Video: Rubio jogs Crist’s memory on Porkulus endorsement
posted at 12:55 pm on November 5, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Governor Charlie Crist tosses Marco Rubio a big, fat softball — and Rubio obliges him by hitting it out of the park. Yesterday, Wolf Blitzer asked Crist whether he regretted endorsing Barack Obama’s stimulus package, given the angry response from conservatives around the country and the opposition it created to his Senate bid. Crist responded by claiming that he never endorsed it at all … forgetting the magic of YouTube:
“I didn’t endorse [the stimulus]. I didn’t even have a vote on the darn thing.”
Um, Governor, wasn’t that you on the stump demanding passage of the stimulus bill? Yes, Crist asked for “bipartisanship,” but clearly from the context of these remarks, Crist was warning Republicans to play ball with Obama. Obama’s response to this had already been made plain two weeks before this appearance, when Obama told Republicans on Capitol Hill who wanted more input into the creation of Porkulus, “I won.”
Really, this is like shooting fish in a barrel, isn’t it? Crist apparently wants to ask Floridians what they believe more: him or their lying eyes. It does show, however, that even Crist gets the lessons from the elections this week — and that his “bipartisanship” looks more like opportunistic pandering in the harsh light of Porkulus’ flop.
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I said I gave him some latitude, not a pass. Besides we already have Lindsey Graham in the Senate, what do we need with another Ooompah Loompah?
highhopes on November 5, 2009 at 2:03 PM
Charlie Crist is tumbling down.
cubachi on November 5, 2009 at 2:04 PM
So when he asked Florida Reps to vote in support of the stimulus, that wasn’t an endorsement?
When he said it needs to have bipartisan support?
Come on JetBoy. The only thing he can do to fix this is to try and walk it back. And I can’t imagine that he and his shadow (ego) would ever do that……
POPCORN TIME! Go Go RUUUUUUUUBIOOOOOOOO!
JeffinOrlando on November 5, 2009 at 2:06 PM
No, Crist did the left…er, um, wrong thing.
jimmy2shoes on November 5, 2009 at 2:08 PM
I can’t defend ya hear, buddy. He definitely endorsed zer0bama’s stimulus.
SouthernGent on November 5, 2009 at 2:13 PM
I live in Southwest Georgia and the SWGCAC is just a bunch of government jobs anyway. Obama didn’t save anything. Moron doesn’t understand that the private sector is paying for this crap and the private sector is dying. Mr. Obama, a dead mule cannot plow.
jimmy2shoes on November 5, 2009 at 2:17 PM
“putting a Band-Aid on an amputated limb.”
I thought that is what we end up with on ObamaCare.
Random Numbers (Brian Epps) on November 5, 2009 at 1:52 PM
No, with ObamaCare you have a six-month waiting list to see the doctor who perscribes the band-aid.
highhopes on November 5, 2009
But the new tax on “medical devices” will make bandaids scarce. Best to start hoarding those and tampons now.
SKYFOX on November 5, 2009 at 2:27 PM
That could stick. In fact, Scozzafava or perhaps just “Dede” or “Scozz” may replace Benedict Arnold as a synonym for traitor if we work at it – a particular breed of RINO closely related to the Frum.
CK MacLeod on November 5, 2009 at 1:14 PM
The “Scozz Effect”! I like it!
Vince on November 5, 2009 at 2:28 PM
Maybe Crist can jog Marco’s memory about his complete lack of leadership on budget issues while speaker.
Squid Shark on November 5, 2009 at 2:29 PM
OK, did the stimulus actually help? No, it added to our debt, it prolonged economic recovery and everything Obama warned would happen, happened anyway but worse.
Spending money does not save money. Jobs don’t come from government. I wish they made children sing this in school. Unfortunately, this generation will have to grow up saddled with debt, with few opportunities, beholden to the state. Maybe they will be lucky enough to understand why that is.
chunderroad on November 5, 2009 at 2:30 PM
When he says “I didn’t endorse it…I didn’t even have a vote on the darned thing” he means he had no…vote on it!
Either he endorsed it or he didn’t! He lied then or he lies now!
Vince on November 5, 2009 at 2:36 PM
JetBoy: You know who this helps? Crist.
spmat on November 5, 2009 at 2:58 PM
If that’s the case, then why lie about it?
Slublog on November 5, 2009 at 3:01 PM
What if Governor Crist just looked at the calendar and learned that he will have a better time getting relected Governor IF he spends his remaining time in office sucking up to the VAST RIGHT WING of the GOP?
He looks like a shark to me. He’s sounds like a career politician. Ask yourself what would be the easiest self serving move he could make.
Me thinks Governor Crist wants his number one headache, a certain cuban named Marco, out of his state and out of his life.
Watch for Crist to fumble something and get too busy to campaign effectively while forgetting to watch Rubio very much at all.
Blacksmith8 on November 5, 2009 at 3:29 PM
It depends on what the definition of “endorse” is.
sarc/
orlandocajun on November 5, 2009 at 3:39 PM
Rule #1, JB: stop digging. Your RINO zeal is misplaced this time.
Jaibones on November 5, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Heh.
Jaibones on November 5, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Scozzafever! Catch It!
ya2daup on November 5, 2009 at 4:12 PM
That was an awesomely devastating piece of magic right htere. I especially love how the “yes we can” chant is flipped to be a slogan for Rubio at the end. The Marco Rubio campaign impresses me every day.
Daemonocracy on November 5, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Hence, another reason why I gave Rubio 50 bucks yesterday. Support the candidate, not the party, until the party supports your candidate – not Scozzy the Bear.
BirdEye on November 5, 2009 at 4:59 PM
I like new names for things too so lets turn “Don’t do me no fava” to mean don’t screw me or stab me in the back. Or how about “Kiss my obama”? Or stand back, I don’t know how big this pelosi is going to get! Another one is “I stepped in a pile of dog reid”. And putting them all together, Chuck Schumer used an axelrod to pry a pile of reid out of obams’s pelosi before kissing it. Can you think of some more?
inspectorudy on November 5, 2009 at 5:23 PM
I live in Florida. Rubio is the real deal…. genuine conservative beliefs…. doesn’t even need a teleprompter to help him tell you what he thinks…
CC
CapedConservative on November 5, 2009 at 8:01 PM
crist has been doing this his entire career and getting away with it because the republican machine backs him. Now tey have dug up another rino, ex maine senator bob smith, to runin the primary also. They are touting smith as a conservative, which he is not, in order to ciphon votes away from rubio. Don’t be surprised to see the republican party pull this tactic again and again if it works. We need national support down here in Florida or the republicans will force crist on us again. I have never voted for crist for state wide office because I saw from the start that he was a duplicitous little creep. I may vote democrat for the first time in my life if they nominate him. I don’t fall for this “a liberal republican is better then a democrat bs. The liberal republican tactic is more insidious and dishonest, the political elite are moving in the same direction with these guys. I think it is more dangerous because the policies will look bi-partisan and not raisethe ire of the American people.
peacenprosperity on November 6, 2009 at 6:08 AM
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