Excommunicating Christie

The Washington Times ^ | 11/8/12 | Brett M. Decker

[upchuck]

With unemployment stuck around 8 percent, economic growth basically nonexistent and the nation suffocating from record debt, the White House should have been the GOP’s for the taking in 2012.

With nobama phones everywhere, damn near two years of unemployment pay available, record numbers of food stamp recipients, 40% of Americans paying no taxes, etc., etc., the fact nobama won is not surprising to me at all.

In fact, over two hundred years ago (1801) the outcome of this election was predicted with 100% accuracy by Sir Alexander Tytler, to wit:

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until voters discover that they can vote themselves largesses from the public treasury. From that time on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

"The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage."

So, given this inexorable movement, what's our next move?

[GreenHornet]

Chris Christie, Barack Obama’s Boy Toy, may as well change his party registration to Democrat.

[Wuli]

I think some people, and it began with Rush, either just made a mountain out of a molehill, or did not think that deeply - letting mere emotions when viewing a photoop that occurred during the campaign mean a hell of a lot more - in THEIR minds, to the campaign than I think it actually did

Full disclosure - I am no big Christie fan or booster and I live in New Jersey. He is not Conservative enough for me and I think he could successfully govern as more of a Conservative than he has (I think he has coneded more than he needed to, more than once). So, my view of the importance or lack thereof of the photoop comes in spite of my personal political view of Christie, the man.

He is the governor of a state and it was in the midst of the after-storm damage, as that governor, that he was meeting with the man who holds the office as president. Just because we were in the midst of the campaign, which acts, as governor, would have been less statesman like and more political - meeting with Obama or telling him to stay away; having a photoop with Obama or not; as his state’s governor, thanking ‘the president’ or entering campaign mode on the part of his candidate, Romney, and turning the occasion into a partisan political event?

I am no Christie fan, but he behaved as I expect any governor in his situation would have; and what too many GOP people wanted was for him to NOT behave as his state’s governor but as a political partisan - and it literally was not the occasion for it.

So, Christie may be far too moderate for many Conservatives, myself included. So, there are plenty of reasons to prefer someone other than Christie, and yes a lot of his good PR has come from the media having helped him in that regard, NOT because of any Conservatism, his or anyone elses that they respect.

Yet, it is ignored, that Christie spent a great amount of time out in the “swing states” campaigning for Romney. In fact he spent so much time campaigning for Romney in other states that I complained he had not been here enough, in his own state, in big public venues campaigning with our own GOP Senate candidate who had an entrenched incumbant to overcome.

So, just where, in New Jersey (too blue to go for Romney no matter what) or outside of New Jersey did Christie’s photo op or his comments “sell” any Independents or GOPers to vote for Obama - puhleeze, that idea is a fantasy.

If we want to say Christie is not Conservative enough for many of us. I’m all for that. But using the photo op with Obama as an excuse for it or any kind of evidence concerning it is a farce grasping at straws.

That incident did not put any speed bump in Romeny’s campaign, unless it was a speed bump created by Conservative pundits who, by THEIR hysteria, made a mountain out of a molehill and by THEIR hysteria, turned millions of GOPers into stay-at-homes. If that’s the case, it was not Christie who did it. A few hysterical Conservatives put THEIR political spin on it and then sold that spin as truth. THEY were wrong.