Attention Democrats: Chris Christie Isn't Your New Best Friend →

The truth is, he isn’t your friend, nor is he the Republican messiah. To the latter point, I’m beginning to doubt that he’ll have any chance whatsoever of becoming the Republican nominee for president in 2016, with or without crossover support from Democrats.

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He happens to be staunchly anti-choice on reproductive rights. He’s historically opposed to gun control laws, including one that would’ve restricted gun purchases to one-per-month. Evidently Christie thinks Americans should be able to purchase multiple guns every several weeks. And this morning on the Today show, Christie took the NRA position: he dodged gun control entirely and blamed video games and mental health issues instead, just like Wayne LaPierre did in his through-the-looking-glass press conference following Sandy Hook. How mavericky of Christie to basically rubber-stamp LaPierre. He’s also certifiably insane when it comes to economic and fiscal policy, vetoing tax hikes on millionaires while cutting infrastructure and education spending. He’s never met a supply-side proposal he didn’t like, except when it comes to transporting him to soccer games. Then it’s spend, spend, spend.

In terms of his public style, the same personality that gives us honest press conferences like last week, as well as his unapologetic kudos for the president back in October, also gives us snippy goombah reactions to the press and the public at large, behavior that makes George W. Bush’s more petulant outbursts seem statesmanlike (links via Charles Pierce).

Relevant excerpts from a very good essay about Chris Christie and his faux-broad appeal.

Today in most sexist shit I ever heard: Fox News shithead says news women are picked out of "Victoria's Secret Catalog" →

During conservative idiot, Brian Kilmeade’s radio show, a guest called in and complimented Alisyn Camerota, the Fox News anchor who joins Kilmeade on his radio program and typically fills in for “Fox & Friends” host Gretchen Carlson.

“Well you and all the women of Fox, I don’t know who was the scout that got you guys, but they rock,” the guest said.

“It was Brian,” Camerota joked. “But thank you very much, that’s very sweet.”

Kilmeade, whose sexist joke once caused his female co-host to walk off the set of Fox News’ morning show, offered a different explanation. He said, “It was actually, we go into the Victoria’s Secret catalog and we said, ‘Can any of these people talk?’ And they all could and they all went to college.”

Incidentally, flipping through that catalog is the only outlet for Kilmeade to get off.

I wouldn’t care if a fetus were a human or had “personhood”

It doesn’t, but if it did, it wouldn’t matter. You’re not required by any law to keep another creature alive using your organs. The law can’t dictate that you breastfeed instead of use formula, it can’t demand you donate a kidney even if you’re a match and the person who needs it is a child who will die and the law can’t keep you pregnant against your will.

And it’s not immoral either, not that it would matter if it were since laws aren’t designed on the basis of morality.

"Rape is worse than abortion"

The Affordable Care Act and Governor Romney's Plan: A Comparison →

Check out this interactive map that lets you compare candidates healthcare plan results.