Chris Christie IS a RINO.
Even a broken clock......etc.
He’s a fiscal conservative - to a degree, and a social lib.
The GOP establishment is looking to him as a successor to Romney if Romney falters. They DON’T want a conservative to run against Obama.
Christie:
1) Is on record stting that illegal aliens are NOT breaking a Federal Law by being here
2) Waited TWO YEARS to pull New Jersey out of REGGIE
3) Said the Mosque at Ground Zero is a “local affair”.
4) Appointed a Muslim Immigration Attorney with no judicial experience to the Superior Court of Passaic County, New Jersey
5) Appointed an anti-gun DEMOCRAT as the State Attorney General
6) Approved of the firing of a New Jersey Transit Worker who burned a Koran ON HIS OWN TIME to protest the Mosque at ground zero, saying the burning was a “disgusting” act.
7) REFUSES to join in on the State Suit against Obamacare
8) Campaigned for Castel in Delaware
9) Was the ONLY Governor to attend a dinner in Washington with the “President” of Communist China at Obama’s request.
In New Jersey, Christie is the BEST we can hope for.
In AMERICA there are a LOT MORE BETTER CHOICES for President.
And since he's not running, your entire rant is totally irrelevant.
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’....