Brit Hume: ‘Old-Fashioned Tough Guys’ Like Christie Can’t Survive in Today’s ‘Feminized Atmosphere’

Mediaite ^ | January 12, 2014 | Evan McMurry

[EveningStar]

Brit Hume has himself a theory about why New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s got this nagging “bully” reputation hanging round his neck: it’s not his fault, see, he’s just a bull in the emasculated china shop of the world.

“In this sort of feminized atmosphere in which we exist today, guys who are masculine and muscular like that in their private conduct, kind of old-fashioned tough guys, run some risks,” Hume said on Sunday’s Media Buzz.

[jimfree]

There is no greater bully in politics today than Barack Obama.

[Norm Lenhart]

You were right. Mafia ‘Protection” works exactly like that.

“Nice traffic flow...shame were ta anythin happen ta it...”

[PATRIOT1876]

He's a weak RINO that gave up his principles in exchange for a photo op with the president.

More likely he never had an principles and was pretending at the beginning.

Christie = failure as a Conservative.

[Irenic]

I don’t think Christie is a masculine tough guy. He seems feminine, abrasive and he sports a big mouth—a bully. Though he would make a terrific feminist!

[Gene Eric]

An absurd perspective.

[Yosemitest]

The base will NEVER support Chris Christie.

Lane-gate, Christie Helps Obama Again!
Jan. 11, 2014 9:00am by Chris Salcedo
" ... Gov. Chris Christie has been one of the more vocal critics of conservatives and the Tea Party trying to limit the size and scope of the federal establishment. On the heels of his big win in the Garden State, Christie held up his bipartisan accommodation of liberals as an example for all the GOP to follow.

But then there’s the, “traffic scandal,” “lane-gate,” or whatever the mainstream press is calling it. The same press that fawned over Christie, as their preferred Republican, after his election victory, has turned on Christie.
... "

" ... Let Christie’s plight be a teachable moment for the wayward GOP establishment.
John McCain, the former reigning favorite of the mainstream press, can attest
that when it comes to a choice between the Republican and the Democrat, a vast majority of the press will favor the Democrat.

Christie is seen, by the press, not conservatives, as the only chance the GOP has to take the White House in 2016.
Thus, he must be destroyed, even if the press has to show rank hypocrisy to do it.
It’s no mystery to anyone but the GOP that they are practiced and skilled at doing that very thing.

So, now Chris Christie is an island unto himself.

If he had decided not to bash conservatives and the Tea Party, they would have been some of his staunchest supporters and advocates.
They would have insisted that
the press take his proclamation of ignorance of the scandal at least as seriously as
Obama’s copious declarations of cluelessness.
But now, the liberals in the press and the Democrats in office are declaring him unfit for the White House.
Conservatives couldn’t care less.

And the establishment GOP is demonstrating their typical M.O.
by running for the hills
so as not to be tarnished by the scandal.
They don’t want the press to start saying bad things about them.

But that’s the point.
The press, by and large, HATES the GOP and has kinship with the extremist liberals in government.
They will ALWAYS BASH the candidate or office holder with an (R) after their name.

The lesson for the GOP is clear:
You’ll never win over the press.
They hate you with every fiber of their being.


So why bother to try and convince them that you are not the caricature they invented for you?
Why not endear yourself to a majority of the nation?
Why not show you value principle over the Democrat’s perverted version of process?
Why not return to being the party that values the tenets that built the greatest nation in human history?
Why not be conservatives again? ... "

[bboop]

I have my reservations about Christie, but I like the guy. I like the way he says NO and sticks to his guns. Sure, the teachers’ unions hate him - he says NO and means it. Sure, the Dems hate him because he won’t re-up their Supreme Court pick. He just draws a line.

GAD, we so very much need people like that. I’ll take authentic and boundaried over a get-along appeaser any day of the week.

[onyx]

The East Coast media Republicans LOVE Christie.

[icwhatudo]

Wow-Brit totally misses it.

This has nothing to do with being a tough guy/femi-nization etc.

The rino is a jerk and got busted. Sure, he’s getting more grief because he has an r in front of his name, but the r stands for rino and that why we love seeing him squirm.

[Lady Heron]

Christie is the farthest thing from a tough guy I have seen....UGH

[Gene Eric]

Indeed they do.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Politicians survive scandals if they keep their base happy.

The Democrats know this and use it. Republicans don’t seem to understand this one basic fact of (political) life.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Barack Obama is still just a putrid puppet...controlled by a puppet-master.

The only reason he can talk/act tough is because he's got an adoring news media/entertainment world to deflect and absolve his azz from ANY responsibility/accountability(mostly by playing the old tried-and-skewed race card).

...easy to throw sh#t-bombs at your detractors when you have that kind of cover...not to mention enough sheeple to buy the pile of excrement at full price.

[nascarnation]

It’s like exercise.

The MSM is just keeping “in shape” between national elections.

I’ve got no use for NJFatboy but the fact that they can focus 90% of the national conversation on this stupid bridge shows they are in good form.

[MrEdd]

But pudgy doughy lard bucket doesn’t have the same ring to it as tough guy.

[ex-snook]

Yep Christie beat up on the old lady teachers. He was a no-show against any ‘sopranos’ or double dipping politicians.

[vpintheak]

Don’t like Christie all that much, but the point is true. The culture has been feminized big time!

[greene66]

Tough guy? What a laugh. This is the guy who reacted to a media question about Palin by contorting his face into a stupid “gag-me-with-a-spoon” reaction, like some over-emotional teenage girl! This is the guy who cried over getting a phone-call from Bruce Springsteen! Pathetic!

Maybe this constitutes being “tough” up in the northeast, where people are surrounded by wimps and metrosexuals, but it’s not remotely “tough” in my neck of the words. Not by a long shot.