re: #40 Dark_Falcon

With only a 3% showing in Iowa in a poll out today (he needed 4% or higher), I’m pretty sure its off to the kids table for Ron Paul.

Christie is doing just as badly in Iowa, so that can’t be the only factor as he will be in the “adult” debate. He’s also polling just as poorly nationally as Paul.

But CNN wants Christie on stage because he’s a fat loudmouth, and that makes for good TV. Paul, as I’ve said before, is just a smarmy boring douchebag. So nobody really cares that Paul won’t be there. But Christie gets in on the strength of his NH numbers, which are around 8%, his best showing by far in the early states.

Not surprisingly, down in SC, Christie is at 1%. And that’s not because Lindsey has a huge home field advantage. In SC, they probably like Christie’s brash style and identify with his massive girth. But he shook Obama’s hand and said “Thank you, Mr. President”. That’s an act of heresy that the GOP’s staunchest reactionaries (disproportionately clustered in the south) can’t forgive.