Is GOP field about to get a major new entrant?
Under the headline “Chris Christie seriously considering run for president in 2012,” the Star Ledger in New Jersey reports:
BATON ROUGE — Gov. Chris Christie is seriously rethinking his months of denials and may launch a campaign for the White House after all, a source close to the governor said tonight.
In the last week, Christie has been swayed away from his earlier refusals to run by an aggressive draft effort from a cadre of Republicans and donors unhappy with the GOP field, said the source, who was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity….
At a campaign rally here today for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Christie continued to criticize Obama’s leadership, but ignored several questions from reporters about whether he would seek the White House.
“If you’re looking for leadership in America you’re not going to find it in the Oval Office,” Christie said today in Baton Rouge.
The rally and a fundraiser afterward capped off a cross-country tour by the governor, where his Reagan Library speech Tuesday served to only stoke speculation that he might reverse course and seek the Republican nomination for president…
In addition, the governor’s wife, Mary Pat, no longer objects to a presidential run, according to an adviser to the governor.
The governor has famously said “my wife would kill me” as a reason not to run. However, a few months ago former first lady Barbara Bush called Mary Pat to assuage her concerns about life in the White House, the adviser said.
If so, welcome to the Big Top, governor. Given factors such as geography (another Northeast governor) and where he falls on the political spectrum, the person with the most to lose from Christie’s entry would be Mitt Romney. And it would certainly add some intrigue to the next Republican debate.
– Jay Bookman
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Paul
September 30th, 2011
8:34 am
Mick
So… another thing that (just like the previous thread, which looked like a lot of fun) sounded good when Republicans advocated the idea but became anathema when Democrats repeated it?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2011
8:35 am
I hope Christie does run…. we need some more explanation about the private use of state helicopters and a number of other things. And of course, he won’t be able to bully his way in a debate.
As for Obama’s smoking, amazing how the right demands “video evidence” of some matters but can just accept any rumor without evidence for others. Wonder what the common elements are in those distinctions?
Bosch
September 30th, 2011
8:35 am
OMG this dude just proposed to this girl on the Today Show! He did good too, didn’t bobble one word- things did not go as well for me. It was kind of sad actually! But things have worked out ok…
Good Little Liberal
September 30th, 2011
8:37 am
Normal
I don’t have a big problem with this one. It wasn’t a drone strike and it didn’t kill a bunch of innocents. I always check the BBC when I read anything in the American media and they were saying that no one knew who killed him and of course Al Jazeera said that it was definatel;y not Americans.
Whoever killed him, it was a good kill to someone who won’t easily be replaced.
Finn McCool
September 30th, 2011
8:38 am
Please yes. We need some competition from the Republicans. Otherwise the chosen one will walk away with the victory in Nov.
AmVet - Read my lips. No new Texans!
September 30th, 2011
8:38 am
The little clown car of GOP candidates just keeps getting more crowded.
I think given the Large One’s entry we have a new theme song…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=944cPciN-kw
Strawman
September 30th, 2011
8:39 am
“As for Obama’s smoking, amazing how the right demands “video evidence” of some matters but can just accept any rumor without evidence for others.”
Umm…video evidence of what? I believe the president has himself admitted he smoked (though he had indeed hidden or obscured the fact from the public). That’s good enough for me!
Good Little Liberal
September 30th, 2011
8:40 am
Paul
This whole article is crap. I’ve been an involved Republican since I was 16 and Republicans have never wanted universal health care. Bookman picking out a few quotes won’t change what the Republicans have wanted for 120 years.
Paul
September 30th, 2011
8:40 am
Granny
LOL! And y’know, you’ve a very good point!
I will say I think many people will say “Christie!” after seeing just one thing: he reminds them of Simon Cowell of American Idol/X Factor. Out trots this cute little thing and sings like a cat with gas and he says ‘that was terrible! Of course your mother says you sound good, she’s your mother! Do the rest of us a favor and never sing again!”
People like a little straight talk in the midst of the mumbly-mouths.
Granny Godzilla
September 30th, 2011
8:42 am
Good Little Liberal
Oh yes, run Cain…oh please oh please
I think we’ll celebrate Fear of Cain at steak night tonight.
