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The Tone-Down-the-Rhetoric Talk Didn’t Make It to New Jersey

Chris Christie’s unfortunate way of encouraging people to stop asking him about the presidency: 



”Listen, I threatened to commit suicide, I did, I said, ‘what can I do short of suicide to convince people I’m not running?’” Christie said. “Apparently, I actually have to commit suicide to convince people I’m not running.” 

He continued, “You have to feel in your heart and in your mind that you’re ready for the presidency. And there are lots of people who will run just because the opportunity presents itself.

“That’s not a reason to be president of the United States,” Christie said. “You have to believe in your heart and in your soul and in your mind that you are ready and I don’t believe that about myself right now. So that’s why I said I won’t run and I can’t imagine that changing.”

Christie said it wouldn’t make his wife happy either.

“My wife would kill me,” he said. “There’s certain things that you know just will not be accepted and I think that’s on the list.”

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   02/16/11 16:18

This is getting a bit like that scene in "Dumb and Dumber" with Chris Christie as Mary and people like Ann Coulter and the press as Lloyd:

Lloyd: Hit me with it! Just give it to me straight! I came a long way just to see you, Mary. The least you can do is level with me. What are my chances?
Mary: Not good.
Lloyd: You mean, not good like one out of a hundred?
Mary: I'd say more like one out of a million.
[long pause]
Lloyd: So you're telling me there's a chance... *YEAH!*

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   02/16/11 16:20

What's "unfortunate" about the way Christie said it? He and his wife probably won't be swayed by his rhetoric. I suppose there is the danger that the teachers' union will keep asking him in hopes he follows through.

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   02/16/11 17:15

hokkoda - funniest movie ever!

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   02/16/11 17:24

I can sympathize with Christie. The problem is that so many pols over the years have given wink-and-nod answers to the question such that nobody believes a straightforward 'no'.

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   02/16/11 18:27

The 'opportunity', as Christie calls it - its just that. An opportunity - finite in time. If Christie is at peace with that, fine...but he might want to consider what happened to Mario Cuomo's presidential ambitions, when he let the moment pass.

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   02/16/11 19:49

The Tone-Down-the-Rhetoric Talk Didn’t Make It to the Cartoon of the Day either......

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   02/17/11 16:18

Tone down the Rhetoric!?! If "my wife will kill me if I ..." is beyond the pale, we have become a nation of semantic eunuchs

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