Rubio Team: On Health Care, Crist Flipped for 7th Time in 5 Months

Former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the Republican nominee in the U.S. Senate election, continues to hammer Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running without party affiliation, for constantly shifting his position on new federal health-care laws backed by President Barack Obama. After Crist appeared on CNNs State of the Union Sunday morning and talked about the laws, the Rubio camp quickly fired off a release, claiming this was the seventh time Crist had changed his position on the measures.

When you run for office just to be somebody, as opposed to actually doing something, little things like policy and issues can be awfully annoying and troubling, wrote the Rubio team. Take Charlie Crist and Obamacare. With now seven different changes of position on the subject, it is clearer than ever that Crist really doesnt care about health-care policy, he just wants to say what he needs to say to get elected.

This morning on CNNs State of the Union, Crist was specifically asked if he still favored repeal of the Obamacare law, as he did when he was wooing Republicans in the GOP primary, continued the release. Crist is an opportunist, and he knows his previous repeal position is unpopular with the Democrats he is trying to desperately win over. And so he abandoned the position altogether and only said that he wants to fix it. As CNN wrote, when asked specifically about his previous position on Obamacare, Crist stopped short of calling for its repeal. This is all the more striking considering he called for repeal just on Friday in his statement reversing his position from earlier in the day, which of course was a reversal from his previous statements altogether. Got that?

Incredibly, this is Crists seventh position in five months, concluded the Rubio team. In less than 30 days, Crist has gone from voting against the bill to voting for it to now being against it again and for repeal to now being against repeal. Confused? It is more clear than ever that Charlie Crist will do or say anything just to win an election.