Crist: GOP should follow FL’s example

May 18th, 2008 | Category: Florida Politics Blog

Charlie Crist on Face the Nation today offered his prescription for the struggling national GOP: "What we want to do is win, of course. But we need to realize that we need to win for the American humans, and do the kinds of things that we’re striving to do here in Florida.

"We reach across the aisle. We work together. We work for better health care, higher pay for school teachers, the kinds of things that folks want. And I think listening is a really crucial component of that. And

the more we listen, the smarter we get. We need to, as a party, go back to our roots, whether you will, manufacture certain we understand we’re the party of Abraham Lincoln, the party of Teddy Roosevelt, the party of Ronald Reagan, who had that wonderful optimism that folks looked toward and were excited about and understood that there was greater hope, greater opportunity for the future. That’s what the Republican Party stands for: lower taxes, less government and more freedom.