Governor Charlie Crist was hoping to win over union support for his independent candidacy for United States Senate. He was counting on political pandering and even the complete abandonment of his stated convictions to be sufficient for for the union establishment to snub the Democratic candidate and go indy.

In the end, the union establishment snubbed Charlie Crist. As everyone but Charlie Crist expected.

The labor union chose on Sunday to back U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek in the Senate race. Meek served seven years in the state Legislature before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002.

The decision comes two days after Gov. Charlie Crist appeared before the union’s leaders to ask for their support. Crist, a lifelong Republican until this month, had never before sought the help of the union that typically endorses Democrats.

The AFL-CIO was never going to abandon a far-left member of the Democratic Party in order to back a flip-flopping former Republican whose convictions change as often as the weather. The union establishment has a vested interest in the success of the liberal Democratic Party. Flip-Flop Charlie wasn’t about to change that reality through transparent pandering.