Well, I’m certainly not defending him. He is NOT a conservative, and we should not be considering him as presidential material.
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.