Moderate Line
September 30th, 2011
8:43 am
Christie’s weakness is jobs. In an election which will be about jobs be a governor from a state with a higher unemployment than the national average would be an exploitable agreement. The national average is 9.1 and NJ average is 9.4. Also, while the national average has been trending downward NJ’s has been trending upward. He has the same problem as Perry in that he can’t take advantage of Obama’s main weakness.
stands for decibels
September 30th, 2011
8:43 am
Another typical Republican — let’s keep the tax cuts for millionaires, and take away from education and the working class people.
Jersey has a habit of electing Goopers who steal from working people. back in the day Christie Whitman (she of the “Ground Zero’s perfectly safe, get back to work!”), played a shell game, promising everyone she’d rescind the hated Florio tax hikes—and she did it by raiding teachers’ pension funds which—surpraaahz, surpraahz!—ran dry, so that *this* fat a-hole could come in and tell state workers not to be so uppity and expecting to actually get paid what they were promised.
To hell with him. To hell with them all. Vile, lying b@stards.
Paul
September 30th, 2011
8:44 am
Morning, GLL
Do you think it’s possible the individual mandate was one of those minor things that got tossed about in policy circles (Gingrich is known for tossing about a lot of ideas in many forums) that just wasn’t on your radar screen because it wasn’t a big issue when it was initially discussed?
Bosch
Ever seen any of those youtube videos where the guy proposes on tv or on the jumbotron at the football stadium and the woman says “You?!!? Are you frakkin’ nuts?”
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2011
8:45 am
Wow an “involved Republican” today and not “this blog is my forray into politics”? Always entertaining to see the latest claims.
ragnar danneskjold
September 30th, 2011
8:45 am
Dear Jay, hope to see an essay on “the strike against al Qaeda” today. Would love to hear the leftist view of planned execution of an American-born terrorist. Somehow think the view would have been different if Bush had done it.
AmVet - Read my lips. No new Texans!
September 30th, 2011
8:46 am
…a cadre of Republicans and donors unhappy with the GOP field…
I’m beginning to sense that the only folks happy with it are die-hard Democrats!
Meet the 2012 slate, even more laughable than the 2008 one…
Bosch
September 30th, 2011
8:46 am
Paul
I have to say I’ve learn a lot from the little boy I just read, I’m going yo show that section to a Muslim friend of mine to get his reaction because the author is a self proclaimed Christian (Episcopalian) but a relion scholar- just want an honest opinion . But just what I read, in many ways Islam has more going on for it than Christianity. You know how Scout always writes to ignore it is at our peril, well I think to not acknowledge it’s popularity is also ignoring the obvious, but not as a peril… it can be as a means to understand your own religion. Good grief I could go on forever about this.
Bosch
September 30th, 2011
8:47 am
Thats little bit, not boy…
Marie
September 30th, 2011
8:47 am
@Ryder — is it just possible that the state of NJ was spending too much on schools? I am sick of this nonesense that we can never cut the amount we are spending on public education as if there is NEVER any waste, fraud and abuse in that area. Public school systems like any organization that relies on public funding needs to operate on a strict budget and not just spend money on a bunch of goodies because their is a belieft that taxpayers have an unending supply of money. It is a fact that the state of NJ was losing their wealthier residents in part because of their high tax rates. And in that eastern seaboard where all those states are so close together; it is real easy for a wealthy person to flee to CT and still commute back and forth to NJ.
carlosgvv
September 30th, 2011
8:49 am
Obama and all the current Republican presidential hopefuls have skeletons in and out of the closet. I’m sure Christe has his skeletons also. It is not possible for us to elect a saint. It is possible to elect someone, like Christie, who gives the impression of being a hard man to push around. He is blunt and agressive and smart and would probablly be an improvement over what we have now. I would certainly love to see him in debate with the other candidates and get a better understanding of him.
Paul
September 30th, 2011
8:50 am
ragnar
“Would love to hear the leftist view of planned execution of an American-born terrorist. Somehow think the view would have been different if Bush had done it.”
Nope.
Jay already took a full-throttle support of Pres Obama’s kill order. I, along with a few others, expressed some serious concerns. He didn’t back down one whit.
