Jeb calls reporter "horses's ass" who asks about Charlie Crist's sexual orientation yesterday.

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/010791.php

(November 04, 2006 -- 12:49 PM EDT)

"Put a smile on your face and don't be such a horse's ass."

--Gov. Jeb Bush, responding Friday to a reporter questioning Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist about Crist's sexual orientation

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Here's a video of Charlie responding to the same question in South West Florida yesterday. Note the body language.

http://www.nbc-2.com/videoplayer.asp?videonum=061103_crist.wmv&dw=http://www.nbc-2.com/news/videolist.shtml

The Republican party has raised over $40 million dollars here in Florida since September 1st, compared to the Democrats' $14.2 million. Crist has run more tv ads than any candidate in the country-- well over 21,000! Money is truly the mother's milk of politics.

Charlie Crist cheerfully signed the Christian Coalition petition back in Sepember, 2005, which would ban not only gay marriage, but civil unions. This is the language of their amendment:

"Inasmuch as marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized."

[Deja Q]

1. Wasn't it Ezekiel 23 that said something about horses?

:evilgrin:

[Dr.Phool]

2. Jeb Bush loves horse ass.

[donsu]

3. what's with the - put a smile on your face - ?

a goofy thing to say

[OnlyWeKnow]

4. If you don't like gays...

vote for Jim or MAX. MAX is the guy who helped Jim Davis in the debates! We dems are tolerant and this just shows the repugs hypocracy

[babylonsister]

5. It has zilch to do with liking gays, and everything to do with

denying his own sexuality/being a hypocrite.

[flpoljunkie]

6. No, if you don't like hypocrisy and government of, by, and for special interests,vote for Jim Davis

[seasat]

7. Bob Norman has a new post about Crist and Jordan.

(LINK)

That’s why it’s breaking now. Nobody planned it. Nobody schemed it. It happened naturally.

But it is unfortunate that it’s breaking at the 11th hour. While voters surely have the right to know if Crist is lying hypocrite, it would have been better if this thing had shaken out six weeks ago. While the circumstantial evidence is mounting high, there is still no proof. And Bruce Carlton Jordan is nowhere to be found. Since New Times first published his name as being linked romantically to Crist 11 days ago, we haven’t heard a peep from him. No denial, no confirmation, no nothing. And the Crist campaign, in a statement to NT this past Monday, called it “a false story from a convicted felon.”
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But TV and newspapers sat idle and conflicted. Then came a little-known gay activist named Kyle DeVries, who held a press conference in Tallahassee yesterday demanding that Crist be honest about his sexuality. DeVries based his actions on my reporting.

And suddenly the TV stations were off and running. And when Steven Cooper, a reporter with NBC in Orlando, asked Crist about it during a press conference with Jeb Bush, sparks flew. According to published reports, Bush said to Cooper, “Put a smile on your face and don’t be such a horse’s ass.”