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The Jersey bully emerges: Fading in New Hampshire, Chris Christie flails at Marco Rubio
The Jersey bully emerges: Fading in New Hampshire, Chris Christie flails at Marco Rubio
http://www.salon.com/2016/02/03/the_jersey_bully_emerges_fading_in_new_hampshire_chris_christie_flails_at_marco_rubio/
Nobody is less impressed with Marco Rubio’s earth-shaking, timeline-altering, epoch-defining third-place finish in Iowa than Chris Christie. The New Jersey governor – who has been campaigning intensely in New Hampshire, taking only brief respites to go on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and (time permitting) handle weather emergencies in his state – responded to Marco Rubio’s non-victory with a classic bit of Jersey machismo. “Unlike some of these other campaigns, I’m not the boy in the bubble … So when Sen. Rubio gets here, when the boy in the bubble gets here, I hope you guys ask him some questions,” Christie said. “Let’s get the boy in the bubble out of the bubble, and let’s see him play for the next week in New Hampshire.”
That’s basically the equivalent of Christie grabbing his crotch and shouting “I got your caucus RIGHT HERE!” It’s all part of Christie’s self-made image as the swaggering hard-ass straight talker who will tell it like it is and be the strongman tough guy America so desperately needs. But this attack on Rubio is noteworthy for a couple of reasons.
First of all, it’s an intensely personal swipe. Typically, when Christie goes after Rubio or Rand Paul or Ted Cruz, he focuses more on the fact that they’re a trio of meek and useless U.S. senators who don’t do anything beyond argue in the Capitol basement. “It’s perfectly legal in this country to change your mind,” Christie said at the Fox News debate last month, “but when you’re a governor, you have to admit it. You can’t hide behind parliamentary tricks.” But all this business about Rubio being a “boy in the bubble” has a spiteful and nasty edge to it. He’s calling Rubio a coward and a weakling.
The timing of the attack is also interesting. Yes, it came right on the heels of Rubio’s massive P.R. coup in Iowa, but it also comes as Christie himself is cratering in New Hampshire. For months and months, Christie was the beneficiary of a widespread media hunt for the Christie Comeback – every month or so, some pundit or reporter would guess that Christie was due for a rise in the polls because “he’s a fighter” and “you can’t count him out” and so forth. That Comeback never seemed to materialize until the beginning of December as Christie’s numbers in New Hampshire, which had been stuck in the mid-single digits for months, began creeping up. He reached a high of 11.5 percent right around the New Year, and since then it’s been a steady slide back down to the mid-single digits. That brief New Hampshire bump was not mirrored nationally (he’s at 3 percent), in Iowa (he finished with 2 percent), or in South Carolina (where he’s currently at 2 percent).
http://www.salon.com/2016/02/03/the_jersey_bully_emerges_fading_in_new_hampshire_chris_christie_flails_at_marco_rubio/
Nobody is less impressed with Marco Rubio’s earth-shaking, timeline-altering, epoch-defining third-place finish in Iowa than Chris Christie. The New Jersey governor – who has been campaigning intensely in New Hampshire, taking only brief respites to go on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and (time permitting) handle weather emergencies in his state – responded to Marco Rubio’s non-victory with a classic bit of Jersey machismo. “Unlike some of these other campaigns, I’m not the boy in the bubble … So when Sen. Rubio gets here, when the boy in the bubble gets here, I hope you guys ask him some questions,” Christie said. “Let’s get the boy in the bubble out of the bubble, and let’s see him play for the next week in New Hampshire.”
That’s basically the equivalent of Christie grabbing his crotch and shouting “I got your caucus RIGHT HERE!” It’s all part of Christie’s self-made image as the swaggering hard-ass straight talker who will tell it like it is and be the strongman tough guy America so desperately needs. But this attack on Rubio is noteworthy for a couple of reasons.
First of all, it’s an intensely personal swipe. Typically, when Christie goes after Rubio or Rand Paul or Ted Cruz, he focuses more on the fact that they’re a trio of meek and useless U.S. senators who don’t do anything beyond argue in the Capitol basement. “It’s perfectly legal in this country to change your mind,” Christie said at the Fox News debate last month, “but when you’re a governor, you have to admit it. You can’t hide behind parliamentary tricks.” But all this business about Rubio being a “boy in the bubble” has a spiteful and nasty edge to it. He’s calling Rubio a coward and a weakling.
The timing of the attack is also interesting. Yes, it came right on the heels of Rubio’s massive P.R. coup in Iowa, but it also comes as Christie himself is cratering in New Hampshire. For months and months, Christie was the beneficiary of a widespread media hunt for the Christie Comeback – every month or so, some pundit or reporter would guess that Christie was due for a rise in the polls because “he’s a fighter” and “you can’t count him out” and so forth. That Comeback never seemed to materialize until the beginning of December as Christie’s numbers in New Hampshire, which had been stuck in the mid-single digits for months, began creeping up. He reached a high of 11.5 percent right around the New Year, and since then it’s been a steady slide back down to the mid-single digits. That brief New Hampshire bump was not mirrored nationally (he’s at 3 percent), in Iowa (he finished with 2 percent), or in South Carolina (where he’s currently at 2 percent).
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you've ever heard of the term "boy in the bubble"? It's a reference to someone who is sheltered from the rigors of the real world and is insulated from what everyone else deals with. There's nothing racist about it, no matter who the term is directed towards. Christie is a lot of things-he's a lot of bad things-but racist isn't one of them. Most republicans are "bubble boys" living in a fantasy world where they believe they've earned everything they have through working harder and being smarter than the rest of us and things like privlage, connections, advantage and luck never played a role and other's challenges don't exist. It's what enables them to believe in the destructive policies they promote.
Jersey Shore Douchebag meltdown Aisle 4...