CaseyJones
02-07-2014, 10:53 AM
http://theweek.com/article/index/256088/the-gop-establishment-is-dying-mdash-but-libertarian-ideas-could-save-the-party
Chris Christie, the politician who built his rep beating his political opponents into rhetorical pulps, has become a human punching bag.
Indeed, the former political pugilist has been reduced to assassinating the character of a man he appointed to office. And Christie's latest "unequivocal" denial of responsibility for Bridgegate is a desperate guard that will hold only so long as no prosecutor or journalist finds something incriminating in the thousands of outstanding documents.
The general irony of the harasser become the harassed probably isn't amusing Republican Party bigwigs all that much. Christie was the Great White Hope of what's often called the Republican "establishment" or "donor class" — the down-the-line corporate conservatives uninterested in dumping tea on the RNC's front porch.
They're the kind of party bigwigs who helped Mitt Romney rocket ahead early in both donations and critically important endorsements. John Boehner is their spirit animal.
Chris Christie, the politician who built his rep beating his political opponents into rhetorical pulps, has become a human punching bag.
Indeed, the former political pugilist has been reduced to assassinating the character of a man he appointed to office. And Christie's latest "unequivocal" denial of responsibility for Bridgegate is a desperate guard that will hold only so long as no prosecutor or journalist finds something incriminating in the thousands of outstanding documents.
The general irony of the harasser become the harassed probably isn't amusing Republican Party bigwigs all that much. Christie was the Great White Hope of what's often called the Republican "establishment" or "donor class" — the down-the-line corporate conservatives uninterested in dumping tea on the RNC's front porch.
They're the kind of party bigwigs who helped Mitt Romney rocket ahead early in both donations and critically important endorsements. John Boehner is their spirit animal.