# Chris Christie Suspending Campaign **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 10, 2016, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749 "2016-02-10T20:14:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/21 "2016-02-10T22:58:17Z")
> [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](#): > > He beat his unfavorables by 30+ points at one point, but [this graph](http://www.businessinsider.com/chris-christie-approval-ratings-chart-2015-6) clearly shows that his popularity dive, from which he has never recovered, coincided with Bridgegazi. I might have voted for him before the bridge thing. It was just so goddamn petty, that it turned me around. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/22 "2016-02-10T23:01:39Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > True, but the debate was, what, three days before the primary? That sort of thing needs time to filter down through the electorate. It seemed to filter through fast enough to squash Rubio. He was polling in second place (admittedly, a good deal behind Trump), but came in fifth. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/23 "2016-02-10T23:25:14Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > But he did one good deed before he died - he trashed Rubio very effectively. Little Marco lay covered up, killed by Christie’s shiv in the back. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hank\_Beecher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hank_beecher/32/7275_2.png) [@Hank\_Beecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hank_Beecher)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/24 "2016-02-10T23:44:56Z")
So who is he going to endorse, Kasich presumably? ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/25 "2016-02-11T00:14:23Z")
Obviously, he’s going to endorse Rubio. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/26 "2016-02-11T05:10:17Z")
Here’s an interesting CNN Politics piece on what went wrong for Christie: [http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/10/politics/chris-christie-drops-out-2016-election/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/10/politics/chris-christie-drops-out-2016-election/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/27 "2016-02-11T05:30:21Z")
Well, that’s a shame. He may be a terrible person, but he seemed less ideologically extreme than the others. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/28 "2016-02-11T05:33:52Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > That would have been _ **so** _ cool. 😃 Of all people, Hillary Clinton still has a shot at being an indicted nominee, given the chatter about the Clinton Foundation! Amazing. Although I have a feeling the weirdoes in Congress would probably prefer to let her get elected, impeach her, then indict. They love chaos on the Hill, don’t they? [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/29 "2016-02-11T11:02:14Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Of all people, Hillary Clinton still has a shot at being an indicted nominee, given the chatter about the Clinton Foundation! Amazing. Maybe they can indict Bill Clinton’s penis at the same time. :rolleyes: I’ve certainly got my axes to grind, but I can let go of them every now and then. And it’s funny how stuff keeps on coming out about Hillary that makes for bad-sounding headlines, and on closer examination, there’s never that much there. _Like ice in a drink, invisible ink, and dreams in the cold light of day…_ ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/30 "2016-02-11T12:20:32Z")
When campaign finances tightened up, it called for belt-tightening, and Christie has no experience in that regard. I’m not looking for much in the way of endorsements from anyone until the dust settles. Endorse Trump and you have to work with Bush if he gets in, that sort of thing. Politicians have long memories. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/31 "2016-02-11T13:29:29Z")
It’s too bad a relatively moderate and sane candidate like Christie gets run out of the campaign. I would not vote for him in the general, but I never thought of him as part of the cray-cray righty movement (Cruz). Kasich is probably not long for this campaign. I am hoping the right gets the candidate they so richly deserve out of this. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/32 "2016-02-11T15:24:23Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > When campaign finances tightened up, it called for belt-tightening, and Christie has no experience in that regard… Come now. He’s lowered into his pants by aides with a winch just like everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/33 "2016-02-11T15:45:48Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Here’s an interesting CNN Politics piece on what went wrong for Christie: [http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/10/politics/chris-christie-drops-out-2016-election/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/10/politics/chris-christie-drops-out-2016-election/index.html) That is surprisingly interesting and full of actual information from CNN. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/34 "2016-02-11T16:22:05Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Come now. He’s lowered into his pants by aides with a winch just like everyone else. Heh. That just gave me a quick flashback to Lynch’s Vladimir Harkonnen. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/35 "2016-02-11T23:58:35Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Little Marco lay covered up, killed by Christie’s shiv in the back. 😉 _In the tunnels uptown, the Rat’s own dream guns him down As shots echo down them hallways in the night No one watches when the ambulance pulls away Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light…_ ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/36 "2016-02-12T02:43:43Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Little Marco lay covered up, killed by Christie’s shiv in the back. 😉 You want the lumber laid in a live debate, there’s nothing like an experienced prosecutor from Jersey. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Monocracy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monocracy/32/4493_2.png) [@Monocracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monocracy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/37 "2016-02-12T13:58:26Z")
Christie’s campaign ad up in New Hampshire was the worst of all the candidates. [Here is the youtube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_SKROwwShw) to the commercial, but i’m pretty sure it was cut down to 30 seconds for most TV airings. I can name about a half dozen major things wrong with that commercial, but i’ll just leave it with … those shoes! ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/38 "2016-02-12T18:42:28Z")
> [@Monocracy](#): > > Christie’s campaign ad up in New Hampshire was the worst of all the candidates. [Here is the youtube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_SKROwwShw) to the commercial, but i’m pretty sure it was cut down to 30 seconds for most TV airings. > > I can name about a half dozen major things wrong with that commercial, but i’ll just leave it with … those shoes! Shoes aside, that ad was actually kind of dull. I was expecting a little more pizzazz. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/39 "2016-02-12T19:11:36Z")
The shoes were pretty bad. What was worse was the message “I have the support of the UGLIEST people in America. Won’t you join us?” ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749/40 "2016-02-12T19:42:10Z")
I’m not sure those were people. I think they may have been highly realistic bobblehead dolls. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-christie-suspending-campaign/745749.md?page=3)