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Vulnerable Crist May Be GOP's Test Case

A_Freeman Wrote: Aug 13, 2009 3:15 PM

You're just another go with the flow, compromiser, who has been steeped for too long in political thinking. Have you ever considered(probably not, as you're not a real conservative, and it wouldn't occur to you) what would happen if you and all the other "pragmatists" were to rather get solidly behind the most conservative candidate available and made strong arguments for getting such a candidate elected.
It continues to amaze me how many of the writers here label themselves as conservatives and yet really don't get it. To the people behind this site, I have read many comments in here and frankly you should be soliciting some of these people for columns. H_ll, I know I'm not the best communicator, but I know I would be able...

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Vulnerable Crist May Be GOP's Test Case

Several months back, I suggested that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist was the perfect moderate politician to help bring independent voters back to the Republican Party. Crist had just announced his plans to skip a second term as governor and instead seek the U.S. Senate seat held by the retiring Mel Martinez.

In that race next year, Crist is being challenged in the GOP primary by a young Cuban-American, the highly conservative former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, Marco Rubio.

When that column was written, Barack Obama's approval rating was near 70 percent and moderation seemed to...

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