The New York Post says that Chris Christie would have been the veep pick but he wouldn’t agree to Romney’s demand that he resign as governor of New Jersey to focus on the campaign. That sounds like a lot of crap. My guess is that Christie wasn’t picked because he weighs 400 pounds and he’d rub critical midwesterners the wrong way. Trust me. We Jersey Boys don’t sell that well in the Midwest. We’re too blunt and it’s taken as rudeness.
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“We’re too blunt and it’s taken as rudeness.”
The reason Christie wouldn’t fly in the midwest is because he acts like a dick, not because he’s blunt.
Goopers anywhere would love him because they love a dick, but it just puts off normal people.
Did I miss something? Did Mittens insist that Ryan withdraw from running for his House seat, much less resign? Typical NYP horses**t.
Take it from a Chicago Boy: we can handle your Joisey crudities just fine. That wasn’t the Christie problem.
Dude…Chicago does not equal “Midwest”, no more than upstate New York equals Brooklyn…
I love Christie, but Romney has to make up for the loss of Virginia, and possibly Florida, in either the inner mountain west (i.e. Colorado, Nevada, maybe New Mexico), and/or the midwest (Iowa, Wisconsin (!), maybe Michigan and/or Pennsylvania)…
I loved Rubio too…
This was the best pick!!! Shocked!!!
Chicagoans are like polite New Yorkers, but, yeah, Jersey Boys can pass in Chicago just fine. Down state is another matter.
Christie would do much better in the Midwest than he would do in the South……..
The South is already a lock for Republicans…any GOP’er wins that one…
Ryan, Rubio and Christie were my top three…if you want to change the policy debate, Ryan is the best pick!
Why would Romey want to ‘change the debate’ to medicare vouchers, privitizing social security, a .82% tax rate on millionaires, etc etc?
He picked Ryan because the base still doesn’t trust him and because Adelson and Koch et al told him to.
You morons have now lost FL. Ryan is going to be DESTROYED in FL. In fact, AZ is now a swing state. Between the hispanics and the geezers, we have a real chance in AZ.
Dataguy…I’ll bet you $10,000 Romney wins FL and AZ!!!
Whoops…Gaffe!!! Oh, I just remembered, I don’t need to worry about Gaffes!
How about this…let’s bet one week of my income vs. one week of your income that Romney wins FL and AZ! That seems like a “fair” bet…trust me…you can hold me to it…I’ll put my one week of income in a Swiss escrow account, and hire the lawyer for you to ensure that you get the funds in the event you win…please…take me up on it!!! But only if you cover the legal expenses if you lose…kind of like Texas requires…
Let me know…these are great odds for you!!!
Nah, not confident enough. Plus I can’t afford to bet right now. FL is a slam-dunk, AZ is a huge uptick in likelihood, from 10% to about 48%.
Boss Hogg?
You’re flat-out rude and you call it bluntness. 🙂
Yep. That’s about the feel of it.
And then you do stuff like come up to us unsolicited in a retail store and ask if we need any help.
That’s EFFING rude.
It’s part of the job. If you don’t want people to help you in retail, why don’t you MOVE TO EUROPE? I hear the Germans in particular take offense at having to help customers.
I don’t have to move to Europe. All I have to do is stay right here in the Tri-State Area and I can safely shop without suffering the harassment of meddlesome and intrusive “helpers.”
Dude, I worked retail for a long time. Minumum wage and how many sales you ring up are monitored. Managers are given unreasonable sales numbers to make, with reduced staffing hours. Constant shifting of the sales floor and corporate weasels in and out of the store on a fairly regular basis.
Those people have to ask you, they’re on camera.
Oh. I was actually trying to be sarcastic.
I actually thought Christie would be the best pick just because he stands out as “different” from the rest of the GOP freak show. He appears to:
a) speak in complete sentences
b) have a pulse
c) disparage all the right enemies in all the right ways
d) manipulate the media in his favor
Plus, he hasn’t tried to dismantle Medicare and social security.
Tragically (ha), he and Romney are both northeastern squishes on gun control, immigration, abortion, skeery mooslims, etc. Can’t have two. Can barely afford one.
