Charlie Crist Isn't Gay, Okay?

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 Now John McCain wants it repealed and (weird!)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.

Comments

[Mdazes]

He may not be gay but he just made a gay move. The first thing closet gay men do is marry a woman to stop the gay rumors.

[Mdazes]

Getting married does not prove you are not gay. If he is so what.

[despike]

I heard that he is not that popular. 70%? I think not.

[CrazyJane]

Gay men marrying women in order to run for office -- that's the American way, and I'm for it.

[kellygrrrl]

visuals:

http://blogs.tampabay.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/05/841f4c470a0b49ef8292ded81925469blar.jpg

http://www.francollc.com/MainIndex/AboutUs/pics/CAROLE.jpg

[Teas]

I guess they've been dating each other for a whole 9 months. Ain't love grand!

[DebraCraig]

Thanks for the photo links. Boy if she doesn't look like someone who came out of "Central Casting" for the role of a "politician's trophy wife" nothing does.

[verhaftik]

But, without her makeup, Carole looks rather different:

http://www.charliecrist.com/photo_gallery.php

I jest. Poor Charlie. Not free to be himself. Nevertheless, I hope he makes a good VEEP if they get elected. (Of course, not my preference, but, still.)

[verhaftik]

Pardon, this is the correct link I meant to post (regarding "Carole's" "casual" photo).

http://www.charliecrist.com/_assets/photo_gallery/images/ec51690acde58dd55ac3344ed663ebc9d3738655.jpg

[Ok, pure toilet (= in very poor taste) humor. But, have to make light when possible.]

And, good luck, Charlie. You're one brave man to enter into marriage, no matter what the circumstances.

[kellygrrrl]

'08 - the year of the heiress

[kellygrrrl]

as long as she knows exactly what she's getting into, then it's her choice

obviously she has her own agenda

[robjh1]

And if he is gay...Gay America should be supporting him. Who cares any way. I thought this country was beyond that? No we are so obsessed with what others are doing in the bed room.

[Vern58]

Sorry, but most of LGBT America will be seeing him as a hypocrite. We all risked too much to come out and be open, often under dire straits.. Any Gay man who marries a woman with the sole objective purpose of conservative political gain is despicable. He is a quisling.

[master09]

AMEN

[Agentprovokatur]

But many of us who don't really care about what one does in the bedroom, DO care about those who are hypocrites. Not sure what his stances are on Gay Rights and such but closeted types who work against it - or Mary Cheneyesque ones, who insulate themselves in citadels of privilege and money from which they hurl flaming darts at those who don't enjoy such benefits and actively work against their rights to share them - deserve scorn, ridicule and a place in the ninth ring of hell, political and literal, that they have earned.

[jukesgrrl]

Well put.

[Crozier]

PuHLEASE. The Republican Party is anti-gay civil rights on all levels. Yes, there are siblings of many important Republicans who are gay or lesbian. Many theocon televangelists and right wing groups have gay or lesbian siblings . Jesse has a granddaughter, a Republican NC judge who is a lesbian in a long term partnership.

There are obviously closeted federal and state officeholders who are gay or lesbian and vote against civil rights for themselves and their own psychosexual orientated fellow citizens. Millions of others either work or merely vote for them.

Treason is treason.....and betrayal of your community and yourself is sick and worthy of derision.

[rainbowblue]

Gay America should support a republican Vice President candidate? Why? Just look at the flack Barney Frank got for not supporting Transgendered rights in ENDA (employment non-discrimination act). While I cannot speak for the whole community, my gue

[Sanity01]

Wel robjh1- that shows just how little you know. Gay dems- OK / Gay rebuplicans - thats a very bad thing!!

[sa]

dude,

if handsome, thin, stylish men are guilty of a crime,
then i would be given the death sentence.

death by fabulous.

p.s. i'll be signing autographs in the lobby.

[Vern58]

What makes you think his style and appearance are the question. It is his 37 years of nearly not dating women, either casually or seriously, almost total lack of feminine companionship nor even having them seen with him that is the issue. That along with the long string of "Close Male friendships" he is well known for having kind of gives me some idea
dude

[aspen]

I don't know what Christ's sexual preference is. I read in our Florida papers that he was married for a few months soon after graduating college. He has been single ever since. This engagement is his fifth, so I read in the Palm Beach Post. It is all rather suspicious. Whatever he is, he is far superior to Jeb Bush, a definite heterosexual, which doesn't take much. He has been a bipartisan governor and has earned his popularity. I still wouldn't vote for McCain based on Christ as VP.

[pfc1369]

Five broken engagements??!!

Doesn't seem possible, but if true -- that's gotta be some kind of record.

[brokenarrow]

His popularity level in my house reached 0% the day he came out for drilling in our backyard..­.........I think most of us here on the Gulf are completely opposed to this assinine scheme.

The rationale given is absurd, so of course, the sheep will get in line. Any wonder the country is BEREFT OF HOPE?

Oh, and lose the beard, Chuck. You are not fooling anyone, dood.

[ThunderclapNewman]

If Charlie doesn't get tapped for the VP spot, what are the odds of the "marriage" actually taking place?

[AustinCynic]

Slim and none. And Slim just left town.

[findingthetruth]

LOL !!!!!

[recruitgal]

I suspect that the engagement will be called off once Pawlenty is announced.

[majorteddy]

Charlie Crist isn't gay and neither was New Jersey ex-governor james McGreevy. Charlie Crist just thinks he's gay. Another one of the Republicans' big acting jobs. Lioke Bush. Make him LOOK presidential. Why don't you trying making a pig look like a beauty contest winner! You can put a woman in front of Charlie Crist, but he's still gay, gay, gay! You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.