By Snubbing Chris Christie at CPAC, the GOP Proves They've Gone Fringe

By Snubbing Chris Christie at CPAC, the GOP Proves They’ve Gone Fringe

By: Sarah JonesFeb. 21st, 2013more from Sarah Jones

CPAC is suggesting that they snubbed Chris Christie this year. He is not “invited” to the cray-cray. That’s what he gets for helping his constituents by dealing with the President.

Another way of looking at this is that only Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) is smart enough to avoid addressing CPAC this year. He’s already proven that he’s able to strategize for the long term and knows the value of being seen working with the President and Democrats.

The rest of the clowns are piling into the shrinking GOP tent, including electoral losers Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney. Of course, neither of them have a thing to lose; they’ve already lost.

For some reason, NBC suggests that this means CPAC is mainstream. While I get how they got there (CPAC used to be far right of the party, anti-establishment), I think what it really means is that the entire Republican Party has gone fringe. They just don’t know it yet.

Let’s recap: Republicans, including the headliners at CPAC, are all polling poorly and have lost national elections precisely because of their positions. CPAC is the driver of those losing positions (wrong on immigration, wrong on gay rights, wrong on women’s rights, wrong on taxing the rich, etc).

CPAC is also a happy home for white supremacists and the NRA while banning gay Republicans like GOProud. If you were planning to run for President in 2016 and thought you might like to actually win, would you want to be seen pallin’ around with plummeting poll contagion? Would you want your picture taken with Mitt 47% Cayman Romney or Sarah Death Panels Palin?

CPAC is snubbing the Republican with the highest approval ratings (Chris Christie), while cozying up to already-losts and never-will-bes. So while CPAC may be establishment Republican now, it’s not mainstream. And that’s because the Republican Party is no longer mainstream.

The Tea Party has driven the Republican Party off of the cliff of reality and national electability. Republican “stars” Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and Paul Ryan will all be hawking their wares at CPAC (anyone want to buy a water bottle?).

Anyone seen their polling numbers lately? They have to go to CPAC. A section of the conservative fringe is all they have.

Christie had his fun playing the raging Obama hater last year at CPAC. But it’s time to get serious about winning a national election, and perhaps the governor distinguishes himself from his brethren via his ability to read a poll sans skewing.

Chris Christie is the only Republican who stands a chance in 2016 and he’s not going to ruin that by getting smeared with CPAC stench. Maybe they snubbed him, maybe it was mutual. No matter what, not appearing at CPAC will only help the Governor, who seems to have realized that appeasing crazy doesn’t feel as great as actually winning.

By Snubbing Chris Christie at CPAC, the GOP Proves They’ve Gone Fringe was written by Sarah Jones for PoliticusUSA.

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19 Responses to By Snubbing Chris Christie at CPAC, the GOP Proves They’ve Gone Fringe

Tom

Feb. 21st, 2013 at 5:17 pm

This isn’t gonna end well. I can’t wait.
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- cwolf
  
  Feb. 21st, 2013 at 5:32 pm
  
  Uh huh… can not end well.
  This trainwreck has to go through some Iowa straw poll followed in early 2016 by the Great Teatastic South Carolina Primary erection.
  Rove will be lucky if he can keep crazies in pointy white hoods off his ballot.
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Shiva(Moderator)

Feb. 21st, 2013 at 5:33 pm

Palin will hint she is going to save the party, get millions from the uneducated and then go right back to Alaska to fake having another kid.

The GOP will put everything on their platform that got them beat in 2012. Make no mistake about it
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- djchefron(Moderator)
  
  Feb. 21st, 2013 at 5:38 pm
  
  Why?Oh gawd why did you go there lol
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- AlaskaCodPiece
  
  Mar. 3rd, 2013 at 4:23 pm
  
  Shiva, $creech Palin never shows her face in Alaska nor speaks to anyone there and hasn’t for years. (Although a recent sighting was made at the Iron Dog snow machine race where $he hid in a car with her drop out, do nothing daughters. Todd aka THe Pimp placed 5th.)
  
  It appears that $he now calls Arizona home.
  
