Posted on 10/11/2009 6:46:52 AM PDT by bilhosty
Every time you think politics has hit a new low, it finds a way to go lower. I thought we had reached the nadir last month when Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina shouted "You lie!" at President Barack Obama while he was speaking to a joint session of Congress.
But then The New York Times caught me up on what has been happening in New Jersey. Campaigns there are rarely elevated affairs, but the battle between Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine and Republican challenger Christopher Christie has sunk to new depths.
As the Times pointed out, a television ad for Corzine, "about as subtle as a playground taunt," shows Christie "stepping out of an SUV in extreme slow motion, his extra girth moving, just as slowly, in several different directions at once. In case viewers missed the point, a narrator snidely intones" that Christie, the former U.S. attorney for New Jersey, "threw his weight around" to avoid several traffic tickets.
Asking politicians to be courteous and gentlemanly makes little sense, like asking for decorum from professional wrestlers prior to a no-holds barred cage match.
“My intent, with my entry into the ring, is in a mutually constructive manner, to reach a consensus with the other honorable wrestler so as to provide to the audience a forward-going athletic statement.”
This is what it has come down to, someones waist line. Never mind real isssues like taxes or crime or schools, we will worry about if some is fat or fixed parking tickets.
Welcome to the jungle.
Asking politicians to be courteous and gentlemanly makes little sense, like asking for decorum from professional wrestlers prior to a no-holds barred cage match.
“My intent, with my entry into the ring, is in a mutually constructive manner, to reach a consensus with the other honorable wrestler so as to provide to the audience a forward-going athletic statement.”
Sorry, but calling the president a liar when he obviously is is - to me - not a breach. We should have been doing it long ago (LBJ, Nixon, etc).
For the Obamaloon, a lot of other words also fit: idiot, ill-educated, narcisstic, stupid, cannot speak without help, cannot write his own book, cannot do anything sort of standing at a toilet, etc......
I agree. How could the president go to congress and lie like that?
Broder is a highly partisan liberal. He lacks objectivity. I don’t respect him at all.
If I were Christie, I would run ads that mention Corzine's slam and then show Christie ordering salads, trimming the fat off a steak before eating it, declining desert, and, as governor, vetoing taxes and wasteful spending.
The moderator should say something like: "Who better than a fat man knows how to diet. . . . After rich John Corzine's years of wasteful and destructive spending and tax increases, Governor Chris Christie will put New Jersey's bloated government on a strict diet."
Christie himself can look at the camera and say: "I know it's hard to lose weight, and I can't promise that as Governor, I will lose the weight I should . . . but I will put New Jersey state government on a strict diet and make it lean, trim, and healthy -- even if I have to throw my weight around to do it."
“Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina “
The greatest living American Statesman! GO JOE!
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