“Even if [Christie] lost 200 pounds tomorrow, it’s going to be a constant conversation if he runs”
“Clearly he’s trying to have a conversation with the American public about his weight issue, and I think the first person he needs to have that conversation with is himself,” the GOP operative added. “He just needs to understand that if he kind of moves toward maybe running for president, that’s the conversation people are going to have and the first person that needs to be comfortable with that conversation is him.”
Ed Rollins, Huckabee’s general consultant in that race, thought it was a mistake for Christie to continue drawing attention to it.
“He keeps raising the issue,” Rollins said, noting that Huckabee did something similar by publicly celebrating his own weight loss after a doctor told him he had to because of diabetes, thus assuring follow-up stories when he started gaining weight again.
“There’s no doctor [who’s] basically going to say, ‘You’re in perfect health,’” Rollins said. “It doesn’t work when you sit there eating a doughnut … [it’s] just a reminder of how fat you are.”
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Obama’s chiseled pectorals have set the standard for all future presidents, eh?
Jeddite on February 8, 2013 at 2:44 PM
They might want to ask Jon Corzine about that. Corzine ran ads specifically referring to Christie’s weight, and he conspicuously participated in marathons and other fitness events to contrast his fitness with Christie’s girth. Didn’t help.
rockmom on February 8, 2013 at 2:45 PM
Christie is not going to lose weight, and he is not going to run for president.
Pork-Chop on February 8, 2013 at 2:45 PM
The faith or lack thereof of a candidate, I can see that being a factor. Weight? Not so much. Sure, it’s not a good thing and certainly brings to mind concerns about life expectancy and health issues, but that’s really between Christie and the potential voters. Clearly New Jersey didn’t seem to have a problem with his weight as a candidate for governor.
But, perhaps to hedge, if he does seek and get the nomination for ’16, he might want to make sure he’s got one heck of a good running mate…
Logus on February 8, 2013 at 2:45 PM
As with McCain’s age, no one on the Left will admit to having a problem with Christie’s weight unless and until he wins the Republican nomination. Then, the conversation will shift to whether this country should really elect a morbidly obese person after all the progress and effort Michelle Obama made with her anti-childhood obesity campaign. I mean, the president is supposed to be a role model For The Children, right? And what kind of message does this send to the children?
Also, expect this from the Leftist humorists: “The GOP wants to take us back to the days of Howard Taft, when women couldn’t vote, Jim Crow laws oppressed blacks, and big, dirty industries ran roughshod over workers’ rights. I mean, look, they even nominated a guy who looks like Taft! All he’s missing is the ‘stache!”
JimLennon on February 8, 2013 at 2:49 PM
Is he
blackthin enough?rhombus on February 8, 2013 at 2:49 PM
Did the blood clot cause the fall that caused the concussion, or did the fall cause the concussion which led to bed rest that caused the blood clot?
forest on February 8, 2013 at 2:50 PM
As president he’d have a lot more time to work out and play golf… or so I’ve seen.
rhombus on February 8, 2013 at 2:52 PM
Yes, because the Left doesn’t want to talk about their ruinous economic policies that have kept us basically in recession for the past four years, with four more to come.
rbj on February 8, 2013 at 2:53 PM
It’s not his fat-ti-tude that going to trip him up….
JFKY on February 8, 2013 at 2:54 PM
His body; his business. Regardless, I wouldn’t vote for him.
Blake on February 8, 2013 at 2:55 PM
I like that you made a pun on fat and attitude. Very clever.
vegconservative on February 8, 2013 at 2:56 PM
Speaking of authoritarian statist RINO’s, a message to Rush Limbaugh about his ongoing rant against low-info voters: the low-info voter category also includes all the Republicans who thought Romney was a “conservative”, small-gov 2nd amendment supporter, thanks to Rove-Republicans who deliberately misinformed low-info Republicans and made a mockery of the 2012 election.
FloatingRock on February 8, 2013 at 2:56 PM
After what Christie did to screw Romney last year, I’m supposed to somehow work up some sympathy or outrage over how unfair it will be when the media goes after him for being a big fatass?
Sorry, but no dice.
And even if I didn’t think Christie was a contemptible, opportunistic, backstabbing RINO, I lost about 85 pounds five years ago, and I’ve kept it off…so it can be done. Christie just chooses not to. Sympathy fail #2.
DRayRaven on February 8, 2013 at 2:58 PM
http://goo.gl/kOS6Z
Blake on February 8, 2013 at 2:58 PM
PUMICE, you’re back from the Johnson Inaugral Ball, at last!
JFKY on February 8, 2013 at 2:59 PM
Heck, Rollins can’t even get riding off into the sunset right.
Dusty on February 8, 2013 at 3:00 PM
This is what the media focuses on. Shiny objects.
If anyone wonders why the majority of the population are drooling morons, this is example #1.
kim roy on February 8, 2013 at 3:00 PM
ABSOLUTELY TRUE!
The GOP went out and found the one other man (besides Obama) in this entire nation to have a socialist healthcare system named after him … and they nominated him!
And they wondered why people considered them fools?
HondaV65 on February 8, 2013 at 3:02 PM
The current interest in Christie by, well, everyone, serves one purpose….to ensure he doesn’t run for POTUS in 2016. And thats all.
What else is the intent of a “former White House physician” saying Christie will probably die in office? Thats a darn accurate diagnosis, isn’t it?
“I can tell by your weight that you will die between 2017 and 2021″.
Awesome.
Anyone on the conservative side who looks like they could be a contender will be utterly Palinized.
