Could Crist really be that stupid?
Maybe he just wants to join the cool kids who have gone to Cuba under the Castros’ repressive rule — Beyonce and Jay-Z, actors Kevin Costner, Ed Asner, Sean Penn and Danny Glover and film makers Oliver Stone and Steven Spielberg, just to name a few of the useful idiots.
Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera said that maybe Crist was going down to Cuba to study the Communist Party and become that next. Why not? He has been Republican, Independent, Democat… the next logical step to the left would be Communist, no?
Let’s call it the latest flip flop in a series of 180-degree turns that has made Charlie Crist the least dependable politico of all time.
After all, in 2006, Crist was critical of his then Challenger Jim Davis for having visited Cuba in 2003. During that campaign, he stopped in Little Havana — because all politicos have to stop in Little Havana for cafecito, don’t they — and told voters that he supported the U.S. embargo.
“I understand that it’s important not to go to Cuba when she’s under the dictatorship, but unfortunately the man I’m running against doesn’t understand that,” Crist said back then.
And after he won that governor’s race, he spoke about the embargo again — but not to oppose it.
“No. I feel very strongly about not supporting the totalitarian dictator’s regime, and I understand others may have a different point of view. It just isn’t mine. I believe in freedom, and I support the embargo. I’ve been counseled about it by Mario Diaz-Balart and Lincoln and Ileana (Ros-Lehtinen), and I trust their judgment very much,” Crist said then.
Whose judgement does he trust now? Raul Castro’s. Does he suddenly not believe in freedom?
And, okay, let’s just forget for a moment that Charlie Crist changes his mind as often as a Kardashian changes her clothes in a day. Since when does the governor of a state — even a state like Florida — have anything to do with federal policy?
Why is this candidate to the highest office in the Sunshine State metiendo la cuchara in something that is (1) none of his business and (2) none of his business.
There are far more important things to worry about here.
Maybe it’s just me, Gov. Crist, but you might attract more votes by talking about access to healthcare, skyrocketing insurance costs, education, infrastructure, public transportation than by visiting the Plaza de la Revolucion and maybe a beach in Varadero.
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