SNL makes fun of everybody. Sometimes it’s even funny. I’m not sure how much his weight is going to matter, but I’m not ready to assume people will refuse to vote for him because of it. There’s just not much evidence to go on. And what skeletons in his closet are you thinking of?
Maybe of the people and things he ate that made him so fat?
Why Romney turned him down for VP. Besides Romney’s personal dislike of “Pufferfish”:
The Republicans have sent up two “moderates” and lost each time. Doesn’t matter the exact reasons why. There’s absolutely NO chance the extreme right wing loons will let them send up anything less than the most rabidly conservative frothing at the mouth Teahadist they can.
According to Christie “The American Psychological Assn. has found that efforts to change sexual orientation can pose critical health risks including, but not limited to, depression, substance abuse, social withdrawal, decreased self-esteem and suicidal thoughts.”
Certainly a drug with such side effects should and would be banned, especially if it had no evidence of benefit. Why not a therapy?
Do you disagree with the American Psychological Association? Do you think Christie misrepresented their view?
Or would you also disagree with the banning a medicine with no benefit and the same side effects, as paving the way for a future dictator?
I wouldn’t rule out his getting the nomination. The thing to remember is how small Iowa and New Hampshire are. A well-organized candidate with a good personality can actually go out and talk to enough voters in these states to influence the outcome.
I’ve never met Christie and I don’t know what he’s like in person. But it’s possible he could go out and meet Iowans and New Hampshirites (had to look that one up) and win them over even if another candidate’s political beliefs better match theirs. And a strong showing in the first two states could jumpstart his campaign.
That said, this is more of a Democratic strategy than a Republican one. When it comes to nominations, Republicans tend to prefer candidates who’ve been around and they’ve gotten familiar with. On that basis, Ryan or Santorum will be the likely nominee. If Christie runs in 2016 he’ll probably be looking at it as his opening move for a 2020 nomination.
Practicing an unproven form of “therapy” that tries to turn gay people straight isn’t a human right any way you slice it.
It’s not that Iowa is really small (it has 3 million people, after all, larger than 20 other states), it is the small number that vote in the Caucus and where they lie on the spectrum.
“The 121,501 votes represent 19.8 percent of active registered Republicans in the state and just 5.4 percent of all Iowans eligible to vote.” - from the wikipedia page on the 2012 presidential election results in Iowa.
So you have 5% of the people eligible to vote, in a state representing 1% of the population of the country, making major decisions on who represents the Republicans in the Presidential Elections. Awesome. Great system you got there.
The Republican leadership won’t let primaries get in their way. If they want Christie, they’ll change the rules so they disenfranchise the loonies.
Having said that, it’s just too far away. I’d say Christie is the ‘front runner’ on either side - ahead of Hillary, or Elizabeth Warren, or whoever, but still, I’d say his overall chances are maybe 1 in 10.
Most likely it will be somebody nobody’s discussing right now.
*Unless *that Republican is Chris Christie. He can win Democratic ‘locks’ like New Jersey and New York, and has a decent shot at Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
Christie is like every other Republican savior–great until everybody gets a closer look at him. (See also Giuliani, Fred Thompson, etc.)
The fact is that he’s a loud, abrasive asshole. That doesn’t make him a bad person–hell, most of my friends could be described similarly–but it makes him a lousy national candidate. He also doesn’t care who he pisses off, which is not a good trait for someone going into a two-year campaign to get as many people as possible to like you.
That’s really what it comes down to–even if you respect Christie, or you think he’s exactly what we need, he’s not that easy to like. He’s given pretty much everybody a reason not to like him at this point. Once the stresses of the campaign get to him and he really starts letting it out it’s all downhill from there.
Party leadership doesn’t choose the president.
Only if he’s running against Dennis Kucinich- and probably not even then.
No, but they can change the rules for the nomination process. If they want the nominee to be Christie, it’ll be Christie.
I disagree. Christie is a moderate Republican - like used to be throughout the whole northeast. He could easily take New York. Those 29 electoral votes make up the whole difference in Jonathan Chance’s ‘baseline’ electoral votes.
I understand your point, bup. I simply think you’re misreading it. It would take a New Yorker to move the needle in New York. There’s no way that would happen. Pennsylvania is more in play than New York if Christie can win over the Philly suburbs but that’s it. Same with Connecticut.
Keep in mind two of the likely candidates Christie would be running against would be Clinton or Cuomo. So you can write off New York flipping to the GOP.
For reasons already pointed out he’ll never even get through the primaries.
Damn shame too; He’s one of the few Republicans I would consider voting for.
What do you think they’re going to do? Stop the far right from voting?
Northeast Republicans are extinct at the federal level, and you are talking about a swing of maybe 20 percentage points in New Jersey and 30 in New York.
I heard rumors on CNN, but they wouldn’t explain … all they said was that if Christie ran for POUS the truth of why he wasn’t chosen to run with Romney would come out in the open.
How come no one takes Donald Trump seriously? What if he ran as an independent?
That seems to have happened already, but you could say that about lots of candidates. They all have negatives. There could be some serious scandals in there, but the rumor that they might be scandalous doesn’t prove much.
Because he’s a clown who is never going to run for president?
He has more money and personality than Romney and he could talk Christie into being his running mate. Are they both from NJ or is Trump from NY?
Have you really not noticed that he has pretended two or three different times that he was going to run and then backed out? He’s not running and he will never run. He knows nothing about any political issue and is taken seriously by practically no one.