under the assumption you are aware of his past actions. He follows Jebs lead on education. I do think he will do a better job overseeing the privatization than Scott. With Scott there is not accountability. I think Crist will at least keep an eye on the money as he gives them more an more.

He vetoed a bill that was pushed by Jeb that would have hurt teachers.

I even mentioned it up thread. The Florida legislature is so screwed up that even Scott has vetoed some of their bills. You should find a different metric to use. He will in no way be more fair to teachers than the Obama administration. You have just made a claim you cannot back up in any way. Crist has been about privatization since it first crossed his mentor Jeb Bushs lips. I get that you have a thing for Obama. Much of it is understood. But to claim that a right winger like Crist would be better than Obama to teachers is a joke. At a minimum they will both be the same with respect to education policy. After all, Crist will do whatever Jeb says on education and it appears Jeb is an Arne kind of guy.

and other policies. I think he is a good man who is following Third Way policies..

Even with all his failings and flip flops, I wouldn't hesitate for a moment to vote for Crist, just because how incredibly awful and horrifically depressing the alternative is.

I just can't stand the cleaning up of his very recent history as if he is now some good guy. The promotion of Crist by the state party has hurt our state.

Yeah, we've got to muster some enthusiasm for a flawed candidate, just to get people out to the polls.

We're running against the dreaded alternative, and we need all the excitement we can get.

Very few are going to be excited about him and lying about who he is isn't going to help. Not saying you are lying, you are not. I also understand your point. I am just of the opinion that posts on du do not elicit excitement with the electorate. Therefore, I would rather keep it honest here at du. This is what the new democratic party of Florida is bringing us.

All you have to do is vote for him.

I cannot for the life of me figure out how people voted Scott in the first place.

We're talking two years ago he changed. Not long enough. We're not talking Elizath Warren who changed almost 20 years ago. That is acceptable. Charlie come back in 2034 and we can talk. I hate Election Day already. To think I don't have a choice on the Florida governor. So sad

In his new book, The Party's Over: How The Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat, Crist details his political evolution from "Chain Gang Charlie" to the politician invited to speak at the Democratic National Convention a decade later.

Several juicy excerpts have already been blogged about in various publications. One of the most interesting chapters is devoted to Rick Scott, the man who succeeded him in Tallahassee and who Crist hopes to replace in November. It begins this way:

Rick Scott didn't only bring a new administration to Tallahassee on January 4, 2011. He also arrived with a wrecking ball. He'd barely unpacked his toothbrush and his custom-made, Florida-seal cowboy boots when he got busy knocking down some of our proudest achievements. Rolling back consumer protections. Reversing the progress on voting rights. Signaling to the oil drillers, utilities and insurance companies that Florida was open season again. In Tallahassee, the whole tone changed. The bipartisanship that had been such a hallmark of the past four years evaporated with the first morning dew. Democrats were still welcome to their opinion — but no one in power had any interest in listening to them. Teachers, minorities, women's groups, and anyone else suspected of being even faintly Democratic — they were back on the please-don't-bother-us-list.

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