Posted on 07/03/2013 6:43:41 PM PDT by drewh
According to a new book about last year’s presidential election, Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) threatened to drop the infamous “f-bomb” on live television during the 2012 Republican National Convention.
The revelation comes as part of a conversation with the governor included in Washington Post campaign correspondent Dan Balz‘s new book Collision 2012. CBS News reports that the book, which hits shelves on August 6th, contains new insight on the strong GOP pressure for Christie to join the party’s primary race in 2011 as well as the drama that went down when a video almost didn’t run before the governor’s RNC speech.
According to Balz’s conversations with Christie, former President George W. Bush and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were among the many powerful Republicans who contacted the New Jersey governor and requested that he throw his hat into the primary ring during the summer of 2011. Former first ladies Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush also reportedly pressured the governor, to no avail.
Balz also reveals that Christie’s potential as a VP candidate for the Romney ticket fell through when he declined to resign his governorship to avoid a Securities and Exchange Commission regulation that would have prevented the ticket from accepting donations from big banks located in the state of a candidate.
But one of the more salacious details about Christie’s involvement in the 2012 election season involves tense moments from shortly before his keynote address at the 2012 GOP convention. CBS reports:
[W]hen organizers told Christie that they were scrapping a three-minute introduction video before his speech due to time constraints, the governor insisted they reconsider. When they pushed back, according to Balz, Christie told a member of the production team “to ask the director if he had ever heard anyone say ‘f***’ on live television, because that’s what he was about to do if the video didn’t run.”
After another sharp exchange, Christie said he wouldn’t deliver the speech if the video didn’t run. Romney’s convention team leader, Russ Schriefer, intervened, instructing the director to play the video.
“F” word= “Failure”?
Precisely why open primary states’ results shouldn’t be counted at all toward the GOP nomination.
Hello everybody, I am so F’ng hungary, I could eat a F’ng horse.
Bring me my food trough water.
Thank you for giving us out here in Warren Co. N.J. some wiggle room. With christie’s fat a$$ here there ain’t much room left to wiggle.
That would be “F” as in Fat, correct?
Frankly, I had a few choice words when he threw the election to Obama with a hug.
-PJ
You are probably right.
CC can sit on it.
Tokyo is working to reduce the temp in Hell below freezing?
How trustworthy is Dan Balz, chief correspondent for WaPo? I’m not sure he is (very trustworthy).....people keep this in mind when reading these allegations.
F-Bomb—”F” as in “Fat?” /S
By the way, I’ve seen Christie at a town meeting in NJ. The video played at the convention is played before all of his appearances.
Although he is known for getting into fights with audience members, his staff very aggressively fills his town hall appearances with supporters and pushes everyone to show up early so there is little chance of opponents getting in.
He has an impressive personality which makes you forget his obesity after a while. I think I’ve come to learn he is a little full of it, and he does not put even his own state GOP ahead of his personal interests. Maybe most politicians are like that.
Move west and get out while you can. BTW, west doesn't mean on the other side of the Delaware River. West is on the other side of the Susquehanna River. PA should cede eastern portions of the state to NJ. Maybe giving Philadelphia to NJ will stop the bleeding in PA.
So?? That just puts him in the same category as Hollywierders accepting one of the 80 bazillion awards they give themselves each year!
Which, as we all know, makes him a Democrat!!!
Christie means fat or food.
Should have not shown the vid, and then let the lib ass give his speech to a dead mic
Christie is a BIG, FAT BABY HUEY!!!
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