Posted on 06/09/2011 7:40:51 AM PDT by SumProVita
"...Christie said. “It also meets our goal of making sure government is out of the broadcasting business. In my view that should have ended with the Soviet Union. It’s ending here in New Jersey a little later than the fall of the wall in Berlin, but we’re getting there."
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Did you actually read ZULU’s post?
Yes. I’ve seen it before.
Disagree.
Ronald Reagan was president of a union. He voted to raise taxes. He granted illegals amnesty.
You take these missteps out of context, and Reagan sounds like Barney Frank.
Christie is articulate, and much more important is that he’s EFFECTIVE. He’s getting things done, even in New Jersey.
On the mosque issue, he’s right - that’s Manhattan, not New Jersey - why be stupid and spend political capital on a pronouncement that’s not going to get him anything at all?
Here’s the very last, and most important, quality Christie has - he is the most effective communicator in politics, and he’s one of us.
He took on the public sector unions - in NJ, mind you - and won. I’m surprised Tony Soprano hasn’t taken him on a test drive of a boat he wants to buy.
Whatever sets back the agenda of statism, I’m for it. I don’t care where it comes from anymore. Newt Gingrich got conservatism back in the door, and then blew it. He still gets credit for 1994 in my opinion, even though I can’t stand the guy today.
I just hope, in the end, he didn’t do as much to set back conservatism as he did to promote it.
Christie’s getting a free ride on the Obamacare thing right now - he’s got better things for his AG to do, and its before SCOTUS right now. They’ll F it up, as they are wont to do, but whether the NJ AG was signed on or not isn’t going to change Steven’s, Breyer’s, Ginsburg’s vote.
In the end, SCOTUS put a stop to Rockefeller in the 40’s, and they should have. They respect precedent, so there really isn’t much for SCOTUS to do here but uphold the lower court decision and move on. It’s pretty clear that making people buy insurance isn’t constitutional.
It doesn’t mean they’ll do the right thing.
Has any other governor pulled the plug on PBS in their state yet? There are states much redder than NJ that should have by now. Why was he first?
“Chris Christie Privatizes Public Broadcasting in New Jersey”
“Chris Christie IS a RINO.”
First, to paraphrase Forrest Gump:
RINO is as RINO does.
And “conservative” is as conservative does, as well.
I respond to your post by proffering that Governor Christie — be he a RINO or not — seems to have accomplished more in his state than even so-called ‘conservative” Republicans in Congress (or Republican governors in other states) either can’t or won’t do.
Actions often speak louder and with more impact than do words.
Regardless of what Christie says (or even what he holds for personal beliefs), he seems to be governing in the right direction.
I would prefer but a few “Christies” who actually DO SOMETHING in their offices, to a gaggle of “conservatives” who “talk the talk” about reducing the scope of government and then...... do nothing.
How many OTHER Republicans — and name ONE — have succeeded in privatizing Public Broadcasting in their respective states?
That doesn’t mean I’m supporting Christie for president. But who could have believed he would have pushed New Jersey in the direction that he has?
Just sayin’....
Right there is the problem. He is not a Conservative. He is all over the place on social issues. When it comes to actually making the serious cuts in funding, Christie is no where. I live in the NJ/Philly media market. I get all the news coming out of Trenton. He has made no serious moves to save the state. Contrast that with what Corbett is doing in PA, Walker in WI or Kasich in OH.
If folks want to say that he is the best Republican NJ can elect, I will agree. But this tagging a generic Tom Kean/ Christie Whitman Republican a Conservative is going too far.
Jeez, a governor does the right thing and half the folks at Free Republic criticize him for it because he’s not pure enough.
The perfect is the enemy of the good. Better to be a marginalized regional party with a Marxist president than to take the good where you find it and understand that New Jersey is different than Idaho.
Could you list these accomplishments please. Could you also show where NJ is now out of financial trouble through these accomplishments. There should be many since he is a "DO SOMETHING" type of guy.
Lower my taxes and my car insurance, big guy.
“Christie is articulate, and much more important is that he’s EFFECTIVE. He’s getting things done, even in New Jersey.”
He appears to be taking steps to rectify New Jersey’s fiscal mess. I give him that and its laudable.
