Discussion: Christie Predicts BridgeGate Will Have Zero Effect On His Political Future

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I’m surprised he didn’t claim that it would HELP him.

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He certainly won’t have a clear, smooth glide to the White House as he may have had before this.

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If Governor Christie can make a prediction, so will I.

Republican primary challengers will use BridgeGate against him.

Rand Paul already did when he said, “I have been in traffic before and I know how angry I am when I’m in traffic and I’ve always wondered, ‘Who did this to me?’”

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“I didn’t do anything” …great summation, Christie.

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He sure is in a hurry to make this go away and in his favor.

What’s the rush, Christie?

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Oh No Guv ? What about things like this then:

"TRENTON — Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the state’s debt on Tuesday night, the latest Wall Street credit-rating agency to sound the alarm this year about New Jersey’s finances.

Following downgrades by Fitch Ratings earlier this month and Standard & Poor’s in April, Moody’s lowered its credit rating for New Jersey by one step, from Aa3 to A1.

The ratings cut, two weeks after Gov. Chris Christie’s administration disclosed an $807 million shortfall in the state budget, was the latest sign that New Jersey’s ailing fiscal condition is taking a turn for the worse."

Or maybe something like this.

"Gov. Chris Christie gutted the “Sandy Bill of Rights” this week, dismissing it as “partisan” even though not a single legislator voted against it.

The point of the legislation was to ensure that people who feel trapped in the recovery process have certain basic rights, such as a clear explanation about the status of their application. Thousands of storm victims still have not received their federal aid and, at the very least, the state owes them transparency.

In his conditional veto, written in typical bureaucratese, Christie suggests the legislation clashed with federal law and added “wasteful administrative burdens.”

Nonsense. The bill included a clear caveat that if any of its provisions conflicted with federal law, federal law would win out. The governor’s office had plenty of opportunity to give input to the Legislature. And its provisions are hardly wasteful."

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He also added that because of Bridgegate he will lose 350 pounds by the end of 2014.

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Keep up the smug attitude, tubby - the truth will eventually be revealed that (a) you’re a vindictive prick, willing to let your constituents suffer in the process, or (b) an incompetent manager who lacks the ability to control his staff. Either way - your national political ambitions are over. Stay in New Jersey - the assholes (including any Democrats) who voted for you deserve your rotund ass - they can keep it.

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And we have a winner!!! Even if the so-called ‘liberal media’ stopped talking about this tomorrow, you can bet your last penny that Rand Paul and, eventually, the Dem candidate will use it most every day. Being cleared of this mess has nothing to do with his political future.

Get used to Trenton 'cuz you’ll be there a while longer.

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Christie Predicts BridgeGate Will Have Zero Effect On His Political Future

What political future?

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He’s right. BridgeGate is just the tip of the iceberg.

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“this will be a footnote by the time any of these decisions are made.”

The footnote is now part of the decision making process…and the time for making those decisions…already started.

So yeah, he is a huge rush to make this disappear. But it won’t. Far too many threads got exposed and are now being pulled making his whole image unravel.

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Exactly so – even without “Bridgegate,” Christie has plenty of baggage. Rachel Maddow pointed out on her show last night that this is the sixth downgrade New Jersey’s credit rating has received since Christie became governor. That doesn’t say much for his fiscal management.

And with his mismanagement of the Hurricane Sandy relief, I doubt he could even win New Jersey’s votes for president.

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He’s sounding pretty cocky! It’s way to premature to be predicting this investigation’s outcome.

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Neither will your health, or lack thereof.

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Is he putting weight back on?! That was the whole reason he was running, to get healthy. I’d say your political future is in jeopardy in more ways than one dude. Did the people of NJ pay for that gastric bypass surgery?

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Spot on! Former Exit 119/Exit 105, now reviling Corbett.

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I don’t think his “political future” means what he thinks it means.

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He’s whistling by the graveyard.
I’ll give it better than 50-50 that he won’t finish his 2nd term.
If he does finish it, he won’t be re-elected nor will he be nominated for POTUS.
People are wise to this tub of guts.

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