BobMbx on February 8, 2013 at 3:02 PM
Well it would help him if he WAS more Palin-”ized.”
JFKY on February 8, 2013 at 3:04 PM
Hi Obama voter! No one had any illusion that Romney was a conservative. But you continue to delude yourself that voting for Obama was some kind of great strategy. You don’t need to lie to us or yourself any more.
Are you enjoying the gun grab? How about the possibility of increased background checks? Having your doctor become a spy for the government?
Are you enjoying the Benghazi debacle? You happy that Obama couldn’t be bothered?
You must be enjoying all this – you voted for it!
kim roy on February 8, 2013 at 3:07 PM
Just answer two questions:
1) Did you REALLY vote for Obama?
2) If you did, exactly on what bais do you complain?
JFKY on February 8, 2013 at 3:07 PM
Because he/she’s a moron?
Yep. Voted for Obama and donated to Elizabeth Warren’s campaign. Was very proud of both and told us about it a number of times like it was some kind of badge of honor to be an idiot.
kim roy on February 8, 2013 at 3:09 PM
If fatboi lost 500 POUNDS – he’d still be fat … and it would STILL be an issue!
If Christy were to lose any SIGNIFICANT portion of his bodyfat – the planet would orbitally destabilize and we’d go careening into the Sun.
HondaV65 on February 8, 2013 at 3:24 PM
Did you vote for Obama?
JFKY on February 8, 2013 at 3:26 PM
On the basis that the choice to Obama was simply Obama lite and that choice WOULD NOT have put this nation on the correct path to fiscal sanity.
We’re SCREWED dude – and there is NOTHING that is going to save us – but we CAN save the conservative cause by keeping our hands off the machinery of government so that when Obama crashes it – he gets the total blame along with the Dims.
HondaV65 on February 8, 2013 at 3:26 PM
Yes, now tell me I have no right to complain and I should shut my mouth and quit bothering you.
And watch me laugh in your face!
HondaV65 on February 8, 2013 at 3:28 PM
The problem is his waste, not his waist.
Schadenfreude on February 8, 2013 at 3:29 PM
HondaV65 on February 8, 2013 at 3:28 PM
You, nor anyone US American, legal that is, should never be restricted in any way. All your rights s/b intact.
May Obama destroy all who brung/kept him, utterly. You and yours deserve NO less.
He has just started.
Schadenfreude on February 8, 2013 at 3:30 PM
Putting aside any issues around ideology or philosophy or qualifications, in our image driven society that worships physical beauty, I don’t think there is any way that Christie could win the Presidency.
I don’t think a short man (less than 5′ 10″) could win, or a fat man, or someone with any kind of disfigurement or deformity can win.
Monkeytoe on February 8, 2013 at 3:32 PM
This w/b utterly unfair because the Rs are contributing a lot to the US’s demise, just under different guises/priorities.
Schadenfreude on February 8, 2013 at 3:32 PM
You are one of the biggest f-ing morons I’ve had the displeasure to come across. You make liberals look smart in comparison.
The “conservative cause” could have been saved with Romney. It it its own entity and only lives by the people who maintain it, not a politician. If you had a clue you’d know this.
You are too moronic to understand all the work that is going to have to be done to fix the mess that Obama leaves, some of which WOULD NEVER OCCUR if Romney won. Would you rather be at a deficit of -20 or -600?
But no. That’s too practical for a swashbuckler like you. Do yourself and everyone else a favor – come out of the closet and join the Democratic party and get it over with.
kim roy on February 8, 2013 at 3:34 PM
Kim Roy and KFKY are low-info Republicans who believed all the propaganda about Romney being a “conservative” rather than a statist like Obama.
FloatingRock on February 8, 2013 at 3:34 PM
I called those two above low-info Republicans but more likely they are cotton-conservatives.
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/02/05/karl-rove-and-the-cotton-conse/print
FloatingRock on February 8, 2013 at 3:38 PM
Yeah, you keep trying to hide your stupidity under that lie.
Please show where I ever said or even indicated Romney was conservative. Go on. I’ll wait. You’re being called on your lie.
kim roy on February 8, 2013 at 3:38 PM
Ah, more unnamed GOP operatives talking to Politico. What a surprise. /
His weight will be an issue because the Left and the media (but I repeat myself) will make it one. That’s the bottom line. He should slim down, but it’s good to joke about it so he can disarm the criticism somewhat.
changer1701 on February 8, 2013 at 3:46 PM
PUMICE, had did the Johnson Inaugaration go? Did you get near the front of the madding crowd to watch him pass by?
And Honda, you ARE a knucklehead…as IF “but we CAN save the conservative cause by keeping our hands off the machinery of government so that when Obama crashes it” is going to make the crash any less horrific…to carry yur analogy out, let’s not ahve any crash tenders at the airports, because we want the crash to be as bad as possible.
Thank you for your LENINIST “solution”….
JFKY on February 8, 2013 at 3:52 PM
For some reason when Mike Huckabee was running no one worried about his former weight and his loss of it. Maybe it was that he lost it before he enter national politics and not just a governor so no one can remember. Huck was just like Christie in size when he was Governor of Arkansas
tjexcite on February 8, 2013 at 4:04 PM
If Christie was a Democrat (and probably will be in the next 2 years) no one would be discussing his weight.
albill on February 8, 2013 at 4:29 PM
William H. Taft weighed 335 as President and later served on the Supreme Court.
How does Christie compare to that?
countrybumpkin on February 8, 2013 at 5:58 PM