Here’s another interesting thing for Republicans to consider regarding our MuslimSocialistWeakApologizing president: count the number of AQ prisoners. Count the number put there by Obama.
Bush captured al Qaeda.
Obama kills them.,
TaxPayer
September 30th, 2011
8:51 am
Somehow think the view would have been different if Bush had done it.
Bush was too busy trying to figure out who stole the frosting for his yellow cake.
Good Little Liberal
September 30th, 2011
8:51 am
Paul
You know as well as I do that the Republicans have fought Universal Health care our entire lives. And Democrats have supported it. It has been a major plank in every presidential platform. Have there been a few Republicans that have made moves toward it? I can’t say that they didn’t, but this idea that Republicans as a group have wanted it all along is nothiong but Bookman nonsense.
Bosch
September 30th, 2011
8:52 am
Paul
Oh no I have not… That sounds worse than my experience, I think if I was gonna do that , I’d make damn sure the answer was gonna be “yes.”
John
September 30th, 2011
8:54 am
So Christie is now the flavor of the day. What’s going to happen with conservatives find out he appointed a Muslim judge, called conservatives ignorant and said he’s tired of dealing with the crazies who believe Muslims are trying to promote Sharia Law in our courts? They’ll discover they still don’t have a candidate they can back…NEXT.
getalife
September 30th, 2011
8:55 am
“Anwar al-Awlaki, considered a major danger to American homeland security, is killed in an airstrike.”
Another major accomplishment.
jddawg37
September 30th, 2011
8:55 am
Ayn Rant, can there be fewer jobs than we currently have? How good has that O’bama character been for this nation? Has he accomplished all, or any, of the goals he said that he would accomplish? Maybe he will be the first to build that transcontinental railroad. I think he was thinking of the Polar Express when he said that.
stands for decibels
September 30th, 2011
8:55 am
Oh, and to hell with all the so-called liberal media outlets that have been giving this jerk a free pass with fawning coverage over the past year. Starting with the Gray Lady.
Paul
September 30th, 2011
8:56 am
GLL
“Universal Health” covers a lot of bases. Bosch pointed out that single payer is not the same as socialized medicine. You can even have the individual mandate without single payer or socialized medicine.
One of the great weaknesses of the Right in this discussion, it seems to me, it that they take almost any issue dealing with health care reform and label it ’socialized medicine.’
kayaker 71
September 30th, 2011
8:56 am
Cheeseburgers, weight jokes, endless ridiculous comments about Christie’s demeanor and his name….. he scares you, doesn’t he libs? Scares you to death. He scares you more than Romney, Perry or anyone else. If he picks Rubio, like he probably will if he runs, you are in for a Reaganesque landslide and you know it. He has balls, lots of them, and will be glad to put them to work to turn this country around. No hesitancy, no pandering to someone’s power base, no excuses….. just results. Admit it, you are getting more scared by the minute. I hope he runs….. hell, I’ll volunteer door to door or operate a phone bank and might just thrown in a little money. We need this man in the WH. It’s time for Bozo to vacate government housing and go back to community organizing.
Good Little Liberal
September 30th, 2011
8:56 am
Keep Up the Good Fight!
Expect to be confronted for your lies from now on, at least when I have the time.
Please produce where I ever said that “this blog is my forray into politics”. Put up or admit that you are lying again.
This blog is my foray (note the correct spelling of the word and try to learn) into blogging. I have donated money, worked for gubernatorial races, and been very active my entire life. You are going to stop this incessant lying.
Good Little Liberal
September 30th, 2011
8:59 am
Paul
Single payer is the ultimate Universal Health Care. It means that a single payer: the US Government pays for all health care.
Paul
September 30th, 2011
8:59 am
GLL
” I can’t say that they didn’t, but this idea that Republicans as a group have wanted it all along is nothiong but Bookman nonsense.”
I don’t believe Jay said that. I think he said the idea of requiring people to be responsible for their own care and not expect others to pay for it (the individual mandate, words that were repeated almost verbatim by Pres Obama) originated with Republicans.
JohnnyReb
September 30th, 2011
9:00 am
Strawman – re, Rush. I am not familiar with the incident. It’s difficult to really know people like Rush. For example, a new listner might think he is the most arrogant person on the planet, or almost. Obama has that crown. Rush has dogs, so he can’t be all bad. Most people have skeletons on the closet, I know I have enough of them for a large Halloween party.
USinUK
September 30th, 2011
9:00 am
“One of the great weaknesses of the Right in this discussion, it seems to me, it that they take almost any issue dealing with health care reform and label it ’socialized medicine.’
brother-man, you just said a mouthful
Paul
September 30th, 2011
9:01 am
GLL
8:59
Thereby cutting out the for-profit insurance companies and eliminating about a third of the costs we now incur for overhead and profit?
Peadawg
September 30th, 2011
9:01 am
“Who cares?” – Comments like this always make me laugh.
Obviously you care enough to read Jay’s article and then comment on it, Normal.
Christie isn’t ready. He’s said that himself.
USinUK
September 30th, 2011
9:01 am
“Rush has dogs, so he can’t be all bad”
so did Hitler
just sayin.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2011
9:01 am
easy enough, GLL, guess when you want to call someone a liar, you better be sure that they dont have the evidence. And if you want to confront someone about a spelling error, make sure it is not yours.
Good Little Liberal
September 20th, 2011
8:00 am
….I do my little films. I play my music. I make this pathetic amount of money. I try to be smart with what I buy and I pay my taxes. This blog is my forray [sic] into politics.
____________________
Do you also want me to put up your claims of being involved in a lot of political claims.? Or was that fiction too?
kayaker 71
September 30th, 2011
9:01 am
John, 8:54,
Hell, John, all of these things are reasons why you should vote for Christie. You libs seem to be enamored with Muslims, don’t feel that Sharia law is a threat, have called conservatives ignorant…… sounds like a liberal to me.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2011
9:02 am
Paul, I agree with USinUK…. you said a mouthful
lem
September 30th, 2011
9:02 am
Christie is much too sensible, reasonable, intelligent, and sane to win in the GOP primaries.
getalife
September 30th, 2011
9:02 am
“You are going to stop this incessant lying.”
You are?
Good for you lil lib.
Mick
September 30th, 2011
9:03 am
yaker
All fired up for a big personality? Newsflash – congress makes the laws, so the big guy you have obviously fallen for can only go so far. What happens if the dems take back the house and hold the senate? They only need 24 seats in the house, so its not out of the question. Christie would be a fool to jump in to see whether he floats or sinks..
USinUK
September 30th, 2011
9:03 am
“You libs seem to be enamored with Muslims”
oy.
larry
September 30th, 2011
9:04 am
The only way Christie scares me is if he falls on me.
Or gets the N.J mafia after me.
Doesnt he look like a member of the ” Sopranos”
jm
September 30th, 2011
9:04 am
Definitely hurts Romney if Christie gets in. Christie would be another good candidate. But he may end up like Perry via a different route. We’ll see.
Crowded field, fun times. Christie, Romney, Perry (fading), and Cain (rising but possibly peaking). Weeee
Granny Godzilla
September 30th, 2011
9:04 am
Afraid of Christie? Palin? Bachmann? Perry? Newt? Cain?
Keep thinking that.
Oh please oh please oh please
Good Little Liberal
September 30th, 2011
9:04 am
Paul
I understand what you are saying, that everyone should have their own insurance. I misunderstood. I can see that, but no one wanted the government to force people to do it. And that’s not what Obama wants. He openly admitted that his plan put 30 million more people on the government dole. THat’s not taking care of yuourself. That’s a larger welfare state.
carlosgvv
September 30th, 2011
9:05 am
Good Little Liberal
“I have donated money, worked for gubernatorial races, and been very active my entire life”. That is just so precious it almost brings tears to my eyes.
larry
September 30th, 2011
9:05 am
Rush has dogs, so he can’t be all bad”
When did Getty Lee get a dog? Or was it Alex Lifeson ?
getalife
September 30th, 2011
9:06 am
cons are panicking because they know they will lose.
Your failed party deserves to lose.
kayaker 71
September 30th, 2011
9:06 am
Mick,
You have such a short memory. Remember Nov, 2011? It’s not so long ago. Bozo called it a “shellacing”. Take back the Congress and win the Senate after their track record? I almost snorted coffee through my nose. How can you be so funny this early in the morning?
