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2016 Postmortem

busterbrown

(8,515 posts) Sun Jan 19, 2014, 10:23 PM Jan 2014

I hope Christie hangs in there.. [View all]

Because of all his woes, Christie’s only hope is to take on the persona of a Tea Bagger..

His anger and self hatred (my opinion) will manifest itself as Tea Bagger’s hate Rhetoric. They are the only ones who will back him now.

Lots of possibilities here.. I would like to see this story linger as long as possible hopefully into both election cycles.. All types of Shit on Christie will be plummeting into American Politics and I think that is good for us..

A quick exit by Christie would be a great thing to watch.. but it gives plenty of time for a Centrist Repub. candidate to develop..

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I hope Christie hangs in there.. [View all] busterbrown Jan 2014 OP

Thinking pretty much the same here elfin Jan 2014 #1

He is so fucking insane with ego that he just might.. busterbrown Jan 2014 #5

Right on. Saves Democratic ad buys. The extended news cycle, at least MSNBC, will help. libdem4life Jan 2014 #2

He can't hang too long itsrobert Jan 2014 #3

There are no centrist republicans. Christie is lostincalifornia Jan 2014 #4

Huntsman, Pawlenty, Bush are all seen by low informed voters as centrists. n/t busterbrown Jan 2014 #6

I'll concede huntsman, but definitely not pawlenty and bush lostincalifornia Jan 2014 #7

Republicans would promote Bush as a reasonable Centrists, as well as Pawlenty... busterbrown Jan 2014 #9

I think the base is done with centrist Repugs anti partisan Jan 2014 #8

So let me ask.. busterbrown Jan 2014 #10

Huntsman couldn't get 2% in 2012 anti partisan Jan 2014 #11

You think they can pull some unknown out of their rear ends.? busterbrown Jan 2014 #12

If they're not severely conservative enough anti partisan Jan 2014 #13

Let's hope for many months of Drip flamingdem Jan 2014 #14

At this point, I don't see how that is even possible, given the lineup of possible republican CTyankee Jan 2014 #15