Selfishness is a shared value.

Like I said yesterday, Charlie Crist is only interested in what’s best for Charlie Crist at this moment. Even if it hurts his country or himself in the future, it’s worth it. Because it helps him right this very second. He’s a reactionary son of a bitch.

LAKE MARY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35 News) – Thursday, Governor Crist vetoed the controversial teacher merit pay bill, breaking with conservative ranks. Then the head of the Republican U.S. Senate Re-election Committee issued a warning to Crist telling him his career is over if he tries to run outside the GOP.

Dr. Foglesong said, “A person I know in the Charlie Crist campaign has told me Charlie Crist would veto the merit pay bill, and he did. Further, he said he would announce tomorrow, that’s Friday, that he would run as an independent.”

Fox 35′s Tracy Jacim asked, “Where is this supposed to happen?” Dr. Foglesong said, “South Florida.” Jacim asks, “Miami?” Foglesong said, “Yes.” Jacim asks, “How reliable is this source?” Foglesong replied, “I trust the source.”

Fox 35 contacted the Crist campaign staff by e-mail, and they would neither confirm nor deny this claim, and expressed surprise we were asking.

Makes perfect sense. Crist can’t tolerate being rejected or told he’s wrong, and, again, he lives for the moment.

He supported the failed $825 billion stimulus package because Barack Obama, its chief advocate, was very popular at the time. He supported cap-and-trade because global warming was trendy even with the middle class at the time. Now he’s being rejected in favor of a more conservative alternative, and he can’t stand that thought.

So he’ll run as an independent. He’ll pull votes away from the conservative Republican candidate and hand the seat to a liberal Democrat in the process? Who cares? At least he won’t have had to give up. He’ll have stuck with it to the very end. He’ll at least get votes in the general election, so his ego will be stroked. It’s all about Charlie. It always has been.

His political career is over. Kaput. Done. He fully deserves to be retired and largely forgotten, remembered only on occasion as one of the biggest mistakes of the Florida Republican Party.

Update: Flashback all the way to April 8th, or about a week ago.

“As we have said countless times before, Gov. Crist is running for the United States Senate as a Republican,” campaign manager Erik Eikenberg said April 8. “He will not run as an independent or as a no party affiliation.”

I look forward to Crist’s campaign explaining away that quote. Goes to show what his word is worth.