Florida's bachelor Governor Charlie Crist is getting married, and to a woman, too. That's how badly he wants to be vice president. I hope John McCain is happy now.
I hope Crist isn't making a mistake by trying too hard. Men don't want anything they can get too easy. On the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
Of course, the human heart is curved like a road through the mountains, so what do I know? Maybe it's love. And maybe it's just a joyous coincidence that Crist has found it at exactly the same time that McCain is looking for a running mate.
Sometimes things just work out.
It's like that federal ban on off shore drilling. When Crist ran for governor in 2006, he supported it. Now John McCain wants it repealed and (weird!) two weeks ago, Crist realized that he did too.
Florida is a swing state -- Haha! Get it? -- and Crist has a popularity rating of something like 70%. He also gets a lot of the credit for delivering the state to McCain in the primaries. There's only one nagging thing keeping him from being the obvious choice for the vice presidency: He comes off kinda gay.
But then, suddenly last Thursday, after thirty years of the single life, Crist discovered that he couldn't live without a woman named Carole Rome, a divorced mother of two. It sounds improbable to me, but then so did the Sex and the City movie. If those nice monsters can find love, why not?
Maybe it's not all politics of the most ghastly, obvious, self-hating, the fix-is-in, trick-the-rubes kind. Maybe I'm too cynical. Maybe love is real and coincidence is an illusion. Luck -- who said that? -- is believing that you're lucky.
Maybe what we're smelling is the powerful odor of synchronicity.
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Here's the part that Tennessee Williams would have really liked: Gov. Crist's intended, Carole Rome, inherited - and runs -- one of America's oldest Halloween costume companies. The woman marrying the gayish governor from the sultry southern state actually makes beards.
The new organization would be (drum roll, please) the IVORY CLOSET REPUBLICANS - for those dudes in the GOP who are so not gay - Mark Foley, Larry Craig, Lindsey Graham, Ken Mehlman, Ralph Reed, and Charlie (but look I have a girl friend) Crist. Did I forget Mitch McConnell?
It will give them some place to gather and work on their stories when they get caught in their lies like Foley and Craig - also a place where women willing to front for gays can get registered. They can even get a club house and think of it - they probably wont have to pay for an interior decorator.
(With apologies to all other gays - closeted and otherwise - who are not raging hypocrites.)
Sonny
Floridians are proud to have many gays in the state (we know who they are) and in the gov't. No problem. What we won't do anymore is provide cover for republican gays who go against GLBT's in legislation, votes, the environment, health care or any other issue that affects gays. It's a small world, and an even smaller one for gays, especially here in Florida.
Good luck, Crist (hee hee). Should be fun to watch.
Quack!
What the f*#%?!? It never occurred to me that Charlie Crist might be gay. I don't care. Nobody I know cares. Are Democrats the sole possessors of "gaydar"?
Would it matter to me? No. (I voted for Ed Koch twice, not withstanding Bess Myerson acting as a beard)
Good Lord, you people are obsessed with homosexuality!
What's outrageous is their excitement for a party that is gleefully running this country in the ground, and, in doing so, ruining their political "brand" for at least a generation.
LMAO...priceless