I’m not sold on Christie, but I admire his chutzpah!
Color me skeptical...
Mr 325 lbs of Hubris should talk to Hillary Clinton first.
I got a kick out of him...at first.
Now, he’s starting to get under my skin.
I had begun to worry lately. Rock star status is a dangerous thing. It breeds hubris. It's like that ring in the Lord of the Rings movies. It's very hard to resist the temptations. You start to believe your own BS. You start to believe you truly are something special. And that, any Greek tragedian can tell you, is setting up the fall.
This type of story is an early confirmation that Mr. Christie is beginning to suffer from hubris. Sad.
As I’ve always told my kids, “There’s a fine line between arrogance and confidence. Learn to recognize it and not go beyond it.
I think Gov. Christie is very close to crossing it here.
Well, he’ll have the ‘green’ vote, the illegal alien vote, the CAIR vote, the gun control vote, ...
“I think when you have people who make the decision just based upon seeing the opportunity you have a much greater likelihood that you’re going to have a president who is not ready. And then we all suffer from that. Even if you’re a conservative, if your conservative president is not ready, you’re not going to be good anyway because you’re going to get rolled all over the place in that town.”Christie also said that he sees "how much better I get at this job every day," adding he doesn't think he'd be a good candidate if he doesn't feel it from the heart.
"Like I said before, I am who I am and people have to trust, they don’t have to but they should trust, my instincts on this," he said. "I know me better than anyone else knows me. If I felt like I was ready, I’d go, but I’m not. But I’m also not going to go if I don’t think I’m ready.
As for being governor, "there has never been a day where I’ve felt like I’m over my head, I don’t know what to do, I’m lost," he said. "I don’t know whether I’d feel the same way if I walked into the Oval Office a year and a half from now. So, unless you get yourself to the point where you really believe you have a shot to be successful, then I don’t think you have any business running for it."
PLEASE....no more RINOs in the WH
I like Christie....in NEW JERSEY!
stay there for heavens sake, Chris...
No question he’d win the debates.
I like Big Boy.
A republican gun-grabber in the W.H.?
No, thanks.
Not if he needs my vote!
I read more of the interview, and I think the headline and the short snip here somewhat misrepresent Gov. Christie.
What he said, in context, was that folks were coming to him and saying [I’m strictly paraphrasing here], “Here’s how you can win the White House,” and he was saying that he already understands the politics of how he could win the White House, and he agrees, there is a path there for him to do so. It is a realistic opportunity for him, if he chose it.
But the right question is, Gov. Christie says, is not whether he could win - it is clear that he could run and would have a good chance of winning - the question is whether he’s ready to be president, and his judgment is that no, he’s not at this time. And he won’t run if he doesn’t think he’s up to the job.
That’s a bit different than what’s being communicated, here.
Regardless of what one thinks of Christie, his remark is still a poke in the eye to The Kenyan.
They’ll have to widen the doors and reinforce the furniture at 1600 Penn.
It’ll be without my vote, Tubbo, unless you can convince me you stand with America on immigration issues, tax reform, repeal of Obama DeathCare, mass reductions in federal workers, defunding several federal cabinet departments, ending foreign aid programs, etc., etc.
I’m glad you’re cutting spending in the Garden State, but that alone doesn’t make you a desirable presidential candidate.
Give us specifics on ALL the issues facing us and then we’ll talk White House.
‘You’re barking up the wrong tree. I already know I could win.”
Maybe a hot dog eating contest.
His brand of pseudo conservatism sells well in the Northeast. Not so well elsewhere.
There's a difference between confidence and arrogance. There might have been a line crossed here...
Yeah. Yeah. But can he skin a moose?