the charges political or otherwise or substantive or not. does matter. perception is reality. now, ken cuccinelli may have his own beef with governor christie. lost the governor s race last november and chuck todd reported christie declined the cuccinelli s camp plea for the wildly popular governor to campaign for him in the waning days of that race. still, cuccinelli s remarks made waves and observers wondered who would be the next republican to call for christie to step aside as the chairman of the rg jachlt and clamoring to step up, party leaders did their best to stop the attacks. rnc priebus didn t know of a better governor to read the rga. thursday the rga announced christie will continue to travel around the country to raise money for governor s in close races around the country. hitting many states in the coming months, will those
given his nearly two-hour marathon press conference. it s now this is about moving beyond this. he s going to have his nainaugu. moving a past it. goes to florida, rick scott, they have to care about, doesn t want to be seen with him. no public appearances with rick scott or with christie at all. how under this cloud can he function in that role? how can he go into massachusetts, a blue state where they have a shot of winning the governor s race, how can he go in and campaign? down to texas? how can he go to these states where republicans really have a shot. these candidates, will they want to be associated with him unless and until this is cleared up? maybe not being publicly campaigning with these candidates, and being shown with them, because as was said, there could be another shoe that drops. you don t want a photo op of you next to someone and a week later you find out it was way worst than everyone thought. what he can do, privately raise
presidential race. all depends how the mystics are interpreted when they happen. it can be, oh, the tough-talking jersey guy, or christie the bully again. one of the risks here. and local politics is always a bit unseemly. you well know, new jersey local politics is very unseemly in cases. this is i think, has always been, his biggest risk is that, if there are other incident, even not scandals like this but the day-to-day operation of politics in new jersey, if other americans start looking at that, that could become a big problem for him, because he fills that entire space. can t just be him and everybody else doing it. it will become him being the guy behind some crazy project. mitt romney compares him to president johnson. month comparison. president johnson became president in the most awful circumstances and re-elected in 64, such a goldwater and the kennedy impetus. but lyndon johnson didn t win an election with all the media you have today and the social media,
100 points for casey. next question. it was reported this week the treasury department is looking into this washed up celebrity for reportedly violating dennis rodman. looking into dennis rodman for violating the ban on bringing gifts in north korea. correct. 100 point question. this republican u.s. senator who survived a prostitution david individualer. virt. will run, yes. and only you may answer this bonus. vitter briefly ran for governor in the too 3 2003 psych toll qu race early on. name the democrat who ultimately won that election. oh, i m so embarrassed. i don t know. landrieu? kathleen blanco. should have know than. 100 toss-up question. this republican congresswoman will deliver the cathy mcmorris rodgers. deliver the response on
money behind closed doors, although that s still a little problematic, because if donors are concerned, having those same concerns about another shoe dropping, will they want to put a lot of money on the table and have that kind of tie? but he can still raise money and that s a big, a big role that he has to play for the rga. and that s that has been part of, a big part of chris christie s political base, really, i call is the wall street journal crowd. the big bucks, central people trying to recruit him into to the race at the last minute for 2012. are they sticking with him or having doubts? initially definitely doubts. from what i ve heard about the fund-raisers doing in florida, though, for instance, at the last minute, a number of these guys came forward saying i m not on the list. can i get on the list? i d like to come down. one person said it may be a bit of rubber necking at the dead guy kind of a deal, but also there are republicans looking at him saying he s getting