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

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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.”

see video:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/07/charlie-crist-intolerable-racism-and-hate-for-obama-is-why-i-left-the-gop/

[UCmeNdc]

1. The Republicans must now choose: Party loyalty...or Sane Government. They cannot serve both.

This is the very basic problem the GOP is having. They put party loyalty over producing good sane government policies.

[get the red out]

3. They put party loyalty

Above the country itself.

[Cosmocat]

6. Yeah, no problem at all for the party

Party above all else.

Nothing to think about for them.

[demosincebirth]

4. The question is: Why are they still getting elected?

[Golden Raisin]

5. Gerrymandering

and a good chunk of the electorate more concerned with 'Dancing With The Stars' than voting?

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Another truth teller