Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Chris Christie was the difference...this is on him

Posted on 11/06/2012 9:10:34 PM PST by teg_76

I really hope republicans desert him next year.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-66 next last
To: teg_76
That, my FRiend, is a load of horse hockey. This goes far, far deeper than Chris Christie's embrace of Obama for doing his job and such scape goating does nothing to remedy the problem.

This is a manifestation of an American populace who have collectively decided that dependence on government is preferable to industry and self-reliance. It is a manifestation (inevitable) of 60 years of welfare, Medicare, and Medicaid. It is a manifestation of Pell grants and other forms of middle class welfare. It is a manifestation of our changing demographics in which white, hard-working men and women of faith and traditional lifestyle will no longer determine the direction in which this nation moves . . . and it is the death knell of our Republic.

I wish you were right, but I fear that we have now crossed our national Rubicon and will not again cross it until we have "enjoyed" the dubious pleasures of Euro-socialism.

May God bless us and have mercy upon us all, for we are all sure to need his help.
41 posted on 11/06/2012 9:46:22 PM PST by Sudetenland (Member of the BBB Club - Bye-Bye-Barry!!! President Barack "Down Low" Obama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: entropy12

As much as I liked Ryan as the VP, I wish Mitt had chosen Rubio as his running mate.

He may well have won, had he done that.

Ed


42 posted on 11/06/2012 9:46:42 PM PST by Sir_Ed
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: paul544
""Something fundamental was happening."

Nonsense. I'll bite, troll (I looked through your posting history; you'rr clearly enjoying the fact that your guys won tonight.)

Explain - if something "fundamental" is happening - how the GOP not only held, but incredibly, actually GAINED House seats.

THe simple fact is that like the RINOS before him, McStain, Babbling Bob Dole and George the 1st, Romney was a bad candidate. Milquetoast moderates don't win. Conservatives do.

Hank

43 posted on 11/06/2012 9:49:55 PM PST by County Agent Hank Kimball (Myth Romney is a vile Fabian Socialist - his opponent is infinitely worse. How did it come to this?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: teg_76

I don’t like Christie, never did. However, this election should not have been a close one. Obama should have been soundly defeated. We, America, did this to ourselves.


44 posted on 11/06/2012 9:51:17 PM PST by Dapper 26
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sir_Ed; StarFan; NautiNurse
As much as I liked Ryan as the VP, I wish Mitt had chosen Rubio as his running mate.

He may well have won, had he done that.

I totally agree, Sir_Ed.

Mittens played it way too "safe"... a product of his Republican handlers. Chief Strategist Eric Fehrstrom comes to mind. Ugh...

45 posted on 11/06/2012 9:53:18 PM PST by nutmeg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: Sir_Ed

I agree whole-heartedly. But if the ticket lost, he would become damaged goods, just like Palin has become. Not fair, but that is how it works. Now Rubio becomes leading contender for 2016.


46 posted on 11/06/2012 9:53:38 PM PST by entropy12 (The radical socialist from Chicago and Acorn lawyer must be defeated! VOTE him out!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: teg_76

Agreed. He sold his soul to the “devil” for future favors.

Shameful.


47 posted on 11/06/2012 9:54:45 PM PST by dadgum (Overjoyed to be the Pariah.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: County Agent Hank Kimball

So I called it right and I’m still a troll? I think I may actually have been within 5 EV of nailing it. Either way, we lost ground in the Senate when we were supposed to win it back. Allen and Bachman are losing. Gay marriage is passing as is legalized marajuana. All of this when there was this supposed Chik-Fil-A election coming up. Now we can either do what you look to be doing which is burying our heads in the sand and just pretend, or we can figure out why we lost and adjust.


48 posted on 11/06/2012 9:59:26 PM PST by paul544
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: Sudetenland
It is a manifestation (inevitable) of 60 years of welfare, Medicare, and Medicaid.

And open borders.

If it's true that the white birth rate is going down, while minority birth rates are going up, it's the open borders that's where the growth in votes is coming from.

It's probably not as much a shift from producers to takers, but an uncontrolled influx of new takers.

-PJ

49 posted on 11/06/2012 10:10:05 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: Alberta's Child
Any possible future that Christie had as a national figure in the Republican Party was over the minute Romney opted take take Ryan for VP. Christie knew that and decided to stab Romney in the back. That decision did hurt us: pre-polls and exit polls verified that fact.

Even so, no; it's not all on Christie. This election should not have been close.

We have to come to terms with this fact: we have lost the ideological battle. America is simply not a right-of-center country anymore. That has been a long time in coming, but it is now unmistakably upon us. When a President says that he "saved" a company by stealing $80bn+ dollars from taxpayers, screwed the bondholders, screwed the shareholders, screwed all of the non-union employees, and since taking that money has moved almost all of its new manufacturing to Mexico and China and the people in -- OF ALL PLACES, OHIO -- actually accept that story, we have a LOT of work to do.

We are swimming in an ocean of ideological filth, mathematical innumeeracy, and economic lunacy. And out stsandard bearers are not the ones with the primary responsibility of cleaning up the waters.

50 posted on 11/06/2012 10:29:02 PM PST by FredZarguna ("Post Hoc, ergo propter hoc," is no way to reason through life, son.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: County Agent Hank Kimball

You can thank Fox News and Britt Hume for killing Newt’s campaign. He still blames Newt for his son’s death.


