He is great on Budget, lousy on Social Issues, and ignoring Social issues has brought us where we are.
America is great, because America is good, if she ceases to be good, she will cease being great. Misquote I think, but close enough.
Christie is 100% pro-life (with a track record of actually DOING something about it and shutting down Planned Parenthood in NJ), pro-traditional marriage (and has pledged to veto any gay marriage legislation), pro-freedom of religious expression (and he is personally a very devout Catholic who started his inageration day with a Mass), pro-school vouchers and educational choice, and anti-enthusenia.
No, he's not perfect on social issues, but the idea that he's a "social liberal" is a myth started by bitter Lonegan supporters. Christie is conservative on roughly 80% of the social issues out there. When they're confronted with this and asked to provide proof of all his "social liberal" policies, they get off topic and start talking about windmill taxes and other stuff that has nothing to do with social issues. If he was a "social liberal", he'd be marching in gay pride parades and handing out condoms in public schools.
He's not as conservative as me on social issues, but he's well to the right of a social liberal like Mark Mark or Barney Frank.