“On the mosque issue, he’s right - that’s Manhattan, not New Jersey - why be stupid and spend political capital on a pronouncement that’s not going to get him anything at all?”
TOTALLY wrong! The 911 attack was of INTERNATIONAL import. People from EVERYTHWERE commented. A LOT of the vicims were from New Jersey. It was an ATTACK on our basic concept of governance by a hostile, international conspiracy of theocratic maniacs. Local issue? Ridiculous. That statement exmplified Christie’s not-ready-for-time status.
“Here’s the very last, and most important, quality Christie has - he is the most effective communicator in politics, and he’s one of us.”
He is an effective commicator - at times. At other times he comes across as a loud, crass bully. If he presented himelf at times in a more measured fashion he would draw even more support for his efforts to tame the Union Civil Service Beasts. Such an approach would draw a stark comparison between him and them. He needn’t descend at times to their level.
“Whatever sets back the agenda of statism, I’m for it.”
Me too. But that doesn’t automatically mean I have to support every engine that does it for higher office.
“Christie’s getting a free ride on the Obamacare thing right now - he’s got better things for his AG to do, and its before SCOTUS right now. They’ll F it up, as they are wont to do, but whether the NJ AG was signed on or not isn’t going to change Steven’s, Breyer’s, Ginsburg’s vote.”
I have heard his explanations and I don’t agree with them. The more states on the bandwagon, the harder it will be for SCOTUS to back Obama. As for more important things to do, I trut Ms. Dow can walk and chew gum at the same time. Sorry his explanations don’t hold water.
“It’s pretty clear that making people buy insurance isn’t constitutional.”
There are four idiots on SCOTUS who don’t feel they need a Constitution, four great men who realize we do, and one swing judge. Logic and the Constitution don’t always come first. Look at the eminent domain descision.
“Has any other governor pulled the plug on PBS in their state yet? There are states much redder than NJ that should have by now. Why was he first?”
You can’t make a judgement on one issue. I praise Christie here as I do when he is right and slam him when he is wrong.
He’s the best governor New Jersey has had since Meyner - and while that says a lot for New Jersey, it doesn’t make him fit for President.
Well, he’s TRYING to do the right thing, and has done so in a number of cases. This is one of them. I admitted that.
But again, unless he changes his views on Islam, the Second Amendment, the First Amendment, and Illegal Aliens, he is still in the Little League when it comes to the Presidential Races.
Campaiging for other candiddates is fine, as long as he isn’t campaigning for candidates like the guy he endorsed in Indiana - Governor Mitch Daniels - the guy who VETOED a state bill which would make Sharia ILLEGAL in Indiana and invited a bunch of Imams to a prayer meeting in the State House (Do I see a Christie pattern of Islamophilia here?)
Don’t you have something better to do than pick on successful GOP governors? Gov. Daniels has accomplished more than Scott Walker’s wildest dreams, and yet, you don’t like him. What’s the deal with you? Is Islam your hot button? Show hostility to Islam or you’re a useless RINO?
I think “not pure enough” for a guy who is an Islamophile, anti-Second Amendment, pro-Illegal Alien, and, apparently, anti-Second Amendment, sounds rather weak.
Swell. When he does something which exhibits one of those evil characteristics which you ascribe to him, criticize him for it. But he did the right thing with regard to PBS and should be commended for it. Criticism for doing the right thing rings a little hollow.
I don’t want a RINO running for office. They had their chance in 2008 and blew it.
As for Islam - its the modern day equivalent of NAZIsm but at least we didn’t allow Hitler Youth Bunds to be formed in the west.
What’s YOUR problem? Islam not an issue with you? Who do you think blew up the twin towers and who do you think we have been fighting in the Middle East and southern and eastern Europe for the past 1400 years?
Don’t YOU have anythng better to do than praise RINO governors who do a few things right and then are considered presidenital timber by a segment of establishment Republicans?
I DO commend him for this.
But I DON’T feel it makes him Presidential Timber. He has too much other baggage he needs to deal with first.
Could you provide a little more detail for your claim that Governor Daniels vetoed an Indiana law outlawing sharia law? It seems to have escaped notice of the Indiana news media.
That’s what I thought.
Check THIS out.
Still running down the Daniels/Sharia Law issue:
http://indianamuslims.org/index.php/events/governors-annual-iftar/98
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