Chris-Crossed, I Know You Are but What Am I Dept. 0
Alfred P. Doblin marvels as Chris Christie unleashes his inner bully. A snippet:
Of course, Christie knows that, and that is why he is resorting to schoolyard antics. “And so are you” is not exactly Madison or Jefferson, but when you are 10 or 12, it can pretty much end the conversation. The governor is appealing to the lowest common denominator. The problem with this strategy is that 12-year-old boys cannot vote in a Republican primary.
There was a time when Chris Christie was a rising star, the tell-it-like-it-is public official. I bought that line. If that was ever authentic, I can’t say now, but the governor has chosen to abandon the people of New Jersey and chosen to abandon any pretext of being “the adult in the room.”