ALL SIGNS are pointing, Chris Christie is running for President of the United States.

[Firebrand Gary]

The MSM is a buzz this morning. Morning Joe is saying that he is going to announce within the next 24 hours. With more than a year to go it gives us plenty of time to see what's hiding in Chris's closet.

[Syrinx]

1. does "flip flopper" mean anything anymore?

He threatened suicide to prove he wasn't going to run for president.

[mahina]

2. He said he didn't want it.

If he was persuaded to run, he's still going to lose, and lose big. Not a slam on his size, a statement of what I perceive to be a plain fact.

[Firebrand Gary]

3. I agree, wait until the country see's the Hudson Tunnel project he CANCELED. He's Fucked!

And guess where the bulk of his campaign funds came from and who is going to fund his Presidential campaign.

[Skittles]

4. yup - it's all glamour now

looks are a huge factor in who wins

[pampango]

5. Once he's in teabaggers will chew him up and spit him out.

Is Christie conservative enough for Tea Party? Christie has many critics among N.J. conservatives.

Is tough-talking Republican Chris Christie tough enough for the Tea Party? Christie's potential entry into a 2012 White House race dominated by conservatives would electrify the campaign but trigger scrutiny of his record as a Republican governor in heavily Democratic New Jersey.

Hailed by conservatives for staring down public employee unions in New Jersey, he may face questions about whether his beliefs on such hot-button issues as illegal immigration and climate change match up with the conservative Tea Party movement expected to play an important role in choosing the Republican nominee.

"I think there is an interesting possibility that the more people look at him, the more people will have concerns," said Ryan Rhodes, chairman of the Tea Party in Iowa, a key early voting state. "A lot of people see everybody as Superman until they get in the race, and all of a sudden they are just Clark Kent," Rhodes said.

In 2008, as U.S. attorney for New Jersey, Christie said that being in the United States without documentation was not a crime, upsetting conservatives. While running for governor, he told Fox News he supported common-sense gun control laws. In August, he said that "climate change is real" and "it's time to defer to the experts."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/30/usa-campaign-christie-idUSS1E78T10J20110930

[Madam Mossfern]

6. I wouldn't take it so lightly.

Do we really know the power of the Tea Party, or what the media tells us? Remember, according to them there was no Occupy Wall Street movement for quite a while.

I can say for sure that most of the Republicans I know are just more moderate, but they are quiet. You never know what can happen in the voting booth. Can he win? I don't know. I don't know if he can even win the nomination considering the Republican party seems to have been taken over by lunatic aliens. If he did get the nomination, he would be a better debater against Obama than any of the other clowns in the show. His moderate social views will not serve him well in the primary,but certainly will in the general.

I live in New Jersey, and am a public worker and until recently an elected official. (I chose not to run again)
I know what he is capable of doing and accomplishing and I think he does learn by his mistakes.

[Inuca]

15. In other words you are saying

that he is not stupid, and I agree. I think he could be dangerous, and therefore I very much hope he will stay out. We'll see.... soon probably.

[WinkyDink]

7. He's got a double bonus: 2 "K" sounds AND 2 allusions to "Christ." No, I'm not joking.

We have tended to nominate and/or elect Presidents with the either the "K" or "B" sound prominent (Bill Clinton, Jack Kennedy, Carter, Barack Obama, Bush, Bush, Ike, LBJ,...). We also nominated Mike Dukakis.

And Chris Christie not only has the double "K"; he has the double alliteration of a Ronald Reagan.

He might just be the nominee.

[anAustralianobserver]

11. Is he left handed like McCain, Obama, HW Bush, Clinton, Perot, Kerry, Ford and Reagan?

Or are any of the other candidates?:tinfoilhat:

[anAustralianobserver]

14. I just looked up - also Al Gore, Bob Dole and John Edwards!

[karynnj]

22. Kerry is right handed

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=273x37442

(Noisy Democrat who responded here has videotaped many Kerry events and has them on her wonderful site, http://www.jkmediasource.org/ )

I don't know about the rest of them.

[customerserviceguy]

8. Yeah, six months ago, they were buzzing about Trump, too. n/t

[Inuca]

16. Don't make the mistake of thinking

that Christie is Trump redux. He is not. He may act clownish at times, but he is not a clown. Relatively speaking, he is not even very horrible by R standards, which makes him more dangerous.

[customerserviceguy]

21. Oh, no, they're definitely not the same

But the media likes to play games with both of them. Now they only have Herman Cain to boost for fun.

[LynneSin]

9. Christie won't even win his own state. I think he wants to run in 2016

He won with less votes than John McCain received in 2008 and McCain lost by 10 points to Obama, who received a million more votes.

[Cirque du So-What]

18. I've grown wary of flats statements concerning the unelectability of repug candidates

Been burned toooo many times by believing that reason will prevail among the voting public.

[secondwind]

10. I read yesterday that the big donors were headed to Trenton today (or last night).

[liberal N proud]

12. He was running the moment the talking heads started calling for him

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/

[no_hypocrisy]

13. None of the above.

My thought is he'll turn down campaigning for president. But if at the Convention, they can't vote a majority for the nominee, and then his name as a draft is put on ballot, then he'll accept that and become the nominee that way.. No work, no money raised (or spent by his donors for the primaries), just sweep in and take the prize.

[madrchsod]

17. sounds about right...

that way the tea party nuts can have their victory and then go away.

[rtracey]

19. Tea-party

He is the Tea-parties nightmare. He believes in global warming, he sides with immigration, he even supported the "Ground Zero Mosque", (which happened to open earlier this month, where was all the right wing-nut Peter King followers protesting). If he does run, it will not be easy for him to please the new republican base.

[nc4bo]

20. So let the dirt digging begin although with this one, one probably wouldn't have to look far. nt

[taterguy]

23. What fucking signs were you looking at?

No

Means

No