[goldstategop]

Chris Christie is one conservative who said "NO!" To building the new Hudson tunnel to nowhere. For that he was excoriated by the New York Times leftists. Its not every day in America when you see a politician turn down new spending. Christie made a very responsible decision - and has earned a profile in courage.

[ZULU]

Christie was right about that tunnel.

But he is NO conservative, unless you judge “conservatism” by purely a tight fiscal policy - and New Jersey’s current fiscal mess demands nothing less. Its nearly bankrupt - thanks to a succession of tax and spend liberal Democrats and Republicans.

But on the Ground Zero Mosque, Christie’s position was it was a local issue.

On illegal aliens, he said they were not committing a federal crime by being here.

On the Second Amendment, he appointed an anti-gun Essex County Democrat as his AG.

He campaigned for anti-tea party candidates like Castel in Delaware.

He apparently decided not to join in on the suit against Obamacare.

If Christie is serious about being a conservative standard bearer, he needs to expand his policies from merely cutting back on the Unions and stopping the tunnel project.

[KarenMarie]

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[Carley]

Christie said NO but then tried to get more federal dollars for the project.

Guess he has no clue that federal dollars are the same as state dollars.........TAXPAYER DOLLARS.

[Alberta's Child]

Another $3 billion was coming from the Port Authority of New York – which they tell us is not the State of New York, but really is – and that state is hopelessly in debt with an out-of-whack budget.

I agree with most of what the author says, but he really should get his facts straight. The agency in question is the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and it gets none of its revenue from the budgets of either state. It gets its revenue from the toll bridges/tunnels, airports, marine port facilities, etc. it owns and operates.