Chris Christie: Dimwitted dupe or demented liar?

[DonViejo]

It will be hard for Chris Christie to redeem his judgment and managerial skill without admitting that he lied

BRIAN BEUTLER

For the time being, Chris Christie is very lucky that he effuses an authentic, gruff earnestness, and that he has allies in the national press corps who want him to succeed.

The former helped him escape an at-times incoherent press conference without revealing conspicuous malice; the latter guaranteed him a chorus of boosters more concerned with his theatrical acuity than the factual implications of his remarks.

Andrea Mitchell called it a “bravura performance.”

Mark Halperin gave it a similar review while essentially admitting his assessment bore no relation to whatever the truth happens to be.

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http://www.salon.com/2014/01/10/chris_christie_dimwitted_dupe_or_demented_liar/

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Neither

Judicial Activist

[liberal N proud]

2. Either way, he is not fit to run the country

And this needs to be brought up at every chance to make sure this bully never runs this country.

[Cosmocat]

3. He is going to come out ahead on this

A year ago I dismissed him, cause I think his Jersey Shore crap that the people of his state LOVE won't go as well outside of NJ.

I have come to realize that as this article notes, there is enough national media types in love with him that all his negatives will be spun as positives - just as with Bush II. A complete and total buffoon and it was apparent to EVERYONE. But, the media READILY jumped on the "a guy you would like to have a beer with" meme while doing the converse negative frames with Al Gore.

Christie's gruff demeanor and tendency to bully IS going to be positively framed. The republicans will increasingly point to their ass holery of the last 6-7 years as "Obama being a weak and ineffectual leader" and they frame that arises from that being the Christie is a tough, no nonsense pol who will get Washington DC in order!"

This is a very clear republican frame that the pyschophant political media will lap up feverishly.

WE might care about the substance of this - his bullying tendency and how that is not great in politics. But, the Rs and the "liberal media" LOVE that, most particularly when it is a republican. We see it as a problem, they see it a strength. So, as with all republican problems, it will be about the horse race, not the substance, and this all will be glorified about how he handled it so well and turned it to his advantage.

it is early, and these things absolutely can change.

But, as of today and the near future Chris Christie is a VERY serious candidate for POTUS, and is the front runner who frankly, only Hillary can beat.

[Sunlei]

4. This is the way the bigger Rs knocked his ass off the 2016 presidential stage.

Who read those emails first.