Maybe I should devote a new category just to Charlie Crist. This guy cannot be doing very well with his own base at this point. The former arch conservative is taking yet another high profile issue and governing like a moderate Democrat. He reversed the decade long trend of trying to disenfranchise blacks and the poor, restoring my own brother’s voting rights in the process. A week ago, he hosted a two day summit on climate change, saying that the state is compelled to take dramatic action to address it, then signing a bunch of executive orders forcing a bunch of groups to reduce green house gas emissions. He’s working with the Democrats in the legislature to try to overcome majority Republican objections to laws that would really tackle this issue. Unlike the voting rights for felons issue, I can see how this issue might help him politically with general election audiences, but it could make him a pariah among the people whose votes and money he may need in a primary three years from now.

Either this guy has undergone a serious change of heart on some major issues over the last few years or he has some serious, clever long term political strategy in mind.

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