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
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.
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’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.
..still waiting for Christie to join in on the multi-state lawsuit against Obamacare.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.