We all know the old saying “birds of a feather flock together”.
Well, a good example of how this works will occur in Florida, where, according to Maggie Haberman of politico.com, Hillary Clinton will be campaigning for “Democratic” gubernatorial candidate Charlie Christ in October – headlining a dinner for him in Miami, on October 2 (the same day she is doing a book-signing there: no time wasted when there is potential money to be made).
It stands to reason that Ms. Clinton would be attracted to the Crist candidacy…given that both of them are opportunistic chameleons who are perfectly willing to say whatever you want to hear, and be whatever you want to be, if there are votes in it.
Crist, in actuality, is even better at this than Hillary. As a Republican, he served in a succession of state positions, culminating in his election as Governor in 2006. But, in 2010, he ran for the U.S. Senate and was defeated in the primary by Marco Rubio.
Instead of accepting the defeat and supporting fellow Republican Rubio, however, Crist quickly left the party and ran as an independent against him and Democrat nominee Kendrick Meeks.
That didn\’t work out, to say the least. Rubio drubbed him, winning by 19%.
Since the Republican thing didn\’t happen, and the independent thing didn\’t happen? Presto-change-o again. Crist became a Democrat.
If, next year, Zoroastrians are big vote-getters in Florida, there\’s a good bet he\’ll change his name to Charlie Zoroaster, and run on that too.
Regarding Ms. Clinton, I assume the idea is that, since she is certainly the most visible, and currently*, most preferred, Democrat presidential aspirant for 2016, her support is expected to solidify Mr. Crist\’s Democrat credentials and give him a boost over incumbent Rick Scott. Who knows, it might work too.
This is a very hotly contested election, and it will be more than a little interesting to see how it all pans out.
Keep watching.
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*This was just as true of Ms. Clinton before the 2008 election. How\’d that work out?
