McAuliffe may not be the best candidate, but at least in Virginia, the governor is term-limited at one consecutive term. Perhaps four years from now someone better will come along, but until then, he's a much better option that The Cooch and his frightening preacher-man running mate.
Christie is a terrible politician, but he's a great public figure. That's why he's being re-elected. His work post-Sandy wasn't--isn't--remarkable, but the way his PR machine spun it was. His economic policies are terrible, and his social agenda is more in line with the Tea Party than any moderate wing of the Republican party. But people will vote for him because they mistake brash frankness for leadership. Buono is a much better candidate than people give her credit for, on paper at least, but she ran a weak campaign. Christie is like a cartoon character, or some warmed-up stereotype you'd find in a novel about Jersey.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 11/5/13 at 04:15 PM