Tea Party Protesters Call Charlie Crist A ‘Commie Whore’ Who Looks ‘Like An Aids Victim’

[Purveyor]

A group of Tea Party-affiliated protesters disrupted a book signing by former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (D), calling the former Republican a “commie whore” and shouting that he “looks like an AIDS victim.” According to conservative Florida website Shark-Tank.com, the protesters gathered outside a Ft. Lauderdale Barnes and Noble store were from the Ft. Lauderdale chapter of the Tea Party Republicans.

Crist was at the store signing copies of his book The Party’s Over, How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat. The group of protesters gathered outside carried signs and shouted at the former governor as he tried to leave the store.

A Miami Sun-Sentinel‘s political reporter — who tweets under the name @BrowardPolitics — wrote on Twitter, “On his way out, one of the Republican protestors called @CharlieCrist a ‘commie whore.’ And that was the most printable comment.”

Shark-Tank.com reported that the protester who shouted that Crist looked “like an AIDS victim” repeated the remark three times as the governor walked to his car after the event.

Actress and singer Bette Midler noted the incident and tweeted a message alluding to the Tea Party’s history of posing as a grass roots movement while actually receiving support from corporations and wealthy oligarchs like billionaires Charles and David Koch.

“Yesterday, at book signing in Fort Lauderdale, @TeaPartiers shouted ‘commie whore’ at @CharlieCrist and other insults. Wonder who paid ‘em?” she wrote.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/22/tea-party-protesters-call-charlie-crist-a-commie-whore-who-looks-like-an-aids-victim/

This article, Tea Party protesters call Charlie Crist a ‘commie whore’ who looks ‘like an AIDS victim’, is syndicated from Raw Story and is posted here with permission.

[meadowlark5]

1. And Rick Scott is a handsome, robust, manly man

The stupidity of tea baggers knows no bounds.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. Typical full-throated ignorance by the inbred Neanderthals posing as illiterate GOP Ditto heads...

[Purveyor]

3. I just what 'them' to keep talking, should make the 2014's easier for us. eom

[Enthusiast]

12. Well put.

[shenmue]

4. You don't want to mess with Bette

[Vogon_Glory]

5. Tea-Baggers: Class Act

Tea-Baggers: "real class acts" all around.

Charles Crist supposedly "looks like an AIDS victim" ? My imagination is going into overdrive trying to imagine how many stone the Baggers are carrying above their over-stressed knees.

[dsc]

6. Yes we all know that all of us fatties are just evil rat bastards

[Vogon_Glory]

8. Sorry, but I doubt you're a Bagger

Sorry, but I don't believe you're a Bagger. Furthemore, I have difficulty believing that a skinny stick-man/stick-girl person would use that particular insult.


Of course I'm not a Bagger myself, so what do I know?

[Cha]

7. Bring it on you MF Brainwashed Idiots.. you got nothing

but the comfort that fox, Limbaugh, etc, etc etc.. are telling the truth. And, you're voting against yourselves is the best you could ever do to help the Billionaires. Go For Idiots

[ladjf]

9. That's childish garbage. nt

[Octafish]

10. Bette Midler!

People like her make this a universe worth living in.

[RoverSuswade]

11. Actually, this is a good sign.

It means that Crist is getting traction and Scott is worried. Party on 'Baggers!

[wocaonimabi]

13. Political Whore is a fair name for Crist if he can't get elected as a Republican what makes him

think he can switch parties and get elected as a Democrat?

The Democratic Party Needs to do better then has been Republicans.

[CBHagman]

14. Makes me want to follow Bette Midler on Twitter.

Also, though I haven't read Crist's book, it seems the protesters provided him with free illustration of his theme.