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scheming daemons

(25,487 posts) Wed Nov 6, 2013, 12:30 AM Nov 2013

Look, Christie won this election the day he embraced Obama [View all]

Ironically... that photo image is why he will likely not win the GOP Presidential nomination in '16.

Every single GOP rival in 2016 will blast the photo of Christie embracing Obama until every teabagger's overriding thought about Christie is that he is the guy that "hugged the Kenyan usurper".

The GOP primary is heavily weighted to winning in Iowa and SC early. Christie has no chance to finish in the top 3 in those states' GOP primary.

And if he does manage to win the GOP nomination, the teabaggers will draft someone to run as an independent.

The best thing that could happen for Christie and the GOP is for the Tea Party to be wiped out in 2014.. thus getting the GOP to finally jettison them.

If the Tea Party stays relatively strong through 2016, the Dems will hold the White House.

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Look, Christie won this election the day he embraced Obama [View all] scheming daemons Nov 2013 OP

That's basically it in a nutshell. nt BumRushDaShow Nov 2013 #1

And the day Obama embraced Christie. nt MannyGoldstein Nov 2013 #2

definite quid pro quo scheming daemons Nov 2013 #4

According to the news, 30% of NJ Dems voted for Christie. Do you think that was because Christie sabrina 1 Nov 2013 #12

+1, I bet we can find posts about that. joshcryer Nov 2013 #15

Yeah it's always better to publicly tell the governor of a disaster-ravaged state to go fuck himself Azathoth Nov 2013 #14

you think it will be a repeat of Charlie Crist in Florida ? remember how the Crist hugging OBama JI7 Nov 2013 #3

pretty much. Buono trailed by less than 20 points before Sandy. After? by 38. Pretzel_Warrior Nov 2013 #5

And Buono gets to blame her own party. joshcryer Nov 2013 #9

Yep. Christie's actions in the aftermath of Sandy helped him. bluestate10 Nov 2013 #6

They played a blip from Buono's concession speech on local radio BumRushDaShow Nov 2013 #13

Yep. And he did it to deflect from his piss poor handling of Sandy. joshcryer Nov 2013 #7

That's what everybody said about the Tea Party. No one took them seriously until they liberal_at_heart Nov 2013 #8

tea party can win local elections... cant win nationally scheming daemons Nov 2013 #10

The media hyped them to hell and back. joshcryer Nov 2013 #11

the media took them more seriously than they should, they have power within the republican party JI7 Nov 2013 #16