Less Bully, More Pulpit
By MAUREEN DOWD, NYT
WASHINGTON — As far as inappropriate and nasty career moves go, Miley Cyrus has Chris Christie beat.
She did a raunchy twerk, while he was a rude twerp.
But Christie’s latest flash of a mean streak served as a reminder after a long period of glowing post-Sandy publicity for “The Boss,” as the New Jersey governor was hailed on the cover of Time, giving him the ultimate compliment of sharing a nickname with his idol.
Republicans who fear that their party has been hijacked by crazies, nihilists, conspiracy theorists and misogynists are turning their lonely eyes to Christie for 2016, believing him to be the not-as-heavy heavyweight who can save the party and fend off the Clinton restoration.
As Politico reported, the former prosecutor made his case to Republican leaders at the party’s summer meeting in Boston for how to win in 2016, presumably with a Jersey boy at the helm.
(More here.)
WASHINGTON — As far as inappropriate and nasty career moves go, Miley Cyrus has Chris Christie beat.
She did a raunchy twerk, while he was a rude twerp.
But Christie’s latest flash of a mean streak served as a reminder after a long period of glowing post-Sandy publicity for “The Boss,” as the New Jersey governor was hailed on the cover of Time, giving him the ultimate compliment of sharing a nickname with his idol.
Republicans who fear that their party has been hijacked by crazies, nihilists, conspiracy theorists and misogynists are turning their lonely eyes to Christie for 2016, believing him to be the not-as-heavy heavyweight who can save the party and fend off the Clinton restoration.
As Politico reported, the former prosecutor made his case to Republican leaders at the party’s summer meeting in Boston for how to win in 2016, presumably with a Jersey boy at the helm.
(More here.)
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