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In reply to the discussion: Christie Crime Digest Volume III [View all]rocktivity
(44,572 posts)111. Duplicate Duh Donald!
Last edited Thu Sep 10, 2015, 03:07 PM - Edit history (4)
The GOP Clown Car occupants have become so desperate to say things which will titillate the base and are too stupid for the national media to ignore that even a DU admin noticed. But what's causing it? Well, it's been working for Donald Trump, so the way to duplicate The Donald's kind of poll numbers and media attention must be to Duplicate Duh Donald!
Christie is currently in undisputed possession of eleventh place in the polls, putting him in danger of missing the CNN Sept. 16 debate as a headliner. It therefore shouldn't come as a surprise that he's been Duplicating Duh Donald like, well, crazy...but it does anyhow:
NJ.com: You've heard it again and again in this wacky summer of Republican presidential politics: Chris Christie is the one who should be the leading plain-talking, outside-the-box, in-your-face, I'm-not-your-typical-Washington-politician candidate. But instead...that title has gone to the ever-controversial Donald Trump.
A focus group of Trump supporters...showed that while two-thirds of the panel's members agree Christie "tells it like it is," just about as many say it's the real estate mogul who's the "only person running for president who tells it like it is."
But all's fair in love, war...and campaign slogans. Christie released a new TV ad last week in which the governor closes by intoning: "Let's make America a leader again." Sound familiar? It's essentially a retooling of the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" uttered repeatedly this summer by -- yep -- Donald Trump.
A focus group of Trump supporters...showed that while two-thirds of the panel's members agree Christie "tells it like it is," just about as many say it's the real estate mogul who's the "only person running for president who tells it like it is."
But all's fair in love, war...and campaign slogans. Christie released a new TV ad last week in which the governor closes by intoning: "Let's make America a leader again." Sound familiar? It's essentially a retooling of the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" uttered repeatedly this summer by -- yep -- Donald Trump.
Okay, slogan duplicating accomplished. All Christie has to do now is say something "ever controversial" that will bust right through the Trump clutter:
NY Times: Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey said...that if he were elected president he would combat illegal immigration by...ask(ing) the chief executive of FedEx, Frederick W. Smith, to devise (a) tracking system.
At any moment, FedEx can tell you where (a) package is: Its on the truck. Its at the station. Its on the airplane, Mr. Christie told the crowd in Laconia, N.H. Yet we let people come to this country with visas, and the minute they come in, we lose track of them.
He said 40 percent of illegal immigrants are allowed into the United States legally with a visa and then stay longer than their visa allows. However long your visa is, then we...tap you on the shoulder and say, Excuse me. Thanks for coming. Time to go.
At any moment, FedEx can tell you where (a) package is: Its on the truck. Its at the station. Its on the airplane, Mr. Christie told the crowd in Laconia, N.H. Yet we let people come to this country with visas, and the minute they come in, we lose track of them.
He said 40 percent of illegal immigrants are allowed into the United States legally with a visa and then stay longer than their visa allows. However long your visa is, then we...tap you on the shoulder and say, Excuse me. Thanks for coming. Time to go.
First, of all, it's Sprint, not FedEx, that Christie should be talking to about implementing his plan:
Secondly, where would the tracking mechanism be installed? If it's on the visa itself, that raises the problem of the visa not always being where the visa holder is. The only alternative is to attach the tracking mechanism to the visa holder, like that movie Logan's Run:
Or something could be tattooed on, like what was done to Holocaust prisoners.
So far, FedEx has declined comment...for some reason...More
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I know what you mean.. There's been so much illegality in the christie admin and from christie
Cha
May 2015
#9
my first thought when I saw skinny Wildstein was "the people behind Christie radiation poisoned him"
Backwoodsrider
May 2015
#33
Also known as "Christie's Forty-Seven-Percent-Moment" (Good-natured jabs, my donkey)
rocktivity
May 2015
#50
Is Christie's publicly-financed self-exonerating Mastro report about to come back to haunt him?
rocktivity
Jun 2015
#56
You rock Laxman!!! While the non-memories of "Fitzmas" still hurt, I think this is different...
winstars
Jun 2015
#61
I have said all along, he will never get convicted of any crime. He seems to let others....
Logical
Jun 2015
#73
Christie's latest power failure: Another storm, another self-serving response
rocktivity
Jun 2015
#80
UPDATE: (Hillary Supporter) Jon Bon Jovi Says He Gave (Hillary Opponent) Christie Permission
rocktivity
Jun 2015
#85
Christie Confirms Bruce Is Still His Fave NJ Musician, Gets Ovation From Bruce's Fans
rocktivity
Aug 2015
#98
He's Being Funded By A Tabloid? That Explains Why He's Started Talking Like One
rocktivity
Aug 2015
#99
Didn't Christie just fantasize about beating a woman and then serving her with a subpoena?
rocktivity
Feb 2016
#138