Party-flipping Florida politician and tanning enthusiast Charlie Crist was reportedly accosted yesterday at a book-signing by tea partiers who said he looked "like an AIDS victim" and called him a "commie whore." That, said a local reporter, was "the most printable comment."

Last night, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) got cottonmouthed, wiped and licked his lips and finally interrupted his delivery of the GOP response to the State of the Union to bend over and drink some water. By now, you've read someone explaining why this proves Rubio is not presidential material. Or is. Whatever.

The former Republican governor of Florida (and John Slattery lookalike) Charlie Crist has endorsed Barack Obama.

Jim Greer, former Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, has good reason to make accusations about former governor Charlie Crist. But that doesn't make them any less juicy.

Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist always wanted to be president, and was in the hunt to be John McCain's vice presidential candidate in 2008. Then the Tea Party emerged and threw his 2010 moderate-Republican campaign for Senate off the tracks. Now he's just another liberal plaintiffs' attorney plugging personal injury services, in Florida. Watch his TV ad and cry! [via RealClearPolitics]

American genius David Byrne recently settled his copyright complaint against former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who used a Talking Heads song without permission in his U.S. Senate campaign, by making Crist film this 90-second abject apology and post it to YouTube.

After intense wrangling, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist yesterday grabbed enough support from the state's Clemency Board to posthumously pardon The Doors' Jim Morrison for allegedly whipping out his "magnificent member" during a 1969 Miami concert/riot. Justice has been served.

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who will be unemployed in two months, may pardon the late Doors frontman Jim Morrison over a famous 1969 indecent exposure charge. (He drunkenly waved his penis around, allegedly.) Finally, hippies have something to cheer for.

Bill Clinton is some kind of backroom operative for the Democrats, it seems, following the overnight revelation that he asked Democratic Florida senatorial candidate Kendrick Meek to drop out and support independent Charlie Crist. Why didn't Meek listen?

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who's running for Senate as an independent, has this new ad out in which he takes individual letters from "DEMOCRATS" and "REPUBLICANS" to spell "AMERICANS," in alternating colors. How lovely! Too bad he cheats like hell.

The Gulf Coast: Devastated by hurricanes and oil spills. But nothing can compare to the latest insult. President Barack Obama has refused to strip down and show off his sculpted pecs to the press on a pristine Florida beach.

After strip and cavity searches, LiLo is in jail—and all the inmates love her! Snooki contemplates her co-stars' jealousies. Jill Zarin dips a toe into politics. Wednesday gossip is cold at first, but it warms up fast.

[Florida Governor Charlie Crist simultaneously dispels those gay rumors and shows the media the state hasn't been affected by the BP oil spill at a press conference on the beach in Miami today. Image via Getty]

Florida's newly independent Senate candidate, Gov. Charlie Crist, feels so liberated from Republicanism nowadays! Today he vetoed a bill requiring "women seeking an abortion to get an ultrasound, and to listen to a doctor give a description of the fetus."

David Byrne, former frontman of the Talking Heads, is suing Florida Governor and Senate candidate Charlie Crist for using the band's song "Road to Nowhere" in campaign ads. Who knew Charlie Crist had good taste? Plus: Talking Heads jokes!

First the Florida governor's GOP friends ditched him for a Tea Party candidate. Then 20 of them sent Crist a letter saying that they're no longer friends, and they want their campaign donations back: "Those days are over." Harsh. [AP]

Available on Ebay: "PICS of FL GOV CHARLIE CRIST snorting lines of COCAINE!" Somewhere "between 2 and 6 readily identifiable pictures" of ol' independent Charlie doing blow in the 80s. Starting bid $600,000. [And a nice Charlie Crist painting!]

Florida governor Charlie Crist just announced that he's leaving the Republican party to become an independent candidate, making the Florida Senate race more chaotic than Daytona Beach during Spring Break.

Nasty Man Rudy Giuliani is endorsing Marco Rubio for Senate in Florida. Though it's more of a petty, pointed non-endorsement of Florida Governor Charlie Crist. Giuliani just hates that guy.

Florida governor Charlie Crist must wake up every morning and wonder what happened? He used to be the most popular man in Florida. Now he's telling Greta Von Susteren that his primary opponent gets his back waxed on your dime.