Just Got A Call From A Dem Friend Listening To Christie On Compromise......

[global1]

he suggested that Obama should abandon Biden in 2012 and take Christie as a VP running mate. He said with Christie's views on 'compromise' maybe we'd get something done in Congress going forward.

[tomg]

1. WTF?

[FarCenter]

2. It wouldn't affect relations with Congress at all

Those are mainly determined by the leadership in each house of Congress and the President and his staff.

[Fuzz]

3. Um, tell them that they should stop smoking crack.

;)

[eShirl]

4. +!

[mercuryblues]

5. Yup

and as soon as Christy is sworn in, Obama is killed and we are stuck with Christie for president. No thanks.

[villager]

6. Your friend means even *more* of the unadulterated Republican agenda would get done!?

:shrug:

[Broderick]

7. It already seems we have a uniparty as it is

shrug.

[MADem]

14. Yeah, because the Supreme Court would look EXACTLY the same with a Republican President

running things....

Please.

Anyone who doesn't think there's any difference, look at Fat Tony Scalia, and imagine that everything he says, goes. That's what you'd get with a GOP prez.

:eyes:

[Broderick]

17. oh come on now... just rhetorical frustration

this is about as stupid as it gets. A Republican on a Democratic ticket. ugh.

[MADem]

18. It's not the first time this kind of stuff has been floated, though.

It boggles the mind.

[malaise]

8. WTF???

:puke:

[FSogol]

9. It really is amazing that someone can be plain spoken or folksy and everyone falls for the act.

Remember Christie is the lazy fuck that took a helicopter to a Little League game and had a limo drive him around the field to his seat. I hope you mocked your friend's inability to tell when he's getting played.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. What about the deficit?

The White House would need to hire 79 more cooks...

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

11. I don't understand why people always rag on Joe Biden. He is one of very view

politicians--Christie included--who shoots straight from the hip and tells it like it is. I find it rather curious as to why Americans like Christie because he's plain spoken and downright nasty. They hate Biden because he's plain spoken and tells it like it is!!!

The double standard rings volumes. It's like what Rachel always says:

IOKIYAR: "It's O.K. if you are a Republican!"

No truer words!

[MADem]

16. Christie is the super-sized flavor of the month.

He's one massive fat bastard, and that makes him "different" in public life, but more in common with a lot of people we all know. Thus, there's some degree of resonance. He shoots from the "lip"--and that is refreshing, too. UNTIL....it becomes common. Then he is perceived as mean and nasty. For now, though, to people who don't really know him, it reads "Decisive."

Biden has been around much longer--his persona is burned into the American mind, even though many don't realize it. He's the guy who cribbed the speech from Neil Kinnock years ago. He's the guy who got the hair plugs before the procedure was any good. He's the guy whose wife/kid died in the wreck and who fell into deep depression, and who almost lost it with a couple of brain aneurysms. He's also the guy who shoots off his mouth, but in a kind of different way--he's not intentionally mean, like Christie, he just trips over his shit every now and again--it makes people want to roll their eyes at times.

All that said, Biden is one of the sharpest foreign policy experts going. Even when I don't agree with his trajectory, I cannot fault him for his facts and his in-depth knowledge of the history and issues attendant to a foreign policy issue. He's not a Bush "Duhhhh...I didn't know there was more than one type of Muslim" moron, who learns a country's details from a battered copy of Encyclopedia Britannica, he has an excellent grasp of the details--all around the world. Smart guy. He'd be as good at State as he is at VP.

His biggest fault is that he likes to chat--it's an Irish thing, I guess.

[IndyPragmatist]

12. Maybe Michelle could get him to lose some weight

I doubt the NJ governor's mansion has a vegetable garden.

[MADem]

15. He'd probably eat the whole frigging vegetable garden in one sitting.

And then be demanding meat, potatoes, and dessert!

[MADem]

13. Aside from the fact that it's a crazed scenario....

the two have little in common and it would make both Obama and Christie more enemies than friends.

Christie would make a great President of the Senate--not. He wouldn't be effective in prodding leadership or helping them corral votes. He probably would spend two years figuring out the rules!

Terribly uninformed postulation on the part of your friend.

[H2O Man]

19. Change friends.