  Interestingly, NO media in Alaska ever report on $arah or her clan, except for an occasional pick up story from elsewhere. Palin is reviled in Alaska and considered an embarrassment.
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AFM

Feb. 21st, 2013 at 5:41 pm

Come on people they all want to party together just like in the titanic before it sank. Byyyyyyyyy Byeeeeeeeeeeee. We’re sinking.
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- PSzymeczek
  
  Feb. 22nd, 2013 at 11:28 am
  
  Or the Hindenburg before it encountered static electricity.
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John Taylor

Feb. 21st, 2013 at 5:59 pm

The repubs are going to be utterly devastated in 2014. All the gerrymandering isn’t going to help them out of the box they’ve built around themselves. After losing big time in 2014, can you imagine the platform fight they’ll have before the 2016 convention? There is a small chance that reality will creep in to the real conservatives in the party and maybe they’ll escape complete destruction, but it doesn’t look likely. It looks like we’re headed toward a three party system with two canceling each other out in any national election. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch…
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Kevin

Feb. 21st, 2013 at 6:13 pm

These folks go to this annual CPAC event and vent the same bullshit about the Democrats, Obama and the Mainstream Media every year,to the same people. It’s like the buddy you grew up with who is sitting in a Bar, in the same chair, telling the same dreams, 20 years since the last time you saw him. The NRA, White Nationalist, and a host of other fringe right wing groups will be present. They will all express there hatred to Government, or anything that represents liberalism. However, When it’s all said and done they all leave with this emotional high, only to be smashed back to reality that they are losing at there backwards agenda. It’s now 20 years later.
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Nefer

Feb. 21st, 2013 at 6:51 pm

“…I think what it really means is that the entire Republican Party has gone fringe. They just don’t know it yet.”

Is this like when you cut off a chicken’s head and it runs around the yard for awhile? It’s dead, it just doesn’t know it yet?

I guess this analogy only works if the chicken’s head lies squawking on the ground, not realizing nobody is listening, especially the chicken’s body, still running headless (and brainless) around the yard.
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TigerLily

Feb. 21st, 2013 at 7:45 pm

Please..proceed…GOP..with your INSANITY!
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Sammy

Feb. 21st, 2013 at 9:40 pm

“NBC suggests that this means CPAC is mainstream.”

This is because NBC are just a bunch of whores who give repugs a feee ride.
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elliot J. stamler

Feb. 22nd, 2013 at 10:45 am

A man, or woman, is judged (often) by the company he keeps–or does not keep. Gov. Christie who is a very shrewd guy is well aware that attending this hate-fest will be inimical to any presidential ambitions he has down the road and much more immediately to his reelection campaign this year in NJ. As to the other bunch of masochists known as gay conservative Republicans, putting aside the question of why any sane person would want to attend a confab of people who hate their very guts, they richly deserve the contempt of everybody, conservatives, liberals, Republicans, Democrats for their stupidity, blindness, and lack of rational thought. They can be likened to a bunch of Jews angry that they won’t be admitted to a convention of nazis.
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- Shiva(Moderator)
  
  Feb. 22nd, 2013 at 10:55 am
  
  Damm you got that right. Its the “thank you sir may I have another” syndrome
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djchefron(Moderator)

Feb. 22nd, 2013 at 11:46 am

I dont know much the politics will change come 2016 but this might cost Crisco a few points.

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Cc

Feb. 22nd, 2013 at 12:36 pm

My trust for anything Republican is reeeeally low after Bush and his cronies. And especially now with all the crazies that have come out of the woodwork and have aligned with the Repub Party.

Much of what Christie has done and said seems intelligent and ‘for the people’ but I can’t shake that once in the White House it’s business as usual.
A Repub is a Repub – period.
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Montana

Feb. 22nd, 2013 at 12:38 pm

This reminds me of the former Soviet Union where, time and time again, the party would roll out the same LOSERs of the past and try to force them down the people’s throat, in this case the GOP. I mean come on, the only two that can make a decent run for the white house is Chris “krispy kreme” Christie who loathes CPAC, and CPAC frontrunner “W” brother Jeb Bush.

I like his name implies Chris “krispy kreme” Christie, until he get his weight down and stops going to the Hospital (like on July 28, 2011) he will be just a noise, he is the only one that can win, but CPAC apparently does want to win. Jeb Bush, of course just has the problem that he was in charge of the Florida when his brother “W” got in the first time (what a joke) and where he passed the crazy “stand your ground” law and the remaining GOP party tried to stop US Citizens from voting by giving them long lines this last Presidential election , but hey, its Florida, its like a third world country down there.
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Anne

Feb. 23rd, 2013 at 12:48 am

I firmly believe that the CPAC’s snub of Chris Christie, who shares most of their political views, is linked to his praising of President Obama last October for quickly making resources available to him for dealing with the Hurricane Sandy aftermath in New Jersey. It reminds me of how quick the GOP was to disown former Florida governor Charlie Crist because of his friendliness to President Obama. They are so inflexible and stuck on stupid that they have lost the kind of humanity which acknowledges that political difference don’t have to and shouldn’t preclude basic human decency and empathy.
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AlaskaCodPiece

Mar. 3rd, 2013 at 4:17 pm

For months the Republican party has been licking its self inflicted wounds and proclaiming ‘big changes for the future.’

So CPAC invites Gingrich, Santorum, Romney and the half term, half wit $arah Paylin as its lead speakers??

Back to the future!
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