
It's getting harder and harder for Jeb Bush to hide whose side he's on in the Florida GOP Senate primary. In a new interview with Newsmax, Bush took his successor, Gov. Charlie Crist, to task over his support for the economic recovery package, calling Crist's decision to back the plan "unforgivable." Then he attacked Crist's attempts to back away from the decision as Marco Rubio gained traction in the primary race.
"He did it the day before the [stimulus] vote, it was a mistake, and then he denies that he would have supported the bill," Bush said. "I know I'm supposed to be politically correct, and I said I was neutral and all that, [but] I got a problem with that."
The video is after the jump.
For months, Bush has tried to keep his allegiances in the primary a secret. Even in the Newsmax interview, he says he's not ready to make a public endorsement. But he's been hitting Crist since the start of the campaign, first attacking the the national GOP for backing Crist in the contest.
Jeb Bush's son, George, has already publicly endorsed Rubio and appeared at a fundraiser for him.
Now, it seems, Jeb is ready to make his intentions clear. Check out the classic damning with faint praise he gives Crist starting at 23:10:
Alternative would have been a focus on tax cuts, on the American private sector.
sean
February 24, 2010 12:01 PM
Wow...I can really see Bar in the article's pic of Jebbie...Pearls, a blue dress and pop eyes would frost this cake!
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Seeryer
February 24, 2010 12:46 PM
Poor Charlie. He wanted to be a solid conservative so bad that he shunned his sexuality and got married to a woman since he became governor. He hand picked the new Senator and now a full of shiite speaker that should be in all kinds of hot water considering his connections to the disgraced former speaker.
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