MSNBC: Chris Christie to hold 1PM news conference today

[flpoljunkie]

Where he will apparently announce his decision. Just reported by Chuck Todd on The Daily Rundown

[jefferson_dem]

1. I may be wrong...

but I don't think you call a press conference to announce you're running for president.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Why not?

:shrug:

It will be interesting to see what happens. Could go either way IMHO.

[jefferson_dem]

4. Because one announces for POTUS with soaring rhetoric before throngs of adoring supporters...

...not at the NJ statehouse to a feeding frenzy of reporters.

Think...Obama in Feb 2007.

[styersc]

9. too bad that's the last we saw of that guy

[jefferson_dem]

16. Haha...

Jump into a big boy Christie thread to bash Obama. Sucks to be you...

[YellowCosmicSun]

18. Why, did you claw your eyes out because your pet candidate wasn't elected?

[styersc]

20. No, Because my vote for the man gave Wall Street a giant gift.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Yes, you may well be wrong

Jon Huntsman Makes It Official: 'I'm a Candidate for the Office of President of the United States of America'
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jon-huntsman-running-president-united-states/story?id=13892426

I would produce more examples, but this board's software is so clunky that producing cut'n'paste jobs is an onerous task. Here's hoping that the chimeric DU3 provides a user-friendly dashboard for performing HTML tasks with greater ease.

To anyone interested: conduct the following search in Google: "press conference" "running for president" announce
It will produce a slew of repugs holding press conferences for presidential purposes.

[karynnj]

14. That actually is in support oF JD's point

The backdrop of Huntsman's announcement was the Statue of Liberty from the vantage of NJ's Liberty State Park. In addition to its own innate significance, Reagan once spoke at the same place.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

12. maybe he's the front man for Palin's announcement?

Wasn't her decision due saturday?

[valerief]

5. I see two Republic asshole names in that post. nt

[CTyankee]

6. Joe Scarborough said today on Morning Joe that he now thinks Christie

is running, whereas a few days ago he thought he wouldn't.

If Christie does run, he does so at his own peril. There are unintended consequences down the road, health only being one of them. Crashing and burning is no way to go through a presidential campaign, son...

[winstars]

17. Wrong Again Ladykiller!!!

[jefferson_dem]

7. Apple's big "roll out" is also scheduled for 1:00 PM.

Either this is a sign that Christie's NOT running or he is showing amateurish PR right out of the gate.

[liberal N proud]

8. When he OFFICIALLY hits the water - look out

This as all been a dog and pony show as he raises millions under the table before being part of the official race.

I like this read that I found as a result of another thread here:

Headline today: “Christie Would ‘Cannonball’ Republican Field.” Cannonball? As a child who grew up in diving in hotel/motel pools before this was outlawed, I would say a Chris Christie “Cannonball” would be more like a tsunami.
http://leftcoastsportsbabe.com /

[styersc]

10. Someone to the left of Obama?

Won't be hard to do.

[ProSense]

11. If he decides to run,

what's he going to run on: destroying NJ public sector, increasing unemployment, annihilating property tax rebates (the lie that he used to fool NJ voters) and raising property taxes, giving tax cuts to the rich and cronyism?

Christie would likely not win re-election in NJ.

[karynnj]

15. [phone]

Nice recitation of the bully, who tricked enough people to win's record.

[Beacool]

13. They just announced on the radio that he is not running.

We'll just have to wait and see if they are correct.

;)

[flpoljunkie]

19. Read Christie was Rupert Murdoch's candidate and he promised Meg Whitman he wouldn't run if she held

a big fundraiser for him in California--which she did.

Because Christie is in a line of earlier candidates like Rudy Giuliani, who was not only also a Murdoch darling but also the product of the imagination of a certain kind of coastal, big donor Republicanism. To put it bluntly, as the thinking goes in these folks minds, wouldn't the Republican party be even more awesome if it didn't have all these bible-thumpers and Southern crackers? It could be even better just focusing on tax cutting and just kicking ass in general -- especially unions and other whiners. In other words, like Rudy or this new guy Chris Christie.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/10/carnage_in_murdoch_primary.php?ref=fpblg


Christie Told Fundraisers Last Week He Wouldn't Run

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), "who has kept the political world in suspense for weeks over his presidential intentions, told prominent California fund-raisers and donors as recently as last Wednesday he had no plans to seek the White House," the Wall Street Journal reports.

"One assurance took the form of a pledge Mr. Christie made to Meg Whitman, the newly appointed Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive, said two people familiar with the matter. As a condition of Ms. Whitman hosting a high-priced fund-raiser for him, Mr. Christie said he wouldn't enter the Republican presidential contest."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/10/03/christie_told_fundraisers_last_week_he_wouldnt_run.html

[Beacool]

21. Interesting, I didn't know that.

Thanks.

:-)

[Mr Deltoid]

22. His decision on what?

Whether or not he will help himself to another heap of succulent pot roast?



My theory is....YES! He will consume EVEN MORE food.