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...candidate could catch lightning in a bottle, Reagan-style or Susan Boyle-style - although when you think about it, Republicans found a nationally admired war hero with proven bipartisan appeal in 2008, and he lost to an inexperienced black liberal with a funny name. Outside Washington, moderates like Charlie Crist in Florida and Jodi Rell in Connecticut as well as pragmatic conservatives like Mitch Daniels in Indiana and Jon Huntsman in Utah have remained popular despite their brand. They all share an aversion to ideological rigidity: Rell signed a bill legalizing same-sex unions, Crist has pushed an ambitious environmental...
Christ, Jesus •proposed appearance of on Florida license plates being crucified in front of either the sun or an orange is defended - "If they don't want one they don't have to buy one" - by Governor Charlie Crist...
...self-described Democrat, he was tapped by Republican Governor Jeb Bush in 2001 to head Florida's Division of Emergency Management. He was kept in the powerful state post by Florida's next Governor, Republican Charlie Crist...
...Florida's Republican-led legislature - as well as moderate GOP Governor Charlie Crist, who signed on to the trust-fund diversion - was probably hoping the federal stimulus package would help make up for the affordable-housing gap. Indeed, the $787 billion stimulus gives Florida more than $250 million for public housing, homeless prevention (by helping people pay security deposits, utility bills and rent), affordable homes and rental assistance as well as tax credits for affordable-housing builders...
Obama tried to tweak the conservative governors as well as Republicans in Congress when, in his speech at Fort Myers, he suggested that "governors understand an economic crisis in a way that maybe folks a little more removed don't." Which is why Crist and the moderates are probably making the safer bet among GOP governors. The severity of the crisis means that stimulus, love it or hate it, is a train that's pulling into all of their states. So the governors who may stand to emerge looking smartest are those who, as Crist puts it, "know...