The Heaviest Pol of All?

New Jersey's Governor Chris Christie is certainly in the hunt for this accolade:

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/chris_christie_weight_issue.html

Back in '09, when he was running, the question was asked, is he too fat to be governor.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/blogs/the-gaggle/2009/10/13/is-chris-christie-too-fat-to-be-the-next-governor-of-new-jersey.html

Obese?... so it seems. But just how heavy is he? It takes some searching on Google to get an answer.As he started sniffing out the GOP 2012 race, the governor also began dropping some poundage.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/21/chris-christie-weight-loss_n_826185.html

Bill Maher raised the issue of who has the greater self-control problem, Weiner/sex or Christie/food.

http://www.breitbart.tv/maher-chris-christies-weight-problem-worse-than-anthony-weiners-self-control-issues/

"Three-hundred pounds plus" is the best I could find.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2010/12/10/chris-matthews-slams-300-plus-pounds-chris-christie-too-fat-be-presi

If so, then Christie is giving the White House's heaviest hitter a run for his money. I'm referring to William Howard Taft, who reputedly weighed in at 335. Taft was a mountain of a man who managed to serve both as President of the United STates and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (not at the same time, however). Although he was undistinguished in both roles, that's still quite a resume.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William_Howard_Taft.jpg

Since we seem to be reverting to the age of the Robber Barons --- a new Gilded Age in which the middle class is beleaguered and shrinking, jobs are either eliminated or exported, and unions are harassed toward extinction --- in which the top 1% of Americans controls an obscene share of the national wealth and is damned if it will be taxed --- well, perhaps the time is right for another 335-pound Republican blimp in the Oval Office. A goal for which the Garden State's Gov might well aim.

What goes around comes around... and there is indeed nothing new under the sun.