Hurricane Charlie (Or How To Win Votes In The New Republican Party)
No, that’s not the name of the storm after Bill – It’s Charlie Crist’s new approach to the Religious Right.
Town Hall reports that Crist was speaking to a group of real estate agents, and credited prayer notes in the Western Wall in Jerusalem with preventing his state from being hit by hurricanes during his time as governor.
Crist told of how he visited the Wall in 2007, and placed a note saying: “Dear God, please protect our Florida from storms and other difficulties. Charlie.”
Now, Charlie doesn’t take credit for stopping hurricanes from hitting his state – he modestly lets God have the glory, but, but, but… what if he hadn’t written that note?
Spooky.
And stupid. I am tired of this nonsense. For while I don’t always agree with Crist he’s always struck me as reasonable. Reasonable: A word that cannot be applied to the new GOP in any way, shape or form. I’m not kidding. Pick a topic – the economy, health care, education, citizenship, etc – and then tell me the Republican position. Explain to me why any sane person should take them seriously?
Tags: Charlie Crist, The Right
He’s pandering to the crazies. That’s what you have to do to win as a Republican. He’s having to apologize for saying nice things about Obama’s stimulus package I guess. Real Republican governor talk about how much they hate the stimulus package while gleefully taking the money and credit for themselves.
The problem with politics right now is that there are crazies on the extreme ends of both sides. Sanity is somewhere in the middle!
LOL, Ed. Yes, the extremist Democrats want universal health care. The extremist Republicans want to secede from the union, think Obama is not a U.S. citizen and carry assault weapons to public gatherings. Yes, I can totally see how it’s both sides’ fault.
Here’s how the game works: Whenever Republican elected officials want to pretend they are in the “center,” they have their think-tanks go put up some cantilevers and build out even more to the right. It is an ever-widening Overton window. And when even the think tanks won’t touch certain topics because they are too crazy, they give the job of occupying the crazy right flank to the dumbest patsys they can find – teabaggers.
Pandora….I suppose when you grow up hating God for burdening you with ovaries, you can’t help but seethe at anyone who calls upon their faith.
So… Katrina could have been avoided through prayer? BTW, Crist’s use of God was an insult to God.
Not only was Florida saved by prayer, it was saved by men who pray since women are not allowed to put prayers in the Western Wall.
And here I thought us gays and lesbian caused the Tsunami and Katrina and 9/11 – wow, I am relieved now.
I’m actually a little surpised that the “Jesus hates health care reform” argument hasn’t come up yet. Makes no less sense and is just as hard to argue logically against as any other thing they’ve brought up.
That argument makes as much sense as the rest of their arguments, Scott.
And would have the added benefit of bringing back the “Obama is the Anti-Christ” theme. I actually kind of miss that one.
When I was in China two years ago, I took a dump in a port-a-potty near The Great Wall, I haven’t been bothered by flatulence since. Go figure.
That’s amazing, meatball!