From Talking Points Memo: Former Florida state House Speaker Marco Rubio is having a rough time in his campaign for Senate, in which he’s running as an insurgent conservative challenger against moderate Gov. Charlie Crist — but he’s claiming credit for pushing Crist to the right.
Crist recently came out against the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court — putting himself to the right of retiring GOP Sen. Mel Martinez, the man that Crist and Rubio are aiming to succeed, who supports Sotomayor. Rubio sees this as a sign of Crist reaching out to conservatives.
“A few months ago he appointed a judge to the Florida Supreme Court that is much more liberal than (Sotomayor) is in terms of his views,” Rubio said told Bay News 9. “We agree on it, but it’s curious how he got there.”
