The Wrong-Way Love Affair

Just when Kendrick Meek has finally gotten out to a comfortable lead in the Florida Democrat senatorial primary race, his god, co-partisan, fellow countryman, and half-kinsman has to go and publicly apply the hug of death:

The White House on Wednesday stressed that President Obama has fully embraced Florida Senate candidate Kendrick Meek, and when the president got off Air Force One in Miami, he gave Meek a hug.

Obama is headlining a fundraising event for the Florida Democratic Party, an event that also features Meek as a speaker.
It will be the first time Obama has appeared jointly with Meek this cycle, in which the congressman faces a tough August 24th primary against self-funded billionaire Jeff Greene.

Geez, what did Meek ever do to him? Is a twelve point lead with four days to go enough of a cushion to absorb such a crushing blow?

Sorry Charlie better hope so, because he could use a break right about now:

Says [anti-Florida GOP whistleblower and litigant Susan] Wright’s complaint: “The Republican Party also began to use party money to support the senatorial campaign of Charlie Crist. The Republican Party was not supposed to financially support a candidate until after the candidate won the primary. Plaintiff realized that what the Republican Party was doing was illegal. Plaintiff reported these illegal uses of Republican Party resources to her supervisor (Richard) Swarttz.”

Crist has treated Greer, under indictment in a fraud scheme, like a dear close friend — unlike everyone else who has become a political liability for the governor. Crist just this week agreed to reimburse Greer’s $9,600 campaign donations to pay Greer’s legal fees (more here). Meanwhile, Republicans want their money back from Crist because they said he misled them when he bolted the party because he was being whipped so badly by former House Speaker Marco Rubio.

This would explain why Sorry Charlie never deployed the spin that he left the GOP because the Florida state party had gotten so corrupt - what one would have thought was a natural alibi for bolting the party and a lot better cover than the nakedly mercenary form his exit did take, but for the fact that he was armpit-deep in the filth and its chief beneficiary.

Which, in turn, makes this display of pathetic pity-mongering even more gag-worthy:

Dude, shut up. Period. As in, drop out of the race, quit politics, and go live in the Unibomber's old cabin. You're shrinking out of sight while you're sitting there, even as your nose grows to old growth proportions. It's like the anahistamine commercial where somebody sneezes and their head is replaced by a gigantic nose. It's really creepy, and frankly not all that funny anymore.

Which didn't prevent Jim Geraghty from indulging at least once more, for old time's sake or just the joy of, um, nose picking:

"Rarely do you find a lawmaker trying to attach himself to a politician whose popularity is sliding," J-Ger cracks. But remember that Crist jumped on the Hogzilla bandwagon early on, so doubling down on The One is nothing new for him, even now when Donks are fleeing for their lives in the opposite direction. Perhaps it's an indication that he's painted himself far enough into the proverbial corner that he no longer has the PR room to flip-flop back in the direction from which he slithered.

Well, that's what happens when you burn behind you every bridge from Miami to Dry Tortugas key. Even Captain Jack Sparrow wouldn't trust Sorry Charlie as far as he could throw him. Savvy?

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