Christie to Be G.O.P. Convention Keynote Speaker

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Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, will bring his blunt, everyman style of politics to a global stage as the keynote speaker of the Republican National Convention, officials announced on Tuesday.

Mr. Christie, who briefly considered running for president himself last year, will deliver one of the most closely watched speeches of the week. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a Republican rising star who had been considered as a vice-presidential nominee for Mitt Romney, will introduce Mr. Romney at the convention, officials said.

Tapping the duo for two of the most high-profile moments of the convention will showcase a couple of the party’s most popular leaders in the hope of appealing to independent and Latino voters.

A former prosecutor, Mr. Christie has become a political sensation by discarding the usual pleasantries in favor of a brash and sometimes abrasive approach to governing. At town hall meetings in his state, he often argues with his constituents. When he thinks someone is stupid, he calls them stupid.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/christie-to-be-g-o-p-convention-keynote-speaker/?hp

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Christie's antisocial one-liners may work on some in NJ,

but it won't play in prime time and it won't work on religious, conservative Teabaggers.

[Freddie]

6. That's why he had no chance of being running mate

So the party picked someone infinitely worse!

[deutsey]

2. Yet one more reason (among millions) for not watching the GOP Conniption

[6000eliot]

3. Governor Creosote!

He makes me so embarrassed to live in NJ.

[Freddie]

4. Talk about needing guaranteed health care...

[JaneyVee]

5. All signs pointing to this RNC convention being a train-wreck.

[madamesilverspurs]

7. That's just sad.

Seems the GOP is admitting they don't know the difference between oration and booger-flinging.


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[HopeHoops]

8. Have they reinforced the stage platform?

[WI_DEM]

9. Well, we can expect nothing but mean spirited put-downs and name calling.