Righter All the Time
Sorry, Charlie, but we’re not buying it:
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (I) is walking back comments he made in an interview earlier today about the recently enacted healthcare law.
Crist is mounting an independent bid for Senate against Republican Marco Rubio and Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek.
Crist told a local TV station Friday that he would have voted in favor of President Obama’s healthcare proposal were he in the Senate. That was a reversal of his previous position against the healthcare law.
“I would have voted for it,” Crist said in the interview. “But I think it can be done better, I really do.”
But now, Crist says he “misspoke” in that interview. His campaign sent out a statement Friday afternoon clarifying Crist’s position on the healthcare law.
My prediction that Crist would come in a distant third in the Florida Senate race is looking less like an outrageous claim and more like prophecy.
I also confidently predicted that Charlie Crist would go back down in the polls after the gulf oil crisis receded. He got a nice size bump because of the free publicity he received playing the role of heroic governor saving the citizens of Florida from the executives of BP. He would have had to spend millions of dollars of political ads to achieve the same results. I am, however, happy to announce that my earlier pessimistic predictions regarding the two major political races in California will probably be proven incorrect. Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown will both likely be defeated on Election Day—by minimally five point margins. There seems to be enough sane Californians who wish to save the state from utter ruin.
As a North Floridian myself I couldn’t agree more. I hate to sound like a closeted provincial know it all (that’s ME!) but I really don’t know anyone who even likes the guy. In my region his popularity is a bit of a mystery.