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Was there a promise made for the Christie hit on Rubio?

Posted on 02/10/2016 2:14:07 PM PST by Cats Pajamas

Any thoughts on the matter?


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To: Cats Pajamas

As Christie was destroying Rubio during the debate, I thought he’s going to be Trump’s VP.


21 posted on 02/10/2016 2:37:44 PM PST by MrMarbles
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To: Parley Baer
Christie sure exposed Rubio as a lightweight robot.

All Christie showed in that exchange was how little he knew about Obama and his true agenda. Rubio had said that it was wrong for people to say Obama didn't know what he was doing - that he knew full well what he was doing: intentionally destroying the country. ie, "fundamentally transforming" it. If he did make an error it was in not fighting back harder to make that point clear.

22 posted on 02/10/2016 2:45:50 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: Cats Pajamas

Yep.

A box of Krispy Kremes.


23 posted on 02/10/2016 2:46:20 PM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Cats Pajamas

Christie has been on the two young senators since the first debate.


24 posted on 02/10/2016 2:50:45 PM PST by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: Toespi

He would make a good AG


25 posted on 02/10/2016 2:52:58 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Cats Pajamas

We owe Christie gratitude for exposing Rubio for the mindless robot he is, and for sticking in it long enough to bring him down. Thanks governor!


26 posted on 02/10/2016 2:58:20 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: ETL

He repeated it four times.

We know The Usurper is intentionally transforming the country. He told us he would.
None of the people we elected to stop him have tried very hard, including Rubio. He tried to give the Democrats a permanent majority with his amnesty plan.
Christie was hugging him.
Cruz voted for cloture on the trade deal.
They have all helped in some way.

Christie simply pointed out what I had seen for myself, Rubio is the Memorizer Bunny.


27 posted on 02/10/2016 3:00:11 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Cats Pajamas

Very, very little happens in the political sphere without some manner of quid pro quo.
It only gets worse in a Presidential election cycle.


28 posted on 02/10/2016 3:12:20 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2017; I pray we make it that long.)
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To: Cats Pajamas

Probably not. There was no upside for him going after Trump or Cruz and Jeb was in the same spot he was. His only hope was totally destroying Rubio (he did) and picking up a good 3rd, then see how things proceed.

He may support Trump, but I don’t think he will. He could be Trumps VP pick, but Trump likes bold and brazen moves so who knows. He may pick Bernie Sanders for VP for all I know.


29 posted on 02/10/2016 3:12:27 PM PST by Fhios (circa 2016: Truth will be outlawed unless pre-approved.)
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To: Cats Pajamas

My view is that Christie did it as a last-ditch attempt to peel off enough votes to remain a viable candidate. The easiest target was Marco Roboto - debate take-downs usually occur after the candidate repeats the same thing over and over again on the campaign trail...just ask Dan Quayle about his referencing of Jack Kennedy and he being of similar age. Rubio was Christie’s biggest threat, the emerging Establishment candidate after Iowa, and Christie wanted that position. Oh, well, it wasn’t meant to be.

WRT Christie being in the Trump Administration...I could see him as the A.G. or the head of Homeland Security, but NOT as V.P. First, the guy is a good attorney and would aggressively fight the government’s battles; if at DHS, he’s had lots of experience with fighting/containing terrorism because of where his state is located and his legal experience. Second, if he is the VP candidate, Trump may well lose - there are LOTS of conservatives who could stomach Trump of there was a conservative on the ticket (Sarah Palin on McCain’s ticket, anyone?), but if the potential successor is just another RINO they will stay home. I don’t think that Trump is that stupid...or stupid enough to think that 2 guys from the Northeast makes for a balanced ticket.


30 posted on 02/10/2016 3:23:49 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Bump!


31 posted on 02/10/2016 3:27:59 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

From the transcript...

RUBIO: And let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing. Barack Obama is undertaking a systematic effort to change this country, to make America more like the rest of the world.

That’s why he passed Obamacare and the stimulus and Dodd-Frank and the deal with Iran. It is a systematic effort to change America.

-snip-

CHRISTIE: We’ve heard it said on the stage that President Obama knows exactly what he’s doing.

-snip-

RUBIO: Here’s the bottom line. This notion that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing is just not true. He knows exactly what he’s doing.

CHRISTIE: There it is. There it is. The memorized 25-second speech. There it is, everybody.

RUBIO: Well, that’s the — that’s the reason why this campaign is so important. Because I think this notion — I think this is an important point. We have to understand what we’re going through here. We are not facing a president that doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows what he is doing. That’s why he’s done the things he’s done.

That’s why we have a president that passed Obamacare and the stimulus. All this damage that he’s done to America is deliberate. This is a president that’s trying to redefine this country. That’s why this election is truly a referendum on our identity as a nation, as a people. Our future is at stake.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-eighth-republican-debate-new-hampshire-2016/


32 posted on 02/10/2016 3:35:00 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Ingraham, Ann Coulter & Howie Carr hate Rubio & tolerate Chris Christie. I think it rubbed off.


33 posted on 02/10/2016 3:42:10 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal (And Trump could win it all My rightful place from birth Dad ive let you down Dub ive made you hurt)
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To: Cats Pajamas

No. They are not deep enough into the competition to sell favors yet. CBS News decided only the top five candidates would be eligible for the Feb 13th debate. That means in order to make it to the "sell favors" stage, Christie would have to had to place fifth or better. Rubio was the most vulnerable candidate to hit, and right there at the edge of the pile with Christie. (Rubio did finish in fifth place.) Christie needed to knock Rubio below him in order to stay in the game long enough to become valuable. He made a spectacular effort -- I thought he actually stood a shot at succeeding -- but good fortune was not with him.


34 posted on 02/10/2016 3:46:47 PM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Cats Pajamas

Christie doesn’t need an incentive to go nasty.

And, he wasn’t where he needed to be with everything else he had tried.


35 posted on 02/10/2016 3:48:46 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: ETL

One of the ways Obama is redefining this country is importing voters. Rubio signed up to help him with that.
I have had no use for Rubio since I saw him yucking it up with his Gang.


36 posted on 02/10/2016 3:50:19 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Ancesthntr

Yep. A NY/NJ ticket with two loudmouths isn’t happening.

But Trump wouldn’t have been able to take down (for now, at least) Jeb or Christie Rubio if their jabs didn’t reinforce a sense that people already had about the candidate.

Same thing with Perry forgetting the third department that he said he’d eliminate—people were already afraid he was the idiot he sounded like.


37 posted on 02/10/2016 3:51:32 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Parley Baer

I agree he’d be a good AG. Been saying this for a while now to friends. NOT VP though.


38 posted on 02/10/2016 4:32:14 PM PST by Baumer (Most areas of Washington are Conservative. Cruz 2016!!!)
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To: Cats Pajamas

Who would have made the promise? Did Trump want Rubio out of the way, or did the Bush wing of the establishment want to give us no choice other than Trump, Cruz, or Bush, so we would all finally realize what we’re missing out on?


39 posted on 02/10/2016 5:23:04 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Cats Pajamas

Rubio took himself out...but regardless, who cares.


40 posted on 02/10/2016 5:31:12 PM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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