Posted on 03/01/2016 8:21:22 AM PST by bboop
Since New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has endorsed Donald Trump, he has been:
Humiliated by video showing Trump ordering him onto the plane and telling him to “go home.” Condemned by his former finance co-chair Meg Whitman. (“The Governor is mistaken if he believes he can now count on my support, and I call on Christie’s donors and supporters to reject the Governor and Donald Trump outright. I believe they will. For some of us, principle and country still matter.”) Excoriated for his disastrous TV interview on Sunday. Phrases like “train wreck,” “off the rails” and “disaster” were used to describe his appearance. In other words, if it had not been obvious to him before this weekend, his political career is essentially over. He has gone from someone admired for his political talent to the object of derision as an errand boy for someone who espouses fascistic ideas (e.g., punishing the press) and openly displays his bigotry (e.g., retweeting a Mussolini quote). Christie is now signed up with the man who the Anti-Defamation League on Sunday was compelled to call out for pretending initially not to know who David Duke is:
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is providing information on extremists and hate groups to all of the presidential candidates, including Donald Trump, who earlier today in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper indicated he did not know anything about notorious former Klansman and racist hatemonger David Duke. Last week, Duke endorsed Trump’s candidacy for president.
There's a lot not to like about him.
But, absent a "black swan", I'll be voting for him.
This is as much a lie as the Rubio “Not a lot of answers in there” hoax.
I’m left speechless at the dishonesty and misrepresentation that is hurled with such abandon by people I so recently respected and held in the highest regard.
I’m no Trump fanboy. He’s not my idea of a conservative or even a Republican. Yet I feel I’m being driven to embrace him if only because of the enmity he arouses in others.
I’m just glad it hasn’t caused more of a problem in my marriage.
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kinda like Cruz is dishonest...these people dished it out. Hopefully Trump can shake this off. If he has another “racist” moment he is toast.
He has gone from someone admired for his political talent to the object of derision as an errand boy for someone who espouses fascistic ideas (e.g., punishing the press) and openly displays his bigotry (e.g., retweeting a Mussolini quote).
These are not serious criticisms - Tweeting, really? - they are, in fact, invocations of magic words that require no justification to paint the subject in dire colors. She left out "racist" but it really was only a matter of time.
The difficulty is that the very nature of this election has relegated that sort of cheap slur back to the children's table where it belonged in the first place. Christie has not ruined anything. He has proven his political mettle - the author admits as much - by bending with the hurricane and lending the support of his failed campaign to the side of the winner presumptive. Politicians do that, it's where they gain political currency that allows them to advance their programs and their careers in the face of electoral defeat. He appears to be considerably better at his job than the author is at hers.
These people are either out and out liars, or they are simply buying the spin without checking into it...IOW, inept.
Christie came down to Georgia and worked hard for Trump. Trump thanked him and told him to go on home and take a rest.
That’s all there was to it...and Christie himself has verified as much.
But there people are so anxious to find anything, any shred of a crack to try and pry apart, that they will jump at any comment, the way Trump stands, their hair, and ultimately they will be digging up anything they can find on spouses, children, grandchildren, 2nd cousins, etc., etc.
But it will all fail. The do not get it.
It is not about Trump per sey...it is about people being completely fed up with and angry at establishment politicians, with sleazy reporting...IOW with the very people making these accusations...that they are going to go with Trump anyway.
Every time they try more of this...the more it solidifies that determination.
Well, it is an odd thing for Christie. He wants to join Trump with the “RINOs stabbed us in the back” strategy. Who thinks Christie is an outsider? Trump? Sure. I mean Trump is so much of an outsider that he just became a conservative. He is to conservatism what Bruce Jenner is to femininity. He’s a fraud and a montebank, but he’s so new to the Republican party that he can say he’s had nothing to do with it. Never mind that he was financing the Democrats while the Republicans were failing to get past these Democrats.
I’m very happy that he endorsed Donald. As for Meg Witless, she was a terrible governor and just look at how she ran Ebay - enough said.
GO TRUMP GO
Slick Willy would be attracted to this picture.
Makes absolutely no sense. He could have done the same thing only better by supporting Obama the last eight years. He could do the same thing only better by supporting Bernie Sanders...or Hillary Clinton. If he's in it for the "glory" then he could have beaten Hillary Clinton much more easily.
What he said prior to his desire to become president is meaningless. He had to stay on the good side of everybody so that his businesses weren't targeted. Every statement he uttered in public in the past was no doubt part of a larger strategy or said as part of a negotiation. And his conservative statements FAR outnumber the few number of statements that are being culled to "prove" he's a lefty.
Damn, don’t do that to me. The scroll button in my mouse doesn’t work fast enough.
That's music to my ears.
So your position is that everything he said and did when before he ran for office is to be rendered moot by the things he has said while he is actively seeking votes.
Really?
Well, good luck with that!
There is a concerted effort by the GOPe launched in recent days to 1. muddy Trump using the race-based strategy that they used in taking out McDaniel in MS, 2. to demonize anyone endorsing Trump. The GOPe think this is a winning strategy based on their success in kneecapping the Tea Party and in rescuing Thad “Where am I” Cochran from being primaried. Rubin is one of the go-to media shills that can be depended on to reliably toe the GOPe line.
There’s always Ann Coulter
Nope but Rubin and a lot of her ilk will be if Trump wins.
No, my position is that you're culling a few public statements out of a million public statements to make the case that he's a leftist. You're ignoring the vast majority or his public statements that disprove this as well as the example of his very conservative family life.
Yeah, right.
He will make history and will be forever immortalized as the Attorney General that put Clinton in jail.
He will be remembered as the man who after a long 8 year career in the Trump administration was elected to the Supreme Court to join Ted Cruz and others already appointed by President Trump.
“Humiliated by video showing Trump ordering him onto the plane and telling him to “go home.”
How people can just outright lie, is astounding to me.
Had the same feeling.
No one cares what a yankee gun-grabber thinks.
She would make a good zombie actress for The Walking Dead.
He has a very conservative family life with Wife Number Four.
One thru Three... Not so much...
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