Charlie Crist en-gayged

Charlie Crist, the republican governor of Florida, has become engayged to Carole Rome.  Just in time apparently to maintain his hopes as the ‘Pubs enter the prime VP-picking season.  As Boy Culture op-eds:

If you want to whine that we shouldn’t out homos in politics, or that we should be happy that a gay man might be on a ticket (even secretly) or that the left always calls right-wing gays self-loathing hypocrites and it’s just a cliché, consider this from an article linked above:

“Crist has repeatedly denied that he is gay and, with the election looming next week, has recently become more vocal in his stance against adoption by gay couples and in support of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage.”

John McCain, I think it’s great that you want to consider a gay guy as your veep. How terribly Democratic of you. But if you go through with it, we’re going to keep barking until the media does its job and exposes him as the lying hypocrite that he is. You think the Clintons’ sexual escapades got embarrassing? What stuff do you think is gonna bubble up from the swamps of Florida about a gay man in his 50s? That’s a whole lot of life he’s lived, and most of it is—so far—a big question mark.

John Stewart must be smiling a lot this weekend.

Closer to Crist?

Is McCain just taunting when he continues to suggest Florida Guvernator Charlie Crist may be his bumper-sticker mate for 2008? I guess he is just being coy with the press, but it would be an interesting development.

Via the St. Petersburg Times.

Related: Is there a homo in McCain’s future?

Is there a homo in McCain’s future?

Politics1.com blog is reporting that perpetual bachelor Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who is reportedly vying for the second spot on the McCain – “?” 2008 bumper stickers, may release a “sexy” tape (not a sex tape!) of him cavorting with a (married) gal-pal. Not to start another GOP sex-scandal but instead as a stunt like the one Samantha pulled on the Sex and the City episode where she videotapes herself with her young boyfriend Smith and releases it to quell rumors that she is a lesbian. Because rumors abound that Crist may toe-tap in the same league as Sen. Larry Craig, R-Ida Ho. (That’s pronounced ride-a-ho by the way).

McCAIN VEEPSTAKES. Politics1 Exclusive. How interested is Florida Governor Charlie Crist in being John McCain’s VP runningmate? So much so that veteran GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone — who coordinated a few dirty stunts in support of Crist during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign — is quietly peddling a so-called “Charlie Crist sex tape.” That’s what Stone called it during a telephone conversation. And no, it is not a tape of Crist having sex with a guy. In fact, it isn’t even X-rated. The video was seemingly staged to kill the rumors that Crist is gay. Stone claims the tape — which he discussed recently with Politics1, but didn’t show to us (“I’m saving it for the national shows”) — “shows Charlie fooling around in a hotel elevator with his girlfriend … They’re making out.” Adds Stone: “It was captured on a security camera in the elevator” last month. And Stone just conveniently happens to have a copy of the hotel’s elevator surveillance tape, just when Crist’s name is in play for the VP spot. Hmm. As for Crist’s purported girlfriend — presuming it is the same one he took as his date to the White House Correspondents Dinner in DC a few weeks ago — she’s still married (and not to Crist). Disclaimer: Always be skeptical of anything from Stone.

Now enough of the bogs – what has the local Florida press got to say? The Orlando Weekly weighs in with its own patented GAYDAR reading:

* Running mate has a mustache: GAY

* Has high cheekbones: GAY

* Prefers tailored suits: GAY

* Has Anderson Cooper hair: GAY

* Is down with civil unions: GAY

* Dots “I”s with stars on website: GAY