4. His shtick doesn’t play well outside NJ

4. His shtick doesn’t play well outside NJ 2014-01-18 04:03:48 No one in Iowa will vote for Tony Soprano for president. So goes the conventional wisdom about how a foul-mouthed tough guy from Jersey just doesn’t have the right personality to appeal to Middle American voters. But my experience watching Christie beyond New Jersey tells the opposite story. After announcing in October 2011 that he wasn’t running for president, Christie endorsed Mitt Romney and then flew to New Hampshire to become Romney’s most high-profile surrogate. At the first Romney-Christie rally, two female hecklers started yelling about Christie killing jobs. The crowd roared, knowing what was coming. “Something may go down tonight,” Christie said, “but it ain’t going to be jobs, sweetheart.” The comment shocked some pundits who thought it was sexist. But I was in the crowd, and that line got more applause than any other. Several Republicans told me afterward that they wished Christie had been running instead of Romney. The following summer at the Republican convention, Christie spoke at a breakfast for the North Carolina GOP. In persuading the crowd to work hard for Romney, Christie didn’t get folksy — he got Jersey. “Now I don’t want to get all nasty this early in the morning,” he said. But “you don’t want an angry Chris Christie coming back to North Carolina.” He then referred to the Mafia: If North Carolina doesn’t go Romney, he said, “we’re going to give you some Jersey-style treatment. You don’t want that now.” So many North Carolinians got up from their scrambled eggs to mob Christie at the door on his way out that the rest of the breakfast program had to be delayed. 2. He’s a bully who can’t keep his anger 2014-01-18 04:02:43 in check. YouTube doesn’t lie. The governor, ice cream cone in hand, did go after a heckler on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, where Snooki and The Situation once rumbled. He did call an assemblyman “numbnuts” and an assemblywoman a “jerk.” I’ve been a target, too. When I asked in December about a mysterious traffic jam on the George Washington Bridge, Christie laughed me off, sarcastically joking that he set up the traffic cones himself, before talking over my follow-up. But the governor has more than one bullet in the rhetorical chamber, and he knows when to keep the gun in the holster. After the release of those bombshell documents indicating that his closest advisers ordered the traffic jam, Christie talked at a news conference for nearly two hours and didn’t yell at a single reporter. He has steadfastly avoided questions on controversial policy matters, such as the defunding of Obamacare and immigration reform. Asked about the pope’s criticism of trickle-down economics — fraught territory for the most high-profile Catholic Republican in the country — Christie replied: “No reaction.” At the same time, he has Clintonian charm. He handles schoolchildren better than any politician I’ve seen, and he makes adults cry at his town hall meetings when he recounts his dying mother’s words to him: “There is nothing left unsaid.” Christie is emotional. Dismissing him as an out-of-control bully misses the full picture. 3. He’s unhealthy. 2014-01-18 04:01:52 3. He’s unhealthy. When Christie said he first found out about the Bridgegate e-mails after his morning workout, it provided yet more fodder for the endless snark about his weight. But a letter from his cardiologist — which Christie released after a challenge from his fit gubernatorial opponent last fall — showed that he doesn’t have serious health issues. His hypertension is under control, and he “has adapted a healthy lifestyle,” exercising four days a week. His cholesterol clocks in at 139, which is borderline high, but his blood pressure is 110/70, which is good. He was hospitalized one muggy day in July 2011, but he came out a few hours later and took all our questions about his long-term asthma. As far as weight, it’s safe to say he’s dropping pounds. Since his lap-band surgery nearly a year ago, he has looked noticeably slimmer each successive month. “You look good, governor,” New Jerseyans tell him. “I’m trying,” he says.Disaster because of drama, turn around - has mad 1memememe2014-01-18 02:28:26e me stronger I have found better opportunity perspective as a result of negative crash of 2nd business. What didn't happen is not a loss over all. Short term yes. But now my potential is higher and: Here I am now...life getting easier.sfooffer me a moderate- any moderate-- & just watch BOYCOTT-IRS2014-01-18 02:23:25how fast I vote to see that moderate defeatedIm not taking "hoverrounds path". I embrace toda 1memememe2014-01-18 02:21:03y and the new future, not theirs.Ya. I'm as free as a bird!!! Good post. § 1memememe2014-01-18 02:16:54mne15 years....no IRS.....and I teach others how BOYCOTT-IRS2014-01-18 02:13:07to do the same I have placed myself_-FAR beyond their reach they would NEVER have any way to prove any sort of case and they would NEVER be able to freeze anything to do with meI can't wait until the bars stop killing souls BOYCOTT-IRS2014-01-18 02:10:52by playing that when that is ONLY heard in it's waning days--- at nursing homes the world will be a better placemneGood. Please don't pay any taxes. I think hipness12014-01-18 02:10:04you may find yourself in jail, though. Hey SHITSTAIN That is what I have been saying coldhands2014-01-18 02:09:09You racist assholetpaI would vote for Sarah --- but not Warren § BOYCOTT-IRS2014-01-18 02:08:57tpaI doubt it. § coldhands2014-01-18 02:08:04mneI do not answer to them § BOYCOTT-IRS2014-01-18 02:06:59sfoi hope they run together. wow con slamdunk § 80-6662014-01-18 02:04:15tpaMe, I'll vote for latino...fuck it. § 1memememe2014-01-18 02:03:47sfoRichardsone or Biden. I see them as a hipness12014-01-18 02:02:27ticket before Cory Booker and Gavin Newsom. Or, how about Jerry Brown!tpaFrom what I have read--- Kerry may be running BOYCOTT-IRS2014-01-18 01:58:14againtpaI am actually planning to vote FOR Hillary BOYCOTT-IRS2014-01-18 01:56:18assuming that the GOP decides to force another moderate nominee on us---- if I get offered some sort of moderate and not someone I would consider a conservative---- I will show the GOP what I think of their moderate offeringsfoNo Republican is fit to run the country, so hipness12014-01-18 01:56:13I liked Bill Clinton, bit Hillary never states her true position on anything. Similar to Romney!sfoI am saying you make too many ASSumptions coldhands2014-01-18 01:53:56BTW I did not even read that link. I don't click on links here at all.sfoOK that's coming closer to a reason not just hipness12014-01-18 01:51:41about flinging insults. I want details! I agree that she is too conservative for my taste, but I am not sure if Biden is going to run. sfoI'll tell you why I don't like Hillary JohnnyTrigger2014-01-18 01:36:58she is a hawk she is for the same neocon foreign policy for warmongering and imperialismsfoPope Francis is the Messiah. That's why hipness12014-01-18 01:24:59he's pissing off all these cons because he truly embraces Christ's virtues. I always said that if the Messiah comes back in our lifetime, he would be run out of town by the cons!I just can't explain why someone could post such Coulters_Left_Nut2014-01-18 01:24:04stupid shit... They must be paid... If not, that's REALLY sad!sfoI don't want to be led by either of them ibRightandLeft2014-01-18 01:23:39neither of those guys are robust motivators. Bush is the better athlete though. Agreed. Which is why, dispite a high IQ 2014-01-18 01:16:35I didn't do well in school. A C student because of my "attitude". I feel his policies have been thoroughly Coulters_Left_Nut2014-01-18 01:14:23obstructed by those who have thoroughly enjoyed economic opportunity and advancement at the expense of the other 98% and who want to keep it that way.sfoI'm neither, but lean right. § 2014-01-18 01:12:48sfoJust because we are horrified at what happened i hipness12014-01-18 01:11:19in West Virginia and believe that we should have smart regulations enforced does not mean we don't believe in freedom.

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