Posted on 02/11/2015 1:40:54 PM PST by cotton1706
Mitt Romney entered the GOP race, then left. Now New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the candidate thought to be the most relieved that another moderate Northeast opponent wouldn’t compete, has fallen on hard times. After a terrible week in which he bobbled a vaccine question, barked at the media and was the subject of a report detailing his taste for luxury, he is now getting iffy reviews from Iowa.
The Post’s Robert Costa reports, “Unlike some Christie events in New Jersey, where promotional videos with pulsing soundtracks play before he roams onstage with Bruce Springsteen-like swagger, Christie’s stagecraft here was bare-bones, with only a glass of water, a lectern and a brief introduction. Christie stuck to a muted mien during his 40-minute presentation, dutifully listing a range of what he considers to be his most notable achievements, from reducing the number of state employees to capping state property taxes.” The reaction was muted: “Heads nodded respectfully throughout, but the applause was sporadic. The biggest round of clapping came for a barb about President Obama being “a man in a dark room struggling up against the wall, looking for the light switch of leadership.”
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As things have played out, Christie is a surprisingly weak contender for the establishment vote and for big money. My suspicion, confirmed anecdotally, is that a lot of the former Romney support that does not flow to Jeb will go to Walker. As one insider put it, “The guy always wins.” And that is the highest tribute a big money Republican can render.
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When a liberal state like NJ elects a Republican to state office, you know he is just another RINO.
Just can’t see NJFatboy getting any voter enthusiasm outside the northeast. Well there and maybe Jerry Jones stadium box.
2016 may be the real last chance. If republicans nominate another Romneybushmccain, and he wins, we’re still screwed. If he’s the man, Walker had better be the real deal.
WaPo, we’ll not vote for any Uniparty member.
So the heard of RINO idiots you’d like will hopefully go the way of the dodo.
The GOPe and the mainstream media want to make sure that a “split the RINO vote” situation does not arise. So of course they will cull the RINO herd. They will also do things such as run Little Lindsey Graham (at least until the South Carolina primary is over) so he can capture the South Carolina delegates to use as he and the GOPe wish and deny those delegates to a candidate such as Ted Cruz or Scott Walker.
And now Jeb has his email scandal, entirely of his own making. May it be the first of many in his struggle to get his daddy’s crown.
So the heard of RINO idiots you’d like will hopefully go the way of the dodo.
Coyote, you said what I was thinking before I could even type it out.
Plus, this is coming from Tubeworm Jennifer Rubin.
Show her a picture of Sarah Palin and it is like showing Dracula a Cross.
“...Plus, this is coming from Tubeworm Jennifer Rubin....”
Tubeworm.
Now that there was funny!
Love it.
Walker has been the establishment pick from the start.
Priebus, Paul Ryan, and Walker cabal.
I’m at the end of my rope.
The GOPe has left me with few options.
Obladi Oblada ..
Nothing lasts forever..
The party campfire eventually dies out.
Reality sets in..
Obladi Oblada..
HOoooo.. Life goes on..
Need to remove Jeb from the list ASAP.
He is NOT an option imo.
As I’ve been saying for a while -
No more Kennedys
No more Carters
No more Bushes
No more Nunns
No more Clintons
We could probably add a few more here. Political office should not be quasi-hereditary here in the USA.
We did our part last Fall here in GA, by not electing a Carter and a Nunn to the governor’s mansion and to the Senate, respectively.
She's the unibrow from WaPo.
Just saying.
WHO is out there, supporting American jobs?
Who?
I’m starting to agree with you. Walker’s buddy Reince Priebus is the head of the RNC. All the stop lights seem to be turning green for Walker at just the right times.
“WHO is out there, supporting American jobs?”
Anyone who does not support Obamacare, a union stranglehold on industries, the current sky high corporate tax rate or raising the minimum wage, as far as I’m concerned...
Name one person.
Anyone.
The things I mentioned are embraced by several non-Rino notables. I think Walker was pretty righteous in his taking on of the unions and beating out their efforts to recall him-that says cojones to me. Several governors in the South and Southwest have kept or taken back the right-to-work in their states, offered tax breaks to companies to move there and resisted the higher minimum wage and Obamacare trap. It works-look at the economies of those states, even with the drop-off in oil prices.
All that makes a business friendly environment for companies to leave places like NY and Cali, come to those other states, open a facility and hire people. Toyota did that about 65 miles from where I live s few years ago, and it is a good thing.
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