In any event, Charles Blow is not a Republican. Wouldn't it be great fun for Charles Blow if he could help knock Gov. Christie out of contention for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016? Of course it would be great fun.
In the spirit of having great fun at the expense of Republicans and Gov Christie, Charles Blow includes a lengthy quotation from Brit Hume of Fox News:
"When the Chris Christie bridge scandal erupted, Brit Hume, the Fox senior political analyst, said in Christie's defense: "I would have to say that in the sort of feminized atmosphere in which we exist today, guys who are masculine and muscular like that [i.e., like Gov. Christie is] in their private conduct, kind of old-fashioned tough guys, run some risks. By which I mean that men today have learned the lesson the hard way that if you act like an old-fashioned guy's guy, you're in constant danger of slipping out and saying something that's going to get you in trouble and make you look like a sexist or make you look like you seem thuggish or whatever. That's the atmosphere in which he [Gov. Christie] operates. This guy is very much an old-fashioned masculine, muscular guy, and there are political risks associated with that. Maybe it shouldn't be, but that's how it is'"
I agree with Brit Hume that "that's how it is" today. However, Brit Hume to the contrary notwithstanding, I'm not sure that all Republican "men today have learned the lesson the hard way that if you act like an old-fashioned guy's guy, you're in constant danger of slipping out and saying something that's going to get you in trouble and make you look like a sexist or make you seem thuggish or whatever."
Case in point: After President Obama's State of the Union address, Rep. Michael Grimm, Republican from Staten Island, a former Marine, threatened to throw a television reporter off the balcony -- with the television camera recording his threat. He had a few other choice things to say to the reporter -- all recorded by the television camera.
Fortunately, not even Republicans defended Rep. Grimm's threat. So maybe this shows that there may be a wee bit of hope for the Republicans after all.
But back to Brit Hume and Charles Blow.
In the spirit of having great fun at the expense of Republicans and Gov. Christie, Charles Blow points out that Brit Hume's comments about Gov. Christie being a guy's guy fit with the more general pattern of "[p]ortraying Republican men as manly and Democratic ones as effete."
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