Honestly, some days it feels like I’m the only one here with the guts to actually say that I don’t like him, his governing style, or his Wanna-be Goombah crew of support thugs.
Today, he Officially said he was running for president… and I Swear it looks like his nose has grown an inch since the last picture of him.
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Ok, ANYONE can be fat… or have noticeable growth of their nose… but how many people have the Honest-To-Og Stupidity to Run for President on the platform of “Telling It Like It Is”?
In case you are wondering (or missed the movie), that was the excuse famously used by Maureen O’Hara in “Only The Lonely”.
from IMDB:
Danny: I suppose you’re proud of yourself.
Rose: Just telling it like it is.
Danny: That’s been your excuse for the last 67 years.
Rose: My excuse?
Danny: Your excuse for hurting people whenever the hell you feel like it!
Rose: I don’t hurt people.
Danny: Oh no? I guess you didn’t hurt Aunt Dolly on her wedding day when you said she looked like a, uh, a cheap Las Vegas hooker.
Rose: Well, did you see the wedding dress? The back of it was cut right down to here. You could see the crack of her - Well, it was indecent.
Danny: And I guess you didn’t hurt cousin Jerry when you called his German wife a Nazi who probably slept with Hitler.
Rose: Well, there’s no proof that she didn’t.
Danny: [prepares for the big one] I guess you never hurt dad, either.
Rose: [shuts the fridge door, stern] I never hurt your father, ever.
Danny: Florsheim Shoes?
You know, I actually have to give Donald Trump some Street Cred for Honesty here.
Everything Trump says he actually believes… and with No Filters.
I can’t EVER accuse Trump of lying for the microphone & then making bad racist jokes over his veal to his cronies at the table.
You’re right… I haven’t met Chris Christie… and YOU haven’t met Chris Christie.
But, if you’re honest with yourself… in our lifetime… haven’t we ALL met Chris Christie…?
What makes you think anyone is afraid of him?
Yeah, this. I think he’s an obnoxious windbag and I partially blame his fawning over Obama after hurricane Sandy with Obama winning re-election, but I’m certainly not *afraid *of him and don’t know anyone who is.
I’m afraid if I don’t vote for him and gets elected anyway, he’ll send some goons out to block a couple lanes of I-45 and make the traffic even worse.
I’m pretty sure the days of anyone viewing Christie as a threat ended with Bridgegate.
I mean, maybe someone on the NJ state legislature does but nationally? Nah.
According to Five Thirty Eight the Hindenberg had a better chance of survival so there’s not much to be afraid of
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You’re saying Obama benefited from the Christie bump?
I find the Christie and Jindal candidacies baffling. Vote for me! My constituents think I suck, but I’m the best man for the job.
Christie adamantly denies helping Obama win the election. He’s a liar of the first order, so it must mean even he believes he did 
But anyway, many many people cited Obama’s handling of Sandy as the reason they voted for him in exit polls, and Christie really kissed his butt over him doing such a good job, so yep.
Obama was re-elected because of the way he handled super storm Sandy? A storm that mostly affected the solidly democratic Northeast? Absurd. Come to think of it, not acting like a partisan asshole in the wake of a disaster was the finest act of statesmanship in Christie’s career.
I’m very curious who this “everyone” is of whom you speak.
If I were a double bacon cheeseburger, a mountain of chili cheese fries, a couple dozen chocolate chip cookies or a gallon tub of mayonnaise, I might be afraid of him, but I suspect that isn’t what you are talking about.
So again, who do you think is afraid of Chris Christie? And why?
I don’t know anyone who’s afraid of Christie, unless they had the experience of standing between him and the dessert cart. I wouldn’t want to be the one to tell him that he’s the only candidate without a campaign thread, either. What he is is a bully of the first order. The GWB retribution against the mayor of Fort Lee is testimony to that. He took care to make sure that his fingerprints weren’t on the action (as far as we yet know) but rest assured it was he who stated the desire to rid himself of this meddlesome priest.
Sure, he should get some credit for putting politics aside during the hurricane. But he wasn’t above using hurricane relief money as a sledgehammer to bully local officials into accepting his terms as a condition to get that money.
For someone of his girth, he’s a terribly little man. One wonders why he’s running as he has zero chance at the nomination and zero chance at being Jeb’s running mate.
I only said that because he seemed to be the One candidate no one brought up… like he was to be given some sort of special pass… and I don’t mean “Governors of NJ Eat Free”.
Glad to see he isn’t.
Christie says he’s electable because he’ll tell it like it is. I got news for him: the American people don’t want to be told like it is. They want fantasy rhetoric. They want to be told that prosperity is right around the corner, pennies will fall from heaven, it’s morning again in America, and so on.
Hell, we can’t even have real reality shows on TV, for cryin’ out loud. Nobody wants to hear the truth, they want to be told they’re special, and America’s exceptional, and we’re the Chosen People (but only the lighter toned of us, not everyone, and those who don’t accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior? They may as well not even exist.).
That’s what the majority of Americans want to hear. Not some bully blowhard asshole like Christie.
No, it’s just that he’s clearly been toast since late last year.
Didn’t his Chief of Staff confess to bridgegate mischief or such? To imagine a C-of-S doesn’t act with the spirit of his boss is foolish, IMHO. I regard Christie as just another unindictable criminal.
It wasn’t that long ago, in the wake of Sandy, that some pundits were saying the GOP’s only chance of regaining the Presidency was to nominate the only guy they had who was willing to shake a Democrat’s hand.
Things have a way of changing.
“We’re stuck in Governor Chris Christie’s Fort Lee, New Jersey traffic jam.”
- Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Fallon, to the tune of “Born to Run”
I think hearing them perform that was the moment I realized it was all over for Christie. With Springsteen joining in with Fallon to use Springsteen’s most famous song to openly ridicule Christie, it was clearly not just the political equivalent of inside baseball anymore, so it wasn’t going to go away.
He was always going to be the guy who got tens of thousands of people stuck in traffic jams that lasted several hours, because he was pissed at some local official, whether or not it could be proven in court that he ordered it. Hippie-bashing is one thing, and Republicans will be for it until the memory of hippies finally fades from this earth. But indiscriminately making life difficult for thousands of people just trying to get to work in the morning (and into the afternoon) doesn’t sit well with anyone.
