HUDSON, N.H. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says his 2013 race against a female opponent has helped prepare him for a potential campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The likely Republican presidential contender was asked during a town hall event in New Hampshire Monday evening why he believed he would be well-suited to run against the favorite for the Democratic nomination if he chooses to run and wins his party’s nomination.
Among his reasons, Christie cited his commanding victory over Democrat Barbara Buono during his re-election campaign.
“Everybody thought, ‘Oh no, no … look at this … this is going to be bad. Christie’s gonna lose his cool. This woman’s yelling at him all the time. He’s going to yell back at her. It’s going to ugly really fast and he’s going to lose,'” Christie recalled.
“I think that experience of campaigning under that kind of stress, in that atmosphere, against that type of opponent, prepares you extraordinarily well to be able to run against Secretary Clinton, if that’s what I chose to do,” he said.
Christie, who has been working to move past the George Washington Bridge scandal, also suggested that he’d been held to a different standard that Clinton, who has come under scrutiny for using a private email server when she was secretary of state. He said that, as a Republican, he believes he would have faced far greater scrutiny had he done the same thing.
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I really can’t believe he went there. That and yesterday’s comment about New Jersey wanting to keep him as governor display some absurd balance of delusion and desperation.
What? Christie ran against a WOMAN? And won?
WOW!!!
does he have trouble not being a dick?
Running? Really? Maybe a fast waddle, but running? Never gonna happen.
And there Came to pass a Moment
From which thereafter, to the end of Time
There was No longer a Point in Posting Comments online on ‘what stupid shit Sarah just said’.
And yay verily I say onto you,
Did I and others amongst the Unbraindead realize that Moment had arrived
And did thereupon Cease to post on such things
And it was good.
And thus did the Moment of Sarah beget
Other such moments, including
The Moment of Herman,
The Moment of Goodhair,
The Moment of Santorum,
The Moment of the Mitts 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0,
The Moment of Huckabee,
The Moment of Huckesomethingelse,
And so on and so forth
And it was all good.
And now are we met with such a Moment, being
The Moment of deep-fried chrispy Chris Christie,
Wherefrom it is painfully clear that
There is No longer any Point in posting a comment online about ‘what bullcrap that arrogant fat bastard cheap shakedown artist prick bully Christie just said’.
And it was good.