I pit NJ Gov Chris Christie for saying an idiotic thing about Civil Rights

Sadly, I don’t think he thinks being that guy would cost him votes.

Because he’s running for President in 2016 and making barely coded statements against civil rights for black people is one of the requirements to win votes in the Republican primary?

So true.

We’ve had Governor Had to Resign Because he Was Being Blackmailed Because he Didn’t Trust Us Enough to Tell Us He Was Gay and Govenor Being Investigated For Massive Financial Fraud. Yet Christie still manages to be even worse. The asshole recently lost us yet more education money:

Truly, he’s the Rex Ryan of politics.

Damn you!

He’s all right, if you remember where he came from. Federal prosecutor. Means he’s always right, and he uses his body language to intimidate the hell out of people.

He goes for maximum confrontation, because it’s part of how he works.

That’s not the whole story with Mcgreevy. It was a pretty open secret that he was gay. I knew before he was sworn in.

I’d rather have Ryan.

He is now nominating the the Supreme Court someone who’s family just settled civilly with the Feds in a case in which it looked like they were laundering money or at least trying to hide it from the IRS. A business owned by his mother that employs his wife.

This is why he’s not running for president, nor will any other NJ governor. You don’t get that position without being dirty.

I don’t think so. He is saying he thinks that a referendum would have worked if only those racist legislators would have allowed it. As if civil rights should be left to a vote.

This is a consistent meme in the social conservative movement. If they want it, let them get a legislature to vote it in. This applies to abortion mostly and now that legislatures are actually voting in gay rights they think it should be left to a referendum.

He’s not retarded, he just isn’t as deep as some people think he is. He is as much New Jersey Republican as any other NJ Republican, he just yells it with more confidence and conviction. Northeast Republicans are generally less retarded than the ones from the South and more honest than the ones from teh Midwest.

I recommend reading Mysteries of my Father by historian Thomas Fleming. His father was the Sheriff of Hudson County and firmly entrenched in the Frank Hague administration in Jersey City. Paints a very clear picture of how and why Jersey politics evolved into what it is. Also a damn good history of the time. I have personal interest in it because Fleming grew up next door and was the same age as my father. So it’s partly a history of my family too. Oh and my aunt was banging his father on the side.

Charming. :wink:

Anyway, I thought this thread was about the abomination that is the Designated Hitter, not politics or whose aunt was banging whom, though that’s interesting, too.

Isn’t obvious that Christie and all the other NJ govs are DH loving Yankee fans?

Less chance of getting pregnant than banging him on the front, I guess.

Good Lord, when did they move it?

I’m National League all the way. The Yankees are the Nine Horsemen. Didn’t Steinbrenner force the DH on half of the universe to make more money? :mad:

Here.

Unless he was secretly a snakes, in which case not only is the penis on the side, but for many species there’s one on each side. So be careful when a snake tries to snuggle up against you.

Don’t worry about it; I settled that one.

As predicted, Christie vetoed the bill.