Chris Christie

[Andy Stanton]

I'm really intrigued by the Chris Christie situation.

Let's say Obama wins on Tuesday. The Tea Party Rethugs are going to be looking for a scapegoat and I think they're going to point to Christie. If they do Christie's got to know that he has no future with the thugs. Would he switch parties? Would he join the Obama administration? Am I off the deep end here?

[boingboinh]

1. People Forget. Recall Romney was someone else 30-mins ago and Their Base is still Happy.

[appleannie1]

2. I have been wondering the same thing. Especially after the Rupert threat today.

[southernyankeebelle]

3. A zebra never changes their stripes. This is tempory. Even if Obama wins, Christie will be

back and he will double down.

[madaboutharry]

4. Maybe he sees himself in a position to bring sanity back to the republican party.

I don't see him switching parties. The way I see it is that Christie has big ego and big dreams. He may see himself moving into a position where he forges ahead with an appeal to normalcy in the republican party and the wackos get pushed back into the dark corners where they belong.

[danbeee46]

5. Never

Christie is still the same person. He still has the same liabilities he had before Sandy. I am not a Christie fan but I think, to his credit, he was shaken by the severity of the devastation and truly wants to do everything necessary to help his constituents. In that vein he credits Obama with assisting him in doing that.

[immoderate]

6. Scenario: Christie might save them.

Maybe he could point out that cooperation is the way to get things done, and open the way for moderate Republicans to not have their asses handed to them in 2014. Ya nevah know. Could happen.


--imm

[demhottie]

7. Yes! I totally agree

There is a core of substance in the conservative mindset and I think that Christie embodies more conviction than any other Rethug I have seen in a very very long time.

Look for him to be paired with a new Republican rising star and they will redefine the party.

I think the Murdoch tweet was a huge miscalculation.

[Kber]

12. That is my very sincere hope

I want Christie to help drag the Republican party back from the edge.

[madinmaryland]

8. No. Christie will be running for a second term as governor of NJ, which at this point he would

probably win. He could then go on and get gastric bypass surgery and be ready to run as a repuke in 2020.

[demhottie]

9. I think he'll go natural for the weight loss

And be ready for 2016

[madinmaryland]

15. I think he will have to do it like Jerry Nadler did a few years back.

BTW, Welcome to DU!!

[demhottie]

17. Thank you!

PS just googled Nadler. Wow.

[doc03]

10. Damn this is second thread I opened and was hit with

an ad about the War on Coal. I am ready to pull what hair I have left if I hear or see another War on Coal sign. I think if Obama wins this everyone should send an e-mail to Murray Energy Corp. taunting that jackass Bob Murray about all the money he pissed down the drain on his War on Coal..

[broiles]

11. Buy a star, so you don't have to look at them.

[doc03]

13. Obama has pretty much tapped me out n/t

[viguy007]

14. Christie becomes an Independent, wins big in two years

[demhottie]

16. I think he'll be the new face of the Republican Party