Posted on 01/28/2011 7:05:55 PM PST by unseen1
Just a thought, really - the base doesn't much care for NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg, yet some hail NJ Gov Chris Christie as a conservative hero. Is that because of his politics, or his notorious YouTube tirades.
From Christie on the Ground Zero Mosque, his appointment of a Hamas friendly judge, support for gun control and weak record on immigration, the two men's politics don't differ very much. Today, I see Christie is doing the soft middle of the road two-step, also reminiscent of Bloomberg. So, how is it that Bloomberg is somewhat reviled, yet Christie gets rave reviews in some quarters?
But Christie, who has quickly become a rising star in the GOP, directed fire at "demagoguery" on both sides of the isle. "Both parties have within them members who are afraid to step out and afraid to tell the truth because they've seen the demagoguery of the past and what happened to people who got in way of that demagoguery," he said. "It usually was not positive for political future.
Noemie Emery claims he's going to be the next big thing, as well as President.
Nonetheless, Christie says he needs more experience, and so he will get it -- a whole year and more until spring 2012, when at the last possible moment he accepts the inevitable and decides to give in to the draft. And after that comes the happy night in November 2012, when he passes 270, and voters from coast to coast break out in chorus:
But then, she also had Arnold pegged as one of the Founders back in 2003. We all know how that worked out. Frankly, without Christie's YouTube moments playing the Terminator against a teacher, or union member, I don't see enough difference between him and Bloomberg politically to convince me he can survive the type of political scrutiny that comes with wanting to be President of the entire country, as opposed to some fired up YouTube fans. He's wrong on too many issues to attract and retain enough of the base over the long haul.
Schwartzenegger thinks like a founder. It shows.
Christie is not all that conservative but Bloomberg is not even a Repubblican. He only ran on the GOP side because the other party primary was too crowded.
God Bless Dan: He is paying attention!!!!!!!!!
N.J. Gov. Christie meets with Mitt Romney at governor’s mansion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2663132/posts
Muslim Picked for New Jersey Bench [Gov. Chris Christie appointee]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2657006/posts
Gov. Christie signs ‘Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights’ (more “gay rights” laws)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2652399/posts
Half Cocked: Chris Christie Won’t Fight for Gun Rights
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2649169/posts
and yet they line up on most issues.
I knew Christie wouldn’t be my guy as soon as I heard he wanted to build the mosque at Ground Zero.
And then he continued to disappoint.
Christie’s star looking more and more. . .tarnished. But no matter the number of issues; one was enough to ruin the shine for me. When he came out in favor of 9/11 Mosque while dismissing those who protest; that was it. I colored him ‘gone’ in my book.
Laser focused? Care to explain how Gov chrisite’s budget was $400 million more than Gov corzines budget.
Bloomberg is an elitist.
Christie is a populist by Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey standards.
Christie might not be a populist in Red State flyover country.
Rudy Guliani was populist by the standards of NYC and even though Sean Hannity had a serious case of man love for Rudy, Rudy did not play in Peoria, in fact he never got as far as Peoria.
He lost me when his budget was $400million more than corzines yet he talks like he is this great fiscal conservative. then his support for Castle and the GZM. RINOville is where christie is firmly planted.
He’s not a flaming liberal like Bloomberg. But he’s a typical New Joisey Republican.
I would compare him with Christie Whitman. When she was first elected, after the voters got sick of the corrupt Dem who preceded her, everyone thought she was great.
They gradually learned differently. She was a Limousine RINO.
Christie tooks a great game on YouTube, but I’d prefer to wait a term or two and see what he actually does.
Immigration, gay rights, right to life, Islamism, we really don’t know what he will DO on these issues. For that matter, we really don’t know how he will actually treat the Teachers Union, aside from a lot of loud talk. Sometimes the bosses talk rough to the unions before the negotiations start. But let’s see how the negotiations actually turn out.
or in other words a poor man’s bloomberg. did you not read the title of the article.
and yet issue after issue he lines up with the flaming liberal, bloomberg. sooner or later you have to say if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck its a duck....
