Chris Christie: Dead man walking. This guy is 50. Due for a coronary.

[MichiganVote]

He looks terrible.

[backscatter712]

1. He's in it to make sure the spice flows!

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]

9. ROTFLMAO

Great book, lousy movie. Good series on Sci Fi though.

[rocktivity]

16. "Before long" has come sooner than you thought.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021220592


rocktivity

[lunatica]

26. Ewwww! Creepy!

All of a sudden I picture Christie with pustules all over his face!

Ewww! Ewww! Ewww!

[oldhippydude]

2. 2 cheesburgers short of an angioplasty..

it's all in vein..

[Raster]

3. oh, the pun of it all

[tridim]

4. "GOP Darling" Chris Christie. I'm noticing tonight that he's way overrated.

[BlueStreak]

28. This is the issue being missed while obsessing about his "ample carriage"

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]

5. he's one of their 'rising stars'?

[Ikonoklast]

15. Much like the Hindenburg was for the Nazi Party.

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]

27. "Rising"? He couldn't get off the sofa without a crane to lift him...

[sadbear]

6. It'll take extraordinarily large cement shoes to get that guy to sink to the bottom.

[Systematic Chaos]

7. It's not HIS fault he lives where all the good cannolis and shit are!

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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]

22. those are cannoli? what's the green stuff?

[Systematic Chaos]

31. Little candy sprinkles like you'd also find on a cupcake, I believe.

n/t

[Brother Buzz]

8. He's going to stroke out before any coronary

Bank on it.

[HipChick]

10. He won't be around in 2016 to accept his party's nomination to run for President..

[malaise]

21. I posted that some time back

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. Governor Don't Call Me Late to Dinner.

He reminds me of William the Refrigerator Perry. Maybe he'll try to drag Romney over the goal line?

[DavidDvorkin]

12. Apparently, you're not supposed to refer to his weight on DU

Or so I gather.

[bushisanidiot]

13. I was thinking the same thing

He will have a heart attack before 2016.

[aaaaaa5a]

14. Funny. He didn't mention Obama one time.

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]

17. And McInsane looks like he needs surgery, again.

[pa28]

18. I'm sure we've got an insurance actuary or two on this board.

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]

19. In defense of the Chris......

I would assert that his place is in showing just how big of a conservative tent the republican party really is.

[rppper]

20. Hypertention, diabetic in denial....

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]

24. I was shocked to see that Huckleberry has put most of his weight back on

It's incredibly hard to keep off, but he did not look very healthy either.

[SoCalDem]

23. He does not have the stamina for a national campaign

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. I don't understand why he doesn't get something like the lap band procedure.

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]

29. Apparently few posters know the real (trivial) longevity impact of obesity. Facts matter, not hate.

Google Cyril Smith for a parallel. Politician who weighed over 430.

Died recently.

At 83.

Of an unrelated cancer.

[rppper]

30. I'm not a doctor, but I do work...

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]

32. He looks like he's going to keel over any second, he'll never live to be president

especially with the additional hot head that he has.