No comment. 

Sure, two northeast elites, favorites of the Beltway.  Of course, Christie hopes to get the nod and get elected, since he’s going to be trounced next year when he runs for re-election after promising so much and delivering so little except for attacks on public workers.  Now he’s running around the country campaigning for Romney instead of doing his job, as if we don’t notice.

It’s not looking very good at this point, is it?

I used to have a grudging admiration for Christie, but in recent months he’s grown more bellicose, more tyrannical and more full of himself. I’m not sure that’s going to play so well over time on the campaign trail. He certainly would be an improvement on Palin, but that’s setting the bar pretty low.

They can’t nominate an Easterner at the top of the tick AND at the VP spot.

Massachusettes-Pennsylvania.

It will never happen.

If Romney is nominated he will have to choose a Southerner.

Christie is positioning himself as a candidate for the next election cycle, or if Romney is elected the one after that.

The best way to do that is support the establishment Republican early in the process.

Ironically, if Newt or Paul are nominated, Christie would move to the top of the VP short list.

It will probably be Rubio.

does anyone listen to Mika?  she’s the pastry on Morning Joe.  Christie might be VP timber one of these days – but not now.

So closing the massive deficit without raising taxes, signing a 2% growth cap on property taxes to restrain spending and ease the burden on home owners, brining public employ benefits more in line with those of the private sector, i.e. (the middle class) saving 130 billion in doing so, was not good enough for you?

  Was the guy you elected prior to Christie doing a better job?

Christie is already running for the nomination in 2016.

Romneys’ a given. The vice presidential choice will be interesting

The pattern for presidential candidates is like the pattern for men in a midlife crisis. Lose weight. Get a better haircut. Become a bit more dapper and glitzy. When the pounds begin melting away, I’ll believe it.

Has to be a  southren WASP.

If he doesn’t die of a heart attack first.

BTW- I don’t think Christies is running anywhere. Hell, he has trouble walking. 
He wheezes while standing giving a speech

He couldn’t withstand the rigors of a presidential run.

I listen to her her. She’s a hottie with a brain!
I just disagree with her on this issue,

Other than living out of hotels and making daily speeches, its probably no more taxing than being a governor…

If a loud mouth disrespectful boor sounds vice presidential, then I guess so. My idea of acting like a vice president is calm and reassuring. Maybe his motif is based on the Dick Cheney or Spiro Agnew models. If Palin had been elected, the whole office might have been redefined. 

Sorry, it just occurred to me that the real last president was Dick and W. was the VP. My mistake. So, the recent GOP models are almost identical. W. and Quayle. Both with limited intellect and followers. Christie does not FIT into that mold either, or many others for that matter.

Who’s the other fat guy with Boobinski?

Chris Christi is not sounding “vice-presidential” at all. He’s making sure the buffet table stays in sight.

Maybe a Southerner – but a blatant fundy for sure. 

Rubio’s been saying he’s taken himself off the short list. Plus he’s had his own battle with that series of WaPo articles showing his family narrative is a crock. Plus that’s simply not going to do a single bit of good for Willard Mittens Rmoney Pate de Fois Gras Grey Poupon Thurston Howell III in this cycle.  

But other than all those reasons why it’s not going to happen, yeah, you’re right.

Just like a warm bucket of piss is interesting. (That’s the actual phrase – piss, not spit.).

Which narrows the field to 98% of the GOP.

“If he doesn’t die of a heart attack first.” 
Presidents Chester A. Arthur & Grover Cleveland were not exactly svelte. Mind you, we haven’t had a chubby in the White House (well, leaving aside what JFK & Bill Clinton got up to) since Woodrow Wilson. And if you’re thinking that in the throes of the Great Recession is a great time to break with that trend, I’m thinking you should do some re-thinking. It’s about as ludicrous as the GOP nominating some guy who’s clearly embedded among the top 0.001% of the biggest passive income earners in the country, who even started out with a multi-million dollar trust fund before he got out of short pants & off-shores so much of his assets & income he can’t even nudge his annual taxes up to the “carried earned interest” level – like that would ever happen.

New Jersey is on the kind of run that characterized the Roman Empire between Claudius & Diocletion – the Year of 3 Emperors, the Year of 4 Emperors, the Year of 5 Emperors, the Year of 6 Emperors, etc. It shows pretty clearly that things in the Garden State are not exactly a bed of flowers. Born under a bad sign … got a blue moon in my eye …

Those two goals are in no way in conflict with each other, but anyway, I too think he’s sounding just like he’s running for Vice-President of the United States … of South Carolina. 

Very true.
LOL.

Mika has a new Man-Crush. 

That’s what we need!   A fatty.

NJ hasn’t been a bed a flowers for a very long time.  But i gather your saying the poperty tax limits, public union controls, and deficit reduction measures are not steps in the right direction? 

No, he would be a HISP…since his parents are Cuban…

Oh yea….and he’s a catholic…

The WAPO article that splits hairs as to what year Rubio’s parents left Cuba is as irrelevant as articles splitting hairs about when Barry Sotero lived in Indonesia… 
And how his possible selection would or would not help Romney is well substantiated…thanks.

Did it also occur to you that the current VP also falls well within the loud mouthed disrespectfull boor category?

Actually, not at all. While I admit that I do not know a lot about Mr. Biden, his reputation is that he is a jovial man who sticks his foot in his mouth. I have never heard that he is intentional rude or disrespectful.

As for Christie, he has a lot more going for him than many of the crazy people that now inhabit what used to be properly know as the Grand Old Party (he is smart and has not totally sold out to the money men). It is his demeanor that needs much work.

Bingo

I always try have one near me!
LOL!

Eugene Robinson was right.  Christie needs to eat a salad and take a lot of walks.  The guy is a heart-attack time bomb.  He loves Italian food and it shows.

You are right.  Christie needs to work on his demeanor.  Remember the woman who asked him about where his children went to school and he responded “none of your business”?  Those are things that resinate in people’s minds.  As to Joe Biden – he has a sense of humor and yes, does occasionally say whacky things, but like most US Senators, he isn’t a millionaire.  His first wife and his little girl were killed in a car accident just days after he was first elected to the US Senate.  His two sons were injured.  He was a single father for years commuting daily to his home in Maryland.  In fact, he rode the train every morning and every night.  People on there probably knew him quite well.

Maybe minus 100 lbs.

I would like to remind Hout Bosques and anyone else who brings up historical campaigns – admit it.  Historical campaigns were NOTHING like they are today.  I really think Christie’s weight and general health issues would be a problem.

He’s too fat–they have to reinforce the floors in the White House.