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 Now John McCain wants it repealed and (weird!)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

[TXOBAMAGIRL73]

Beards,closet, costumes, the old man and the exorcist ....It's like a M. Night Shyamalan movie

[bluehorizon]

Maybe he just likes the single life. Why does being single mean he's gay?

[4wehttam]

It's not his single status that implies that he's gay, it's the fact that TWO MEN have come out and said they had "relations" with him.

[BadCompany]

The single status goes a long way...

[KaAp]

Oh it is far more than that ... he is always at the log cabin republican meetings ... he has been continually sighted at gay bars ... he was Foley's room-mate while they were both in the Fla house of Representatives ... there is so much more ...
He has never been into the single life ... he occasionally when rumor and innuendo and the signifiers concerning his sexuality begun to circulate gets spotted with a beard ...
It is none of my business or anyone else's to out any one if they do not want to be out-ed but he will be totally out-ed by someone once the campaign gets underway ...

[BadCompany]

Because they don't allow gay marriage in Florida.

[jbatch]

Either way, if he's getting married as a matter of political convenience -- then gay or straight -- hes' a bit sick -- giving up a 30 year life style choice of whatever nature shows him to be clinically ambitious, cruel and cynical. Not exactly the character traits America is looking for in a VP.

[majorteddy]

It not single meaning he's gay. This guy is gay. Roger stone was attempting to sell a phony makeout video with this guy and some married woman over Memorial Day to cover it up. What is it Republicans and holidays. Every time we have a national patriotic holiday, they pretend to not be gay?

[SgtLucifer]

I am sure Dana McGreevey (former NJ first lady), the present Mrs. Larry Craig, and the former Mrs. Michael Jackson will have some words of wisdon to share with Carole Rome.

[josephbua]

I am more than sure that there is someone out there who will need the money and respond to some paid call to rustle up Crist's former flames (excuse the pun).

But I hope someone credible comes forward and does it for nothin'.

I wonder if Mark Foley knows the answer to the question, "Is Charlie Crist gay?"

[mlaiuppa]

Wow. Ready made family so he's off the hook for that.

So, they're engaged. But probably haven't set a date. Which will be AFTER the VP is announced.

And if it isn't Crist.....they'll quietly announce the engagement is off.

And Crist will have escaped a close one.

[maestra1985]

Before his election, Crist told the LGBT population in Florida that he was "okay" with Civil Unions. That won't be happening for us any time soon...

[Middleclassvotingbloc]

He is not gay--that would be news to most of the people in Florida who excepted that he was but voted for him anyway. I do hope that this engagement is not an attempt to play down or hide what most people have assumed all along. Unfortunately if it is true those old boy friends like old girl friends will come out of the closet in full force. Crist may have been better off leaving well enough along. Remember also, Christ was liked when he was Gov. Crist not Republican Crist....that might not go over as well.

[Boadicea]

I don't care if he's gay. I don't care if he's gay and married to a woman. I don't care if he's androgenous.

I only care that he's stupid enough to think the Republican agenda of the last 8 years is the right one for the next 8 years. If he's that stupid, he shouldn't be anywhere near our government.

Anyone who is still calling him/herself a Republican after watching the profound incompentency of the last 8 years is automatically disqualified from holding public office.

[kvet]

Getting Married all of a Sudden ?

The Guy is As GAY as a Picnic Basket on the 4th of July !

Well, whatever it takes, to get into the Whitehouse....I guess.

We can certainly look forward to another Book in the Making....."The Rise and Fall of A Gay Republican­".....Auth­or ?,,,,,A Sexually Deprived Ex-wife.

[4wehttam]

"The Guy is As GAY as a Picnic Basket on the 4th of July !"

Hey, what did picnic baskets do to you, they are ROMANTIC, thank you very much.

[ChristianEcon.com]

Amen, amen, and amen. Thank for putting it so succinctly.

[Humeaudenparker]

*The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews*

---W.H. Auden

[springsm]

I don't care if he is gay, but I do hope that he knows that getting married doesn't make him VP...but I would think it gives him a likeness to "Myfriends"...find a woman who can support you in one way or another. I hope that she gets a good deal from this too...with two children..I hope she is going to be set for life, financially. If Charlie Crist can make this go...good luck to him. Surely sounds suspect to me..and I wouldn't put it past the GOP to have him marry to satisfy their narrow minded agendas.

[Melissa]

The woman he is going to marry is a millionaire in her own right. She comes from a very wealthy family and I am sure she can take very good care of herself.

[velkyrie]

He's so silly.

[Dehrenstein]

Sondheim said it best:

"Sometimes she drinks in bed,
Sometimes he's homosexual,
But why be vicious? They keep it out of sight?
Good show -- they're gonna be all right.
And so -- they're gonna be alright.
Hi ho -- we're gonna be alright."

[Chubbarow]

Remember when Elton John got married to the German lady called Renate in the 1980's? All those clever-dick journalists who hinted that because Elton was a bit lilac he had to be gay. Well they got that wrong. Looks like they'll be embarrassed again on the day Governor Crist marries his lovely bride (Is she German as well?)

[springsm]

And chubby, Elton John is gay, married for a short time, the marriage was "dissolved" and he had a civil commitment ceremony to his partner. David Furnich....so what ever you are trying to say...forget it.

[ched]

You know he's married to a guy now, right? (Sorry if your post was snark; it came off as sincere).

[bodo]

Give me a break -- there are thousands of gay guys married to women. What is so special about that?

[useyourbrain]

Does Crist think he can get vetted because he's getting married? There are lots of guys with details of their dalliances that will come out of the woodwork. He can't go with old - Crist looks older than him and he can't go with young (Jindal nut bag) because it makes him look old. I hope it's Romney since there is so much video on them tearing each other apart that it ought to be fun.

[SPQR1052]

Charelene(Charlie) has more sugar in her shoes that a DOLE sugar plantation. Can you say BEARD (Slang for gay man who marries woman to hide his homosexual desire.) There's absolutley nothing wrong with being gay however there is something wrong with fraud!

[1stRepublic14thStar]

Ummm, no.

A beard is not a gay man who marries a woman.

The beard is the woman the gay man spends time with in an effort to hide his sexual orientation.

A beard can also be someone who pretends to be dating an unmarried person when the unmarried person is involved in an affair with someone who is married. In that case the beard is helping the married person hide the affair.