Adam Hasner's Team Attacks 'Charlie Crist Republican' George LeMieux

While he has formed an exploratory committee, former House Majority Leader Adam Hasner has not formally announced that he is running for the U.S. Senate seatcurrently held by Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson. But that has not stopped Hasners team from ripping into a Republican rival -- former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux who announced his bid earlier in the week.

Hasners team sent out an e-mail to supporters late Wednesday attacking LeMieux.

George LeMieux, the man Charlie Crist called his maestro and the press called Charlie Crist's clone, announced yesterday that he wants to be the Republican nominee for the United States Senate in Florida as a reinvented conservative, wrote the Hasner team. Conservatives across Florida and the country shouldn't just be outraged, we should be insulted. This is the same George LeMieux that once proudly said, I describe myself as a Charlie Crist Republican and said he was Crist's junior partner.

The stakes in 2012 are too high. Conservatives need reinforcements in Washington, not reinvented politicians like George LeMieux, continued the Hasner camp. For more than two decades, George LeMieux worked to attack conservatives and conservative ideas in Florida. He worked hand-in-hand with Charlie Crist to attack Jeb Bush's legacy in Florida. And when Marco Rubio announced he was running for theSenate, George LeMieux attacked him too.

Now George LeMieux is trying to reinvent himself as a conservative, added the Hasner team. Don't be fooled. If we couldn't trust George LeMieux to stand up to Charlie Crist and stand up for Marco Rubio when it mattered, how can we trust LeMieux to stand up to politics-as-usual in Washington, D.C.?

Hasners team contrasted their candidate with Charlie Crist Republican LeMieux.

Adam is a lifelong conservative who stood firm on the limited government principles we believe in, even when they weren't politically popular, maintained the Hasner camp.