Chris Christie wades into Senate impeachment fight

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

Chris Christie is launching a big-money effort aimed at giving Senate Republicans air cover on impeachment — and positioning the former New Jersey governor as a counterweight to liberal billionaire Tom Steyer.

The newly formed issue advocacy organization, Right Direction America, is set to begin a seven-figure TV and digital advertising offensive Monday. The nonprofit group will be focused on a half-dozen states where key 2020 Senate races are taking place: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Maine and North Carolina.

Christie is looking to offset a multimillion-dollar offensive funded by Steyer, a Democratic presidential candidate and hedge fund executive, who is targeting Senate Republicans over impeachment. Steyer’s organization, Need to Impeach, has spent around $3.5 million across a handful of states pressuring GOP senators. Need to Impeach has also begun a $350,000 national TV ad campaign going after House and Senate Republicans on impeachment, and a spokesman for Steyer’s group said the funding would likely increase as the Senate trial gets underway.

While conservative groups poured millions into TV advertising in House districts during the impeachment push, Steyer’s offensive in Senate battlegrounds has gone largely unanswered. Christie said he aimed to change that.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/20/chris-christie-senate-impeachment-088506

[Liberalhammer]

1. Traitor

To the end.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. counterweight...

[Dennis Donovan]

4. ...and *wades*

*waddles*.

There. I fixed it.

[DeminPennswoods]

7. He doesn't even need money to do it...

...

[keithbvadu2]

19. counterweight

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

33. I don't think I'd want to see either of those two in a swimsuit.

[Zoonart]

26. Seriously... the jokes write themselves.

[DENVERPOPS]

38. Wow

all he needs to do is come to Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Maine and North Carolina, and "accidentally" sit in the same chair the Dem candidate is already occupying......LOL

He is a perfect TrumpHumper. A mayor doesn't do what you want, so you exact revenge. Sound Familiar??????
I'm sure Ms. Kelly is grinding her teeth over his continuing progress on the national republican scene......

At my age, my mind is beginning to go, but didn't I read somewhere that he was being paid 13 million for something he was doing for the Repubs?????????

[Botany]

3. Why didn't he go to jail for shutting down that bridge?

But hey if the GOP senators want to stand with the biggest crook in American history
fine, let 'em.

[DENVERPOPS]

14. Didn't he blame it all

on the WOMAN underneath him and got away clean/??????????

[Botany]

16. You mean the woman who was 10 or so steps ...

... from his office and she just thought of closing the bridge on her own?

I think a man took the fall too. But by now I bet both have
healthy bank accounts.

[DENVERPOPS]

22. she looked so

smug and cocky walking beside him before the whole thing came down.

Little did she know that they eat their own or feed them to the wolves the minute they are threatened.....

[FM123]

25. It is the same smug look

that Giuliani has now walking beside trump before the whole thing comes down...

[Zoonart]

27. BINGO!

[DENVERPOPS]

35. Wait for it........

The very second that Guili-Annie fulfills his usefulness there will be a double set of bus tracks over his body in the NY gutter.....

All these stupid low level Republicans don't ever learn.....it is truly hilarious to watch them all scamper around trying to get in with the big boys........

[DENVERPOPS]

37. I don't remember a man,

But she sure got a whole big bunch of nights, spent in a cell, to think about ever backing her superior, ever again.....

she should have been aware enough to have thought about Colin Powell. In away, the Repubs depended on him to sway the crowd to getting behind the IRAQ war, and ten seconds later he was kicked aside......and he, of all people should have realized what would happen after he helped with the cover up of the Mai Lai ? massacre.....

Once you have served your purpose, in reality, the Repubs don't throw you under the bus, they feed you to the dogs.........It's like being a kamikaze pilot............

[radical noodle]

5. I think they're going to have some competition

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/17/politics/never-trumpers-pac-donald-trump-george-conway/index.html

The new group, named the Lincoln Project, was announced Tuesday in a New York Times op-ed penned by four so-called "Never Trumpers": attorney George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway; the well-known Republican political operatives Steve Schmidt and John Weaver, who worked for former Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush, respectively; and Rick Wilson, a Republican media consultant.

According to the Lincoln Project's website, its advisers also include three other current and former GOP strategists.

"Over these next 11 months, our efforts will be dedicated to defeating President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box and to elect those patriots who will hold the line," the group wrote in the opinion piece.

[Scarsdale]

23. So this group will promote

the cowards in office right now, who do not have the courage to defy tRump? They will back the lilly-livered gop members who "go along to get along"? Great!! The gop is filled with COWARDS, who have no core principles, no true patriotism. Lemmings, all of them. If they were true patriots, they would switch to the democratic party, unless the democratic party has ideals that are too out of their league?

[radical noodle]

24. Uh-no...

The "Lincoln Project" is to get rid of all of them... trump and those who back him. They are promoting Democrats in 2020 because there's no chance any Republican with principles will be on the ballot.

They are not promoting liberal ideas, but they are promoting the idea that trump and trumpism must be stopped. That's enough for me at the moment.

[dajoki]

29. I will gladly accept their help...

in removing illegitimate and all the sycophants but I want nothing to do with their "values". They are the reason we are where we are. What did they expect after all the decades of gaslighting with the right wing disinformation?

[radical noodle]

31. Agreed!

[TheBlackAdder]

6. Were there tsumani warnings posted when he went in?

[Blue_Adept]

36. hahahahahah!

I get it! It's cause he's fat! makes waves!

oh, how clever.

[marble falls]

8. I hope he burns through every single penny he raises. He won't change what's coming...

Right Direction America, indeed.

[olddad65]

15. I doubt if the money he will be using is his...

Or clean money. And I doubt if the illegal source(s) will ever run out.

[maxrandb]

18. I doubt any of it won't end up in his pocket

[BootinUp]

9. Scum. Nt

[IADEMO2004]

10. Who?

[Dave in VA]

11. The orange hemarrhoid's

personal big mac fetcher!!!

[George II]

12. Air cover? All he needs to do is stand on a small table and have everyone huddle under him.

[flotsam]

13. Shouldn't FatAss be in jail

Over the bridge maneuvers???

[llmart]

17. Chris Christie

Still trying to stay relevant.

[CTyankee]

20. Chris who?

[TheFourthMind]

21. Fat cat Chris Christie rolls into Senate impeachment fight. Like a donut might. n/t

[rurallib]

28. Inquiring minds wonder if this is Russian money

and how is it laundered to look so minty green to the networks and social media that will take it so happily?

[Hotler]

30. Wade! More like a waddle. nt

[BlueIdaho]

32. Comrade Christie

Struggles for fame in today’s Trumpublican party. Maybe he’d have better luck on Dancing with the Stars...

[mdbl]

34. Assholes Unite! Waiting for Newt Gingrich to join in

Why are Republicans such big assholes and why is there a fraction of the public that likes them? I know it's a rhetorical question but any time i see them that same question comes to mind.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

39. He has been waiting 3 years for opportunity to knock

He sees what to him is a second chance. Although the water is ice cold ,he see's fruit on loom ready for picking. He is sure of easy pick'ens offering the path to redemption.

He wants to ride a surf board high up on the second wave ,that is how he looks at it.