Bill Maher: Chris Christie is twerking his way from bridge scandal to GOP nomination

[Judi Lynn]

Bill Maher: Chris Christie is twerking his way from bridge scandal to GOP nomination
By Travis Gettys
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 13:38 EST

The New Jersey traffic scandal that’s embroiled Gov. Chris Christie won’t likely hurt his chances if he decided to run for the Republican presidential nomination, said comedian Bill Maher.

The host of HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher said Tuesday night that it might even have the opposite effect.

“He keeps saying, ‘I’m not a bully,’” Maher said during an appearance on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews. “Sure he’s a bully, and that’s what they like about him is that he’s a bully. If he’s not a bully, who is he? He’s just Lamar Alexander.”

Maher said Republican voters love candidates like Sarah Palin who bully their opponents.

“Where there (is) the kind of voters who booed the gay soldier, who cheered when somebody said, you know, ‘What, should we just let people die?’ – those Republican primary voters are in every state, and in every state they’re going to like Chris Christie,” Maher said.

More:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/15/bill-maher-chris-christie-is-twerking-his-way-from-bridge-scandal-to-gop-nomination/

[irisblue]

1. Christie twerking image is vomit inducing.

[merrily]

4. Try McConnell or Boehner.

[Hoyt]

2. I agree with Maher. Christie's Bridgegate and his handling of it will attract white wing voters.

Right wingers love this kind of crap.

[DonCoquixote]

7. was white wing a pun?

If so, good, if not, it should be.

And no, not all white people are mean, but there is a certain type of "angry white man" CC caters too, the ones that think everyone has had it too easy, it's it's time to kick their ass.

[Hoyt]

8. No. Someone used that term the other day, and I liked it.

I live in Georgia, where the right/white wing rules, for now anyway.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. If Republicans like bullys, why didn't Bob Dole win the presidency?

I heard he was real big on snark.

[merrily]

5. Republicans alone don't decide elections, only Republican primaries.

And Dole won the primary.

Most pundits now that I've been hearing are saying that Christie would not have won the Republican primary though. Nothing to do with bullying. Just that he was too moderate for their party as it is today.

[PNW_Dem]

6. Is Jimmy Fallon the New Tina Fey?

It might help him with the primary, but it won’t help him in the general election. Tina Fey probably did more damage to Sarah Palin’s run than anything else. The crazy success of the new Springsteen-Fallon video that makes fun of the bully image is an indicator that it’s a big downside for Christie and there’s probably much more material to come. I can’t wait.

[jimlup]

9. Yeah Republican voters are either

stupid or insane or both...