A new theory on Chris Christie.

[kentuck]

Mine.

I think he has made some enemies somewhere along the line. Perhaps it is because of his arrogant, abrasive manner?

And I don't think it is necessarily Democrats. Many Republicans do not want to see him built up as the front runner for the White House. Many see him as a "loser" to just about any Democrat he might challenge. He cannot unite the Republicans - he can only divide them.

The media is carrying the water against him at the moment but we don't really know who is supplying the bucket?

How come we haven't seen more interviews with the "victims" of the bridge traffic jam?

I am thinking that Governor Christie may have enemies he doesn't even know about?

Whatever the actual truth may be, it appears that Governor Christie is toast.

[NCLefty]

1. It doesn't appear that way yet.

If no smoking gun is found and his henchmen keep protecting him, this may easily blow over. Liberals screaming about a bridge in 2016 will be as effective as cons screaming about the IRS today.

The common man is far more interested in his own life and problems than the latest political scandal, full-night MSNBC coverage or not :p

[monmouth3]

2. I used to live in New Jersey, friends and family are on this like white on rice. Don't kid yourself

it is over for him..

[think4yourself]

3. Exactly.

It's over. This is not the pundits' to decide.

[xfundy]

4. Eh...

If the repig PTB decide they want him as POTUS, identical memos will go out to Fox Noise, conbloggers, preachers, etc, and the sheep will doublethink their way back into his corner.

[sabrina 1]

8. Exactly. How many Republican criminals have skated over the past decade? It IS possible he

rubbed some powerful people the wrong way, he's not exactly brilliant. But his latest troubles are far more likely to gain support for him among the kind of people he associates with and even with Repubs who thought he was a 'Rino' until they found out what a bully he and his administration are.

If those who are really in charge decide they like what they are seeing, and I'm sure they do, being that morals are ethics are foreign to most of them, this will all go away and he will be promoted and rehabilitated where necessary.

I hate to be so cynical, but we've been here before, many times only to learn that what WE view as immoral is viewed as an asset to those who are running this country.

[NuclearDem]

5. Or he could just be a jackass.

One who hires jackasses to work for him and behave like jackasses.

[libdem4life]

6. He's Done. Now his shameful handling of the Sandy Money will come out. It's not a pretty picture.

Too many people were cc'd on too many emails. Once the subpoenas start...which is tomorrow...it will just be a matter of who wants immunity the worst. Then the dominoes start to fall.

[Samantha]

7. People who want Jeb Bush to run might be promoting this

Someone like maybe Karl Rove.

Sam

[yortsed snacilbuper]

9. I don't think this country can survive another bu$h!

Or any repub for that matter!

[Samantha]

13. I agree

All of the things we are trying to push back against now will come back into play after this next President election. If Jeb or another Republican take the Oval office, this Country will be changed forever.

Sam

[rocktivity]

10. DING DING DING! Kentuck, you're our grand prize winner!

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Many Republicans do not want to see him built up as the front runner for the White House.

"We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go...We don't need someone to think it up or design it...We just need a president to sign this stuff...Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen..."
-- Grover Norquist, February 2012

That certainly describes Bush Junior, McCrazed and R-Money -- but certainly not Governor Soprano. The Rethug establishment don't want Christie as the 2016 frontrunner because he has certainly illustrated that they won't be able to control him the way Cheney and Rove controlled Bush. Had McCain and Romney won, their running mates Palin and Ryan would have been the pipelines through with Norquist & Co. would have done their "directing."


rocktivity

P.S. The Eleventh Annual "You Call This NEWS?" Awards are posted.

[pnwmom]

11. Except the Koch brothers are strongly supporting him. Aren't they part of the establishment? n/t

[okaawhatever]

14. the Koch Brothers are tea party not Republican establishment. That is exactly why they funded the

tea party to begin with. When either David or Charles ran on the VP ticket in the 80's he did so as a Libertarian, not Republican. The tea party is a parasite on the traditional Republican party. Their difference was evident when Boehner couldn't control any of them.

[customerserviceguy]

12. We gloat here

but the tea party is gloating even more. They'd rather have a Santorum as the Rethuglican nominee, rather than an Establishment candidate like Christie (or Romney or McCain, for that matter). And I think Christie knows that he has those enemies. In any case, he was bound to find that out in Iowa in 2016 if Bridgegate hadn't happened.

Anyway, a tea partier will be far easier to defeat than Christie, so I'm happy.