FL-13: Crist running

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I hope he loses in the primary.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

i wonder what office he'll be running for and with which party in 2018 after he loses this. County Commissioner perhaps, as a green?

If he wins the primary for this, he wins the general.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

For all intents and purposes Charlie Crist is now a Democrat. Its time we red avatars treated him like one.

Until a few years down the road when he becomes a libertarian or green.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

For all intents and purposes Charlie Crist is now a Democrat. Its time we red avatars treated him like one.

I agree. I don't understand the hatred from the left of Charlie Crist. Like Lincoln Chafee, he was a moderate Republican who had no qualms about disagreeing with his Party's leaders, and when the Party kept moving right-ward, he and Chafee left to become independents and eventually moderate Democrats. Charlie is actually to the left of Hillary, and would make a better President. As a progressive in Florida, I am still bitter that he lost to Rick Scott.

Calling Hillary a moderate is like calling McConnell a moderate - just because someone isn't strictly aligned with the far extremes of their party doesn't mean their own positions are anything less than 100% partisan.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

For all intents and purposes Charlie Crist is now a Democrat. Its time we red avatars treated him like one.

I agree. I don't understand the hatred from the left of Charlie Crist. Like Lincoln Chafee, he was a moderate Republican who had no qualms about disagreeing with his Party's leaders, and when the Party kept moving right-ward, he and Chafee left to become independents and eventually moderate Democrats. Charlie is actually to the left of Hillary, and would make a better President. As a progressive in Florida, I am still bitter that he lost to Rick Scott.

Calling Hillary a moderate is like calling McConnell a moderate - just because someone isn't strictly aligned with the far extremes of their party doesn't mean their own positions are anything less than 100% partisan.

Thanks for pointing that out. I should have clarified that when I call someone a moderate, I am talking relative to the Party they are in. I don't think I said Hillary was a moderate. She is a partisan corporatist. She has some moderate positions relative the Democratic Party, and even some liberal ones, but at the end of the day she "represent Wall Street."

Moderate Democrat is generally used interchangeably with DINO. People like Sinema, Donnelly, Tester, etc. qualify. This is literally the first time I've heard someone call Hillary a moderate democrat.