I’m not sure that was the final blow, but it was a very stupid thing to do. First of all, you don’t want to give a guy like Obama a photo op he can game at your party’s and efforts’ expense.
Just be too busy to meet with him publicly. If he wants to drop by the office, great. Otherwise, pound sand.
What bothers me about this ‘traffic jam gate’ is that it’s a flimsy excuse to take Christie down. No love is lost here for me with regard to Christie, but we don’t do ourselves any service if we allow the media to take this guy down. Next time it will be someone we do like.
Too many people are willing to jump on board the good ship ‘trash Christie’ right now. He doesn’t deserve our support for his Leftist actions. It has nothing to do with traffic.
The Democrats and the media have latched on to this thing, and they won’t let go. Think of all the scandal swirling around Obama that they have to walk over as they go for Christie’s throat.
F U media outlets, and the Democrats coat-tails you slithered in on.
One suspects that the reason for Mister Christie's chumminess w Mister Obama late in the '12 election may have been to throw (intentionally) the election to Obama, thus giving him (Christie) the advantage for gaining GOP nomination in '16.
Is Mister Christie that selfish and dirty?
Yes, one suspects.
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It has to do with how Christie handled an emergency, assuming he's telling the truth. Once he was assured that his staff wasn't involved, a governor who cared about people would've said "I don't care what the cause of the problem is, let's do everything we can to get that trafiic snarl taken care of". Nobody's brought up the bad governing conclusion that comes from believing Christie.
Of course we should let it be used to destroy Christie. Conservatives are sick of the RNC and their friends in high places choosing candidates conservatives don't support, then saying it's our fault they lose. They've shown us they'd rather lose elections than cede power to constitutional conservatives. Christie, their current fave, was a real bad choice, and not just because he doesn't support any of our issues....by his own admission in this situation, he's a lousy governor. If the ptb try to give us Jeb Bush or Paul Ryan or someone else who isn't a constitutional conservative, we should be just as thrilled if the dems and the media destroy them, too.
With any luck, only Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul and the others who stand with them will be left when primary season comes around.
Funny that's what Mary Landreu's been doing lately