Can Christie Escape?

[geeker2]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

In the meantime, here's an eloquent essay from David Simon (creator of The Wire, which I finally got around to watching this year, ten years after it debuted and it's awesome) about the scandal:
http://davidsimon.com/the-highways-j...broken-heroes/

You should watch Treme

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by geeker2

You should watch Treme

Heh- at the rate I'm going, I'll get to it in 2022. I have heard it's really good. On the bright side, I'll be able to watch a whole season at a time. I tried to watch Game of Thrones when it first aired and couldn't do it, but then tried again when HBO had all of season one on demand and blew through the whole season in two days. For some reason, I do better getting hooked on shows if I can see at least a whole first season at once.

[Danzig]

count me in as one who thinks christie has no shot in the primaries.

mitt got hammered for saying it's an etch a sketch, where you portray yourself one way to get the nomination, and then another to get in office. it's too bad that honesty (in that particular instance) isn't the best policy. it's absolutely true. you have to pander to your base, so you can get your base to support you to get the nom.
in other words, until the republican party finds a better base, they're going to find taking the white house a very, very tough proposition. whichever candidate best kisses the koch bro's asses, and caters to the far right 'small govt in name only' people the most convincingly will get the nomination. and then they have to move far enough to center to not aggravate that same group, while trying to get everyone else to forget everything they said in the primaries, without appearing as a hypocrite.
very tall order. everyone harkens to reagan, but i don't even think the repubs would vote for him these days.

the republican party continues to slowly commit suicide, with less and less people calling themselves republicans. they've gone too kooky.

[alysheba4]

Originally Posted by Danzig

count me in as one who thinks christie has no shot in the primaries.

mitt got hammered for saying it's an etch a sketch, where you portray yourself one way to get the nomination, and then another to get in office. it's too bad that honesty (in that particular instance) isn't the best policy. it's absolutely true. you have to pander to your base, so you can get your base to support you to get the nom.
in other words, until the republican party finds a better base, they're going to find taking the white house a very, very tough proposition. whichever candidate best kisses the koch bro's asses, and caters to the far right 'small govt in name only' people the most convincingly will get the nomination. and then they have to move far enough to center to not aggravate that same group, while trying to get everyone else to forget everything they said in the primaries, without appearing as a hypocrite.
very tall order. everyone harkens to reagan, but i don't even think the repubs would vote for him these days.

the republican party continues to slowly commit suicide, with less and less people calling themselves republicans. they've gone too kooky.

it is amazing considering how bad the economy has been under the current watch........

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by alysheba4

it is amazing considering how bad the economy has been under the current watch........

and instead of taking the opportunity to do something jobs-wise, you have, what, 41-42 votes to repeal o'care from the repubs, nand exactly zero jobs bills. instead of trying to find ways to help with jobs/economy, the repubs go after health care-to what end? or they attack reproductive rights, while fighting anything geared towards helping actual people. stupid.

nothing had a chance in hell, because the only goal reps had was to stymie dems. not help the citizenry, the economy....just block the dems. good job, well done!

[GenuineRisk]

And now the Feds are looking into how Christie spent the Sandy relief money:

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014...aker-says?lite

I remember there was some rumbling at the time that it was inappropriate for Christie to appear in commercials promoting New Jersey's recovery from Sandy, as it would be very easy for a viewer to confuse that with a campaign commercial- in other words, it gave him free air time for his re-election campaign. And interesting that the company that won the bid (with a commercial that included the governor) cost $2 million more than the next highest bidder (with a commercial that did not) would have.

[OldDog]