Crist like Casper? How spooky is that?

[ccharles000]

Radio host Jim Philips and I were talking this week about all the serious issues facing Florida — and how Gov. Charlie Crist seems to be MIA for many of them.

That's when Jim said our governor reminded him of Casper the Friendly Ghost.

And the more I thought about that, the more I think that works.

Just like Casper, Charlie is always smiling, always friendly — and yet never really completely there.

Both are incurably optimistic.

Neither one ever wants to make any enemies.

And both are quite transparent.

Heck, even when our governor decided to up and marry someone just in time to raise his national profile, he was basically taking a page from Casper — Volume 20, when the ghost spiced up his story line by introducing a gal pal, Wendy the Good Little Witch.

The only thing unsettling about this analogy is that Casper did have one pseudo-nemesis — which leads us to the visually disturbing image of the diaper-clad devil baby ... Marco "Hot Stuff" Rubio.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-scott-maxwell-092509,0,7076824.column

[peekaloo]

1. LOL. I heard that conversation on air.

:thumbsup: for Scott Maxwell.

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. Casper never painted himself orange.