Chris Christie

[57Brave]

Appears to have screwed the proverbial pooch.
Think he can get out of this?
I don't - he has no friends


http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tapper-da...tical-payback/

[zitothebrave]

Christie won't be a pres candidate because he's a crooked pol. Everyone knows it in NJ, we're just used to them. I think his future is as a pundit, maybe a cabinet member, or he may try to snag a Senate seat from the dems.

[Krgrecw]

He'll get the GOP nod unless Jeb wants it.


Everyone in a position of power does stuff like this

[zitothebrave]

He'll get the GOP nod unless Jeb wants it.


Everyone in a position of power does stuff like this

This isn't the only thing Christie did. He'll get crushed on a national stage.

[Krgrecw]

Nah people will like him. People on the right will line up behind someone who isn't afraid to be loud and challenge the left. McCain and Romney were too passive.


For all the **** you give Christie, he did win a liberal state which should tell you what people think about him

[sturg33]

Nah people will like him. People on the right will line up behind someone who isn't afraid to be loud and challenge the left. McCain and Romney were too passive.


For all the **** you give Christie, he did win a liberal state which should tell you what people think about him

That he's a liberal?

[zitothebrave]

BUt he's a New Jersey republican. Which is not what the nutzos want. He's more liberal than Romney in many ways.

Things he's said include

Homosexuality is not a sin; people are born that way. Pursue civil unions in NJ, but not same-sex marriage Drug treatment rather than non-violent offenders in prison.Consider windmills off NJ coast. Don't tap strategic reserves for political purposes.The future for New Jersey is in green energy. Incentivize energy manufacturing & wind turbines. New Jersey is being short-changed on Hurricane Sandy relief. Jersey shore for tourism instead of offshore drilling. 157 million for Green Acres open-space acquisition.Stricter limits on PAC campaign donations. Vetoed outright ban on Barrett .50 caliber rifle. We already have too many firearms in our community. 2009: No right-to-carry cross-state reciprocity. Favors gun control measures from law-enforcement perspective. I've never been opposed to tuition equality for illegals. with either unionized state workers or civil service.Spent beyond government travel allowance as US Attorney.

Could continue. But he's not in reality too far off from Obama.

[57Brave]

Nah people will like him. People on the right will line up behind someone who isn't afraid to be loud and challenge the left. McCain and Romney were too passive.


For all the **** you give Christie, he did win a liberal state which should tell you what people think about him

You've either got a bad memory, a chronic blind spot or are pitifully uninformed.

People from the right remember him being photographed with Obama and not with Romney.
People from the left see him as a bully and someone that uses a state helicopter to travel a few miles to watch his kids soccer game.
Looks as if everyone that see's Jeb bush as the (R) savior in '16 will get a shot.

(R) gets either the guy that rigged the vote to get his invading brother elected or the guy behind the traffic jam that killed an old lady.
Can you say "President Hil"

[57Brave]

He never escapes this quote (email) coming from his office. Whether he said it or one of his deputies/ He is responsible for the culture of his office
He fellow Braves fans -----is history

"They are the children of Buono voters."
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edit:
Frankly, the more I read the above quote it actually angers me. The 47% remark was an abstraction. This wasn't an abstraction. This actually - boots on the ground / skin in the game - negatively affected innocent citizens personal in the flesh lives.
Not their bank accounts ---- their lives.

Citizens

[Hawk]

He has a press conference at 11AM EST. Christie is all about tone, so it will be curious to see what he brings in terms of attitude.

I think if he plays too soft he's going to bleed longer, but if he comes out in his trademark saucy fashion he might be able to put all of this (truly menial **** -- who really cares about political retribution in some podunk New Jersey town? [sorry, zito]) in the rear-view.

[zitothebrave]

FOrt Lee isnt all that podunk, it's not a city of course. But there are many more pudunk places in New Jersey. Want to see Podunk? Travel to upstate Vermont and New Hampshire. Holy crap. And Fort Lee is the borough that brought forth such great people like Buddy Hackett, Bill O'Reilly, Cheng Ming Wang, Alfonso Soriano, Jay Z and most importantly Cam'ron.

If Christie was behind this he'll pay, but he seems to have enough plausible deniability that he can blame it on staffers and get away with it.

[Hawk]

Can you say "President Hil"

At the rate things are progressing, under a Democratically guided country, I'd rather eat my ****ing tongue.

[Krgrecw]

Not all politicians abuse Thier power and take care of Thier friends/voters and buck the people that are/were against them?

Christie did the best he could do coming out of this. Fired the lady, took resposibilty and answered every question. As long as there's no smoking gun tying Christie to this he'll come out fine.

[50PoundHead]

He did the best he could, but there's no running away from the fact that he hired the woman he subsequently fired and this type of behavior is often the tip of the iceberg. I've been in the game (not at as high a level as Ms. Kelly) and I've seen this type of crap take place. But it's usually personal and relatively innocuous. It doesn't involve creating a major traffic tie-up.

I've been disappointed that Obama hasn't reined in some of his staff, so the saw cuts both ways. There may be no smoking gun, but the culture created by Christie's personality certainly helped create an atmosphere where something like this was even considered. This event doesn't put Christie's presidential hopes in the ground, but he's on one good leg going forward.

[57Brave]

I think he was set up. No one of his stature is this tone deaf

[Krgrecw]

Christie took more accountability in two hours than Obama has with Benghazi and the IRS scandal ever

[57Brave]

How does one take "accountability" ?

[zitothebrave]

Christie took more accountability in two hours than Obama has with Benghazi and the IRS scandal ever

I didn't watch what he said, cause i really don't care, whoever did this did a scumbag thing. But if Christie went up there and farted into the mic, I think you'd say the same thing.

[Julio3000]

Christie took more accountability in two hours than Obama has with Benghazi and the IRS scandal ever

I find myself perversely admiring your ability to still use the word "scandal," in that context, without deploying quotation marks. That kind of tenacity and single-mindedness must simplify your life a great deal.

[57Brave]

Not all politicians abuse Thier power and take care of Thier friends/voters and buck the people that are/were against them?

Christie did the best he could do coming out of this. Fired the lady, took resposibilty and answered every question. As long as there's no smoking gun tying Christie to this he'll come out fine.

NEW DOCS RELEASED... Emergency Responders Forced To Move On Foot... DAYS OF CHAOS... 'I Pray No Life Has Been Lost'... 'Violates Federal Law'... CAPO SCHEMED: 'There Can Be No Public Discourse'... Senator 'Not Convinced' Christie Didn't Know... Ex-Gov: 'Phony, Bulls**t'... Christie Asked NY Gov. To Back Off Investigation... 'Just The Tip Of The Cover-Up'...

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The question isn't even about Christie personally anymore. It is about if ther is just one national (R) of stature will stand next to him.
Guilty or not - he doesn't recover from this