he is better for NJ than what they had.... and would be a better governor in NY if he lived here....but he is NO conservative...here is part of and interesting piece:
He's pro-life, at least on paper, but he's still hyperbolically anti-gun. And he bandies about the ‘comprehensive immigration reform’ nonsense a little too easily for my taste. The critics of his local policies have been constant and a little wacky, which has actually helped him be seen as a lucid Conservative from a blue state. But in the end, he's still from a deeply blue state where the citizens are thought of more as subjects than elsewhere in the country. (Remember, this is a place where 7 of 11 jurors polled think Jimmy Carter is America's greatest Ex-President.)
He may not be the purely establishment Republican I feared he would, but he's no conservative when measured on the national scale. And when it comes time for him to run nationally, that's the field he'll be playing on. He's got plenty of charisma - no doubt. And he's basically smart. He's won national acclaim by looking like a real conservative, but listening to him lately, it looks like he hasn't learned anything from that.
Vaquero, there are many people out there that don’t fit the “conservative” requirement here on FreeRepublic. Ronald Reagan would be ostracized here.
I used to love this site, but it’s so ridiculous in the purity people look for in their leaders now, that they throw everyone out with the bath water. There is no such thing a solely conservative politician, at least not one that can get elected. I’m more than willing to take someone like Chris Christie over the nutjob we have now. Unfortunately all too many people here at FR make it an all or nothing proposition, and that’s why we get complete whackjobs like O’Donnell, Angle, etc running in some of these elections. By doing so, we re-elect people like Harry Reid.