“Christie is a RINO.”
On social issues maybe, but DEFINITELY NOT fiscally. No one, since Reagan at least, has stood up to the unions more courageously than Christie, saving his state from bankruptcy—and NJ is an EXTREMELY unionized state.
Bush was the opposite, definitely Conservative on abortion...but VERY RINO on big government....
If you dismiss social issues now, they will NEVER make their way back into any political debate again.