By Doug Clark | News & Record | May 5, 2010 (Original Context)
So, now that Tuesday’s primaries are in the books, what have we got?
Just more Democrats and Republicans to battle it out in the general election.
Same old same old.
What North Carolina needs is a Charlie Crist.
Crist is the Republican governor of Florida who last week said to heck with his party and announced he’ll run for the U.S. Senate as an independent.
Sure, the move makes Crist look like an opportunist who pulled out of the GOP primary race because he was getting drubbed in the polls by the more conservative candidate, Marco Rubio.
So what? Crist answers with his new campaign slogan: Florida first. Which means: ahead of party.
