Christie's National Poll Numbers Plummet

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15. Humpty Christie!

ROFL!!!!!

The bigger they are... and all that.

Unfortunately there's nothing to celebrate yet. And I hesitate to start until this one's been played all the way out to the kind of conclusion we're hoping for, and that frankly, this smug bully deserves.

Y'know - it's ALWAYS come up a little short. I remember feeling incomplete while watching Watergate play out. Yep, nixon had to resign or face the impeachment he deserved. So he avoided the worst of it. Lots of "mistakes were made" weasel words. Back then it was "unindicted co-conspirator", a term that, at the time, I'd never heard before. And nixon survived to semi-rehabilitate himself and write books and do the David Frost interview and such, as an "elder statesman." He never served time, except maybe in self-imposed exile at his beautiful home overlooking the ocean in San Clemente with the fetching young Diane Sawyer at his elbow to be his personal scribe or secretary or errand-runner or some such thing. She was a White House aide at the time, and went with him in that helicopter that lifted off from the White House to take him outta there for the last time. He never served time. He never even saw the inside of a courtroom.

Same thing with fucking reagan and Iran/Contra. Only much later did the truth come out about how close he came to being impeached, and what herculean maneuvers by his apologists and handlers and trusty wife Nancy, to keep him out of trouble and maintain that "squeaky-clean" "legacy." That SOB never paid for that one. Never had to pay. Shit - he never even had to consider resigning.

And of course, then there's bush/cheney. Got off scott-free.

I observed one thing that seemed really key: those republi-CONS sure do stick together. WAY more disciplined. And yeah, WAY more Machiavellian. I don't remember any wholesale dumping on any of these guys by any in their inner circles - the way it happened to Bill Clinton during the whole Monica mess. MAN, Dee Dee Myers and George Stephanopolous were way out front, stomping their little feet and huffing and puffing and throwing their little hissy fits and flinging poo at him in public. It was all see-how-they-run. MORE than happy to go on all the Sunday talk shows and news shows at the time (not much cable except for CNN and Pox Noise was just getting started) to denounce him openly and carry on about how terribly horrible it was - and, especially, how terribly horrible he was. Political lice. NOBODY circled the wagons. Nobody closed ranks and went on offense. They all ran off and joined the Cat-Call Club. All of a sudden you saw this Lanny Davis dude whom nobody'd ever seen or heard of before, hauled out from the minor leagues to go on camera all over the place and present the lone voice in Clinton's defense. Schmucks. LOTS of 'em deserted him. The other side, on the other hand, stayed close and protected their quarterback and always shot outward rather than inward. Enviable. It's too bad, really. A whole lot of the real weasels are OURS.