Granny Godzilla
September 30th, 2011
9:07 am
Keep Up the The Good Fight
shoots and scores for the 3 pointer!
Good Little Liberal
September 30th, 2011
9:08 am
Keep Up the Good Fight!
I see that you are still here. You made a charge that I was lying. I’ve asked you to provide proof and you apprently are now admitting that it was you that was lying. This is going to happen every time that you bring the BS that you have been spouting.
So put up or admit that you were again lying to try to get my attention. You have been trying to get my attention? Well, you’ve got it.
jm
September 30th, 2011
9:08 am
Christie will pummel Romney on Romneycare if he enters the race…
larry
September 30th, 2011
9:08 am
How can one remember Nov.2011 when it hasn’t happened yet?
Kayaker , did you steal a DeLoren ?
philosopher
September 30th, 2011
9:09 am
95% of dieters gain the weight back. Morbid obesity is a reflection of lifestyle choices- unhealthy ones…and a reflection of lack of self-disciple,….And all that fat on the outside reflects organs packed in fat, vessels becoming occluded, and great strain on the heart. If this guy can’t make good choices in his own life, why would we trust him to make choices that would be appropriate for our own?
Armed Liberal
September 30th, 2011
9:09 am
Kayaker – Christie is one of the few GOP “Grown-ups” and yes he would be a formidable opponenet to Pres. Obama.
Thankfully, your crazed GOP brethren won’t elect him so it’ll be loads of fun watching you and yours cannabalize him and any other GOP politician that offers plausible, reasonable, workable solutions.
Enjoy! I know I will!!
Bachmann 2012!!! (yep, that’s my vote in March)
kayaker 71
September 30th, 2011
9:10 am
Larry,
Made that same mistake awhile back. My bad.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2011
9:10 am
Someone is terribly confrontational this morning and apparently only his computer can’t see my 9:01 post, lol.
Any bets on whether I am going to get an apology?
Good Little Liberal
September 30th, 2011
9:11 am
Keep Up the Good Fight:
“Do you also want me to put up your claims of being involved in a lot of political claims.? Or was that fiction too?”
Yes. Lets see them.
All of them. Get to work, boy.
Mick
September 30th, 2011
9:11 am
yaker
I think the dems might be a bit more motivated this time out, especially in a presidential year. The people are not particularly fond of the iced tea party and repubs in general. They aren’t too fond of the dems and obama either. the lesser of two evils once again and turnout, turnout, turnout – dems take the cake in a squeaker…
getalife
September 30th, 2011
9:11 am
“If you’re looking for leadership in America you’re not going to find it in the Oval Office,” Christie said today in Baton Rouge.
Peter King praised our President’s leadership on crushing aq today.
Fat man is already out of touch with reality.
jm
September 30th, 2011
9:12 am
Good to see the liberal echo chamber is focused on the guy’s weight rather than the relevancy of his (possible) candidacy.
News, one way or the other, I think, comes out on Monday.
Good Little Liberal
September 30th, 2011
9:12 am
Keep Up the Good Fight!
Expect this every day. You live with your nose up my butt. Take a deep breath. I just left something for you.
Granny Godzilla
September 30th, 2011
9:12 am
HEY GOOD LITTLE LIBERAL
Good Little Liberal
September 20th, 2011
8:00 am
Granny Godzilla
When you wrote those letters under Bush, how did that work out?
I do my little films. I play my music. I make this pathetic amount of money. I try to be smart with what I buy and I pay my taxes. This blog is my forray into politics.
Nobody cares about me or you. We don’t own banks or oil wells.
but just try to understand poor people don’t finance political campaigns. Very, very, very rich people do. THAT’S who get the consideration.
If it makes you feel better, make those calls. If you call a lot, you will become the joke of the phone answerers, but sadly, that’s about all you can hope for.
your foray into poltics
Granny Godzilla
September 30th, 2011
9:13 am
GLL
tick tick tick
Paul
September 30th, 2011
9:14 am
Rush has dogs, so he can’t be all bad”
so did Hitler
just sayin.’
What’s the expression?
Thass funny!
