Christie doubles down on 'numbnuts' comment: His late mother used that term.

[deminks]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/31/chris-christie-gay-marriage-civil-rights_n_1245728.html?ref=politics

TRENTON, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie has apologized for a remark he made about civil rights but says he's not sorry for using a slang term to describe a lawmaker who compared him to segregationist Southern governors.

Christie, a Republican, spoke Tuesday night during TownSquare Media's "Ask the Governor" program on radio station New Jersey 101.5 FM. He apologized to anyone offended by his comment that people in the civil rights struggle of the 1960s would have been happier to have the matter settled by public vote rather than by dying in the streets. He was comparing civil rights to the fight for gay marriage.

But he didn't back down Tuesday from calling Democratic Assemblyman Reed Gusciora "numb nuts" after the lawmaker compared him to former Govs. George Wallace, of Alabama, and Lester Maddox, of Georgia. He says his late mother used the term.

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Chris Christie: the future of the GOP. A class act all the way /sarcasm off.

[HubertHeaver]

1. Now we know. He was an abused child.

[aquart]

6. Which could explain the weight.

[MADem]

2. I remember that term from the school yard! I haven't heard it in fifty years at least.

Maybe he DID hear it from his mama!!

[WCGreen]

3. numb nuts is a kind way to say fucking stupid.....

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Bill Maher

Used it all the time to describe George Bush - so do I. So I can't be a hypocrite about name calling on this one.

[Warren Stupidity]

11. Yeah I remember when bill was governor of Los Angeles.

And Chris Christie had a comedy show on HBO. So yeah, that is a good point. Hypocrisy noted.

[JustAnotherGen]

15. Oh relax

I live in NJ . . . when you pay my state taxes for me you can panty bunch over this.

I'm faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar more concerned about HIS EFFFING cuts to health care for poor and working poor women in New Jersey.

Now THAT is something to get pissy about!

He says this sh*t to get people who don't live here, don't really care about us here, and who just want a high profile Teabagging whoopin' boy all worked up. . . so you don't realize what he is DOING to this state.

Words are cheap. Actions are everything.

[Warren Stupidity]

17. So you make a point, your point is bogus, but I am "panty bunch over this" for noting your bogosity?

OK. Whatever.

[JustAnotherGen]

19. How is it bogus?

Again - do you live here?
Do you live with this nightmare?
Because the talk around the water cooler is about how not only has Governor Jackass cut the medical for poor and working poor women - but his good buddies at Komen have gotten in line with him and are going to do further harm.

How is that bogus? Because I'm sick and tired of this 'oh woe is me crap' when what we really need to be getting angry about is policy?

I guess I know whose side you are on then - and it's not on the side of women. Because you just did what Chris Christie does to women who disagrees with him. You are just like him you know.

[madokie]

5. One grilled steak away from a heart attack

[Shankapotomus]

7. Nice. Defames his own dead mother

to get out of a pickle. Not that Christie would ever turn down a pickle.

[limpyhobbler]

8. Chris Christie has a severe sweating problem. I'm very concerned about his health.

Chris Christie is the most overrated politician of the decade. He also has a severe sweating problem.

I'm concerned about his health.

I really don't see why Ann Coulter and company were clamoring for him to run.

They are really scraping the bottom of the barrel I guess.

[Gman]

9. Reminds me of Randall in Clerks II

Talking and insisting that "porch monkey" wasn't a racist term because his grandmother used it as a term of endearment. He swore his grandmother wasn't a racist either.

[Warren Stupidity]

10. His late mother also called him a "fat fuck".

[karynnj]

12. What a poor defense - it simply says that he comes by his crudeness naturally.

If his mom did NOT use that term in public, polite conversation, he has smeared his own mother - something I have never seen another candidate do. One thing fascinating about this - is fairly or not - there is a segment of the population who expect and accept some crude language from men that they would not accept in a woman. Do you think that had a female VP (or Senator) used the Cheney language to Leahy that it would not have hurt her more?

[hobbit709]

13. If she called him that, she was accurate.

[Iggo]

14. Your mother was a fucking idiot, Chris.

See what happens when you blame your fuckups on your dead mom, Mr. Christie?

Dead Mom ends up taking the heat for you. Makes you look like a coward.

Now you both look like fucking idiots.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

16. One of these days someone's gonna call his Sopranos shtick bluff and pop him right

in the mouth.

[rustydog]

18. With all due respects to your dearly departed mother, she did not teach you too well buddy.