Crist gets a phone call from McCain

Gov.Charlie Crist said he got a phone call from John McCain at 9 a.m. Friday with word that the Arizona senator had chosen someone else to be his running mate. "He was very gracious," Crist said. "He let me know he was going in another direction, but I was both flattered and honored to have been considered."

Referring to the choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Crist said, "He made a great choice in Gov. Palin, she is a great campaigner. She will be great on the ticket and will certainly fight hard, as will I."

Democratic Party spokesman Eric Jotkoff, referring to Crist's "failed attempt" to join McCain's ticket, said: "With Florida's families suffering under the Republican recession, maybe Crist will finally roll up his sleeves and get to work fixing the many issues facing the Sunshine State."--Steve Bousquet

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now you'll have to pay attention to the state you were elected to lead Charlie

Carole, honey.... where are you?

Crist was way more qualified than Palin.

palin has a record of reform and success and didn't bite on the teet of congressional earmarks - what has charlie done? oh, gave felons voting rights

3:26-

In fact, Palin said "thanks, but no thanks" to the money for the infamous Bridge to Nowhere.

Time to clean up Washington's addiction to spending other people's money.

McCain-Palin 2008

McThusela to CC:

"sorry, CC, you were too "qualified"!

i had to go with someone who would be a complete and absolute INSULT to the office of vice president -- even more than the soulless cheney -- and an INSULT to every american voter.

face it, there was not a reasonably competent, respectable person i could choose who was not anamatha to the party's knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing base.

mittins: one time moderate and wears that funny underwear....NOPE!!

joe l: only a suckup concerning the war, otherwise, a n.e. moderate to liberal....NOPE!

you: nuff said....NOPE!

trudijuilannie: nuff said, doubled....NOPE!

so, i picked an unknown from alaska.

hell, its not like i picked dummie quail or spiral adgrew, is it?

sorry, pal!"

CLICK!!

3:45-

Palin has more experience than Obama.

She didn't have to make up some title for herself like "community organizer".

Then Crist promptly said the people of Florida who have no choice but to use Progress Energy will experience a 30% plus increase in their bills. Why might you ask, so that the CEO can make millions a year and they can make excessive charitable donations (that I will not be able to afford to make for myself because of their rate increase) and influence peddling.

Why are the current customers paying for a plant based on future growth. Shouldn't Pulte Homes, St Joe Co, Cemex and all the rest of the development crowd not to mention the future users be paying it?

Customers are serving as investment bankers on this deal. Why do we even need a utility company, just let the state hire state pay grade employees to run it as a non-profit. Then tell the developers and their crowd to pony up the real impact cost of growth to build a power plant and then they can join the grid with the rest of us.

NO GOP NO DEMOCRATS WE NEED INDEPENDENT PUBLIC SERVANTS NOT ON THE TAKE

[Barack Obama]

HELLO!

I ORDER YOU PEONS TO STOP TALKING ABOUT SENATOR MCCAIN AND GOVERNOR PALIN!

IS ANYONE LISTENING TO ME ANYMORE???

STOP STEALING MY THUNDER! GOD D@MN YOU AMERICA! GOD D@MN YOU!

"He let me know he was going in another direction..."

Something I hope Florida voters pick up on come 2010... Chuck!

3:57 Whoa there McToady! SOS please send Rove Memo he's ad-libbing again!

[Bryan]

I love it how the Republicans make fun of the term Community Organizer. I guess it's because none of them have ever heard of such a thing living in their gated communities. Yes, you right-wing nut jobs... Community Organizer is an actual role. Not that any of you have ever lifted a finger to help those less fortunate!!!

Carole, sweetie, where did you go?

[Donald Lance]

Bryan, can you please pinch yourself and wake up? A community organizer might qualify you to be mayor (but not Chicago)but it's the equivelant of saying I was a street cleaner, therefore I am qualified to be head of the EPA. I think Mother Theresa was more qualified to be POTUS than Barry is if you want to talk about community organizers. If you have an actual issue to discuss, please post it so you can debate it. But don't go Saul Alinsky on people because they disagree with you. That's the way the world is. Not as it should be.

Cristi will soon be getting a 3 AM phone call from Carol Rome: "The sham wedding is off. Thank you for your cooperation. Bye bye."

[Hope!]

Lance,

I know many had said it before me, and I suspect many will after me... but you are a freaking moron.

I truly hope you have not procreated, but in case you have already, please turn them over to DCF immediately… and see a doctor about a snipit.

