# Q: Is Fat-Boy Christie the Trump VP Nominee? WTF??? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 1, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836 "2016-07-01T00:22:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [July 1, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/1 "2016-07-01T00:22:16Z")
I’m seeing lots of late breaking reports that Governor Tromaville is being vetted as VP Tromavile. Cites. > **[Gov. Chris Christie Being Vetted as Potential Vice Presidential Pick for Trump](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gov-chris-christie-vetted-potential-vice-presidential-pick/story?id=40254381)** > **[Trump's VP choice could come before Cleveland, finalists include Christie,...](https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/30/politics/chris-christie-donald-trump-vp-vetting/)** > > Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump could announce his running mate pick before the party's convention to help drum up excitement heading into Cleveland, a source familiar with the process told CNN. > **[Chris Christie being vetted for VP by Trump campaign](https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2016/06/30/chris-christie-being-vetted-for-vp-by-trump-campaign-n235114)** > **[Report: Christie being vetted as possible Trump VP pick](https://www.nj.com/politics/2016/06/christie_being_vetted_as_possible_trump_vp_pick_re.html)** > > A New York Times report explores how the New Jersey governor has become a powerful figure in Trump's campaign. Is this real? Besides being HUMILIATED by being told to “get on the plane” and “Go home” as well as humping McDonalds McStuffins from The Ronald to The Non-ald, what are his qualifications? Of those qualifications, how many did he turn his back on when he decided to be Drumpf’s Gopher Intern? (Og Knows, he hasn’t been a Governor Here in Years.) Or is he trying to play the Cheney card with “Drumpf may be Bat-Shit Crazy, but if anything happens to him, my mobbed-up ass will be widening the chairs in the Oval Office for all four years.”? Will he be telling the press corps “Look, don’t give me any Lip[del]itor[/del]…”? Or, " I’m riding the Crest[del]or[/del] of this wave…!" Or, " I’ve had enough of [del]Pravastatin[/del] Pravda statin’ that Russia is Better than us…"? ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/2 "2016-07-01T00:23:57Z")
I for one welcome our emotionally unstable overlords. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/3 "2016-07-01T00:53:30Z")
Meanwhile, somewhere in Alaska, Caribou Barbie is breathing a sigh of relief. “Finally, maybe now I can get a BREAK!” Somewhere in Middle America, Dan Quayle mutters in reply: “Don’t bet on it, sweetheart.” ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/4 "2016-07-01T01:02:14Z")
If it _is_ true, then the conspiracy theory that Trump is throwing this fight just got some reinforcement. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/5 "2016-07-01T01:22:36Z")
Trump obviously concerned that he doesn’t have the Eastern Asshole demographic sufficiently covered. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/6 "2016-07-01T02:57:13Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > I for one welcome our emotionally unstable overlords. How long till they have a hair-pulling fight in the Rose Garden while the SS agents take their time to ponder who to shoot. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/7 "2016-07-01T03:01:31Z")
I guess he was in need of the New Jersey vote to put his candidacy over the top. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/8 "2016-07-01T04:01:16Z")
Wait, you’re actually surprised he’s being considered? Why does this surprise you? How many Republicans have actually come out publicly in support of Trump? ---
**Author:** ![UDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecae2f/32.png) [@UDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UDS)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/9 "2016-07-01T04:20:20Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Wait, you’re actually surprised he’s being considered? Why does this surprise you? How many Republicans have actually come out publicly in support of Trump? This. Is there anybody with more credibility than Christie who would be willing to take the gig? ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/10 "2016-07-01T04:24:37Z")
Yeah, I’d be surprised if it wasn’t Christie. ---
**Author:** ![DerekMichaels00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DerekMichaels00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DerekMichaels00)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/11 "2016-07-01T04:26:24Z")
He’s got nothing to lose; he can’t run for another term until 2021 (since he can serve a 3rd if its not consecutive to the 2nd), and his job approval is in the crapper. He can bolster Trump’s argument about contesting states not won by the GOP since 1988, which will help quell a delegate revolt. If Trump were a legitimate GOP mirror of Bill Clinton, a centrist reaction to the party base losses, then it would’ve been a good idea. But Trump’s immigration and anti-Hispanic rhetoric ruined it. Christie himself coulda been the GOP’s version of Clinton, had he kept his approvals up and waited until 2020. Sad to Christie’s talent go to waste ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/12 "2016-07-01T04:30:35Z")
> [@UDS](#): > > This. Is there anybody with more credibility than Christie who would be willing to take the gig? Is there anybody with any credibility who’d be willing to take the gig? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/13 "2016-07-01T04:46:56Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > Is there anybody with any credibility who’d be willing to take the gig? The other likely choice is supposedly Newt. So, no. (The second-tier choices include Jeff “be careful what you say to white folks” Sessions, who was rejected by the Senate when Ronald Reagan attempted to appoint him to a federal judgeship. Someone who couldn’t pass vetting to run a courthouse in Alabama is in the running to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.) ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/14 "2016-07-01T05:10:46Z")
Next time some nitwit claims that people don’t criticize the appearance of male politicians, I’ll refer them to this thread. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2016, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/15 "2016-07-01T05:46:41Z")
Meh, better than Newt Gingrich. Look, it’s easy to look at a Republican politician from Newark with a Sicilian mother and think he’s mobbed up. Not because he’s Sicilian or from Newark, but because he’s a _Republican and a politician._ Trump has mob ties. I expect Newt does as well. At least Christie is a \*relatively \*sympathetic human being, rather than a complete narcissistic psychopath like Newt Gingrich. I for one am gratified that with him as VP, a…sane if not competent hand will be ready to steer the ship of state, should Trump go off the reservation and have to be whacked. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/16 "2016-07-01T05:48:56Z")
I don’t know if I’m more shocked by the Tromaville reference or that I actually got the reference, man I loved those movies. Well he’s more qualified than Trump at least. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/17 "2016-07-01T11:49:08Z")
What about that congressman from Colorado who called Obama a tar-baby? What’s he up to these days? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/18 "2016-07-01T12:09:53Z")
And Christie will accept the gig, betting on an assassination. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/19 "2016-07-01T12:20:42Z")
Huh. I had Christie pegged for Secretary of Transportation. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836/20 "2016-07-01T13:02:38Z")
I dont get to say this often, but I called it. Ever since he dropped out & supported Trump it has been an obvious bid for the VP spot. I have little doubt that Christie could be the eventual beneficiary of a Trump flame-out. His thinking is likely “if he gets impeached, and it’s likely that he will, guess who’s next?” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-is-fat-boy-christie-the-trump-vp-nominee-wtf/758836.md?page=2)