“Politics make strange bedfellows.” I don’t know who said that first, but it is a truthful statement made many years ago by an astute political observer. In the case of Chris Christie’s endorsement of Donald Trump yesterday, Trump has taken on a new political bedfellow. Christie has one value he can add to the Trump campaign and that is as an attack dog to sick on Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. Christie proved he could hit Rubio and stagger his campaign, even though it cost Christie his own campaign by attacking the Establishment’s Golden Boy. Whether or not Christie’s endorsement and his supporters will be as useful as Sarah Palin’s was. is still to be seen. It did put Trump back in the news cycle, when Rubio seemed to be stealing the media lime light after his aggressive attacks against Trump in their last debate.
Sarah Palin’s endorsement helped Trump with the evangelical voters and Sarah lovers , but unfortunately she was once again discredited by the Lame Stream Media, and has since backed away from media attention. Christie’s value to Trump is yet to be seen, but so far his timing was perfect,to take attention away from Rubio during his big day on the networks. Christie has the liberty now to say anything he wants to about Trump’s opponents. He might make a good attack dog for Trump, as long as Trump feeds and pets him once and a while, and lets him get his face in the camera to maintain his national profile.
As a presidential candidate I would never receive Christie’s endorsement, but unlike Trump I would never accept it if it was offered. Christie’s endorsement of Trump makes me pause, as I consider Trump’s like- ability quotient. His ” Bully Pulpit” was entertaining and amusing, but with Christie’s endorsement it may turn into a blood match against Rubio and Cruz. I personally wouldn’t mind seeing Rubio and Cruz humiliated by Trump or Christie, and have the fight be a true disaster for the Republican Party.
My advice to Donald Trump is, let Christie bark as loud and ferociously as he can at Rubio and Cruz, and when he’s done barking and ripping them apart, pat him on his head, give him a bone, and get him a job in a junk yard.
L.A. Steel
Independent Presidential Write In Candidate 2016
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