Good Lord, can there BE anyone as ignorant as you…

[Alex]

Wait, I'm a right-wing nut job? Why? Because I don't like crime?

>>Cristi will soon be getting a 3 AM phone call from Carol Rome: "The sham wedding is off. Thank you for your cooperation. Bye bye."<<

Oh, serious, serious BURN!

Like him or not, Gov. Crist received consideration to be on the Presidential ticket. None of us can say that.

38 Million View Obama’s Speech; Highest-Rated Convention In History

Let's see the Republicans top that.

Obama/Biden 2008

Guess the wedding's off.

Ummm, 4:39... the dude doing the considering... is senile!

HELLO!!!!!

You can almost feel it coming too...

"Crist gets a phone call from McCain"

followed by...

"Crist gets a phone call from Rome"

the connection: both decide to go in a different direction… Hahahahahahaaaa…

"community organizer"

how is it some people are so profoundly stupid they have no idea how difficult it is to organize a number of different and even competing constituencies into a group that can make something happen, esp. in a city as large as chicago?

incest?
inbreeding?
being dropped repeatedly on their heads?
bad drugs, either before birth or after?

or simply being a repiglican?

you can damnbetcha barak has dealt with more assorted issues in his ten years than ms palin can even imagine.

journalism from u of northern utah, was it....?
or
b.a. columbia university and president of harvard law review?

no knock on the good folks of utah, but, honestly............

kinda like graduating FIFTH from the bottom of your class when the only reason you got in in the first palce is because they HAD to let you in!!

simply an INSULTING choice...this is THE BEST that ancient jackass can do?

this is the best the repiggies can do?

I wish he had picked Crist. Charlie would be much better than the one he did.

4:53 - give it up - community organizer is fancy name they call someone who walks around with a clipboard of voter registrations - big friggin deal

4:46
So you say, and yet he's still more qualified to be President than Obama. Ouch.

[zenator]

As predicted, McCain failed to pick Crist as his running mate. In so doing, McCain may well have done Crist a favor in the long run. Time will tell.

In the meantime, Crist has once again cinfounded his critics by selecting Canady to serve on the Florida Supreme Court. What seems to be lost in the liberal/conservative banter is the fact that Canady was by far the best qualified applicant among those nominated by the JNC. His credentials include Yale Law School, experience as a practicing lawyer, expereince as general counsel to Governor Bush, experience as an appellate court judge, service in the state house, and service in Congress.

4:53 insulting is dissing your better candidate, then dissing her some more by not even putting her on the ticket. You can't spin your way out of this one.

5:01 - that wasn't that hard of a prediction - anyone with at least two working brain cells knew crist was not gonna get picked

4:53 -- You have to have a clue to be able to be insulted. I've read your posts - your not insulted.

"you can damnbetcha barak has dealt with more assorted issues in his ten years than ms palin can even imagine."

Like Bomb-making 101 taught by William Ayers?

Or How-to-hate-America taught by Rev Wright?

Obama-Biden Flip-Flops...

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/08/the-obama-campa.html

Governor Palin has held elective office five years longer than Obama. She is commander of the Alaska National Guard. She also has more experience dealing with the Russians than both of the d's. If you total Obama's and Biden's real acieivements they don't total up to being a member of a state champion high school basketball team.

Okay okay, I will spring for a Saturdady wedding...

and trade in the cocktail ring for a real engagement ring...

Palin/Crist 2012?

[terminator]

Chuck Crist must be relieved he wasn't chosen as VP.
Now he can forget about his sham engagement to Carol Rome. He really didn't want to go down that road anyhow and hated every minute of pretending he wanted to.
Heard Charlie was back home in SP this weekend sleeping on the boat out back!

[My Name Be Balack Obama]

Hello My (Beneath Me) Fellow Americans,

I am ready to be your king. Please pay no attention to the Republicans. It is much more important that you pay attention to me, the former Community Organizer. You know, like a closet organizer. I organized the community. Now, don't get me wrong, I cannot share my plans on my 'changes' that I keep referring to, but I can organize a community like a madman.

I knew I shudda picked Rev. Wright as my running mate -- he woulda been outta control on my ticket!

Gots to go -- Oprah's calling!

Laters,

Balack

[Rick]

First reaction, "After all the fried braincells, is that the best you can do Johnny Mac?" I mean, you might as well have picked your wife - she's done a lot of worthwhile things in her life too.

