Christie’s tea-party problem (Mind-numbingly wrong)

The Washington Post ^ | November 11, 2013 | Richard Cohen

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The day after Chris Christie, the cuddly moderate conservative, won a landslide reelection as the Republican governor of Democratic New Jersey, I took the Internet Express out to Iowa, surveying its various newspapers, blogs and such to see how he might do in the GOP caucuses, won last time by Rick Santorum, neither cuddly nor moderate. Superstorm Sandy put Christie on the map. The winter snows of Iowa could bury him.

From a Web site called the Iowa Republican, I learned that part of the problem with John McCain and Mitt Romney, seriatim losers to Barack Obama, “is they were deemed too moderate by many Iowa conservatives.” The sort of candidates Iowa Republicans prefer have already been in the state. The blog cited Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah (considered to the right of Cruz, if such a thing is possible), Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the party’s recent vice presidential candidate and its resident abacus, and the inevitable Sarah Palin, the Alaska quitter who, I think, actually now lives in Arizona. If this is the future of the GOP, then it’s in the past.

None of these candidates bears the slightest resemblance to Christie. And the more literate of them — that’s not you, Palin — must have chortled over post-election newspaper columns extolling Christie as precisely the sort of candidate the GOP ought to run in 2016....

[leprechaun9]

1. Why didn't Christie appoint someone like Judge Napolitano to fill the unexpired U.S. Senate term until the 2014 election?
2. Why didn't Christie schedule the election to fill the unexpired term for the General Election (and save the cost of a Special Election)?
3. Why didn't his big win help any Republican Legislative candidate?
4. Why didn't Christie campaign for the Republican Primary Election winner - Steve Lonergan?
5. Why didn't Christie campaign for AG Cuccinelli in VA?
6. Why did Christie (on the day after his big win)in his NJ capo style in your face remarks state:I am going to travel around the country campaigning the Primary Elections to oppose challengers to the status quo?

I see his efforts at feeding his ego and not as supporting the efforts of the Republican electorate in their elected choice of candidate for the General Election.

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The day after Chris Christie, the cuddly moderate conservative pussy RINO Quisling appeaser, hugger of dictators, and Senate seat donor. There.