Is Christy being "cancelled" by the hard right?

[Stinky The Clown]

Opening disclaimer: I am no Christy fan or Christy booster.

It seems to me that the steady drip drip drip of not only revelations, but also allegations, could possibly be a planned strategy. Christy has not endeared himself to many of the GOP's core of overt haters. Those overt haters control the party. They weren't all that warm toward rMoney and they surely are not all that warm to Christy.

They'd far more have someone like Mike Libido Huckabee as their standard bearer than Obama Hugger Christy.

This is all just my own theories.

[ProSense]

1. Chris Christie is a RW Republican

"It seems to me that the steady drip drip drip of not only revelations, but also allegations, could possibly be a planned strategy."

The opportunists are likely to pile on, but they have nothing to do with the fact that Christie is in deep shit.

Christie campaigned for Ken Cuccinelli and Lindsey Graham and

Cuccinelli’s shot across Christie’s bow
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024370902

Chris Christie is a RW Republican
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023988793

[geek tragedy]

2. no, Christie IS the hard right in New Jersey nt

[legcramp]

3. Oh, I don't think it's just the "hard right"

The vast majority of those identifying as Republicans are enjoying the take down of Christie by the very people they see as inventing him in the 1st place. Who have you seen as rallying to his defense?

I'm pretty sure they see Matthews, Maddow and the rest of the "MSNBC types" doing the job that Reagan's 11th commandment "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican" precludes them from doing.

Just my own theory.

[Cleita]

4. It sure seems like they are throwing him under the bus.

Usually, there are a bunch of PR and Law firms that circle their wagons around Republican candidates who are caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

[unblock]

5. nothing in politics happens by accident

i don't know that i'd go as far as you on this point, but i do fine the republican defense of christy surprisingly lame. typically they'd be rushing to his defense and completely up in arms about democrats playing partisan politics and trying to make hay out of normal hard-nosed politics. we see a little bit of that, but only a very little bit of it.

republican politicians seem to be playing the let-wait-and-see-how-this-plays-out-first game before sticking their own necks out to defend him. this is of course the typical wise but ineffective democratic response to scandal. it's rather uncharacteristic for republicans.

[karynnj]

6. I think it may be more subtle - assuming he is not somehow vindicated (extremely unlikely)

His allure to the Republicans was that he was, by far, the most likely to win a general election. In the last set of polls, he is still among the top Republicans (they have been separated by less than 2 or 3 points) for the Republican nomination. However, his head to head numbers with HRC have TANKED - down by possibly double digits. This made Christie only slightly better than any other Republican. I suspect the next set of Republican primary polls will take this into consideration - and he will lose those voting for him just because they think he can win.

It is possible that another factor is people's recognition that Christie (like Clinton 1992 or Obama 2008) was a media favorite - and allowed passes for things less favored candidates would have their campaigns killed for. In Christie's case, look at how his bullying and abuse of power was handled in 2009. Watch the last video and ask yourself whether an ad like this - had Al Gore "pushed his weight around" - backfired or whether the concentration would have been on the REAL abuses of power. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024380392

[SoCalDem]

7. Christie has been used to using all the oxygen in the room

Now he is holding his breath, so there is oxygen for the others right now..

Most of the republicans have never liked him or any other "Northerner".. He grabbed the torch and started running with it...he has stumbled & dropped it and now the other slimy little creatures are fight over it