“The more people hear about the reality of Marco Rubio instead of the idea of Marco Rubio, they don’t like what they see,” Crist told me, adding that he was not worried that going on the attack might clash with his nice-guy image. “I always enjoy telling the truth.” And there is at least some evidence in the most recent polls that it’s now Rubio’s turn to come back to Earth. One showed Crist within 11 points, though others showed a gap in the 20- to 25-point range…
What’s intriguing is that Crist is not backing down. Instead, he is using his support for the stimulus as a mark of his political courage and his willingness to “put people over politics.”…
He longs for a political world that seems to have vanished. “The bickering you see day in, day out on cable television between Republicans and Democrats is pretty nauseating.” Crist’s allergy to quarreling makes some Republicans suspect that he would really like to run as an independent, though he has denied this.
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