Later this year Charlie Crist’s “tell-all” book, “The Party’s Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat,” will be out. According to advance publicity, the book will “name names and offer a frank indictment of the failings of the Republican Party.” It also promises to be a “no-holds-barred memoir of his journey from Republican to Democrat.”
No PR mention, however, is made of how “The Party’s Over” handles the existential issue that could still cost Crist the most in a gubernatorial run against incumbent Rick Scott. How political ambition led him to abandon Tallahassee when Floridians needed him the most. Without that ill-fated, career-first move, there would be no Gov. Scott. That will be a formidable obstacle in the critically important, get-out-the-Democratic-vote effort.