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Originally Posted by Old Joysey
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“It’s not an egregious flip-flop,” Mr. Christie said Sunday. He said Ms. Ingraham was asking them who they preferred as a friend, not a musician.
“Jon and Dorothea Bon Jovi are friends of ours….Bruce’s music is still my favorite music. Come on. Are you kidding?”
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And on top of that, Christie hasn't got enough sense to be insulted that Jon AND his music are also backing Hillary!
Meanwhile, as the August 6 Fox News Republican presidential debate approaches, it looks like Christie will make the cut in being among the top ten polling candidates:
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Incorporating the new NBC/WSJ numbers, NBC estimates that the top ten candidates at this time are: - Trump - 19.8 percent
- Walker - 13.2 percent
- Bush - 13 percent
- Paul - 6.4 percent
- Carson - 6.4 percent
- Rubio - 6.2 percent
- Huckabee - 5.8 percent
- Cruz - 5.8 percent
- Christie - 3.2 percent
- Kasich - 3.2 percent
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As Rachel Maddow points out, the problem with getting only three per cent of the vote is that it falls within
so any distance Christie can put between himself and Mr. Kasich would help him enormously.
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NJToday.net: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is reportedly purchasing $250,000 of advertising time on Fox News in an attempt to help secure a place at the network’s August 6 debate. Christie’s ad buy is more evidence that Fox News’ debate — the first of the presidential cycle — is proving lucrative for the network.
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Politico: This week alone, Christie has made four appearances on Fox News, accounting for more than half of the total appearances he’s made on the network since launching his campaign in June...
With national polls determining inclusion in the debate, campaigns have been forced to play for a far wider audience, either through media interviews or attention-grabbing headlines...
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Attention-grabbing and hopefully poll-boosting headlines? Well, that would explain this:
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RawStory: In an interview that aired on...CNN...Jake Tapper reminded the New Jersey governor that he had advised people to "punch bullies in the face" during his first term as governor. “At the national level, who deserves a punch in the face?” Tapper wondered.
“Oh, the national teachers union,” Christie replied without hesitation. “They’re not for education for our children, they’re for greater membership, greater benefits, greater pay for their members...(T)hey are the single most destructive force in public education in America...I’ve been saying that since 2009...but I’m never going to stop saying it because they never change their stripes.”
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He also complained that the teacher's union endorsed Hillary Clinton before she officially announced she was running. If Jon endorsed her before the fact, too, I guess he'd better work on his bob and weave!
Doesn't Christie realize that he sounds more like he's auditioning for the next Godfather movie? Is he that desperate to out-Trump Donald Trump for attention-grabbing headlines, or was CNN so desperate to get some of his advertising dollars, they gave him such an ass-kissing interview?
At least Christie spent this weekend in New Jersey. He joined 60,000 others at the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park. It's a horse race, not a golf tournament, won by Triple Crown winner American Pharaoh. But I thought once you won the Triple Crown, your next career move was, to put it diplomatically, creating FUTURE Triple Crown winners!
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NJ.com: It was one long happy celebration at Monmouth Park for the great American Pharoah's latest victory. At least, that is, until Gov. Chris Christie stepped into the Winner's Circle to present the trophy.
And then, the record crowd of 60,983 booed.
Long. Loud. Sustained.
Maybe he should have hung around Bill Murray.
The cheering resumed as trainer Bob Baffert and owner Ahmed Zayat addressed the crowd and talking about their famous horse. Then Christie's name was mentioned again, and the booing started anew...
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Maybe Christie SHOULD have hung around Bill Murray.
He hung around Richie Sambora, who didn't even rate a mention in the photo caption -- now, THAT'S insulting, LOL!