Medal of Honor recipient and retired Colonel Bud Day announced that he is backing Gov. Charlie Crist (R-FL) for Senate over Marco Rubio.
His reason? “Charlie has not got a gritty track record,” Day said, unlike Obama, “the black one with the reading thing,” and Rubio, “a Hispanic who can run his mouth at Mach 1.”
Day said yesterday that Crist has “been a really good governor and shows all the possibility of being the same kind of good senator.”
He continued, comparing Rubio and Obama:
You know, we just got through [electing] a politician who can run his mouth at Mach 1, a black one, and now we have a Hispanic who can run his mouth at Mach 1. You look at their track records and they’re both pretty gritty. Charlie has not got a gritty track record.
Day also described Obama as “the black one with the reading thing,” presumably referring to a teleprompter. “He can go as fast as the speed of light and has no idea what he’s saying.”
He added: “I put Rubio in that same category, except I don’t know if he’s using one of those readers.”
If Day looks familiar, it may be because he appeared in ads made by “Swift Vets and POWs for Truth”, a group that opposed John Kerry in the 2004 campaign, claiming that Kerry’s recounting of his service in Vietnam was false. Day also campaigned for John McCain in 2008.
h/t Dave Weigel.
