Vegetating

Well, is everyone sitting on the edge of the chair wondering whether Charlie Crist will run for the U.S. Senate or will he continue vegetating in the governor's mansion for the next 18 months? Don't you think the speculation about Crist's possible run for Senate has that Arlen Spector kind of feel to it? No one really knows if he is a Republican or a Democrat, the way his sways in the wind on every issue. People in this state have watched, and wondered, exactly just what Charlie Crist would accomplish in his first term as governor and they have finally figured it out.

Governor Crist has won the prize for being a dead-ringer for another Republican governor we had in the 1980's named Bob Martinez. Remember old Bob, the one that thought raising the sales tax on services in this state was a good idea. No one has heard too much about this one-term governor since leaving office except that he was some type of drug zar. Martinez did not have the intestinal fortitude to cut spending to balance the budget, just like Charlie Crist. Remember Charlie salivating all over President Obama in Ft. Myers, at the thought of collecting $5.6 billion in federal stimulus money, instead of cutting costs to the state.

Charlie Crist made two major campaign promises when he ran for governor. One promise was to lower our property taxes and the other was to lower our home owner's insurance premiums. Mr. Crist has failed on both of his promises to the people of the state of Florida.

Governor Crist is expected to sign the current budget by the Florida Legislature that has a 10 percent increase for Citizen's Property Insurance. This increase is in direct conflict with the promises Mr. Crist made to his constituents in 2006. Secondly, the citizens of this state lowered their own taxes through Amendment 1. By the way, Charlie was able to con the state legislature during the final minutes of this session to include language for another amendment to reduce property tax for business and first-time home owners for the 2010 ballot. This 2010 date coincides with the same year that Charlie runs for office again. This way Crist has a built in campaign issue to run on whether it is for governor or for the senate seat.

We have all read and heard about Republicans running to the center but Charlie Crist has managed to swerve out of control to the left and has crash-landed onto land that only liberals dare to tread on...