GOP Closet Queen Solidarity-- McConnell Endorses Crist

Miss McConnell wants in on the Foley-Crist West Palm Beach action

You remember the news reports about how Charlie Crist helped cover-up Mark Foley's congressional child molester scandal? "The FBI and the Justice Department informed Jeb Bush and [Florida] Attorney General Charlie Crist's office of the Crist Child Protection Cyber Crime Unit at least a year ago [2005] about Foley's predatory e-mails and instant messages. So why didn't Crist say anything? Well, informed Republican sources claim that until now Crist and Jeb Bush have been able to keep a lid on Crist's lifestyle-- touting his conservative Christian credentials-- but that Foley's revelations will severely impact Crist's chances for governorship. The links between Foley and Crist are certain to harm Crist with his conservative backers who admire him for his anti-gay rights stance."



Crist skated while the Established circled the wagons around Foley, said he was a naughty boy who got drunk and sent some inappropriate e-mails and that was that. No one talked much about him breaking into the congressional pages' dorm at midnight-- looking for a computer maybe?-- or about any of the ex-pages who admitted having had sex with him. It was just "inappropriate e-mails," no penetrations or anything physical.

Today another Republican hypocrite and closet case, Mitch McConnell (AKA- Miss McConnell), has endorsed Crist in his bid for the Republican nomination for the open Senate seat in Florida. Crist and McConnell have a great deal in common-- the closet queen thing first and foremost-- but what they do not have in common is McConnell's right wing politics, which he shares with Crist's opponent, Marco Rubio. Rubio's politics is much more in line with the radical right bent of the Republican Senate caucus. Just yesterday he was tweeting away about opposing health care reform and there is no doubt he would fit right in with McConnell's obstructionist strategy. Crist, on the other hand, has angered many conservatives by his cooperation with Obama and his embrace of more moderate policies, something that would serve him well against the extremely weak Democrat in the general election-- but that could cause him problems in the GOP primary.


You think the McClatchy reporter or editor is having some fun with terms like "full throated endorsement" and "royal treatment" in this story?

According to Crist's Web site, McConnell gave the governor a full-throated endorsement.

"Decisions are being made every day in Washington that have a direct impact upon the lives of all Americans and we need Charlie Crist in the U.S. Senate to ensure that those decisions will benefit the citizens of Florida.”

Crist, McConnell and other party luminaries are slated to attend a campaign fundraising event for the governor later this month at the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s Washington headquarters.

Bunning hasn't exactly received the royal treatment since announcing his bid for a third-term. Last month,McConnell skirted questions during a TV interview Sunday on whether he'll endorse the Hall of Fame pitcher’s bid. Bunning is widely considered the most vulnerable incumbent seeking re-election to the Senate in 2010.