(The photo shows McCain and Crist in the Everglades. McCain expressed his commitment to Everglades restoration, and then tried to explain why he voted against Everglades restoration on two different occasions!)
If Charlie Crist ever wanted to be president, he's blown it as far as Florida's concerned! When elected governor of Florida, Charlie was considered a great antidote to Jeb Bush's overblown self-righteous style and pandering to the Christian Right. And Charlie actually began to move in directions other than those taken by Jeb. It is said that on occasion, Charlie didn't follow the Republican Party line.
And it is true that when he first began his campaign for governor, Charlie stressed his commitment to forever block drilling for oil off the Florida coasts. When all those floppy Republican presidential candidates came limping in to ask Charlie for his endorsements last year, he told them that one of his most important priorities was to keep Florida free from the stain of big oil rigs off Florida's shores.
Slowly, though, the wheels have come off Crist's no drilling platform. It has become increasingly obvious that he's just another in a long line of pols with empty souls greedily slurping at the trough of presidential waters.
Just about as soon as the news hit the streets that Charlie may be on McCain's short list for the vice presidential slot, Crist began backsliding.
Crist, who follows McCain McSame like a little puppy dog whenever McCain McSame deems it wise to visit the Sunshine State, now says he is "open" to the possibility of drilling for oil off the coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico!
He explains that he has changed his mind, not because he wants to be McCain's vice presidential running mate and McCain has flip-flopped to now favor drilling for oil off Florida's coast, but because he is so concerned about the poor folks of Florida who are having to pay $4 for a gallon of gasoline. How can they get to Disney World? To MGM? To Universal Studios? To NASA?
Right!
Charlie, no dummy, knows very well that opening the Florida coast for oil drilling is a disaster in the making! He knows full well that even if drilling operations began today and went full bore for ten years, we still wouldn't see a change at the pump. He also knows full well that if we could extract all the oil from the Gulf and everywhere else in America, the sum total would serve our needs for about 10 months!
Flip-flop! He'll fit in just fine with McCain McSame.
Unfortunately, he's gonna lose a lot of votes from people who care more about Florida's beaches than they do about making the oil companies richer.
And if McCain McSame decides on someone else as his vice presidential running mate, Charlie's chances at re-election in Florida just dropped through the floor.
Sorry, Charlie!
1 comment:
What a shame, I was beginning to really like Crist. We have oil wells capped all over the USA and not used. More than half of our current oil production from
Alaska goes overseas. The oil companies are not drilling in more than half the areas they have been given permission to drill in. Who are they kidding? When they do more with what they have availble, we can look at giving them more sites. In the meantime, why not force them to uncap the wells we have now? That could give us an immedaite boost with little costs to develop new wells. How about some facts about what we do with our oil now? How about a moritorium on exporting our oli anywhere. Both Canada and Mexice have oil and do not need ours. Maybe we could even get rid of Chavez's oil compnay, Citgo and stop paying him for his oil.
When do we get some truth about oil?
Bob Poris
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