ELEPHANT PUN

There has been a lot of fussing in the media over this week's Time Magazine cover, which shows NJ's overweight governor in silhouette with the caption "The Elephant in the Room".  Pundits are all exorcised over the fat joke, but I actually think it was inspired.  After all, the joke takes a particularly apt description of Christie's position in the party after his landslide win, and links it to his size, the Republican symbol, and his rough and tumble personality.  I've never seen a better cover that wasn't on the "New Yorker". 

And you know, we could do a lot worse than a President Christie.  He combines the conservative instincts of Reagan and the Bushes with the volatile temperament of Andrew Jackson and the size of William Howard Taft.  Saddle him with a Democratic Senate so that he'd have to deal, and we might actually get this country back on the move.

I can just imagine his first speech at the United Nations.

But, of course, our perverted primary system will do what it always does, and give us two pukes beholden to the extremes in the respective parties to choose between on election day.

Pfui!