..still waiting for Christie to join in on the multi-state lawsuit against Obamacare.
Well, I’m certainly not defending him. He is NOT a conservative, and we should not be considering him as presidential material.
ROFL.....yeah me too but I’m not holding my breath on that one.
In fact I don’t ever remember Chrisitie saying a negative about obamacare come to think of it....
“I think Dan is spot on here. Chrisite = bloomberg thoughts?”
I only know Christie’s reputation for being a budget hawk.
I do not believe anyone can be both fiscally and socially conservative. They are mutually exclusive, the way I see it.
I will watch more closely from now on.
Christie is soft on shari’a law and the islamo-cult. He nominated Sohail Mohammed, an attorney for detained terrorists, for a N J Superior Court Judgeship in Passaic County.
“...The Sohail nomination continues Christie’s unfortunate pandering to the American Muslim Union and the Islamic Center of Passaic County.
Passaic County has the second largest Muslim population in the country. And the Islamic Center of Passaic County is the state’s largest mosque, and it’s the only one run by an an Imam who was a member of the Hamas terrorist organization. But when the United States government attempted to deport Mohammed Qatanani, New Jersey’s pols and wannabe pols like Christie, quickly came to his aid. Despite the fact that Mohammed Qatanani was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, the organization that is behind both Al Qaeda and Hamas, despite his own guilty plea to being a member of Hamas, and despite the fact that even in the United States, he had defended a charity that provided funds to children of suicide bombers (this is done as an incentive to reassure terrorists that if they die their families will be taken care of), Qatanani was not deported.
This is less a sign of his innocence, then of the power and influence wielded by Qatanani and the American Muslim Union. There was hardly a top New Jersey public official who did not come out for Qatanani. And that included both of the major candidates in the governor’s race, Governor Jon Corzine and Chris Christie. Christie called Qatanani, “a man of great goodwill” and “a constructive force” and allowed Charles McKenna, one of his associate attorneys to testify on behalf of Qatanani. Afterward Christie tapped McKenna to head New Jersey’s Department of Homeland Security. McKenna had spent a good deal of time on Muslim “outreach” and made numerous statements echoing their talking points.
The pioneering terrorism researcher, Steve Emerson called it, “a disgrace and an act of pure political corruption”. He stated, “I know for certain that Christie and the FBI SAC had access to information about Qatanani’s background, involvement with and support of Hamas.” Defending Qatanani required Christie to pit himself against the Department of Homeland Security, which wanted him deported. But the Department of Homeland Security wasn’t running for office in New Jersey. Christie was.
The first Imam of the Islamic Center of Passaic County, Mohammad El-Mezain, was convicted of funneling money to Hamas. El-Mezain had actually boasted of raising almost 2 million dollars for Hamas. And his replacement, Qatanani, actually was a member of Hamas. An ordinary politician might have been forgiven for not knowing this, but Christie was the US Attorney for New Jersey. It’s absolutely impossible that he would not have known the background of the Islamic Center of Passaic County. Yet Christie attended a Ramadan dinner, in the same place where terrorists had fundraised, and kissed Qatanani on the cheek.
Now Christie has nominated Sohail Mohammed, Qatanan’s former lawyer, to a Superior Court judgeship. Sohail Mohammed is a board member of the American Muslim Union, an organization that has interlocking leadership with groups that have fundraised for Hamas and hosted a Hamas speaker. The American Muslim Union is closely interlinked with Qatanani’s Islamic Center of Passaic County....”
“...Is this what the people of New Jersey really want in their officials? It doesn’t matter, because they’re not being given a choice. And that’s the worst part of it. Whether you voted Corzine or Christie, you still ended up with a politician who was in bed with the IPCC and the AMU and who was going to nominate Sohail Mohammed to a Superior Court Judgeship. And that denotes a profound level of corruption that should cause intense scrutiny for any elected official from the Garden State who tries to run for national office. That includes Governor Christie who fought one brand of corruption, but surrendered to another, who was willing to stand up to the teacher’s union, but not to the terrorist’s union.”
Christie is relatively good for New Jersey but that’s where it stops.
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