Charlie Crist: ‘Intolerable’ racism and hate for Obama is why I left the GOP

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Charlie Crist: ‘Intolerable’ racism and hate for Obama is why I left the GOP

Charlie Crist: ‘Intolerable’ racism and hate for Obama is why I left the GOP

By David Ferguson
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 8:19 EDT
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In an interview with Jorge Ramos of Fusion TV, former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist explained that he left the Republican Party because the racism toward President Obama was “intolerable.”

Huffington Post reported that the now-Democratic candidate for governor said, “I just couldn’t take it anymore” in the GOP.


“I saw what was happening with the Republican Party,” said Crist. “They’re perceived now as being anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-minority, anti-gay, anti-education, anti-environment. I just wasn’t comfortable.”



Ramos countered that Crist only left the Republican Party when it became clear that he was going to lose the race for U.S. Senate to now-Sen. Marco Rubio (R), which Crist denied.

“No, I left the Republican Party because the Republican leadership went off the cliff,” countered Crist.

He went on to say that he couldn’t stay with a party that was “so unfriendly to the African-American president. I’ll just go there.”

“Because I was a Republican, I saw the activists and what they were doing,” said Crist, “and it was intolerable to me…and I saw how the party — some of them — were treating the African-American president and I couldn’t take it anymore. That’s a big part of why I left the party.”

Watch video about this story, embedded below via Fusion TV:


 
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:mjpls:@ him throwing "anti-gay" in the middle of that list as if it's inconspicuous. Whether or not he is, they all thought he was gay and blacklisted him. Fraternizing with Obama was secondary to that.
 

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:mjpls:@ him throwing "anti-gay" in the middle of that list as if it's inconspicuous. Whether or not he is, they all thought he was gay and blacklisted him. Fraternizing with Obama was secondary to that.
Become a candidate for VP and then get engaged to throw off homo rumors, brehs

:lolbron:
 

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Crist is an old school political boss, he moves where the wind goes. Granted he has always been socially liberal though.

Rick Scott is the least popular gov in the United States, Crist should be able to beat him. I think this is him trying to ensure black turnout is as high as possible to secure as many state seats for democrats as possible.
 

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