Of course, if he wanted to be a real weasel, he'd just label himself an "independent" and call it a day.

For the moment. I wouldn't trust him to tell the truth if he said the sun came up in the East this morning.

Just look at what we in Florida have now. A real Repug weasel. Crist was a good Governor. I voted for him before and will support him again. I never ever voted Republican before, but I made an exception with him. I wish you would not lump him in the mold of other Republican's who have changed sides.

you voted for a republican?

turn in your DU card mister

Wasn't a member of DU then.

See his voter protection and Everglades policies for an example.

He is, of course, a politician.

and like him (and Obama). He was always considered a RINO. Remember "the hug" which pretty much got him kicked out of the party?

his reputation here in Florida is a guy who changes with the wind. He'll say whatever he thinks will
win him his next office. Right now the state is slowly moving to the center and his views are moving that way. One of things I'm most interested in seeing are his current views on our state's education system. As the last elected Education Commissioner, he worked right along with Jeb to start up the state's rush to privatize our public schools and dole out public dollars to private companies to run charter schools.

I will give him credit for his governance on abortion. While he says he is anti-abortion, he did foil several legislative attempts to basically outlaw abortion at the end of his last term. Its one of the reasons, the right turned on him in the primary with Rubio.

He simply puts his finger in the air to see which way the political winds are blowing that day and bends accordingly. He was responsible for a massive (and unnecessary) property tax cut that was a dream come true for the high rollers. I like Crist jumping on board and I respect the good things he did; but he's still opportunistic Chain Gang Charlie to me.

Seeing their respective body language together, I cant help but think that our President genuinely likes Crist on a personal level and sees much common ground with him. I trust the Presidents judgement here and I know the main goal will be building an even bigger tent to compete/eventually defeat the FL. GOP at a statewide level. Little steps on a path to bigger and better things.

who can pull together a viable campaign for Fl Gov. You might think there is an alternative, but there really isn't.

As he has said, the party left him. I happen to like him and think he is a good fit for the Democratic Party.

In Florida it is going to take a moderate to take the Governorship and Christ is pretty moderate. Anyone but Scott please!

If you look at party switchers in congress, you see they always tend to have significant changes to their voting record at sites that analyze how liberal/conservative politicians are.

Also, Crist is still young enough to have dreams of holding other elected offices in the future in Florida, even a career as a private citizen who makes some money off their fame as a governor would be helped more at this point by a shift in a liberal direction, since he's already a traitor in republican's eyes.

Also, I'd gladly rather have a 50/50 moderate then a radical corrupt bastard like Scott who tries to personally profit off his time in office, like his drug testing bill that just happens to benefit a drug testing company he owns stock in.