fat tub of guts RINO... feh
Posted on 07/03/2013 6:43:41 PM PDT by drewh
According to a new book about last year’s presidential election, Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) threatened to drop the infamous “f-bomb” on live television during the 2012 Republican National Convention.
The revelation comes as part of a conversation with the governor included in Washington Post campaign correspondent Dan Balz‘s new book Collision 2012. CBS News reports that the book, which hits shelves on August 6th, contains new insight on the strong GOP pressure for Christie to join the party’s primary race in 2011 as well as the drama that went down when a video almost didn’t run before the governor’s RNC speech.
According to Balz’s conversations with Christie, former President George W. Bush and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were among the many powerful Republicans who contacted the New Jersey governor and requested that he throw his hat into the primary ring during the summer of 2011. Former first ladies Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush also reportedly pressured the governor, to no avail.
Balz also reveals that Christie’s potential as a VP candidate for the Romney ticket fell through when he declined to resign his governorship to avoid a Securities and Exchange Commission regulation that would have prevented the ticket from accepting donations from big banks located in the state of a candidate.
But one of the more salacious details about Christie’s involvement in the 2012 election season involves tense moments from shortly before his keynote address at the 2012 GOP convention. CBS reports:
[W]hen organizers told Christie that they were scrapping a three-minute introduction video before his speech due to time constraints, the governor insisted they reconsider. When they pushed back, according to Balz, Christie told a member of the production team “to ask the director if he had ever heard anyone say ‘f***’ on live television, because that’s what he was about to do if the video didn’t run.”
After another sharp exchange, Christie said he wouldn’t deliver the speech if the video didn’t run. Romney’s convention team leader, Russ Schriefer, intervened, instructing the director to play the video.
Instead, he just F’d the party’s nominee by kissing Obama’s backside.
Well, well, well, narcissism is viral. The me, me, me, I, I, I, mentality is found from the bottom up to the top down.
Chris Crisco - what a punk - what a bucket of pug guts. And to think the rinos caved in to Crisco’s tantrum. All we have left is Sarah and West and Cruz.
Wow, what a {yyyyYAAAAAAWWWWWNNnnnn] rebel...
If he threaten to drop the f-bomb at the convention then he is no different than the vast majority of classless individuals in NJ. (I gave wiggle room to NJ FRiends that have class.)
He didn’t have to actually say it, his actions immediately following Anne Romney’s speech spoke a thousand FU’s..Why and how he’s ever been a force on the right, I’ll never know.
pffffffffffffffffft. Who cares?
Wow, what a stud!
Because he stood up to the teacher's union in NJ. That's pretty much it. With hindsight, it's likely that that was far more due to his "my way or the highway" mentality than any shred of conservatism.
fat tub of guts RINO... feh
He has made me drop the f-bomb innumerable times these last four years.
Get ready folks. He’s going to be the establishment’s pick for Jeb’s VP.
Well, if he had been David Ortiz instead of Chris Christie, the media would have loved it. In fact, if he had been almost any rapper, the media would have loved it.
Someone almost swore? Is this really news?
Sounds like he thinks he’s got it pretty much in the scope, being from the East..and North, he’ll do strong in New Hampshire.. and we’ll get the Republican National Party strongly behind him, and we’ll have a candidate chosen for us again.
F you you RINO POC.
Fricasee?
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Classic Chris Christie - he’s exactly what he looks like - a fat, obnoxious boor who just happens to be a little rich boy.
“According to Balz’s conversations with Christie, former President George W. Bush and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were among the many powerful Republicans who contacted the New Jersey governor and requested that he throw his hat into the primary ring during the summer of 2011. Former first ladies Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush also reportedly pressured the governor, to no avail. “
Jorge El Segundo - still wandering around with his brains checked in the coatroom.
Henry Kissinger - the Bilderberg/Council on Foreign Relations manipulator and one of the most sinister characters ever in American politics.
Nancy Reagan was probably too old and too tired to realize what she was doing.
Laura Bush - a classy lady but dumb as a post - just like her husband. Pro-gay, anti-Second Amendment and supportive of dumping your tax dollars on fighting aids in Africa.
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