{"id":5528,"date":"2010-06-02T18:39:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T22:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5528"},"modified":"2010-06-02T18:39:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T22:39:30","slug":"charlie-crist-is-a-crying-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5528\/charlie-crist-is-a-crying-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Crist is a Crying Shame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s most infamous party-switcher is realizing the pain of political divorce.\u00a0 From an <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/100947-crist-says-hes-lonely-out-on-campaign-trail \" target=\"_blank\">interview with <em>The Hill<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Florida Gov. Charlie Crist says it is \u201cvery lonely\u201d running as an independent.<\/p>\n<p>Since he quit his party, Crist says he has discovered that people he thought were friends turned out to be only Republican friends, who dropped Crist after he left the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>Crist has lost so many campaign staffers that his sister is now running his third-party effort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re not affiliated with a party, it can be very lonely, particularly initially,\u201d Crist told The Hill in an hourlong phone interview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He cannot be serious.\u00a0 For a perpetual campaign machine like Crist who ran for and won statewide office in 2000, 2002, and 2006, to think that his fundraisers, staff, and get-out-the-vote activists supported him because he\u2019s Charlie instead of because, as a Republican, he (supposedly) championed Republican causes, is comical.\u00a0 If anything, Crist\u2019s constant appeals to Democrats and Independents probably made Florida Republicans wonder why they worked so hard to advance his career.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Crist has shown himself to be motivated by nothing more than his own ambition, his U.S. Senate race is the truest reflection of his political career: emptiness masquerading as conviction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s most infamous party-switcher is realizing the pain of political divorce.\u00a0 From an interview with The Hill: Florida Gov. Charlie Crist says it is \u201cvery lonely\u201d running as an independent. Since he quit his party, Crist says he has discovered that people he thought were friends turned out to be only Republican friends, who dropped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[353,354,1338,38],"class_list":["post-5528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-charlie-crist","tag-florida","tag-party-switcher","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5528"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5533,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions\/5533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}