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Politico's Ode To Chris Christie On His Machismo And SuperHero Qualifications For 2024. [1]

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Date: 2023-04-20

The GOP Superhero Chris Christie Versus The Orange Clown

Politico has turned on the Bat Signal projector in the hopes of luring out a superhero to end the reign of terror of the Orange Jabba the Hutt. And looking up into the night sky, an overweight corrupt bully from NJ is trying to fit himself into a Batman outfit to heed that call to action. Or he’s at least thinking of squeezing himself into the outfit. In other words, Christ Christie is doing his Hamlet on the Hudson routine on whether or not to jump into the 2024 Republican primaries to slay the beast called Donald Trump. And Politico cannot get enough of our latest Republican “champion” Trump Killer.

A few weeks ago, Chris Christie called up a former Republican presidential candidate and asked for some advice: Should he mount a second presidential run in 2024 — facing off against former President Donald Trump for a second time — or was the idea just plain crazy? Taking down the most dominant Republican political figure in a generation, the 60-year-old former two-term New Jersey governor has calculated, requires taking direct aim at Trump’s weaknesses — his questionable character, his lack of discipline and, most of all, his losing record. The ex-candidate, whom Christie wouldn’t name, offered a blunt and encouraging reply: “No one else has the balls to do it.”

Did you like that? There is no way for Politico to check out that story. But they decided to run with Christie = guy with balls story. And the reporter, Rachel Bade, made sure to circle back to Christie’s “testicular” fortitude.

Second, there’s a clear rationale for Christie 2024 that has nothing to do with him actually winning the nomination: Some Republicans are openly rooting to have Christie on GOP debate stages later this year simply to bludgeon Trump — that is, do the dirty work that DeSantis, Pence, Haley and others haven’t so far been willing to do. But Christie insists he’s not interested in that. “I’m not a paid assassin,” he said, adding, “When you’re waking up for your 45th morning at the Hilton Garden Inn in Manchester, you better think you can win, because that walk from the bed to the shower, if you don’t think you can win, it’s hard.” Still, he’s thinking about it — and, yes, the current field’s lack of testicular fortitude is on his mind. Trump’s vulnerability “needs to be called out and it needs to be called out by somebody who knows him,” he said. “Nobody knows Donald Trump better than I do.”

Looky there! Christie is a man’s man! Look at all those — ahem — p word politician’s who do not dare throw a punch at Trump!

This is the same bullshit I heard about Christie before Donald Trump oozed out of the NYC sewer system. It’s what got him literally a gig on “Morning Joe,” and Chris “Tweety Bird” Matthews repeatedly swooned about the truth telling and toughness of Chris Christie. What they saw as straight shooting and toughness was actually a governor who bullied teachers and other NJ employees.

But it’s what the media thought that America needed. Turns out that Republicans wanted a bully, but tragically for Christi, it wasn’t him. Instead, Republican voters went for an even bigger and uglier bully than Christie in 2016.

Now, the rest of the article goes into what Christie would bring to the primary contests. Supposedly, Trump’s Achilles heel is his corruption and all the incoming indictments. And this is where Christie will go for Trump’s jugular. Christie believes that Republican voters will not punish him for taking pot shots at Trump.

Isn’t that adorable? Republican voters will not punish a candidate who takes on Trump with frontal assaults. Really? Christie is delusional about the Trump cult of personality.

Besides, Christie brings up on how he took out little Marco Rubio during the debates. Christie thinks he could do the same to Trump. So why didn’t he do that in 2016?

Oh. This was all before Trump lied about the 2020 Election being stolen, the Jan 6th Insurrection, and his wanting to suspend the U.S. Constitution. We had to experience all that before we saw how awful Trump was.

Bull fucking shit.

There was plenty of material in Trump’s background before he ran for office in 2016 that screamed, “Corrupt NY Grifter!” But guess who was a part of Trump’s transition team? Chris Christie. Who wanted to get a post in Trump’s Administration? Chris Christie. Who defended Trump all those years before Jan 6th? The same bully from NJ.

And let’s remember how Christie’s presidential campaign ended in New Hampshire in 2016. If I recall correctly, he came in sixth place. This was after spending 70 days campaigning there.

Anyway, if you want, you can read the rest of Christie’s musings on another run for president. I will agree with Christie that the current and future candidate GOP field is awful. But that’s a tautology.

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