TALLAHASSEE ? Charlie is successful, good looking, charming, single. He lives in a mansion and drives a Mustang convertible.
But "Charlie" just so happens to be Charlie Crist, 51-year-old bachelor governor of Florida. And lately a much talked-about potential running mate for Republican presidential nominee John McCain.
So when Crist earlier this month introduced 38-year-old socialite Carole Rome as "my girlfriend" at a Governor's Mansion reception, tongues wagged:
Could she be 'the one,' the future first lady of Florida? Or even, a vice president's wife?
Or is Rome, recently divorced and the mother of two school-age girls in New York, just the latest woman to be linked, correctly or not, with the governor who makes no apologies about his social life?
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