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It seems as if it happened sometime in the last century, but it was really just four years ago. On November 5, 2013, Chris Christie was reelected as governor of New Jersey in a landslide of epic proportions. The Republican’s 60.3 percent of the vote in what had become a deep blue state was a ringing affirmation of the policies he pursued in his first term and, for at least a couple of months, made Christie seem as if he was a serious contender for the presidency in 2016.But as voters went to the polls today to choose his successor, Christie’s running mate in 2013, Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno was headed to certain defeat largely because of her association with the incumbent. Christie’s approval rating in the latest Suffolk University poll is 14 percent, with 77 percent viewing him negatively, numbers that make him among the most unpopular American governors in recent memory.The answer as to how this reversal of fortune came about is generally summed up in one word: Bridgegate. The scandal in which members of the governor’s staff created a days-long traffic jam on the George Washington Bridge as a way of retaliating against the mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., was first revealed only a month after Christie’s reelection and the governor’s reputation never recovered from the blow. Rather than a triumphant platform from which he would move effortlessly onto the national political stage, his second term was a nightmare that was plagued by investigations into the scandal and a futile presidential run that ended in humiliation . . .. . . Undeterred by either polls or common sense, Christie ran for president anyway in 2016 and flopped badly, though not before demolishing Senator Marco Rubio in a debate, thereby helping another wealthy crony, Donald Trump, whom he would soon endorse. The Trump connection added to his woes at home. That was not so much because of the GOP nominee’s unpopularity in New Jersey but because Christie’s craven attitude toward Trump inspired Internet mockery and memes. In the end, Christie’s loyalty to Trump would go unrewarded, as the new president understood just how politically toxic the governor had become.The final blow to Christie’s reputation would come in the summer of 2017. After a standoff with the legislature led to a government shutdown of state facilities, Christie was filmed hosting a family party at a state-owned beach house at a park that was closed to everyone else. The public’s tolerance for the arrogance that had enabled him to dismiss the complaints of voters, union heads, and fellow politicians alike, evaporated once they came to see him as a political thug and someone looking to get as much out of his office as he could. Having come into power cheered as an everyman, he exits it as a laughingstock immortalized by a meme in which he is forever seated in a beach chair . . .
Christie was the most arrogant, corrupt and under qualified Gov that state ever had. He made McGreevey look like Abe Lincoln.
We had McGreevey, Corzime and Christie Murphy is no prize.We will be, if we aren't already, the laughingstock of the other 49 states and territories.The only thing that could be worse if Snooki had ran. Sigh.
And who could ever forget this:
