run run northeastern anti-gun pro-mike castle let’s eat din-din with obama and the chicoms chris christie save Christmas!
I guess this is what happens when the Huntsman juggernaut doesn’t gather the requisite steam.
On the plus side? Palin will tear this poseur to shreds.
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update: Alter retracts.
(thanks to John B)
he has a bloated sense of his own significance I think
Can a Harold Stassen announcement be far behind?
I am looking for a president, not a secular savior.
fatty fat fat
How long before J0hn and sterlinggray chime in to scold my intransigent extremism?
Ground zero mosque? Fuck yeah! Fight Obamacare in court? Uh, others are doing that. So I’ma just keep out of it. After all, the White House serves the most awesome taquitos.
If this is true, it’s our own fault. Maybe not you specifically but I’ve seen many posters with parties in their pants after the latest video of Christie confronting NJ’s various gov’t/union workers. Many expressed enthusiasm for a Christie candidacy. I admit to being impressed with the guy myself at those times.
Since then, he’s demonstrated some weakness in other areas, namely those that Jeff alludes to above, so I get the local tepidness. I don’t know if the enthusiasm for Christie has died down elsewhere but I don’t think he’s out of line for thinking he would have support. Since he’s said he was concentrating on fixing NJ when asked about it if he runs he may have an integrity issue to deal with.
Christie is a pro-business northeast Republican.
If he runs, look at who comes quickest to his side. Factoring out Ann Coulter, it will be the “pragmatists,” the GOP intelligentsia, and the inside-the-Beltway pundits.
These are the same people who gave us the debt reduction deal, labeled us extremists and Hobbits, and continue to take our votes for granted while they presume to take on the role of kingmaker.
We should all now be in position to learn from that. It’ll be further clarifying to see who has learned, and who will find a way to rationalize a return to the same old, same old.
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he’s looking at running because Obama is cratering (which makes whats-his-name’s “Lesson of 1991” piece seem downright prophetic) and Mitt Romneycare is faltering in the face of Bachmann’s Iowa straw poll win and Rick Perry’s big splash.
Suddenly now it’s a wide-open race and Christie figures a northeastern social-moderate with fiscal-con cred and a rep for going all Jersey Shore on his political opponents might appeal both to the country-clubbers and the “give ’em hell” Tea Party types.
He’ll have to work hard to outdo Perry on the hell-giving, I think.
I’m a huge fan of the Chris Christie youtube videos. I love it when he says what he’s actually thinking. The fact that what he’s saying is often what I like to hear helps. He is a great governor for New Jersey.
However, I would not want to have to vote for him. I think I could (maybe, the jury is still out, because he has said he isn’t running many, many times), if only because he hasn’t yet proven his inclinations completely; those inclinations are towards what I have accused him of being, which is an old-school Democrat, which at this point translates well to what Jeff said he is, which is basically an establishment GOP type. I’ll bet under many circumstances he loves him some government.
He will eventually have his Romney moment of government overreach and brand himself what he is.
I remain uninspired by out current field. I guess it could be Perry in the end, which is preferable to Romney by a huge margin.
If anything, Christie will use the bully pulpit to work budget issues like a motherfucker.
Here’s a preview of next year’s bumpersticker:
Perry/Christie 2012
Fuck It – The World’s Ending Anyway
Retracted.
meanwhile in the bowels of the cocktail party
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Jim Jordan surprises me. A bit disappointed, frankly.
I encourage Chris Christie to run for governor of New Jersey again.
I encourage Paul Ryan to run for representative of Wisco’s 1st district again.
Wait, this is via Jonathan Alter? Color me skeptical.
Oh, wait. That was for Ryan to run, not Christie.
I can see Jordan backing that.
Speaking of which, I think Scott Walker would make an excellent governor of Wisco. He should explore running for that again.
my favoritest one so far is mr. governor perry after that I think they all can die screming
except wif an a
Somebody tell him: no cannonballs.
Yes. We wouldn’t want another quitty governor running for POTUS again. Maybe that doesn’t apply to men, though.
I assume you’re just busting ‘feets balls there, Slart.
My desire to see people achieving some results continue onward in that role has little to do with the “quitty” angle of a POTUS run.
I guess Perry could be considere quitty if he had to quit halfway through a term to be POTUS. Again, depending on whether you have the hf predisposition to affix that label to some quitty people over others.
Palin is quitty but nobody else
I don’t know that I’ve affixed the quitty label to anyone, Slart. So I’m not sure what you’re saying.
You are bh, not hf.
I just think potential not-a-hoochie presidents what are not formerly associated with mr cowardly lion mccain should be encouraged.
No, I have not confused teh ceiling cat with teh pikachu.
Okay, gotcha, Slart.
When you blockquoted my comment I wasn’t sure if you were using it as a jumping off point with ‘feets or thought I was taking some sort of quitter angle against a Christie/Ryan/Walker run.
No, you have been suspiciously silent on the whole quitty issue, bh. It almost makes me suspect you of being pro-quitty.
Heh.
What’s more important? Quitty or Quacky? Did you miss me, kiss me or fist me?
Gotta know, ya know.
Mr. BJ!!
quitty is bad. Real bad. Quacky is also bad, but not as bad as quitty. Quitty it’s hard to bounce back from.
Hey, BJ, great to see you in the comments.
BJTexs! Howdy! But “fist me”? Yoiks.
BJ! Great to see your name there!
How are you, my brother?
Hey, hey, it’s BJ! I hope you’re doing well.
BJ – that fact that you’re back right after Perry declared is just a coincidence, isn’t it?
Thanks fellow bloggasteers! I’m doing quite well in my current Chemo treatments and am happy that side effects practically do not exist. Great to be back! I’m working full time, singing in the ensemble and blurpping at any and all democrats.
BLURP!!
that is excellent news Mr. BJ
be well
BJ! Good to see you man.
Stay healthy, BJ. That would be an order if I had any authority, but humor me.
I’ll also ask nicely like McGehee did.
the fat lady sings
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It’s interesting that Fitch’s also made the headlines for refusing to downgrade the US and effectively saying that how much the government spends doesn’t matter. Keep an eye on Fitch employees getting govt jobs / Soros money for the next year.
“Hey, BJ, great to see you in the comments”
Ya know what’s better than BJ in the comments?
BJ in person! (looking healthy and much more chatty than his blog personna;).
Keep Firing!!!
I’d feel bad for Christie if he had to share the stage with popular kids Perry and Palin. Perry would give him a Texas titty twister and steal his lunch money while Sarah told him that he’s such a sweet guy, but she can’t date him because it would “ruin their special friendship.” Sorry tubby but we’ll have a gay president before we have a fat one. (In the modern age, so Taft and Cleveland are exempt, they liked lardos back then.)
Beeee Jaaaay! Good to see ya, brother.
So, who do you see K-I-S-S-I-N-G in a tree, sterling?
I wonder if BJT doesn’t have good economic tidings from the pipe business, what with being in relatively near proximity to all the reputed nat. gas drillings up to his north and west?
I hear those are naughty, sdferr. Didn’t you see the Sundance Award winning film? You dirty, dirty man. Why do you hate people?!?!
sterlinggray
“I’d feel bad for Christie if he had to share the stage with popular kids Perry and Palin. ”
super ijiot
“nat. gas drillings up to his north”
stop it it causes vd
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She’s also very drilly, and I could get all single issue on that one.
Don’t hate ’em Pablo, just like to spit cook ’em over a nice hot nat. gas fire, baste with butter and spice, then serve ’em up with a baked potato and salad. O, and shouldn’t forget the peas! Heavens, not the peas.
It just makes sense, right?
Well, Ann Coulter’s nipples got hard for about an hour.
I bet Sturla’s against the MILF subsidy, too.
But in all seriousness, the Fat Man’s window of opportunity has passed. Perry is a lock for the nomination at this point, with Palin or Bachmann as VP. Mark my words: Iowa and South Caro cannot resist a cowboy, although the Mittster might take New Hampshire.
Fat Man ~ Little Boy 2012
#61 – that is quite an explosive ticket right there…
Great to read you knuckle headed plaster of Paris whack jobs.
PA as a state has mucho gas energy and yet, spotted and pounded by thew Obama dance team as a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate how to grab a state with riches and shake it violently until some goofy law is passed slowing down practically all gas opportunities years in advance.
Idiocy, thy name is Progressive.
“#61 – that is quite an explosive ticket right there…”
BA DUM … CHING!
Oh, and BTW: Don’t imagine that I might become the least bit bored bringing outsiders to places like The Constitution Center, Independence Hall, Art Museum, Franklin Mint Museum, Please Touch (Museum designed for kids) and several other Phillie places. Ask Danger daveOf course my recent 2nd row behind the Phillie’s dugout with my son was, well, um … THE BEST SEATS EVAH, ANYWHERE, FOR ANYTHING!!! (except for a college concert that allowed me to lean my elbows on the stage to watch Dave Mason, circa 1977, (We Just Disagree))
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/09/jogging-politicians-gordon-brown
I seem to remember a certain philandering president with a hankering for McDonald’s…
Good to hear from you BJTex! Hang in, get well!!
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Re Christie, I’m pretty much a single issue voter this election cycle. I don’t care if the next President is a transvestite who holds all-night orgies in the Lincoln bedroom with midget hookers, rubber sheets, and a 5-gallon bucket of CostCo mayonnaise, so long as he/she is a fiscal hardliner who will speak the hard truth on government spending and hold Congress’ feet to the fire until the budget is balanced and the economy is turned around. All else is distraction from that single pressing issue. Let’s not let the perfect become the enemy of the good.
Would I be happy to vote for an anti-gun candidate? Of course not, but I’d trade our current anti-gun President who’s lousy on the economy for an anti-gun President who’s good on the economy. Would I vote for a candidate that represents the establishment Republican business as usual crowd? No, because he’d be bad on the economy by definition.
Ah well, we’ll see, it appears that rumors of Christie’s candidacy have been slightly exaggerated.
aka: President Hankerin’ for a Yankerin’.