Suprise! Chris Christie Isn’t Running for President, Should America Suspend Elections? and More in Chad’s Steaming Pile

Here are just a few things in Chad’s Pile that you will hear on Lubbock’s First News this morning. Give Chad your feedback on the steaming topics.

1. Seriously, he isn't running (link)

Remember that guy in school that would always ask out that one girl who would always turn him down? Sure, on occasion she may flirt but in reality she is just being friendly and the guy can't take a hint? Yeah, that is what some Republicans are looking like when it comes to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is officially not running for president, despite repeated wooing from Republican elites and major donors who remain unhappy with the GOP presidential field and have refused for months to take no for an answer.

Christie’s emphatic no was reported by Fox News, as well as the Newark Star-Ledger, which quoted his brother Todd saying a run was not in consideration.

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“I’m sure that he’s not going to run,” Todd Christie told the paper. “If he’s lying to me, I’ll be as stunned as I’ve ever been in my life.”

As far as I'm concerned, the field is set. I don't think Christie or Sarah Palin will be jumping in.

2. Suspend elections? (link)

Of course it would be a Democrat that would propose such a dumb idea...

As a way to solve the national debt crisis, North Carolina Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue recommends suspending Congressional elections for the next couple of years.

“I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover,” Perdue said at a rotary club event in Cary, North Carolina, according to the Raleigh News and Observer. “I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.”

Sigh.

3. Rick Santorum hates States' rights (link)

According to Rick Santorum, Rick Perry is soft on marijuana. Why? Because Perry is okay with States' Rights.

Asked by Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin about the issue, Perry spokesman Mark Miner reaffirmed the governor’s position, saying that “while the Governor is personally opposed to legalizing the use of medical marijuana, if states want to allow doctor prescribed medical marijuana, it seems to him that under the 10th amendment, they have the right to do so.”

Santorum swooped in to attack. “Governor Perry was quite clear too in his recently published book, that the definition of marriage should be left up to 50 different state interpretations,” a spokesman told Rubin. “It’s certainly Gov. Perry right to believe marriage can be redefined at the state level, that marijuana can be legalized and that tax dollars should be used to give illegal aliens special college tuition rates, but that’s completely out of touch with what most Americans believe.”

Thoughts?

These and many more topics coming up on Wednesday’s edition of Lubbock’s First News with Chad Hasty. Tune in mornings 6-9am on News/Talk 790 KFYO, streaming online at kfyo.com, and now on your iPhone and Android device with the radioPup App.