GLL
Putting 30 million on gov’t dole: doesn’t that strike you as just honest accounting? Now, they are receiving some level of care paid for, in many cases, by someone else. Bringing them in under, say, Medicare means the medical community gets only about a fourth of a fifth of the dollars for treatment they would get if they billed direct and someone else picked up the tab. One would think conservatives would support it for that alone!
Jay and also done some columns detailing how, to keep people from having some expensive event, getting insurance, getting treated, dropping insurance and repeating that, how it is necessary, just as with auto or home insurance, to have people keep insurance in force to lower overall costs.
jt
September 30th, 2011
9:14 am
Anwar al-Awlaki,……an America………assasinated.
.
A man who didn’t even know how to pronounce “corpesman” can now order the death penalty.
.
Wave those flags.cue the Greenwood.
.
Freeeeeeeeedom.
Welcome to Amerika.
poison pen
September 30th, 2011
9:15 am
USinUK
” btw … if we DON’T mention Christies weight, is that like ignoring the elephant in the room???”
USinUK, Have we now lowered ourselves that we have to pick on someone because of their weight?
Why not looks? or color? or being bald?
I would like to think people are more intelligent than that, guess I was wrong.
USinUK
September 30th, 2011
9:15 am
jm – “Good to see the liberal echo chamber is focused on the guy’s weight rather than the relevancy of his (possible) candidacy.”
sorta like how folks on the right were concerned about the size of Hillary’s ankles and her “shrillness”???
please. spare us the sanctimony
jm
September 30th, 2011
9:15 am
Peter King….. who dat? Your neighbor?
USinUK
September 30th, 2011
9:15 am
Poison – “Why not looks? or color? or being bald?”
because we have very little control over those.
weight / fitness, we do.
kayaker 71
September 30th, 2011
9:15 am
When 30% of Democrats want another candidate and Bozo’s own hometown newspaper asks him to step down and not run, that doesn’t sound like solidarity. Coupled with the fact that over 60% of Democrats poled by Rasmussen stated that they felt that the country is headed in the wrong direction. Also a recent pol which stated that voter enthusiasm on the Republican side was strongly rising while that same enthusiasm on the Democratic side was waning. Throw in Axelrod’s comment about this election being a “Titanic struggle”……. I am not sure that confidence is the one thing Bozo has going for him.
Armed Liberal
September 30th, 2011
9:16 am
Looks like GLL just got hoisted on his own petard… I am shocked I tell you, shocked a GOP shill would lie!!
This is pretty entertaining, thanks!!
Mr. Obvious
September 30th, 2011
9:16 am
Terry Francona will now be able to run for the GOP nomination as well.
He was never a fit for Ted Kennedy’s favorite team, anyway.
Strawman
September 30th, 2011
9:17 am
“One of the great weaknesses of the Right in this discussion, it seems to me, it that they take almost any issue dealing with health care reform and label it ’socialized medicine.’”
I would disagree. I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t readily acknowledge there is a serious and growing problem with health care and, secondly, that a solution must be found. But, at the same time, I think it that the United States can ill afford missteps in the adoption and implementation of any finally approved program. To me, it would be really refreshing to see a large group of health care workers, thinkers, engineers, analysts, researchers and the like getting together to hash out a truly reasonable, fair and practical solution to this problem. And then have this group present their plan to the American people it will serve for feedback and approval before putting it to a vote in the Congress. The current plan is flawed and it was undeniably rammed through the Congress by the slimmest of margins along partisan lines. It is a Democratic solution, not a bi-partisan one. Health care reform is simply too important and costly to get wrong.
jm
September 30th, 2011
9:17 am
USinUK – not I
USinUK
September 30th, 2011
9:18 am
“When 30% of Democrats want another candidate and Bozo’s own hometown newspaper”
what?
the Trib??
that’s like saying that the Washington Times speaks for DC …
mystified
September 30th, 2011
9:18 am
Listening to the rhetoric from both sides sometimes makes me wonder about the wisdom of a democracy.
ragnar danneskjold
September 30th, 2011
9:18 am
Wonder how our leftist friends distinguish the planned execution of an American who never had a trial vs the execution of one who had a trial and 20 years of appeals. I don’t have a problem with either, but I think I recall distress among the leftists for the latter. The disparate thought-process is what strikes me as curious.
