So Perry and Abbott are boycotting Christie's fundraiser

[malaise]

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2014/02/8539905/christie-tour-hits-texas-without-perry-or-abbott
According to the Dallas Morning News, neither Gov. Rick Perry, nor Attorney General Greg Abbott will be in attendance at the fund-raiser in Dallas.

Christie's tour is seen as something of a barometer for his future ambitions, in the wake of a local scandal over politically motivated lane closures that has quickly metastasized into a national problem for Christie's brand.


The absence of Perry and Abbott would seem to make for an inauspicious start.

[kairos12]

1. Maybe they were stuck on a bridge.

[malaise]

2. With that Obama fake snow?

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Oh you are bad in a good way!

[malaise]

8. LOL - looks like even POLITICO has jumped ship- Chris Christie’s smoking-gun strategy

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2014/02/8539717/chris-christies-smoking-gun-strategy
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Chris Christie's public-relations strategy to get through the George Washington bridge scandal alive is as transparent as it is simple: No matter what happens or comes out, keep changing the standard for unforgivable misbehavior so that new revelations fall short of it.

It was no longer bad enough, in that formulation, that contrary to everything the governor had just told the state, his top aides had in fact put residents' lives at stake for the sake of some cartoonishly villainous revenge scheme. And it was no longer relevant that, even if the governor truly knew nothing about it, he was incompetent enough to have selected the people who carried it out, and had created a culture in which such an idea was not seen as incredibly wrong.

In other words, the new standard by which to judge Christie isn't about his changing story or his out-of-control staff and its abuse of power, but about whether Wildstein—a slick operator who the governor reportedly installed to be his eyes and ears at the authority—is a good and decent man.

The Christie administration, impressively, is now attempting to turn the entire episode into a referendum on David Wildstein.

Which, considering that the governor's original story has proven false and his administration caught red-handed in what turns out to be part of a pattern of inappropriately coercive behavior, may be the very best option the governor has got left.

[Jazzgirl]

13. Why yes malaise!

We got plenty of that fake snow today!

[malaise]

14. That Obama is something else

[Rex]

4. Aww did Crispe Creme get the cold shoulder from Governor Allegator Skin and

AG Shoot'em Up Taggart?

Honestly they are too busy, hiding in their man-cave-tree house thinking of how much they hate girls like Wendy Davis!



Please God, let me be the candidate I knews you wasn't no Mormon!

[malaise]

5. Now where did you find that

Freaking priceless

[Rex]

6. Google images!

[malaise]

7. LOL

[freshwest]

10. Governor Goodhair is just sooo precious there. I can hear Molly saying, 'Bless his little heart...'

Actually Molly said this in reference to presidential runs by GOP Texas govenors:

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

~ Molly Ivins

[Cha]

9. Yeah, christie's tour may have been the barometer.. but

I think the barometer got broken when the GWB-Gate Broke All the Hell Loose!



From your link..

"Texas isn't a perfect gauge for Christie's appeal though, since Perry is a potential rival to Christie in 2016, and Abbott is running to replace him in a state that has tilted decidedly to the right of Christie's moderate profile.

Texas conservatives, which have increasingly come to dominate the political landscape there, are inherently skeptical of northeast Republicans, who generally lack the ideological fervor of their Southern counterparts"

Read.. they're not as batshit.. but I think Christie qualifies! If Christie is what passes for "moderate" these days then they're all in trouble.

Perry again? too funny.

[malaise]

16. They are all in trouble

and that's good news

[Javaman]

11. if only someone would investigate cement head perry and hey abbot.

I can dream.

[Orsino]

12. Every event at which Perry is too drunk to show is now a boycott. n/t

[Gothmog]

15. But Greg Abbott and Christie have so much in common

They are both bullies who fight dirty