Will this derail Christies presidential ambition

[gopiscrap]

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[gopiscrap]

1. I don't even think it will be the Dems

I think he'll get eaten up in the Republican primary over this!

[etherealtruth]

29. Exactly ... he never "sat well" with the teabagger's, anyway

[Vashta Nerada]

2. People won't remember this come 2016.

The short-term memory of the collective masses is poor. I don't think it'll derail his ambition.

[Kablooie]

6. Christie may be doing time for obstruction of interstate commerce by then.

It will be hard to maintain a presidential campaign from prison.

[Douglas Carpenter]

7. I feel reasonably confident in predicting - that will not happen

[Vashta Nerada]

9. Let's hope he'll be in prison.

[Ranchemp.]

28. You really think that's going to happen?

I predict that this won't happen, think Bush.

[Douglas Carpenter]

3. too early to say- but as of this moment - no

[TwilightGardener]

4. Even if he didn't lie (which I believe he did), he surrounded himself with awful people--

cronies who would abuse the office and snicker at harming NJ's people. That's the climate he created, that's his management style. He's toast. Repubs and media will keep him going for a while, but no one wants him near the nuke button.

[FSogol]

5. Presidential Ambition or Presidential Chances?

I doubt a scandal will change his ambition.

His Presidential chances were already slim since the main stream GOP doesn't like him and there are already 10+ other GOP camps that think they deserve the oval office. The scandal gives the other chumps more ammunition against the NJ Blowhard.

[DrDan]

8. You are kidding, right?

Of course not

[PM Martin]

10. He will still run, he will not win the Presidency.

[truebluegreen]

11. Toast!

Straight-shooting, decisive, in-charge leader just took a big hit. Democrats can have a field day with that but I think the Teabaggers will kneecap him first. Big corrupt government guy (who also sucked up to Obama!).

[Victor_c3]

12. I believe that the powers that be have decided that we are to decide between him and Hillary Clinton

As far as I can tell, they are essentially the same in terms of major policy. The only difference is on social issues which serve to distract the masses from the things that really matter to the billionaires that control everything and subsequently want a big bank, corporation, and wall street friendly president.

[djean111]

13. Yup. n/t needed, just Yup.

[Myrina]

14. This will rebuild his cred with the TP - they love assholery & bullies more than anything.

Any cred he lost with the far right by "being Obama's pal" after Sandy will be rebuilt & then some by his connection to this.

[B Calm]

15. Only if the thug is behind bars where he belongs!

[geek tragedy]

16. I voted derail, but more likely "make extremely difficult"

If the Republicans had a decent contender other than him, he'd be toast.

But, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Marco, Bobby, and the Bush?

[kimbutgar]

17. You don't think his republican primary opponents won't be using this incident to batter him?

He is toast. He might hold on to his governorship for the next 4 years But presidential material he showed he can't control his staff and he set the political tone in his office. I bet someone will crack and admit he ok'ed it.

Humpty dumpy fell of the wall and his people won't beable to put the pieces back together.

[Auntie Bush]

26. That's going to be diffiult...there will be soooo many pieces!

[dembotoz]

18. rural republican base have less of a conception of gridlock

has no meaning

if you live in a city this sort of thing is your fault

[TeamPooka]

19. Ambitions are never firmly rooted in reality. nt

[Orsino]

20. Not sure, but it looks like revelations will be months trickling in...

...and this is the year he would announce.

[lpbk2713]

21. Not to most died in the wool GOP voters.

Rick Scott was elected governor in spite of having been proven a thief and a liar on a large scale after plundering Medicaid for Million$$. He only walked away because Jeb was governor.


But ... there are more independents and Dems proportionately in the US than in Florida so I think his aspirations for any national office have had the wind taken out of their sales measurably.

Now this doesn't mean he won't be able to find something lucrative on K Street.

[LonePirate]

22. The Tea Party types would never nominate him after his embrace of Obama.

They will not nominate another northeastern liberal governor. (He's liberal to them.)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

23. His ambition? No. The likelihood of fulfilling his ambition? Yes.

[11 Bravo]

24. His ambition? No. His electability? Damn, I hope so!

[hamsterjill]

25. Heck no.

This is the very type of behavior that most Republicans dream of and want to emulate.

Why, that 91 year old woman who may have died because of all of this? I'm sure she was going to die anyway, right???!! (Sarcasm of course).

When someone makes a statement to me that politicians on both sides of the aisle are dirty, etc., THIS is why I believe the Republicans are far worse than Democrats. Republicans are very interested in punishing anyone who dares to disagree with them.

[Vincardog]

27. IIOKIARDI

It Is OK If A Republican Did It