When you're doing as badly in the polls as Chris Christie is, it seems you can't be picky about your friends.
Presidential candidate New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) defended Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) during an interview with MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Monday morning, after LePage came under fire last week for racially charged remarks about heroin dealers impregnating "white women" in his state. [...]
"He's a good man and he's apologized," Christie continued. "Everyone of us — me and everybody else who's in public life — says things at times they wish they could take back."
Hey, what's a little fear-mongering about the Others coming to impregnate your "white women" among Republicans? Worrying about sketchy folks impregnating the white women has been the lynchpin of Republican campaigning for a half century now. Donald Trump based his own presidential run on it, and he is doing very well indeed.
For the record, LePage has not "apologized" in the conventional sense. On the contrary, he merely blasted media suggestions that his imaginary scenario of "D-Money," "Smoothie," and "Shifty" impregnating "white women" had anything to do with race, insisting he said "white women" as a clumsy shorthand for "Maine women"—since most of 'em are white, after all, and it's not like he gives a rat's ass about the others.
Also for the record, New Jersey governor and stubbornly still-unindicted Chris Christie is probably—and I’m just throwing this out there—not the best judge of who is "a good man." But once you've resigned yourself to hugging the crank railing about the dangers to "white women," you might as well hug him tight.