For reasons your humble blogger cannot fathom, a great many people in our Washington media corps are heads-over-heels in love with the prospect of this belligerent lummox in the White House. Maybe it's because he doesn't believe that Baby Jesus baptized dinosaurs, or because he once said some nice things about President Obama, or because he's demonstrated the requisite toughness with unions. And yes, he'd surely be preferable to President Ryan or President Rubio, but it's hard to shake off the notion that a Christie presidency would be anything other than an absolute fucking nightmare:
During the summer of 2011, as speculation intensified that he would be a candidate for president, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey was summoned to a private club in Manhattan by the founder of Home Depot, Kenneth G. Langone.The governor expected that Mr. Langone and a few other friends would urge him to run. He was startled by what he found instead, he recalled to the author of a book due out next month.
Sixty people, including former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and prominent business executives, sat facing a small table with a phone on it. The phone allowed David Koch, the industrialist and conservative billionaire, and John J. Mack, the former chairman of Morgan Stanley, to call in and encourage his candidacy.
After Mr. Langone announced that the group would raise as much money as Mr. Christie would need, Mr. Kissinger picked up his cane and made his way to the front of the room [...]
“Your country needs you,” Mr. Kissinger declared, and the room erupted in applause.
Like I said before, kids, it's all about damage control until 2017.
---Baron V
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