Liberal blogger Markos “Kos” Moulitsas of DailyKos.com isn’t usually cited by conservatives. But the campaign of Republican Senate hopeful Marco Rubio is noting a recent DailyKos posting in which Kos wonders whether a grassroots conservative surge for Rubio might persuade the more moderate Gov. Charlie Crist, the current GOP Senate frontrunner, to bolt the party.

Kos muses that Crist could “pull a Specter and ditch it for better electoral prospects” with the Dems or “pull a Lieberman…and work to attract independents, mainstream Republicans and Democrats disaffected bytheirpoor field.”

Longtime Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Arlen Specter switched to the Democratic Party this year. Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, after losing a 2006 Democratic primary, ran in the general election as an independent and won.

Kos suggested a Specter switch to the Dems several weeks before it happened.

Former Crist chief of staff George LeMieux, asked his thoughts on the matter, replied: “Charlie Crist is a common sense conservative with a near 70 percent approval rating.”

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