How you couldn't lock into a home run hitter like Romney is beyond belief. At least Romney would actual give republicans a reason to vote republican.

Wow, what a light-weight decision.

This sings of Deja Vu ... as in Walter Mondale & Geraldine Feraro.

[Joe]

McCain's selection for VP seems almost as an acclamation that he really doesn't want to be the president.

What we have to remember is that if he does win, and dies, (he's had some cancer don't forget), Palin will step in as President. With all the abuse that McCain has been giving to Obama about not having enough experience, it would seem he would have selected someone with several years of hard-core experience, but he hasn't. It's like he is shooting himself in the foot on purpose.

I'm starting to think that McCain might be Obama's strongest supporter.

[Harry S. Truman]

CRY IN NOVEMBER. YOUR PARTY IS OVER.
OBAMA '08!!!!!!!!

The People still love you Govr Crist!

Let's work on tax relief and tax reform.

Let me vote on A5.

To JD Alexander's staff: Please get off the blogs. Yes, the trace came back to you.

Erin I hope you started looking for a new job, oh that's right you have already been shopping around for a new job.

[Darren]

McCain is going to win! He is even beginning to choose his cabinet. Gov. Crist has shown us how much he can work with industry to protect the environment. He would make an excellent Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency if he were willing to move from Florida to Washington DC. I Gov. Crist all the best in his ever improving political future.

[Darren]

Gov. Crist could also use his influence to promote Florida's interests under the McCain Administration. Either way, McCain, Crist, and Florida wins!

[Tim]

To the comment about the Federal money Alaska got for the "Bridge To Nowhere"..
Palin did not give it back as you stated.. Alaska kept the money to be used on other federal projects ... FYI

McCain decided months ago to not pick Charlie as VP.

For the first time since McCain locked up the nomination, Republicans are actually excited about November.

Republican turnout just jumped by millions of voters.

Obama will win. Times were pretty good last time we had a democrat as president. Because we had a republican controlled congress and therein lies the balance. We've seen the proof that a democratic controlled congress is about as useful as a pack of wet matches for firewood.

And before all of you out there start having a stroke and going balistic on me, remember this, the president doesn't call the shots or make the laws. That is CONGRESS' job and he signs off on it or not. And if he vetoes, guess what? IT'S STILL CONGRESS' JOB TO OVERRIDE IT OR NOT.

Someone on this blog actually repeated the McCain talking point that Palin has experience dealing with Russia because of goegraphical proximity.

That is just plain idiotic.

BTW...Regarding Crist - what a complete and total disappointment. Pay attention kids, he still has his sights on a national office. Now that he rammed A1 through, he is done with FL and the rest of us are left to stomp out flaming bags of crap left on our front step by the tax assesement office.

most everybody here is a hard-core suporter and who McCain picked won't matter at all. But as far as bringing more people to the ticket, Palin can not do it. Women who care about women's issues, who want to vote for a woman, will not be fooled by this one. It's insulting. I think much less of McCain for this choice. He is playing fast and loose with the nation's future.

"Democratic Party spokesman Eric Jotkoff, referring to Crist's "failed attempt" to join McCain's ticket, said: "With Florida's families suffering under the Republican recession, maybe Crist will finally roll up his sleeves and get to work fixing the many issues facing the Sunshine State."
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Ditto.

All thats left is a band of gold.....

uno-and-done'o!

[Bryan]

These Republicans can't catch a break. First they nominate an old man for President, then they let the old man pick a woman with no experience to be VP and now their convention is about to be overshadowed by a major hurrican hitting New Orleans for the second time in three years. I know it's just bad luck, but there really is no way the Republicans can spin this in a positive light unless they just go in, get their business done, scrap all the fluff speeches and go home. If not, what the American people will see is a split screen of the Republicans partying on one side and people running for their lives in New Orleans on the other. Surely this will bring back images of one of the Bush Administrations finest moments... KATRINA!!!

[Frankly All]

Funny that people keep saying Palin has more experience than Obama. McCain didn't even know who she was 6 months ago. And met her once.
She was only a lowly Councilwoman, was "mayor" of a town of 9,700 hundred people (less than the number of people moving through any local Wal-Mart each week) and is governor of Alaska, home to a whopping 670,000 people (not sure if the Census included polar bears to help Alaska's case). Add to that, she has only been the governor for shy of two years. Yay verily.

Ladies and gentleman, I am underwhelmed.