Going with Ryan is the diametrically opposite choice.
Bazooka…Ryan is better at each of the four qualities mentioned above…Christie just does it in a “bigger” (figuratively and literally) than Ryan.
God bless you right wing crazies.
You realize you just unintentionally confirmed that things like “able to speak in complete sentences” are noteworthy (and unusual) qualities in a potential candidate, right? As opposed to the usual teabagger darlings, obviously. Lulz.
The pulse may be short-lived…
Ooh, burn!
Low-hanging fruit…
Blunt is not problematic in the Midwest. It’s being a genuine ass that’s a problem, and Christie just comes across as an angry bully.
Like during the snowstorm 2 years ago, when Corey Booker totall embarrassed him.
Blunt he is but he might have actually brought in a few additional votes. And he is without the budget baggage that Ryan carries.
Christie made cuts to Medicaid for the working poor. He has cost NJ a lot of money through incompetence. He isn’t blunt, he can’t control his temper.
He has problems with the halfway house situation. He was not a good pick. He doesn’t wear well. People would get tired of him in a hurry.
Christie isn’t a hater and that would sink him as a VP for the GOP.
Oh, he’s a hater. Hates public employees. But then, so does most of America. Take out police and fire, and you can double ‘most’…
I thought he could run on that all the way to the White House.
In Crab-bucket America — I used to have a defined-benefit pension, so you can’t. I used to have health insurance, so you can’t. I used to have a job, so you have to be unemployed too — he’d do just fine.
Look. Christie is a conservative that shares many anything traits with, say, Jeff Sessions or Tom Coburn.
And, yeah, he has a bit of a temper.
But he’s also a dick in the purest Jersey style. He’s a dick like Kevin Smith is a dick. Or Frank Sinatra. Or Jason Alexander. Or Danny DeVito. Or Richard Lewis. Or Jack Nicholson. Or Joe Pesci. Or Joe Piscopo. Or Jon Stewart. Or Bruce Willis.
All have the same recognizable attitude. Basically, it comes down to an unwillingness to suffer fools, a high degree of self-regard, and a whip-smart intelligence. With Lewis and Stewart, you can throw in a dash of Jewish guilt. But it’s still pure Jersey. They’re in your face; they don’t back down; and they can come off as rude, dismissive, and condescending while they’re pulling on their socks.
And they were all, excepting Sinatra, super nice people. Chris Chistie definitely comes in at the low scale on that one, but definitely above Francis Albert.
And they were all, excepting Sinatra, super nice people. Chris Chistie definitely comes in at the low scale on that one, but definitely above Francis Albert.
Frankie Baby made Joe DiMaggio look like a saint in comparison. And Joe D. was a huge asshole himself.
Joe D. was from the Bay Area.
All have the same recognizable attitude. Basically, it comes down to an unwillingness to suffer fools, a high degree of self-regard, and a whip-smart intelligence.
Christie is smart? He’s not smart, just a bully. And no, he’s not smart just because he’s not on the “hate the Muslims” bandwagon.
Good to see you. I didn’t see you on this thread before and I was a bit worried.
Christie is dumb.
More nonsense that Mitt had the pick of the GOP belles. Pawlenty and Ryan are the only two that are known to have said yes to Mitt — not that there isn’t a long list of other GOP losers that wouldn’t have said yes and many were seen “debating” Mitt a few months ago.
Personally, I blame Woodrow Wilson.
Have you seen this:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/romney-picked-ryan-over-advisors-early-doubts
Romney Picked Ryan Over Advisers’ Early Doubts
A high risk pick, driven by the candidate. “Everybody was against” Ryan, says a top Republican.
Can’t believe the [in the link] y used that picture unless it was photoshopped – Boran2, any thoughts?
You’ve hit the big time BooMan: your blog now has its own dedicated right wing troll. Kudos!
Nah, GW is strictly minor league. You should have been on 538 before the NYTimes took over. Lord have mercy, Nate had two trolls that were the worst I’ve ever seen.
Chris Weigant has few also, altho they tend to be a bit more urbane and actually know what they are talking about.
In my experience of midwesterners as a midwesterner, it’s you easterners that care enough to keep bashing him for being obese.