Hilarious! Further evidence that the Republican Party has been taken over by extremists: erstwhile stimulus supporter Charlie Crist is now denying he ever backed the President’s economic recovery plan (which did not sit well with the tea party set, or Crist's primary opponent Marco Rubio).

Remember, Crist was one of the Recovery Act’s most prominent Republican supporters last winter, announcing his support for it and actively working to ensure its passage:

Crist appeared with President Barack Obama in February to support the bill, asked Florida members of Congress to vote for it and previously told The Associated Press that he would have voted for it if he had been in the Senate.

But now that Rubioooooo! and his right-wing pals have taken over the Republican Party and are rapidly gaining in polling on the hapless Crist, there’s nothing left for the nation’s second-most overrated governor to do but pander to his right flank.

But when the Republican governor talked about the bill Wednesday on CNN, he said he didn't endorse it. Crist told CNN he understood that the bill was going to pass and wanted to use it for the benefit of Florida.

Brilliant! He never endorsed the stimulus…except, you know, when he said he’d vote for it, asked others to vote for it, and appeared with the President as he was garnering support for it.

This kind of revisionist history is, we are afraid, vintage Charlie Crist: he is a man with few discernible goals or principles in public affairs aside from positioning himself for the highest office attainable.

Unfortunately for him, Crist's long history of zig-zag politics appears to have finally caught up with him. When you're Governor, people actually pay attention to your words and actions...and that's no good for Charlie.