Quite right, low information voters used Christie’s gushing approval of Obama as their prime reason for voting for a second term. Christy was played like a chump in a perfectly-timed photo op.
People of New Jersey: you voted overwhelmingly for Obama, and now you want help. Go ask Obama, Soros and Buffet for money and leave the taxpayers alone.
There's a lot to not like about Herbert Hoover, especially compared to his truly principled Conservative predecessor, Calvin Coolidge. In some ways, Hoover evolved to a big government advocate when the economy didn't turn around as quickly as he thought it would after the correction of October 1929.
Before he altered his views, Hoover did stand for right-thinking and logic, stating:
Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.
...and to the specific thrust of this thread, before Hoover eventually went soft, he said:
Every time the government is forced to act, we lose something in self-reliance, character, and initiative.
For all of his later faults, that was the Herbert C. Hoover worth admiring. It's a shame that Peter King and Chris Christie don't embrace that sound philosophy just as true today as it was then.