That's how Florida Gov. Charlie Crist described the state of his Senatorial campaign to Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe today.
MIKA: So tell us how this race is going? You've got kind of an upstart [Marco Rubio].
CRIST: It's going great.
MIKA: Yeah? Are you sure?
CRIST: Yeah, pretty sure.
MIKA: Yes, he can? (referring to National Review's cover piece on Marco Rubio)
CRIST: Confident but not complacent.
[Later]
MIKA: Your opponent, you've got this Marco Rubio. Pretty heated battle. Is that safe to say?
CRIST: Heated? No, I don't think I'd describe it as heated. I just think that, you know, competition is good. I like it. I look forward to it. And I'm ready for it.
[Later]
MIKA: There's been a lot of response to all the spending that's been going on in Washington, and when President Obama was promoting that $787 billion stimulus bill, you appeared with him on stage. Do you regret doing that, at this point, given the way things are going?
CRIST: Not at all. No, well, the President had just gotten elected. That was back in February, the first time he'd visited our state after being elected. I'm a civil human being. I believe that when the President of your country comes to your state for the first time, it's only appropriate to welcome him, and I was happy to do so.
Now do I agree with everything he does? Obviously not. We're in different parties, but it doesn't mean I'm an uncivil person to my President.
And thus concluded Crist's morning blitz, which included chats with Fox and Friends, CNN's American Morning, as well as Morning Joe.
UPDATE: Here's vid.
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