Threading his way through sign-waving critics who labeled him a turncoat, former U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler today took an act that he said he once thought was anathema: He endorsed a onetime GOP standard bearer over the Democratic candidate in the U.S. Senate race.
“There is a special time in which elected officials and people to which people look to have to put country before party and this is one of those times,” the seven-term Democratic Congressman told a crowd of his former constituents at Century Village west of Boca Raton. "I am here to endorse Gov. Charlie Crist because he has earned it. He has truly earned it."
http://www.postonpolitics.com/2010/09/wexler-throw-support-to-crist/comment-page-1/I think a comment further down in the article by a "loyal" Democrat attending the rally says it all..
"Before early voting begins and before the absentee ballots go out I will be analyzing the polls very closely and if I feel and the people feel that Kendrick Meek can’t be a winner, my vote won’t be for Charlie Crist, it will be against Marco Rubio," he said. "I’m a loyal Democrat, but one thing we can’t have is Marco Rubio up there swinging and swaying the U.S. Senate. That would be a catastrophe."
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