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On Iowa visit, Christie promises blunt, straight talk to fix problems
Cedar Rapids Gazette ^ | 2/9/2015 | Rod Boshart

Posted on 02/10/2015 5:44:00 AM PST by iowamark

WEST DES MOINES — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told an Iowa crowd last night he will bring blunt, straight talk to fill a leadership void in Washington and give the country hope again if he decides to seek the Republican Party’s 2016 presidential nomination.

“Leadership matters,” Christie told about 100 Republicans who turned out for a Dallas County fundraiser at a suburban hotel to hear the New Jersey governor who made his third Iowa appearance within a month and his 13th trip overall. He met privately with Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds before attending the fundraiser.

Christie, 52, in his second term as New Jersey’s chief executive, said he used executive actions to address a budget deficit in his home state that has produced positive results despite opposition from a Democrat-controlled Legislature and he wants to turn his sights on Washington to cut spending, spur economic growth, and reform taxes.

He blamed Obama and lawmakers from both parties in Congress for a “deplorable lack of leadership” in the nation’s capital.

Of the president, Christie said “he appears to be a man in a dark room struggling up against the wall looking for a light switch of leadership. Now, everybody, he hasn’t found that light switch in six years and he’s not going to find it in these last two.”

The New Jersey governor said Obama has weakened American stature abroad, saying “when America pulls back, bad people with bad intentions fill that void,” and he criticized the president and Congress for failing to ignite economic progress that would bolster the middle class.

“What we need, in my opinion, in this country more than anything else is some blunt, direct straight talk to fix big problems that we’ve been avoiding for too long because we care too much about the comfort of people’s feelings than about telling the truth and fixing the problems that need to be fixed,” he said.

Christie likened his style to former GOP President Ronald Reagan in that people would always know what he stood for and where he would stand on issues. He said he’s been told he’s too blunt for Iowa, but he noted “every time I’ve been here I’ve been met by some very blunt folks.”

Christie’s Iowa trip was greeted with some push back from Democrats.

“After a rough week spent abroad, hiding from reporters, tripping over his anti-vaccine comments, and enjoying the luxuries of another trip abroad, Chris Christie tried and failed to shake off his bad headlines by visiting Iowa,” said Jason Pitt, spokesman at the Democratic National Committee.

“What the governor doesn’t understand is that a million visits to Dallas County will never erase his record of giving $5 billion in tax giveaways to big corporations, New Jersey’s rising property taxes — already the highest in the nation, or overseeing New Jersey’s sluggish job creation,” he added.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Iowa; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: chrischristie; christie; iowa; jasonpitt; newjersey
Des Moines Register: Chris Christie makes Iowa Trip Number 13
1 posted on 02/10/2015 5:44:00 AM PST by iowamark
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To: iowamark

Did he get Branstad to close any bridges?


2 posted on 02/10/2015 5:51:51 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
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To: iowamark

And proceeds to offer no solutions.


3 posted on 02/10/2015 5:54:39 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
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To: iowamark

That’s the problem...talk. Talk doesn’t fix a thing.


4 posted on 02/10/2015 6:01:16 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: iowamark
Still riding the "blunt talk" schtick.

Let it go, Johnny. It's over.

5 posted on 02/10/2015 6:03:24 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: iowamark

That Jersey goombah movie dialogue shtick might work on the East Coast, but Iowans just turn their heads away and inconspicuously smile and snicker.


6 posted on 02/10/2015 6:05:25 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: iowamark

Does Christie have what it takes to save America? Well,lets see what he could face as a new president in the aftermath of what Obama now creates:

Obama in speaking of the Crusades is justifying modern jihadi atrocities and genocide by conduct of Christians during the middle ages, 900 years ago during the time of Saladin.This was very carefully executed with planning by the White House staff.

This illustrates Obama’s view of current political expediency which historians traditionally call “historic justice.” The view of historic justice is common to virtually every fascist dictator during the modern era, including Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini,General Tojo, Nikolai Ceausescu, and others including Robert Mugabe, and Idi Amin Dada.The alleged sins of the forefathers will be paid by descendants who had nothing to do with their being committed, and indeed in Obama’s case, those descendants elected him to office in a paroxysm of populist, hoodwinking
charisma.Recorded tapes of both Hitler and Obamas strident , stirring political speeches , their gestures, the exhortive tones, are very similar, and in some cases almost identical.

Few today understand the historic context which is something that Winston Churchill left to us as an inherited view of the history analysis of fascism.Obama has an agenda to socially transform the United States along racial and ethnic minority nationalism lines ( Southern Border illegal aliens,immigrant Muslims, national defence policy weakened, economy botched by taxation to pay for redistribution of wealth programs), with a socialist plan for wealth redistribution, that is to say: Nationalist Socialism.

This makes Obama himself a fascist whose intent is to destroy America, elected to office under a charismatic cloud against freedom, the same way Mussolini and Hitler were.It will take a generation to mend the damage that Obama has done to our nation and to our alliances abroad, if he does not cause WW III in his last years of office.

I believe personally that impeachment is too good for this thug we have in the White House. He should be summarily arrested, charged, tried and incarcerated for identity fraud and treason to our allies, as well as extortion ( Al Sharpton his extortion race jockey),and willfully contravening the Constitution, and then he should be duly executed after his trial as punishment for the millions of needless deaths he has caused in Mexico,Libya,Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen,Nigeria and Kenya, many of whom were Christians falling to the swords of Islam.

Now Obama meddles in the national elections of Israel, a fact that is in itself the basis for impeachment, even if one ignored all of his other travesties, legitimated by a fraudulent presidency.

If the GOP under Christies leadership commits lesser sins, history may forgive them, but history will never forgive the GOP and Christie for failing to go after this Current fascist president with direct criminal law force of Congress.

Lest you think my remarks inappropriate I refer you to this essay written in 2008, by a greater historian than I:

” Barack Obama: The Quintessential Fascist”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html

Its time to stop playing with Obama and the movement that Christie would face, and attack him on all fronts as the wheedling, murdering, fascist dictator he truly is.Put him behind bars forthwith and advance his trial immediately by Congress itself.

Christie, the Obama hugger, just doesn’t have the intestinal fortitude to do any part of that job.Christie doesn’t even know the name of the game Obama is playing. Ted Cruz is the man for the job.


7 posted on 02/10/2015 6:33:48 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: iowamark

I have a friend who lives in NJ. She is conservative and republican. She hates Crispy. He keeps raising the already outrageous property taxes.


8 posted on 02/10/2015 8:30:19 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: iowamark

NJ has the highest taxes in the US. Fat boi DemocRat is going nowhere.


9 posted on 02/10/2015 3:34:48 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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