Now that the GOP's frantic flirtation with Chris Christie for President has reached a fever pitch, the issue of the Governor's girth has raised its ample profile in Pundit World.
In fact, it's come full circle — morphing from Gene Robinson in The Washington Post, who questioned Christie's physical fitness for the Oval Office, to Frank Bruni in The New York Times, who insists that such matters should be, um, off the table.
We cats don't know whether Chris Christie will join the Republican clown college for 2012. We do know, however, that a debate on whether an obese person can be President would never be happening if Christie's first name were Christine. Because a fat Christine Christie would never have been elected Governor in the first place.
It's a sorry fact of life that while fat people are not taken very seriously in our culture, fat women have it a lot harder than fat men. Can you think of a zaftig woman who's ever wielded real political power? We can't. Chris Christie may be a chub, but at least he's a chub with 9 million constituents and 15 electoral votes.
So, Governor Christie should count himself lucky. Since he's a man, he's getting off pretty easily. (But not with us cats. No Republican escapes ridicule from us.)
UPDATE, October 4: Ruth Marcus has parroted us practically verbatim today. We cats just want to say we said it first.
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