Best Charlie Crist Story I've Ever Read

Needless to say, I've read a lot of stories about Charlie Crist. Even Charlie Crist's story about Charlie Crist. But never have I seen a piece as well-crafted, as close to the bone, as entertaining and precise in tone and substance as Ben Terris' "Survival of a salesman: Former Fla. governor Charlie Crist tries to get back where he was" in Wednesday's Washington Post.

I don't want to say so much about it I ruin it for you, but I will give you a couple of my favorite paragraphs -- one a quote, the other a comment on it -- to throttle up your curiosity.

They sum things up about Charlie and draw a comparison of the two gubernatorial candidates better than anything I've heard or read anywhere else:

'(Charlie) has all the intellectual horsepower of yogurt,' said Rick Wilson, a GOP consultant and Crist critic. 'But I admire his political skills. If Rick Scott could work a room like Charlie Crist, hed be up by 25 points.'

"That, in a nutshell, is the popular Crist narrative. Big smile. Great enthusiasm. Lots of charisma. But push him into the deep end and hell drown."

Read the whole article. An awesome piece of writing. And not a word mean-spirited or effusive. Wrapped within this story of a day on Charlie's book tour is also the story of who Charlie Crist really and truly is.