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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChris Christie: Dead man walking. This guy is 50. Due for a coronary.
He looks terrible.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Before long he'll be floating through the air on a suspensor belt.
Because if you're as big as the Baron, you'd better make sure your stash of that life-extending spice melange can be replenished reliably!
Cary
(11,746 posts)Great book, lousy movie. Good series on Sci Fi though.
rocktivity
(44,580 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)All of a sudden I picture Christie with pustules all over his face!
Ewww! Ewww! Ewww!
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)it's all in vein..
Raster
(20,998 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)The guy doesn't have any brilliant ideas. He isn't charismatic. He is basically just a dick. That may get over in Jersey, but it ain't flying nationally.
The media loves people like Ryan and Christie because they are controversial. But the media doesn't cover them as controversial. They paint them as the messiah.
Reagan was a dick too, but he had a charisma to pull that off without being completely offensive. Christie is just a jerk without the slightest hint of Reagan's charisma.
I doubt Christie will even be alive in 2016, but if he is, I hope he is the candidate for the GOP.
d_b
(7,463 posts)Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)He'll suffer much the same fate, going down in flames.
I've never seen or heard a politician that has nothing but bluster like that fat turd.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)sadbear
(4,340 posts)Systematic Chaos
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Just don't tell him that my secret to success has been to give up this kind of junk for starches and veggies, okay?
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)Systematic Chaos
(8,601 posts)n/t
Brother Buzz
(36,478 posts)Bank on it.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)malaise
(269,206 posts)Just listen to his breathing and you know he's in big trouble already.
Remember though that ReTHUGs don't need to submit medicals. Ask WILLIARd.
Cary
(11,746 posts)He reminds me of William the Refrigerator Perry. Maybe he'll try to drag Romney over the goal line?
DavidDvorkin
(19,493 posts)Or so I gather.
bushisanidiot
(8,064 posts)He will have a heart attack before 2016.
aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)He is thinking more of 2016 than 2012.
It didn't have nearly the red meat I thought it would. From a GOP standpoint I thought both speeches were huge disappointments.
The convention is 33% over. Obama is smiling tonight.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)pa28
(6,145 posts)I wonder what the risk is for a 400 pound plus guy over the age of 50 like Gov. Christie.
He likes to pound ice cream on the boardwalk and yell at hecklers until the veins on his forehead stand out.
You don't see too many type A 400 pounders older than Christie. Just an observation.
left on green only
(1,484 posts)I would assert that his place is in showing just how big of a conservative tent the republican party really is.
rppper
(2,952 posts)I'm Sure there are definatly some partialy blocked arteries....from the bags under his eyes a case of chronic obstructive sleep apnea....big guys like me(6-1,230) get that...whoops, he's 400+? Bank on it....hope he gets cpap therapy and starts laying off the starches and sugars....you'd be surprised how fast your weight drops when you give them up.....in '08, at 40 y/o , I was 285 lbs, looked just like him, except I had a heart attack, got 4 stints and a pacemaker just like cheneys! Learned I was diabetic too. I'll bet he can't walk 100 feet without wheezing and sweating....I've been saying this for two years...he getting worse too....he's a stroke waiting to happen....I hope he gets help....He's a father....
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)It's incredibly hard to keep off, but he did not look very healthy either.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)He cannot even walk from a helicopter to the viewing stands at his kid's game...had to have a limo drive him the rest of the way..
If he's serious about running, he has 4 years to drop some serious weight and get himself fit .
I am overweight too, and I know how hard it is to do, but then I do not plan on running for office either.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)I've known people who were almost as fat as him who have had that done and are now in more-or-less normal range.
dmallind
(10,437 posts)Google Cyril Smith for a parallel. Politician who weighed over 430.
Died recently.
At 83.
Of an unrelated cancer.
rppper
(2,952 posts)With patients doing EEGs, PSGs, and other neurological tests...I'm also an EMT...for every Cyril Smith there are 100 other obese people losing limbs to diabetes, the use of their facilities due to a Stroke or TIA, or falling over dead due to a Heart attack. Perhaps mr. Smith would have seen 100 had he not been morbidly obese. I see what you're saying, but getting past the 50% here that chose to make fun of his condition, the other 50% seem to care about his health more than he does, seeing as he prides himself on stuffing any number of greasy, sweet treats down his gullet...all I'm saying is that it isn't a healthy lifestyle...and he is not built to carry 150-200lbs of extra weight....he doesn't look healthy....any doctor for worth his weight can look at the man and tell You....I'd love to do a PSG test on him....
Raine
(30,541 posts)especially with the additional hot head that he has.