New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had been banking on a strong performance in New Hampshire to jump-start his sinking Presidential hopes; instead, he finished with 7.4% of the vote and announced this morning that he was dropping out of the GOP race for President.
Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina performed even worse than Christie in New Hampshire, netting a meager 4.1% of the vote, and this afternoon she also announced her withdrawal from the Presidential race.
Fun fact: If you combine their vote totals, Christie and Fiorina finished with 11.5% of the total vote in New Hampshire. That’s not good, but it’s still better than the 10.6% that fifth-place finisher Marco “Roboto” Rubio received.
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I never understood why Christie thought he was qualified to be president.
As for Fiorina, she made a goddamn ass of herself on the Planned Parenthood videos and never recovered.
…cause the only thing bigger than his ass is his ego….
Ouch. Chris Hayes had an apt epitaph, something along the lines of "Christie may have campaigned for President, not so much because he had a real shot at winning, but because he was looking for an escape route from the Garden State," where his popularity after Bridgegate, and his plummeted to 31%.
Now Christie has to go back to Jersey, where he is almost universally hated. However, Chris Hayes also accidentally mocked Bernie Sanders, when he called him "Bernie Sandwiches". Must have been a long night.
The N.Y. Times' obituary on Fiorina's candidacy was not kind. They mentioned her controversial tenure at H.P., her 15 minutes of Warholian fame at the grown up table debate which she used to spread her outrageous claims about the bogus P.P. video, the fact that after the San Bernadino and Paris attacks, voters started looking for someone with more cred on national security, and that her number never really stayed up.
They didn't quite treat her like Jim Gilmore …… but almost.
Like Gilmore but with a permanent resting bitch face. What a dog professionally and personally. I bet HP is sorry for every day that she ran it into the ground.
Christie probably saved the Republican Party of the future by unmasking Rubio and showing him to be a shallow Valley Girl. The party can now move forward without the baggage of Rubio being the next big thing. Rubio belongs to the dustbins of history like Palin. The national psyche would splinter having to be led by an empty suit with NASCAR like stickers on his suits for all the corporations that own and control him. What a clueless clod Moldy. Another loser in the Republican Party. I really hated the way he lied about Obama.
Rubio and Dan Quayle have a lot in common. I recall how Garry Trudeau characterized Quayle as a talking feather in the "Doonesbury" comic strip.
a classic "empty suit", for sure…
Seriously,, the real DanQuayle was much more substantive than Rubio
was the "feather" characterization unjustified?
J. Danforth was no John Kennedy…
Ah, what a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind is being very wasteful, how true that is.
More at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle