If you want to call Cristie names, go over to DU and do it there ... we already dislike his ideas here, so "name calling" is not going to influence us. The only influence that has is upon our opposition who revel that we are also becoming "name-calling low information voters" who cannot use IDEAS to win an argument.
Shame on most of you here!
You can always leave if you feel unwelcome.
I am certainly among those who made fun of Governor Christie.
And yes, I must confess that I did depart from my usual standards of civil debate.
Let me put it another way: As a conservative, I am offended by Christie’s remarks. I don’t necessarily agree with every position of the NRA. Nor am I a member. But Christie needs to decide whether he’s a Republican and a conservative, or a Democrat and a leftist.
When the NRA finally said something after Newtown, their proposal was to add armed guards in schools. There may have been other proposals they could make, but I hardly think they deserved the beating that they took from the media and others. Their ad was, in part, a response to that.
I have seen the ad, and it’s true. Obama’s kids attend a school with (I am told) 11 armed guards. Yet he and the other liberal elitists (some of whom sent their kids to that same school, or to other schools that also have armed guards) still seem to act as if the NRA is “insane” for proposing such a ridiculous idea.
I find nothing “reprehensive” about the NRA’s ad. On the contrary, I think it’s Mr. Christie who is deserving of that label.