Multiply 365 Day 275 - Political clown cars

I guess the big news today, at least politically speaking, is that Governor Chris Christie has opted to not run for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. There is much hand wringing over why he would opt not to run. Allow me to make this relatively simple for those of the media persuasion who are spending time trying to figure out why he, or why he wouldn't run.

The Republican field basically stinks. It is a clown car of embarrassment. This is a party that right now is running around, chasing the flavor of the month, only to find out a week later that the flavor of the month is a bigger assclown than the last one. To be sharing a stage with them is akin to sitting in a room of sewage treatment workers, sure you may enter the room all nice and clean, but in the end you still come out smelling like shit. Chris Christie, I think, is smarter than that. Far better to let this sorry lot of hopefuls piss away what little respectability they have this year, while he sits back and waits for four years where he has the opportunity to run minus the baggage of this field and against a Democratic nominee that is not an incumbent.

And who can blame him? Imagine for a moment that you are considering a run as a governor of a sizable state and instead of running on your record and your achievements, instead you find yourself answering questions about Michele Bachmann's counseling clinic that tells homosexuals that they can “pray the gay away”, or being asked to offer your opinion on Governor Perry's Niggerhead hunting camp, or sitting in a debate while a roomful of people boo a gay serviceman and nobody on the stage offering even the slightest amount of praise for the harm that serviceman puts himself in daily, just so they can have the right to have that debate. The prospect of this would make any sane person turn tail and run from this nonsense. Sure, there is lots of minutae that goes into political campaigns, and sound bites made up of relatively nonsensical issues, but this particular field has turned stupidity into an almost Olympic sport.

So in the end, it makes almost perfect sense to me for Governor Christie not to get into this race.