Political opportunist Charlie Crist endorses Barack Obama for president

I can’t imagine why any Democrat would ever trust this guy who only became an ‘independent’ because he lost the primary to Marco Rubio. And now he’s making his opportunist switch complete by not only endorsing Obama, but doing it in a speech at the DNC.

What a freaking loser:

MIAMI HERALD — Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican-turned-independent, continued his political makeover Sunday by endorsing President Barack Obama’s re-election and calling him “the right leader for our times.”

“President Obama has a strong record of doing what is best for America and Florida,” Crist wrote in an op-ed column in Sunday’s Tampa Bay Times, “and he built it by spending more time worrying about what his decisions would mean for the people than for his political fortunes. That’s what makes him the right leader for our times, and that’s why I’m proud to stand with him today.”

Crist praised Obama for protecting the middle class, strengthening Medicare, guiding the nation through an economic collapse, supporting public schools and investing in highways, railroads and airports, but without using the word “stimulus.”

Crist’s opinion piece is the latest in a series of political steps in which he appears to be inching closer to becoming a Democrat and potentially challenging Gov. Rick Scott in 2014. That would complete a metamorphosis for a politician who once called himself a “Reagan Republican and a “Jeb Bush Republican.”

Crist’s career crashed to a halt in 2010 when he left the Republican Party, ran for the U.S. Senate as an independent and was soundly defeated by Republican Marco Rubio.

Crist did not mention Mitt Romney by name in his op-ed column, but he said the Republican Party has drifted too far to the right.

The Washington Examiner reminds us of a brief Charlie Crist moment that should turn off most if not all Democrats from supporting him:


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