Okay Charlie, may I call you Charlie, of course I can, right Charlie? Let me start by saying that because of our current political landscape, I am in no mood at all to take the risk of sending off to the Senate another potential ally of our current president. It’s nothing personal, it’s just that we cannot afford, as a country, to elect those to Congress who will not stand against this president and fight for the people. We simply do not need another weak kneed "conservative" in Congress who is willing to take part in some gang of 6, 8, 12 or 14 whose sole purpose is to "compromise" away conservative principles all in the name of bipartisanship. We have too far many of those in both Houses of Congress already! And that, Charlie, is exactly what I feel would be the very likely scenario were Florida to send you off to Washington as our next Senator. I’ve been hearing some of your radio commercials here lately, and to be honest with you, the first time I heard one I darn near drove off the road. One of them starts out, "Washington is out of control. Yet the President has the same tired answer for every problem: To spend your money. I’m Charlie Crist. I’m running for the U.S. Senate because Washington needs a dose of Florida common sense. In the last two years, federal government spending has grown by over 25 percent. Here in Florida, I’ve slashed government by 10 percent." Sorry Charlie, but that’s not only not accurate, it’s laughably so. Let’s face it Charlie, you’re taking more than just a few liberties here in exaggerating what your role was in those state budget cuts. We both know that the actual reason the budget was cut was because of a historic drop in sales taxes and real estate taxes, which gave lawmakers less to spend. And we both know that your past two budget recommendations were more expensive than what was ultimately passed out of the Republican-controlled legislature. Now I will admit that you did veto a record amount of spending in 2007, but you still signed a budget this year with $2 BILLION in tax and fee INCREASES. How Obama-esque. Sounds to me like you and the President have just a little too much in common. And while you may be talking quite differently now, again we both know you were a very vocal proponent of the president’s bogus $787 BILLION "stimulus" plan. The same "stimulus" plan that not one single Florida Republican in Congress supported! Let’s take a moment to go back in time shall we, to a time when two guys from the Miami Herald asked you about the virtues of this great little plan. Your exact words were, "I think it’s fantastic. Are you kidding me? We don’t have to raise taxes." So, how does that match up with your other radio commercial that says, "Enough is enough. That’s my message to President Obama. I’m Charlie Crist. We can’t spend our way into prosperity or tax our way into growth." Sounding a little hypocritical there aren't we Charlie. Come on Charlie, you don’t really think we’re that stupid do you? Or, are you hoping we are? You just can not now say that you did not support Obama’s bogus "stimulus" package, especially when there are so many instances out there of you saying that you did, and as recently as last night, you still do support. And to try to make the claim that somehow you never did is, quite honestly, nothing short of a lie. If you need me to, I can give you dates and times where you did interviews that show you quite enthusiastically supporting it. So give us all a break, ok.

Now, once again, we both know right down to our core that there really isn’t a conservative bone in your body. Overall I guess you can consider yourself a pretty popular guy, but, and I’m not trying to be mean here just honest, you’ve been a pretty lousy governor. You pushed through an insurance reform bill that put the state into direct competition with private insurers. And who were the ones that would benefit the most because of it? Why, all those wealthy residents who choose to live on the beach, that’s who. Oh and by the way, at the same time you were doing that you managed to cripple the state’s finances by capping property taxes in such a way that helps wealthier residents at the expense of the poor. Whatta guy. The state now has property insurance debts that could exceed $30 BILLION and no practical way of paying them. So, one serious storm and the state might well have to take a trip into bankruptcy court. Way to go, Charlie. But wait, there’s more. At the same time you’ve been busying yourself imposing massive liabilities on our state’s Treasury, you really haven’t been paying all that much attention to the actual day to day governing our state. You’ve zero-funded a cheap, effective program that reduced insurance subsidies by helping poorer residents retrofit their homes, you cut spending on children’s healthcare and seem to have done pretty much everything you can to send our state’s so-so public schools down that very same disastrous state-run course that California, with it’s less than conservative Republican governor, has set for its public schools. And you continue to side with the wacko environmentalists who support the mythical notion of man-made Global Warming or Climate Change. It’s all junk science, but there’s good old Charlie doing his best to perpetuate the nonsense.

And earlier this year when provided with an opportunity to demonstrate your commitment to conservatives and appoint a conservative Justice to the Florida Supreme Court, what did you do? You buckled under the pressure from the leftist media who was motivated in its drive for no other reason than to prevent another conservative from being appointed to the Court which would have swung the court to the right. So in true gutless Crist fashion, you traded a known and accomplished conservative for a man described as a "journeyman trial judge [who] has shown no evidence of having a well-formed conservative philosophy." Now while your buddy John McCain may be proud of your "non-political" nomination of this journeyman trial judge, but as a Conservative, I am none too thrilled. And as time goes by, the selection of this man will prove to be a real "mockery of the state’s judicial nominating process" because the man appointed seems to have an obvious soft spot for the bad guys. Which is a quality that is always looked favorably upon by liberal politicians who are seeking justices to whom they can appoint to key judiciary positions.

Well Charlie, I thinks it’s time for a little honesty. On any number of other issues, you have to admit that you are pretty far to the left of the Republican caucus. You supported the president’s bogus "stimulus" package, and for what, were you hoping that some of the money could eventually come to bail Florida out of our insurance mess created by YOU? And how about your seeking federal funds for embryonic stem cell research or the fact that you oppose offshore oil drilling. And you call yourself a Conservative Republican, I THINK NOT!! Why not just be honest with yourself, as well as with the rest of us, just switch parties and be done with it. If you’re not going to do that then why not do something completely out of character for yourself, put the country and the needs of the American people ahead of your own silly delusions of grandeur and just gracefully bow out of this whole Senate thing. This ongoing and bizarre attempt to disguise yourself in an effort to convince as many voters as possible of you’re being a true conservative, really isn’t fooling anybody. Don’t you think that the time has finally come for you to show a little honesty toward your fellow Floridians. After all, besides having a (R) after your name on a ballot, nothing you have done would suggest that you are on the same side or hold the same positions as the Republican Party. We have enough squishy, faux conservatives in Congress we do not need one more.

PS. I am also attaching a letter which bore your signature, along with others of dubious character, that was sent to President Obama expressing your heartfelt support for his budget busting "stimulus" plan. You can try to explain many things away with your re-writing of history, but there is much evidence available that would indicate that you are being less than truthful about the whole episode.  Below the names of you and your fellow signatories you will find a chart that will show exactly how effective Obama's "stimulus" has been.  You might have been served had you re-thought the whole idea.