Chris Christie's endorsement of Donald Trump definitely throws a monkey wrench into the engine of the GOP clown car — but not for the reasons you might automatically think.
No, he's not going to deliver New Jersey, where he is loathed. He's not going to be on the
While we cats are appalled that a man who, in the past, called the right wing's sharia-law freakout "crap" could now be, um, throwing his weight behind a guy who wants to ban all Muslims from America, we're savoring the fact that Christie just stole the show from Baby Marco Rubio.
With his debate performance last night, Baby Marco was set to totally rule earned media today.
Instead, Trump holds this bombshell news conference and, ahem, rolls out Christie. In the old days, the typesetters in the bowels of newspaper press rooms would be throwing out the letter blocks and starting all over. Today, the web page headlines got changed in an instant — and the Rubio folks, flying from Texas to Oklahoma when the news broke, had to step off the plane and instantly react. The candidate put a brave face on it, but all in all, it's a bad day for Baby Marco.
In short, a masterful PR move by The Donald. We hope the Clinton folks are paying attention to all this, because although we're confident a GOP ticket headed by Trump would go down in flames, he will be a slippery opponent. In fact, we have a suggestion: Put James Carville in charge of the Department of Trump. We cats PURR.
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