Monday, November 19, 2012

Chris Christie in 2016 - that's so not gonna happen

Word on the street is many Republican activists were not happy with NJ Governor Chris Christie's bromance with President Obama in the wake of Sandy.  He lavished praise on Obama and seemed to forget who he was campaigning for and I think the storm and the media coverage definitely gave Obama the edge, to frighten you into the loving arms of government, Obama is better on climate change, what have you.  Now Christie's taken Romney to task for some post-election comments of his having to do with maybe Obama having won the election by promising gifts to certain groups of people.  That's really not that far off the mark and it really won't help the GOP in the long run by becoming so politically correct, might piss off the base but for Christie it wasn't an inclusive and loving enough message, not broad-based enough and Christie seems to be validating Obama's ad-claims about Romney during the campaign.  With friends like this...It's clear the GOP has been shaken and wants to refurbish its image and message as being more inclusive, tolerant and broad and I think here is the faintest whiff of Christie wants to make a run.  Look he can give a gay man an anal massage on national TV and he'll still lose and then the collective conservative introspection will begin all over again.  In fact the bulk of conservative post-election analysis when they lose is perfectly worthless and the endless cycle of angst/analysis becomes annoying after awhile.  Meanwhile Obamanomics continues to crunch out the crappy numbers......

9 comments:

  1. It is amazing the shear inability of people to recognize the futility of the political system. If you want to change things you've got to start by changing yourself. Others will inevitably follow.

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  2. Christie: pretty sure if he WAS president, he would dang sure bail
    out Twinkies.

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  3. I wouldn't be surprised to see Christie leave the GOP before 2016.

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  4. BB's is easily the quote of the day! maybe also give a waiver to Denny's.

    Conservatives when things don't go their way have a strong cannibalistic streak. In my book loyalty counts for alot and even if you don't agree with someone all the time do you have to throw them under the bus? Not only are they throwing Romney under the bus right now they're backing it up and going over him again.

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  5. The GOP has the libertarian wing pulling one way, the evangelical/social issue wing another, the neocons on a different vector and the Karl Rove
    billionaires another. I smell third party (maybe 4th or 5th)...
    Of course Christie will not run for president: Air Force One is not a cargo aircraft....

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  6. BB with the Christie jokes! LOL

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  7. Oh yeah I jotted this down in my little notepad the other day and almost forgot about it. It's now being suggested by some GOP analysts/pundits that the GOP now needs to get enthusiastically on board the whole gay marriage train if they wanna win anything. OK so maybe going against that gives the sense that you wanna cattle-prod gay men with a big hot pinking iron but what about a third option? How 'bout not talking about the subject one way or the other? Is it a requirement? That's my view of the neocons, not so much interested in abortion one way or the other and the other social issues just that Bibi is gonna shell the hell out of Hamas. WTG Bibi!

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  8. I'm telling you... you're hearing it here first.. Christie's gonna defect to the Democrats and find his way onto a VP ticket.

    I'm just sayin.

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  9. I can dig it, you'll get your credit when the time comes.

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