Crist alliances upset GOP

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. | A Republican no longer, Gov. Charlie Crist just can't seem to get enough of President Obama or Democratic priorities.

The independent is behaving more like the independent he is in Florida's wildly unpredictable Senate race, standing with the president, courting organized labor and vetoing legislation to ban embryonic-stem-cell research at the state's universities.

Conservatives he once wooed say it's the mark of a political chameleon - or worse. The state GOP's news release says, "You can't spell Charlie without 'lie.' " But Mr. Crist's path to statewide election goes in a different direction now, far, far away from the "tea party" activists who drove him from the GOP...