51 posted on 11/06/2012 10:32:17 PM PST by hawkeye101 (Ron Paul attacked every Republican in the 2012 race EXCEPT for Mitt Romney.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: Sir_Ed

As much as I liked Ryan as the VP, I wish Mitt had chosen Rubio as his running mate.

He may well have won, had he done that.

Ed


Marco Rubio would have resulted in a 57 state Obama win

Rubio is pro-Illegal Alien Amnesty...which will keep conservatives at home. Rubio also was tied to the state GOP credit card scandal....which the DNC would have went to town on that in ads

Ryan was the best choice, by far. The GOP needs to get away from pandering to Hispanics with pro-Amnesty candidates...it is a loser


52 posted on 11/06/2012 10:32:52 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (Political maturity is realizing that the "R" next to someone's name does not mean "conservative")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: teg_76

Republican election;
Its not over till the fat man kisses the Traitor on both cheeks like a Frenchman..


53 posted on 11/06/2012 10:34:16 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: FredZarguna
I agree with most of your post, but your take on the Christie-Romney dynamic is 100% incorrect. Christie was never a serious candidate for the VP spot, and he knows this better than anyone. There's simply no way in hell he's ever going to be a serious candidate for a national post like that as long as he's a fat slob who can't even walk 150 feet without crapping out (people I know who saw him up close during the post-hurricane flurry of activity in New Jersey were actually startled and alarmed by this). I'll say it again: He knows this better than anyone.

He won in New Jersey because he's a no-nonsense straight-talker who was a breath of fresh air after the last two @ssholes in that position, but his shtick simply won't play well anywhere west of the Delaware River and he wouldn't have brought anything (including his own state) to the Republican ticket in 2012.

54 posted on 11/06/2012 10:35:45 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: County Agent Hank Kimball

Barack Obama will probably send Ann Coulter a “Thank You” note for helping him get re-elected....as Coulter was one of the biggest attackers of Obama Eligibility people.


55 posted on 11/06/2012 10:35:52 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (Political maturity is realizing that the "R" next to someone's name does not mean "conservative")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: SeminoleCounty

I had forgotten that.

I wasn’t big on that subject, but never understood why she made it such a point to attack fellow conservatives.

Hank


56 posted on 11/06/2012 10:45:44 PM PST by County Agent Hank Kimball
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: hawkeye101

I’m acutely aware. I don’t know how Fox let him continue to berate Newt without making that disclaimer.

It’s not Newt’s fault Hume’s kid was a degenerate.

Hank


57 posted on 11/06/2012 10:48:42 PM PST by County Agent Hank Kimball
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: Alberta's Child
We have evidence, including Christie's very own self-damning statements this morning, that you're wrong.

Your reasoning holds for those of us with ordinary egos. But Christie is a politician; his ego is enormous and a tremendous amount of his self-worth is based in the adoration of strangers. He wanted the job and has a high enough opinion of himself to think he would get it. You're correct that he never had a chance. But you're mistaken about the other part: He was the last person in the world who believed he wouldn't get the offer.

As I posted elsewhere, and at greater length, Christie did what he did with full deliberation. Whether the reason for that was resentment (my theory) or his own reelection bid is immaterial. He did it willfully and with full understanding of what he was doing. Like an actor, he is a politician of some ability and that means that he manipulates public perception for a living. To believe that he spontaneously embraced the flailing leader of the political opposition in a moment of genuine emotion in the full glare of the national spotlight in the last 100 hours of the news cycle is like believing that Lawrence Olivier would spontaneously jump in front of a camera and lapse into Hamlet.

In any event, it doesn't matter. He has no future in the Party outside of Jersey, and unless he has an eye on a Senate seat that he'll need money for (and doesn't think the other Party will provide), I expect him to pull a Specter or have a Bloomberg moment very, very soon.

58 posted on 11/06/2012 10:50:21 PM PST by FredZarguna ("Post Hoc, ergo propter hoc," is no way to reason through life, son.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: FredZarguna
Here was my post from the prior thread listing all of the reasons why Christie was never in serious contention for the VP spot:

1. He's a fat slob with a New Jersey attitude (I'm fine with both of these, by the way), and his "shtick" would not have played well in any swing states.

2. He didn't stand a good chance of bringing his own state into the Republican column in 2012.

3. His career in elected politics has been less than three years in the governor's office in one of the most reliably dysfunctional states in the U.S.

4. His prior career as a Federal prosecutor might have played well in a campaign year where "law and order" were major campaign themes, but not in a year like this where the economy is front-and-center on the national scene.

5. New Jersey's unemployment rate is nearly 10% -- which is more than two points above the national average. Christie still has plenty of work to do in New Jersey.

Personally, I don't think Christie's plans have changed at all. He's going to run for re-election in 2013, and if he loses (or even if he wins), he's going to be angling to serve as the U.S. Attorney General in a second Romney term. He may even be a potential candidate for this post in January 2013.

So there you have it. If you have any evidence that Christie was ever seriously considered as a VP candidate by Romney (or even wanted the job), have at it. Your post is filled with a lot of speculation about an ego that is so irrational that it wouldn't even consider his own huge shortcomings.

As Mitt Romney has once again demonstrated to us, candidates from states east of the Delaware River simply don't do well in national races in this country. I may be wrong about this, but I believe JFK -- in 1960 (more than 50 years ago) was the last person to win at the national level as president or VP on a ticket.

59 posted on 11/06/2012 11:02:53 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: Sudetenland
Correct. As far as the majority of americans are concerned, free shit and the illusion that the government will take care of them trumps liberty every time.
60 posted on 11/06/2012 11:02:53 PM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-66 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson