This is how you deal with Democrats. Christy has written the playbook. Republicans just need to find a backbone and take on the Dems directly and forcefully.
Actually the playbook was written by Fiorello LaGuardia, the Republican Mayor of New York from 1933 to 1945, in his dealings with Tammany Hall. By the time he left office, Tammany was pretty much destroyed.
Giuliani and Christie have updated the playbook for the modern media era.
True Republican ideology requires intelligent voters. That's why the Republican base is about 30% of the total vote pool.
So, in order to win an election, Republican strategy aims to appeal to soccer moms, illegal alien businessmen running taco roach coaches, the so-called independents, gays and lesbians who aren't totally stupid, retirees, homeowners, etc. etc. yadda yadda. They think that in order to attract these people they have to come on like Democrats, just more patriotic and somewhat more fiscally sound. And of course, when they do, they piss off the base. The deal is "Well give you more than the Democrats, keep your taxes low, and we're good clean people." Hell of a platform.
50 years of this, and there is little practical difference between a normal, middle of the road Democrat, and a RINO Office holder. And now, too many Republicans are just plain frightened of being real Republicans. Along comes Christie. To tell the truth, he's got a RINO streak a mile wide, but he also has some notion of Republican ideology and he's a tough guy. More important, taking on the Democrats like a man, holding them by the nose and kicking them in the crepes suzette is a good strategy because we literally have nothing to lose that we haven't lost already.
Maybe the guy's got the legs to go national. We need some people in the high places or it's national disintegration.
I agree. And this week they were saying that we were violent for saying that Second Amendment solutions were on the table, we should’a said “Damn right they are...keep cheating on elections and see what happens.”