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.
“or in other words a poor man’s bloomberg. did you not read the title of the article.”
Yes, I can read and I can write in a grammatically correct way by beginning sentences with capital letters.
Evidently, you think my post was contrary to the title and somehow contrary to the article.
I thought my post was affirmatory to the title.
Has cyberspace become so perverse that one takes the defensive for an affirmatory post?
It appears that Riehl is correct.
Saving.
Thanks for posting!
Christie is a mixed bag republican
Simple.
Bloomberg sent government spending to unprecedented heights. Christie cut spending.
Bloomberg instituted a nanny state mentality that would make Red Ken blush. Christie is paring back government.
Bloomberg loves gay sex, and public funding of abortion, and wants to criminalize the Catholic Church for opposing them; Christie is a pro-lifer, and if he has an opinion on gay sex, has kept it to himself.
Christie’s comments on the mosque were indefensibly stupid, and he is soft on illegal immigration. But I dare say he’s no further left than Bush, even on immigration and embracing “the religion of peace,” as Bush calls it, and far to the right of Bush on spending, the role of government, etc.
Christie seems to be focused on himself and making public appearances and talk show gigs rather than taking care of business. He hasn't done anything about getting the government of the backs of small business. He talks a good game but is delivering little.
Oh Pleawe1 Bloomberg is nothing but a phony little RINO poser, whose successes are all due to carrying through with
what Giuliani started. And those plans have run their course, leaving a pathetic shell of of a man with no ideas as the mayor of NYC. the decay and return to pre-Giuliani crud, has already begun.
You’re probably right on the “presedential material” point, but he’s the best we in New Jersey have seen in a while.
So many proclamations around here: “He ought to have done... this” or “he should’a done that...,” or “Why did he do ____.”
The people who proffer these observations apparently don’t know a damn thing about New Jersey.
Here, corruption is an institution and everyone is caught in it. Example: my wife is a teacher, recently hired and fully expects to get laid off, after 2 years of exhaustive kowtowing, credential pursuit, and after finally getting full-time employment, form filing.
She hates Christie because she thinks she’ll get laid off. She won’t hear rational explanation; she can’t. She won’t hear that the union’s intractability is the reason for this.
You really can’t blame her; she followed the guidelines,the rules, put in her time, but her time, her work, talent, and sweat (and believe me, she’s good at it) will gain her nothing.
I only mention this to explain what’s going on here: the unions have made their most recent, most productive, forcibly compelled membership hostage. The best, and least paid, are about to be marched into the desert.(Union thug Ka-shitian should understand this allusion) Meanwhile, the incessant drum beat: “evil Christie is the devil destroying your dream, your life.” Once the best are out and test scores plummet, the cadence will change: “Christie’s budget cuts destroyed your school system.”
Lookit, Christie’s doing what I thought impossible in the first place, and he’s waging the war the only way he can: one fight at a time.
If you’re not with him, you’re with the union thugs.
Period.
BOTH are TYPICAL, northeastern-corridor, inner-city, GUN-GRABBING Pieces-OS, and NOT worthy of NATIONAL office on their disdane for the 2nd Amendment ALONE.
If you’re looking for a Solidly Conservative Republican Governor from the Northeast, see Paul LePage of Maine.
We need someone that locks up the South and plays well in the Midwest, MT west and upper Midwest. The NE is a lost cause. But more importantly the GOP nominee does not need one vote from the NE to win the POTUS so why waste effort, time and money trying to get votes in that region. Use the conservatives/gop in those states as fundraising pods but do not give them any say in the direction of the party.
2011 NJ Gov Christie State budget will be $46B a reduction from the 2010 budget of $48.5B
www.njspotlight.com/special/budget/state_spending/
I think I especially like him because he is such a dead-on communicator. It is refreshing. He doesn’t pussy foot around.
Also, probably related, he doesn’t seem to be a frightened little mouse.
Not saying I disagree. What I’m saying is that if you really want a NE Governor, LePage could very well be better than Christie. He’s authentic tea party. There really aren’t that many tea party politicians at Governor level. So, questions arise like who might Palin pick for her administration. If she wins, she’ll need a lot of good conservatives, and most Republican politicians are not good conservatives. LePage is shaping up to be a good conservative.
I was just going to look it up because it didn’t make sense about his budget being more than the marxist planner corzine. Thanks tlozo. :)
Gov Christie is PRO-LIFE which makes him NOT one of the marxist planners...
http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20110125/COMMUNITIES/301250003/1005/NEWS01/Analysts—Christie-fires-up-base-at-anti-abortion-rally
Reagan won 49 states. When you automatically turn off the NE and the West Coast, you’re moving toward denying yourself a candidate with a sweeping mandate. I’m not recommending picking someone from there, or picking someone whose views fit with the typical person from there, but picking someone who is not stylistically abhorrent to the NE and West Coast. So, someone like Huckabee might not be a good pick for that reason. Palin would be good, and places like Minnesota and Wisconsin and even Michigan, could go to her the first time. Stylistically, Romney is ok with the NE and West Coast. Not culturally foreign. But Romney is unacceptable for many different reasons.
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