The news that Charlie Crist will endorse another Democrat later this week — this time Sarasota Democratic congressional candidate Keith Fitzgerald — caused Republican Party Chair Lenny Curry to have another spasm of anger.
The Republican Party of Florida head issued a flurry of negative press releases in recent months as the former GOP governor slowly but inexorably makes his metamorphosis complete, formally joining the Democrats, presumably to run for the party's nomination for governor in 2014.
No doubt that it's hard for Florida Republicans to accept Crist's conversion.
But as the consummate politician, it's not surprising that Crist, a moderate who has said the party left him after he lost the Republican nomination for Senate in 2010, continues to court the Democrats.
This article appears in Oct 4-10, 2012.