Good Little Liberal
September 30th, 2011
9:18 am
Granny
I’ll explain it to you because at times, you tend to show a spark of sanity. I moved from the city to the mountains. Up here, I do exactly as I say. I do my little films. I play my music. I make this pathetic amount of money. I try to be smart with what I buy and I pay my taxes. This blog is my foray into politics.
The comment that I made that the weasel with his nose up my butt is trying to make a big deal of is this: I’ve been an involved Republican since I was 16 and Republicans have never wanted universal health care.
If you think that he has proven anything that I said as a contradiction considering I moved in April, 41 years since I was 16, then you can join his hand and join him with your nose also up my butt.
philosopher
September 30th, 2011
9:18 am
@jm: His weight is crucial to his ability to BE a president and says enough about who he is, how he makes decisions, and the choices he makes in his life to seriously undermine whatever political ideals he may espouse… you can talk the talk, but can you walk the walk? He doesn’t look like he does much walking at all
jm
September 30th, 2011
9:19 am
USinUK – who runs our country may not matter much to you, sitting on the other side of the pond.
But in the US this is serious business. Go read The Times.
USinUK
September 30th, 2011
9:19 am
“the planned execution of an American who never had a trial ”
???
Good Little Liberal
September 30th, 2011
9:19 am
Armed Liberal
See my post at 9:18
ragnar danneskjold
September 30th, 2011
9:20 am
Also recall much leftist hand-wringing about the Bush-era detention of an American born terrorist; how would the leftists have howled if he had just had him killed?
tireofit
September 30th, 2011
9:20 am
“he scares you, doesn’t he libs? “; Scared, be afraid are republican words, just look at Fox or listen to the right-wing radio. I never seen more scared people in my life.
Tom
September 30th, 2011
9:20 am
Fresh from his surprising win in Florida’s straw poll election, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain is making a stop in Milton Sunday, Oct. 2, 2-3:30 p.m.
He will drop in at the Olde Blind Dog Irish Pub in Crabapple, 12650 Crabapple Road. The visit is sponsored by the North Fulton Friends Tea Party.
jm
September 30th, 2011
9:21 am
philosopher – I don’t entirely disagree. But to spend 3 pages so far discussing his weight is a waste.
Maybe because no one thus far knows much about him other than he’s the gov of NJ.
USinUK
September 30th, 2011
9:21 am
“who runs our country may not matter much to you, sitting on the other side of the pond.”
this may come as some surprise to you, but moving to another country /= renouncing my citizenship
this is serious business.
why don’t you go read EntertainmentWeekly.
ragnar danneskjold
September 30th, 2011
9:21 am
Dear USinUK @ 9:19, good morning, “Anwar al-Aulaqi, U.S.-born cleric linked to al-Qaeda, reported killed in Yemen”
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 30th, 2011
9:22 am
Is this the ostrich defense?….. I can’t see your post at 9:01? Granny’s at 9:12?
I think I have proven the “creative claims” made enough to have proven my point. So take the confrontational level down a few notches GLL and understand that your “personal experiences as proof of your point” are now demonstrated to change “perspective”. Many of us likely realized that already.
Now can we discuss matters with supported objective evidence and not false personal experience and diatribes and childish bravado?
As for the 9:18, fast moving of the goal posts
Maj. Mudloaf
September 30th, 2011
9:22 am
looks more like an entrant and 1/2.
jm
September 30th, 2011
9:23 am
“but moving to another country /= renouncing my citizenship”
stating the obvious /= a retort.
Normal
September 30th, 2011
9:23 am
Peadawg,
I always read Jay’s articles….but then I said what I felt. I don not care. The GOP keeps putting nothing in President Obama’s way to re-election, nothing at all. The GOP candidates are too flawed, as is the Party.
Good Little Liberal
September 30th, 2011
9:24 am
Keep Up the Good Fight!
You, as usual, haven’t proven anything, other than your complete obsession with me.
Getalife boy.
USinUK
September 30th, 2011
9:24 am
jm – “stating the obvious /= a retort.”
looks like you need reminding.
getalife
September 30th, 2011
9:24 am
He should go on that weight loss show first.