Chris Christie back in spotlight as Perry sags

[Hoosier Daddy]

Source: Politico

With the party’s frontrunner sagging, Chris Christie is reconsidering pleas from Republican elites and donors to run for president in 2012, two Republican sources told POLITICO.

The New Jersey governor has indicated he is listening to big-money backers and Republican influence-makers, and will let them know in roughly a week whether he has moved off his threat-of-suicide vow to stay on the sidelines of a presidential race that remains amorphous heading into the fall, the two sources said.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s candidacy has failed to clear a basic bar with elites and some donors, and his shoddy debate performance in Orlando has only highlighted the window for someone who Republicans searching for a Mitt Romney alternative can rally around.

Christie’s potential candidacy has been an increasingly fevered fantasy of a certain cadre of some media and business elites — mostly based in New York, with a smattering of California technology and entertainment players — since last summer. That’s when he showed up at a Sun Valley conference hosted by the investment banker Allen and Co. and wowed the crowd, including Rupert Murdoch, with what many in attendance described as a nimble mind and a speaking style that was both articulate and blunt-spoken.



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As I commented in GD, it looks like the Fat Man could be joining the Little Boys in their quest to nuke America. :(

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[randr]

2. Would the next contestant enter and sign in please----

[frazzled]

3. This is starting to smell of desperation

If true, it means that a lot of the so-called GOP "elites" can't see themselves getting behind Romney. I've never seen this constant, revolving recruitment of candidates and 15-minute front runners. It's like musical chairs. From my perspective, it should mean that Romney is their candidate by default. But by recruiting ever new candidates, I sense they're not comfortable with him and/or his prospects.

I think it's desperate in several ways:

(1) They're desperate to find a candidate they can believe in.
(2) They're desperate to beat Obama.
(3) They're worried none of their candidates can beat Obama.

I hope that my instincts are right here, because it gives me a bit of optimism.

[customerserviceguy]

7. The elites are fine with Romney

As long as we're talking about the same elites. For me, that's the country clubbers who care about cutting taxes on the rich and spending on the poor more than anything else. Most of them think they have gay friends, and secretly think abortion is OK if it does away with welfare and anchor babies. They don't give a crap about Mitt's magic underwear or any of his religion's other peculiarities.

On the other hand, the fundies are never going to buy into Mitt, and they even rejected Mitt-lite, also known as Jon Huntsman. It's a matter of whether or not the last group, the tea partiers, can be persuaded to back Romney, and he's going to have to make some austerity noises in their general direction if he has any hope of getting them on board.

Bachmann and Perry looked like they could unite the tea party and the bible thumpers, but the establishment has effectively showed the warts and flaws of both of them to demoralize the TP's and the snake-handlers. The GOP is still looking for someone who can unite all three factions, and Christie is the next candidate whose resume they'd like to go over in the interview.

[Hulk]

4. Makes perfect sense actually....

The line-up they have goes from "laughable", to "clown-status", to "plastic statue with hand up butt"....and of course there is no describing perry adequately...so you all get the picture.

Wait until the eleventh hour...and "jumbo NJ-boy" jumps in the picture, and there isn't enough time to vet the fat ass-hole adequately, so all the reich wingers and Obama-haters will GLADLY vote for lard ass over a black man anyday.

I smell a strategy here. Look at Perry as an example. He was the second coming of Christ until he opened his fat mouth and stuck both his cowboy boots in. Now he's a laughable, washed up used car salesman. Christie won't make the same mistake. "Ride the wave"...but don't be in it long enough so the voters see who you really are.

[customerserviceguy]

5. I've never seen anyone rise so fast

and fall so fast, well, since Michelle Bachmann!!!

It's funny what happens to Republicons when they actually think they have a shot at winning this.

[Angry Dragon]

6. Is trump soon to follow

and then there is jed bush #3

and then??????????

[movonne]

8. Europe thinks everyone in America is fat..and now we will give them

proof...

[Viking12]

9. Unlikely. Numerous early primary states have an Oct 21st filing deadline.

Even if he were to announce today, he would have an uphill battle putting together an organization that would be bale meet ballot requirements. The Republican field is what it is.

[jwirr]

10. If I were Christie I would not want to run because anyone running on

the gop ticket puts themselves at the mercy of the Tbaggers. He has shown that he can be flexible about things with handling of the hurricane. If he turns to them they will demand he toe their line. If I were in the gop right now I would cede the field and stand back to see what happens.

[INdemo]

11. Looking back over the last 50 years and the type of candidates

Republicans had in their primaries and these candidates so far are the kind that Repukes usually had when they had no chance in hell of winning...So if these are the best of the best we should not have a problem but that was before the corporate mafia had the ability to steal elections when they were close. Watching these Repuke candidates in a debate though is a lot like watching the movie Dumb and Dumber outtakes.........

[FredStembottom]

12. Very, very enjoyable!

Nothing brightens up my day better than GOP desperation!


Relaxing in the warm glow..........

[Hoosier Daddy]

16. Then you should LOVE this:

http://www.salon.com/news/2012_elections/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/09/23/rick_perry_backlash

It contains links to Perry-bashing articles from Bill Kristol, Michelle Malkin, and Erick Erickson. Enjoy! :-)

[FredStembottom]

17. I'm sure I will!

Thanks.

[RBInMaine]

13. Sorry, Christie already shot himself dead in their base when he called the Muslim-haters "CRAZY".

He's toast.

[ixion]

14. they'll set up a few more patsies before they unleash Jeb Bush

that's my call.

[livetohike]

15. Christie could not last the rigors of a national campaign

The man couldn't walk 100 feet from that chopper to his son's ball field a few months ago. I doubt he has the intellectual capacity to prep for any debates either.