Christie Endorsed Trump

~ Clarissa

Chris Christie just endorsed Trump for president.

I guess this answers the question of why Christie never attacked Trump during the debates.

I didn’t expect this. Is anybody else as stunned as I am?

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      1. When you realize it’s about grift and being Vice President can be a very nice sinecure (Quayle) or a very powerful office (Cheney) depending on wont, it all makes sense. Carson and Christie had no real chance of being President. Carson was in it for his book sales and speaking tours.

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      1. Well if Trump wins the Republican nomination, I think we can probably count on a H. Clinton presidency. Maybe this is Christie’s way of paving the road for Clinton. 😉

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      2. When the water reaches the upper deck, follow the rats.

        Mencken quotes this in Newspaper Days, 1899–1906 (1941) as a maxim he learned from Al Goodman

        From Wikiquote.

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      3. “For some incomprehensible reason, I still expected some decency from Christie.”

        So did I, lady! Since you’re a Democrat, you have no idea how it feels to some of us to watch our party dissolve into madness around us. If Trump succeeds in getting the Republican nomination, I will shake my head in disbelief and shame, and you will never hear another pro-Republican or anti-Democratic comment from me until the November election is over!

        Until — and unless — that national disaster occurs, I’ll still feel free add my partisan voice on appropriate occasions.

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        1. ” you have no idea how it feels to some of us to watch our party dissolve into madness around us”

          for some of us, the dissolution happened long ago. The evangelicals and neocons have gutted the thing and if it takes a demagoguic populist with the worst hair in history to hit “reset” then I’m okay with that (though I don’t want him to win the general).

          Cruz – bible crazy
          Rubio – second string neocon

          If that’s what the republican establishment can come up with then their usefulness to the party is over.

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        2. Let me take this opportunity to dishearten you some more about the conservative movement, such as it was and is:

          An Oilfield in the Placenta

          In 2007, I signed on to the email lists of several influential magazines on the right, among them Townhall, which operates under the auspices of evangelical Stuart Epperson’s Salem Communications; Newsmax, the organ more responsible than any other for drumming up the hysteria that culminated in the impeachment of Bill Clinton; and Human Events, one of Ronald Reagan’s favorite publications. The exercise turned out to be far more revealing than I expected. Via the battery of promotional appeals that overran my email inbox, I mainlined a right-wing id that was invisible to readers who encounter conservative opinion at face value.

          Subscriber lists to ideological organs are pure gold to the third-party interests who rent them as catchments for potential customers. Who better suits a marketing strategy than a group that voluntarily organizes itself according to their most passionately shared beliefs? That’s why, for instance, the other day I (and probably you) got an advertisement by way of liberal magazine The American Prospect seeking donations to Mercy Corps, a charity that helps starving children in the Third World. But back when I was getting emails every day from Newsmax and Townhall, the come-ons were a little bit different.

          Dear Reader, I’m going to tell you something, but you must promise to keep it quiet. You have to understand that the “elite” would not be at all happy with me if they knew what I was about to tell you. That’s why we have to tread carefully. You see, while most people are paying attention to the stock market, the banks, brokerages and big institutions have their money somewhere else . . . [in] what I call the hidden money mountain . . . All you have to know is the insider’s code (which I’ll tell you) and you could make an extra $6,000 every single month.

          Soon after reading that, I learned of the “23-Cent Heart Miracle,” the one “Washington, the medical industry, and drug companies REFUSE to tell you about.” (Why would they? They’d just be leaving money on the table: “I was scheduled for open heart surgery when I read about your product,” read one of the testimonials. “I started taking it and now six months have passed and I haven’t had open-heart surgery.”) Then came news of the oilfield in the placenta.

          “Dear NewsMax Reader,” this appeal began, leaving no doubt that whatever trust that publication had built with its followers was being rented out wholesale. “Please find below a special message from our sponsor, James Davidson, Editor of Outside the Box. He has some important information to share with you.”

          Here’s the information in question: “If you have shied away from profiting from the immense promise of stem cells to treat disease because of moral concern over extracting stem cells from fetal tissue, pay close attention. You can now invest with a clear conscience. An Israeli entrepreneur, Zami Aberman, has discovered ‘an oilfield in the placenta.’ His little company, Pluristem Life Systems (OTCBB: PLRS) has made a discovery which is potentially more valuable than Prudhoe Bay.”

          Davidson concluded by proposing the lucky investor purchase a position of 83,000 shares of PLRS for the low, low price of twelve cents each. If you act now, Davidson explained, your $10,000 outlay “could bring you a profit of more than a quarter of a million dollars.”

          http://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con

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  3. Christie was already burned out with the out of touch Republican establishment, he has nothing to lose.

    And…. while I’m hoping that Trump himself does not win the general, I think him being the nominee will be worth it if it can root out the bible crazies and the neocons (worst people ever) from the party.

    Christie always struck me more as a Rockefeller republican at heart and I don’t think that’s a bad thing.

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  5. Christy has no career after his term ends his ratings as governor are ry very low and he could not win a re election he’s already talked about the senato being eing a useless position so he can’t run for Senate.

    Beam pumps vice president is his only chance of being employable in politics

    using the voice to text app on my phone

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  6. My immediate reaction to Christie’s endorsement was, “WTF is Trump blackmailing Christie with?”

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  7. Someone has to be the next Secretary of State … 🙂

    [… and I told you I’m really, really going to enjoy that gadfly in the soup, but more than one would be absolutely capital …]

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