If Chris Cillizza says it’s so, it must be true:
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) will announce his future political plans today, a decision widely reported — by the Fix among many others — to be a stepping-away from the Republican party to run for the Senate this fall as an independent.
Crist, perhaps seeking to preserve his ability to change his mind in the final hours before making an official announcement today at 5 pm in St. Petersburg, denied Wednesday that the die was cast on an independent bid. But, sources familiar with the process insisted he had begun to inform people that he would pursue a third party candidacy.
Those same sources cautioned, however, that Crist is notoriously fickle — even on major decisions like this one — and that until he says the words “I am running as an independent” things could still change.
Oh please Charlie, just do it. Lonesome Joe needs a friend, and God knows the Republicans in Florida had been Rubioized beyond all recognition. Hell, I’ll bet Jeb Bush couldn’t beat Mr. Rubio in Florida’s US Senate Republican primary right now, that’s how crazy the Grande Olde Party of Florida has become.
Rubio’s credit card abuse scandal hasn’t done a thing to blunt his momentum; it probably just gives him street cred with all the wingnuts up to their ears in credit card debt. Rubio would have to admit to an affair with Tiger Woods for you to have any chance. I have to admit that these days nothing would surprise me, but I don’t think that one is very likely to surface.
Tiger has some standards after all.