Tag Archives: Charlie Crist

Charlie Crist Apologizes To David Byrne For Ripping Off His Talking Heads Song

(Via – Towleroad)

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FLORIDA: Anti-Gay Teabagger Marco Rubio Defeats Charlie Crist For Senate

Oh, what a world in which Charlie Crist was actually the better choice. Rubio, of course, is in the pocket of the Florida Family Policy Council, who were one of the main groups behind Amendment 2, which instituted a statewide constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Rubio’s decisive win has thrilled the repulsive quislings at GOProud, who’ve never met a disgustingly …

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FLORIDA: Charlie “Closet Case” Crist Rides The Fabulous Campaign Bus

Towleroad notes: “Charlie Crist’s choice of “Fabulous” Coach Lines to take his campaign around the state just seems damn appropriate.” Crist is trailing badly behind teabagger Marco Rubio and tongues are already wagging over how long it will be before his sham marriage unravels once he’s a private citizen again. Crist quickly married Halloween costume heiress Carole Rome in 2008 …

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FLORIDA: Gov. Charlie “Closet Case” Crist Backtracks On Support For Gay Adoption

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PhoboQuotable – Msgr. Charles Pope

“Many today advocate homosexual acts as normal even though any study of the design of the human body will indicate that man is not for man, or woman for woman. Rather, man is for woman, and woman for man. In Romans 1:27 St. Paul calls homosexual acts παρὰ φύσιν (para physin), ‘contrary to nature.’ “The latest rejection of nature is …

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FLORIDA: Crist’s Flip-Flop Could Actually Continue Ban On Gay Adoption

Earlier this week FL Gov. Charlie Crist announced that he was considered dropping the state’s appeal of a ruling allowing a Miami Beach gay couple to adopt. But dropping the appeal could mean the court never rules on the law’s constitutionality, leaving the issue in limbo. “We’d still be left with the statute” that bans gay adoptions, said Miami Beach …

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FL Gov. Charlie Crist: I Might Drop The State’s Suit Against Gay Adoption

Continuing his transparent attempt to leach gay voters away from Democratic Senate candidate Kendrick Meeks, Florida Gov. Charlie “Closet Case” Crist told reporters today that he is considering dropping the state’s lawsuit challenging gay adoption. The suit made international news when the state’s star witness, Dr. George Rekers, was exposed as a patron of male prostitutes. “I think we need …

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HomoQuotable – Michael Mitchell

“While I’m glad that Governor Crist has changed his position on a number of issues regarding LGBT equality, it’s simply too little, too late from a politician who has spent his life using the LGBT community as a political football. Kendrick Meek, Crist’s Democratic opponent, has an outstanding track record of fully supporting our community, whereas Charlie Crist has spent …

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FL Gov. Charlie “Closet Case” Crist Set To Announce Broad Support For LGBT Rights

Trailing GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio by several points in the polls, FL Gov. Charlie Crist will today announce support for a long list of LGBT rights, but not marriage equality. On a list exclusively attained by Raw Story, Crist gives the thumbs-up to gay adoption, ENDA, civil unions, and repealing DADT. Crist’s announcement also includes the following: Federal Safe …

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Closet Case Crist Trailing In Florida

Sadly, a win by Crist over teabagger loon Marco Rubio is the best we can hope for at this point.

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Charlie Crist In Wonderland

The GOP is really pissed at Charlie for ditching them.

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MEHLMAN REDUX: FL Gov. Charlie “Closet Case” Crist Supports A Federal Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment

THIS POST IS UPDATED.In a transparent ploy to appeal to the teabaggers backing his GOP Senate opponent Marco Rubio, Florida Gov. Charlie “Closet Case” Crist today told CNN that he supports amending the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. “When it comes to marriage, I think it is a sacred institution, I believe it is between a man and a …

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Florida Quislings Get All Quislingy

South Florida’s gay GOP club, the Sunshine Republicans, has endorsed Gov. Charlie “Closet Case” Crist for the U.S. Senate. But they are being shady about saying so, according to Shark Tank. The Sunshine Republicans is a club that branched off from the local Log Cabin Republicans and is headed by Dr. Ben Lewis, Ph.D. The Vice President of the group …

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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist: Dive Right In, The Oil Is Only A Nuisance

Concerned about his state’s plummeting tourism, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist says that there’s no need to be concerned about “the toxic nature” of swimming in the Gulf waters. “It’s not detrimental to anybody. It’s much more of a nuisance than anything else at this point. It is safe.” Anybody buying that? (Tipped by JMG reader David)

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More Limp Noodleness From Florida Governor Charlie “Closet Case” Crist

In a ten-question session with TIME Magazine, FL Gov. Charlie “Closet Case” Crist says that he doesn’t support repealing Florida’s DOMA, but does think civil unions are OK. (Even though Florida’s DOMA prevents them.) Crist goes on to say that he thinks gay adoption should be handled with a “live and let live” attitude, but that it should up to …

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Quote Of The Day – Charlie Crist

“Ultimately, as in all military matters I defer to the Pentagon and to the Generals and what the Senate is doing today is giving them the ultimate authority to do what is best for our military. So, I would be inclined to support the Senate’s action on this.” – Florida Gov. Charlie “Closet Case” Crist, reversing his previous position on …

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David Byrne To Charlie Crist: You Owe Me $1M For Stealing A Talking Heads Song

Talking Heads frontman David Byrne is suing Florida Gov. Charlie “Closet Case” Crist for using the band’s hit 1985 single Road To Nowhere without permission in a campaign ad. Byrne is seeking $1 million in damages from Gov. Charlie Crist, who’s also Florida’s former Attorney General, and his senatorial campaign for use of the song earlier this year in a …

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Michelangelo Signorile: Out Them ALL

Activist and SiriusXM host Michelangelo Signorile says that it’s time that the gay community stops cloaking anti-gay politicians that are known to us to be gay themselves. Writing for the Advocate, Signorile uses the recent example of California state Sen. Roy Ashburn, who was outed by West Sacramento’s openly gay mayor on Facebook, although few took notice. West Sacramento’s Mayor …

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Charlie Crist: Bye, Bye GOP

As predicted, yesterday FL Gov. Charlie “Closet Case” Crist made the teabaggers happy by getting out of the GOP. Tea Party opposition to Crist’s run for the Senate is largely credited with forcing his move.

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The Resurrection Of Crist

Florida Gov. Charlie “Closet Case” Crist will announce tomorrow that he is leaving the GOP to run for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Teabaggers and other conservatives have flocked to support Crist’s GOP primary opponent Marco Rubio, despite Crist’s history of opposing gay rights and health care reform. Crist has long been ridiculed on wingnut blogs for his famous …

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