Someone Is Confused

Poor Charlie Crist is under a lot of pressure by the purgers and it’s obviously making him a bit confused:

“I didn’t endorse it. I didn’t even have a vote on the darned thing,” Crist told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in an interview Wednesday on The Situation Room. “But I understood that it was going to pass and I wanted to be able to utilize it for the benefit of my fellow Floridians.”

Sorry Charlie, that’s just not true:

The “I didn’t endorse” claim might be more compelling were it not for all the evidence of him throwing his support behind the stimulus package.

In reality, Crist endorsed the White House’s recovery efforts in a speech and in writing. He said, in no uncertain terms, standing alongside the president, “[W]e know that it’s important that we pass this stimulus package…. This is not about partisan politics, this is about rising above that, helping America, and reigniting our economy.”

Yep, he really did support it:

“It’s getting harder every day and we know that it’s important that we pass this stimulus package.”

— Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R), at a rally with President Obama on February 10, 2009.

Marco Rubio doesn’t want people to forget it either, he featured a picture of Obama with Crist prominently on his Senate campaign page. Sometimes I can’t decide whether Obama is a genius or whether he’s just extremely, extremely lucky in his opponents. Any credible opponents of Obama seem to be systematically destroying themselves one by one. And BTW, doesn’t John Huntsman (former governor of Utah now ambassador to China) look like a frickin’ genius by getting out of electoral politics before the purging began? He’s probably saving his future political career.