Over at his campagin web site, Florida governor and candidate for U.S. Senate, Charlie Crist, has the audio of a radio commercial (which you can hear by pressing the play button just below) in which he positions himself as a fiscal conservative.  He has the gall to say “‘Enough is enough.’ That’s my message to President Obama.  We can’t spend our way into prosperity or tax ourselves into growth…I said more government isnt’ the answer.”

I almost laughed out loud when I heard the ad. Crist is the guy who was the Republican poster boy for supporting Obama’s so-called “stimulus” package.

Crist goes on to note a Cato Institute ranking of governors, giving him the highest grade in the country in 2008.  But that was before Crist’s support of the “stimulus". Also, although I am a big fan of Cato, THIS article by Larry Hunter explains how Cato’s analysis misses some important points which, if included, would almost certainly have caused Crist to get a much lower grade.  (Oh, by the way, Charlie, Cato is libertarian, not conservative.)

I understand politicians will say anything, but I can’t believe the cojones of Charlie Crist to market himself as a solid fiscal conservative.  He probably has to have plastic surgery on his nose each time the radio ad runs.

Crist also believes the Algore hoax of man-made global warming and supports economically devastating “solutions” to the non-problem.

I have contributed to, and continue to support, Crist’s real Republican opponent, Marco Rubio, and I encourage you to do so as well.  I know it’s hard to convine people to contribute to politicians outside their own states, but sometimes a race is important enough that the message needs to be sent.  The Florida Senate contest (much like the special election in New York state where people should suppport the Conservative Party candidate over the Republican or Democrat, and I was pleased to see Dick Armey do just that) is one such race.