Gov. Meatball has some heavy baggage to carry, influence peddling, no bid contracts, multiple cases

[mikekohr]

of ticket fixing including one where Christie drove down a one way street the wrong way and hit a motorcyclist, violations of the Hatch Act, a brother that magically avoided indictment for stock fraud while 15 of his partners were, the worst record in the nation on spending taxpayer money on travel and hotels during his term as State AG.

Mobsters keep a low profile to avoid public scrutiny. So do dirty politicians.

links:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/christie-cited-in-2005-traffic-incident----michele-brown-involved.php
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/more-details-emerge-from-christie-2002-car-accident.php
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/chris_christie_no_1_us_attorney_in_wasting_govt_travel_money.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/nyregion/26christie.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/nyregion/20brown.html?pagewanted=all
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/chris-christies-presidential-baggage.php

[Pab Sungenis]

1. And this is the real reason

why Christie won't run for President.

BTW: we have a history of corrupt governors here in NJ. His homosexuality was not the real reason Jim McGreevey resigned, but it was a handy excuse when the time came.

[starroute]

4. "In Jersey anything's legal as long as you don't get caught"

That's a line from The Traveling Wilburys song, "Tweeter and the Monkey Man" -- basically Tom Petty and Bob Dylan channeling Bruce Springsteen. But there is something about Jersey that seems to make it New York City's dark mirror-realm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweeter_and_the_Monkey_Man

The songwriting credits goes officially to all members of the band, but the song is published by Bob Dylan's Special Rider Music label, which indicates Dylan as the main writer. This is contradicted to a slight degree by George Harrison's account of the song in "The True History of the Traveling Wilburys" documentary:

"'Tweeter and the Monkey Man' was really Tom Petty and Bob . Well, Jeff and I were there too, but we were just sitting there around in the kitchen, and he was for some reason talking about all this stuff that didn't make much sense to me, you know, it was that Americana kinda stuff and we got a tape cassette and put it on and then transcribed everything they were saying."

"Tweeter and The Monkey Man" is sometimes regarded as a playful homage to Bruce Springsteen's songs. The lyrics include the titles of many Springsteen songs, and the song borrows many of Springsteen's themes and settings. For instance, the setting of the song itself is New Jersey, Springsteen's home state, and places like Rahway Prison and Jersey City are mentioned by name. Springsteen song title references include: "Stolen Car", "Mansion On The Hill", "Thunder Road", "State Trooper", "Factory", "The River", "Lion's Den", and the song made popular by Springsteen but written by Tom Waits, "Jersey Girl". Additionally, "Lion's Den" and "Paradise" are each mentioned and prominently enunciated in the song, each being the title of a Springsteen song released after the Traveling Wilburys album.

[treestar]

2. Republicans really have nobody good

Nobody good at all. That should tell them something about their bankrupt philosophy.

[mikekohr]

3. And Now Mike Hucksterbee, who pardoned serial killer Wayne Dummond, and also has a past

as checkered and stained as Chris Christie is considering putting his sticky fingers in the collection plate.

http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/1406

Mike Huckabee's Willie Horton
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Huckster Mike Huckabee is hoping you never look in his closet because there's a Willie Horton hiding in there. Huckabee's Horton is a monster named Wayne Dumond, a criminal with a long rap sheet of sexual assaults and molestations. Dumond was an admitted participant in the massacre of a Cambodian village when he was stationed in Vietnam; after returning to the U.S., he admitted to participating in a claw hammer murder of a fellow soldier.
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[Ikonoklast]

5. If anyone East of the Susquehanna thinks that anyone West of it would vote for this Mook,

they need to get out and about a little bit more.

Fat, loud-mouthed guy from Joisey...Oy.

Yeah, I can see Darryl from Alabama voting for this guy.

[mikekohr]

6. Or his other brother Darryl nt

[Ikonoklast]

7. That brother is a Democrat.

PBO all the way.

[karynnj]

8. Corzine tried to use the ticket fixing for the accident while going the wrong way

but it might have backfired as he spoke of Christie "throwing his weight around" to avoid the ticket.

Though that is commonly used phraseology, the serious charge was lost is media analyst of whether the unpopular Corzine called Christie fat. But - as you suggest - Christie is not clean.