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Is Chris Christie the Democrats' favorite Republican?
The Christian Science Monitor ^ | July 18, 2014 | Peter Grier

Posted on 07/18/2014 10:41:47 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom

[...] But new polls indicate that his longtime major political weakness has not gone away: Republicans do not entirely trust him, seeing him as a liberal Northeasterner in an increasingly conservative party.

Meanwhile, Christie remains the Democrats’ favorite possible GOP candidate. That could help him in a general election. However, he has to win over Republicans to win primaries before he could reach the mountain of a November vote.

A Gallup survey out Friday has numbers that show what we mean. In the crowded field of possible Republican presidential candidates, from Mike Huckabee to Rick Santorum to Scott Walker, Christie has lowest favorability rating among Republican voters. [...]

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1 posted on 07/18/2014 10:41:47 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
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To: ConservingFreedom

OK, to avoid posting a vanity :-) let me turn the question around. If those of us who would prefer not to have a Democrat in the White House in 2017 could pick the Democrats’ 2016 Presidential ticket for the same purpose that they would like to pick the GOP’s ticket—i.e., ensure that the Dem ticket would go down in flames—who, among the reasonably possible candidates (not Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, etc.), would we choose?


2 posted on 07/18/2014 10:46:48 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin
I'm not even sure who's on that list - all I seem to hear about is Hitlery. It might be Joe Biden's 'turn' - and he's a grade-A boob.
3 posted on 07/18/2014 10:49:27 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

the mob likes him or he wouldn’t have become governor of NJ so what does that tell you?


4 posted on 07/18/2014 10:53:26 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: chajin

Hillary Clinton.
The more people hear her, the more they won’t like her.


5 posted on 07/18/2014 10:55:16 AM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: ConservingFreedom
Meanwhile, Christie remains the Democrats’ favorite possible GOP candidate. That could help him in a general election.

Right. Any Republican who is the nominee will be tarred and feathered. Look no further than McCain and Romney. Two liberal Republican squishes. By the end of the election, by the time the media and Dem operatives (but I repeat myself) got through with them, they were damaged goods.
6 posted on 07/18/2014 10:55:19 AM PDT by nhwingut (This tagline for lease)
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To: chajin

Joe Biden....


7 posted on 07/18/2014 10:55:45 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: nhwingut

[ Right. Any Republican who is the nominee will be tarred and feathered. Look no further than McCain and Romney. Two liberal Republican squishes. By the end of the election, by the time the media and Dem operatives (but I repeat myself) got through with them, they were damaged goods. ]

Hell i would have loved Newt in 2012 because at least Newt (dispitte being a bit squishy and progressive on some issues) would have at LEAST fought BACK!


8 posted on 07/18/2014 10:56:46 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

I wonder if Lurch will make another run for it.


9 posted on 07/18/2014 10:58:24 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: ConservingFreedom

“... a liberal Northeasterner in an increasingly conservative party.”

Is the GOP “increasingly conservative”? I’d like to think so, but would need some evidence to really feel good about it.


10 posted on 07/18/2014 10:58:32 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: ConservingFreedom

So is Mitt Romney, John McCain, Peter King, etc.

Anyone who is guaranteed to lose the POTUS race because they are either way too moderate(McCain, King, etc.) or way to Progressive Liberal (i.e. Romney)


11 posted on 07/18/2014 11:00:04 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: GraceG
I like Newt as well... writes great books, knows how to deal with media, a thinker and good on speeches. A downside is that he overthinks as well, posturing himself into a pretzel.


12 posted on 07/18/2014 11:02:05 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Water, Pope, bear...


13 posted on 07/18/2014 11:04:59 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: GraceG
Hell i would have loved Newt in 2012 because at least Newt (dispitte being a bit squishy and progressive on some issues) would have at LEAST fought BACK!

BINGO. The idea of a Newt candidacy was not really about Newt per se, as much as it was about the way a long Newt V Obama campaign would have unfolded, including, but not limited to, the debates. It would have been a national discussion of the Tea Party vision versus the Occupy Wall Street vision.

Now I know some will say "wait, Newt is not really Tea Party" - and that's true. But when Newt was ON, the good Newt, he articulated the limited government vision better than perhaps anyone we've seen in a long while…and for Newt to have won the nomination, this is what he would have had to continue to do, as he did early in Iowa, and then again in SC (instead he got drawn into Mitt's negativity in Florida and it was over).

It would have been clarifying. An electorate contrasting Newt would have been forced to be a little higher information than they are now. Would it have worked? I dunno. It would have been risky, but safe didn't work either. And if Newt was elected, would he have been a disappointment? Probably in some areas.

But Newt would swing the bat. Mitt was out on called strikes...

14 posted on 07/18/2014 11:05:09 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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But Newt would swing the bat. Mitt was out on called strikes...

If MSM had called balls and strikes, they would have Newt-ered Gingrich.

15 posted on 07/18/2014 12:30:57 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Joe Biden. He’s stupid and being a white male he is automatically in a group that does not like him and which it is OK not to like. The real question is what designated loser are the RAT organs going to pick for us , again , this time?


16 posted on 07/18/2014 4:17:23 PM PDT by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: lonestar

As is normally the case, you missed the main point, and simply tried to make yourself “look” smart and snarky. Fail.

Now, I can explain it to you, but I can’t understand it for you.


17 posted on 07/18/2014 5:58:43 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
This is so typical of you and why I think you are not a nice person.

You exhibit an arrogance that is typical of poor self-confidence.

Secure people don't have to build themselves up by tearing others down.

You do that regularly...not just to me but to a lot of people.

You are to be pitied!

18 posted on 07/18/2014 6:06:14 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: lonestar

You deserved it. You totally ignored the bigger point in my post - then pulled a tiny byte out of context, and tried to make yourself look good by doing so. Now, this gives us two choices about you. Either you’re not smart enough to get the main point, or you were being a b-tch on purpose.

So, A or B, because logic dictates it HAS to be one or the other. There’s no other choice.


19 posted on 07/18/2014 6:19:43 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
There you go again....everybody has to play by your rules are they are stupid.

I still haven't seen any evidence that you are brilliant or witty.

Say something smart and funny...so that I can laugh with you and not at you. I need a good laugh...my TV remote is screwed up!

20 posted on 07/18/2014 6:42:30 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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