Posted on 11/05/2012 7:06:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Is this the case of a broken heart? And, if so, whose? The Huffington Post reports that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie declined attending a Sunday campaign event for Republican Presidential nominee and his onetime best political best bud former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. And from the quote from a Romney bigwig in the HP story, Team Romney is NOT happy:
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who was effusive in his praise of President Barack Obama when the two leaders toured damage from Hurricane Sandy last week, turned down a request by Mitt Romney to appear with him at a rally on Sunday night in Pennsylvania, The Huffington Post has learned.
Christie’s decision will only add to questions among Republicans about what the governor — who is up for reelection a year from now — is thinking, and why he went out of his way to heap praise on the president, and then refused to appear with Romney.
The Romney rally was held at a farm in Morrisville, Pa., not more than 20 minutes from Trenton, the New Jersey capital. The physical proximity of the event to New Jersey only added to questions in the Romney campaign about why Christie chose not to come.
“You can’t tell me he couldn’t have gone over there for a night rally,” a Romney campaign source told HuffPost.
Christie did, however, has had some more contact (telephone) with Obama since the storm and his official calls. Obama was playing Yenta the Matchmaker so Christie could talk to his longtime hero, singer and prominent New Jersey resident Bruce Springstein:
President Obama connected Bruce Springsteen and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during a phone call from Air Force One Monday, TPM has confirmed. The New Jersey legend campaigned with the president in Wisconsin and Ohio on Monday.
Here’s Christie talking about his talk with his hero:
(VIDEO AT LINK)
There’s all kinds of speculation about what has gone on with Obama, Christie and Romney. Here are a few things to keep in mind:
1. Christie seemed genuinely in a state of grief over what happened to his state and he welcomed Obama’s efforts.
2. Conservatives who started blasting him and demonizing him for cooperating with Obama like politicians for centuries of both parties have worked together in times of crisis made a big mistake. I’m sure it was not lost on him.
3. He may have concluded a)Romney is going to lose b)it’s easier for him to run in 2016 if there is no Republican in the White House.
4. Team Romney was clearly behind a piece in The Politico that was not entirely complimentary to Christie saying he had been Romney’s original first choice for V.P.
5. He may have been resentful about not being asked.
6. He TRULY has wanted to interact with Springstein.
7. He may shift that there is a hunger more than ever for many Americans to see people of both parties work together rather than constantly snipe at each other to score points. 8. Rupert Murdoch’s virtual threat to Christie may have caused the Governor to dig in his heels. “To you, buddy!”
It may be a story of two politically broken hearts.
Truthfully, the second I heard Christie’s over-the-top praise of Obama, I thought it was an intentional f-bomb to Romney, almost like he was waiting for the moment. Actually, Christie did nothing to advance Romney at the convention either. Something prior to that has happened and I think it was a big fat VP rejection. (No pun intended)
NEVER trust a RINO. PERIOD.
dollars to donuts the chicago machine has photos of christie pudding wrestling rosie o’donnell and made it clear they aren’t afraid to use ‘em.
Debunked here... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2955491/posts
I think Christie is genuinely and profoundly affected by the hurricane...some people become more emotional than others...
it doesn't matter one iota....
let Christie be Christie....if he feels he has to hob nob with the chief rat to get better treatment for his people, so be it....
politics is 100% you kiss my backside and I'll kiss yours...doubly important to bamey boy...
THis is absurd. I doubt Romney’s team is upset. Christie is a republican governor of a state that was devastated by a hurricane.
If Christie left his state to go to a Romney campaign event, EVERY national news story would be about how Romney/Christie were abandoning suffering people for politics.
There is no way a Christie appearance at a campaign event would NOT be used by the media as an attack on Romney.
God, i’m so glad this guy wasn’t selected for VP...what a TOOL...
ping!
Christie is being used by the left (due to how he responded to Obama).
I saw a lib political operative say on O’Reilly tonight how Christie can cross the aisle but that she did not see Romney ever doing the same so vote for OBama, the peace maker.
So they have their talking points, thanks to fat boy.
Very true. Christie takes a lot of media grief and handles
it well. But if he leaves his post now he will regret it later.
Smart move for him if it is true. He is not needed anyway.
“Christie lost me when he lowered the flag to half staff for the singin’ druggie...How dare he....”
You’re not alone on that one, believe me.
20 minutes from his office in Trenton? At night? I don’t believe that for a second.
“I am really disappointed in Christie.”
I’m not. Christie is and has always been a RINO. Nothing has changed.
“I am really disappointed in Christie.”
I’m not. Christie is and has always been a RINO. Nothing has changed.
“I am really disappointed in Christie.”
I’m not. Christie is and has always been a RINO. Nothing has changed.
was he a secret ‘bi’ deciding to come out of the closet full gay after getting rejected by a female for love? Seems so. Democrat Christy. Sad but true. Maybe he has man crush on Bambi Do Wrong after being rejected by Romney Do Right
Amazing, still, that people label Chris Christie as a “Conservative”.
and in this case it will cost him a larger, national political career. This combined with the beta male picture following Obama around like the unpopular fat kid in grade school cost him his political life and sucked away all political capitol he had built up. The ocean washed away more than the NJ shore it seems. Swept his future right out from under him.
yeah. I never did understand that.
I’m not. Christie is doing what he was elected todo. Christie is the best Governor NJ has had and he’s doing what he was elected, by people like me, to do.
The people who are “disappointed in Christie” are people who didn’t support him initially.
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