Marco Rubio Ridicules Charlie Crist's Party Changing

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., appeared on Your World with Neil Cavuto on FOX News on Wednesday night to weigh in on former Gov. Charlie Crists comments that he left the GOP due to Republicans opposing President Barack Obama due to his race. Despite starting as a major underdog, Rubio caught Crist in the Republican U.S. Senate primary in 2010, forcing the then-governor to leave the GOP and run with no party affiliation. At the end of 2012, Crist made another party switch and joined the Democrats. Crist is now the favorite for his new partys nomination to challenge Gov. Rick Scott in November.

I think its ridiculous and silly, Rubio said about Crists party change. Two points I would make. First of all, Im even cautious to even dignify that with a serious response. My prediction is that by the end of this election even Democrats will be embarrassed that Charlie Crist became a Democrat. But I would say that if this is, in fact, how he felt at that time, why didnt he say it? Why didnt he say Im not running as a Republican because I think the Republican Party has become what he accuses it of becoming? And why did he switch to Democrat, why didnt he run as an independent? Why didnt he do that at the time? Why did it take him four years to say what hes saying? Its just not a serious thing, thats my second point. I have never met a single Republican activist involved in my campaign that has ever, in my opinion, ever been motivated by race to state their objections. I think its absurd and quite frankly its barely worthy of any sort of response, but because hes running for governor of my state I guess I need to say what Ive said.

Asked if he thought Crist is a phony, Rubio left no room for doubt. Absolutely, Rubio said. I believed that during the campaign, thats one of the reasons why I ran for the U.S. Senate. I didnt want my next U.S. senator to be someone like that who wouldnt just be trustworthy in moments of importance to the country but who would embarrass us by saying these sorts of ridiculous things.