Pawlenty staffers, fundraisers in talks with Chris Christie to enter presidential race

Since Tim Pawlenty ended his bid for the presidency last Sunday, his former staffers and key fundraisers have held off from endorsing another candidate or moving to another campaign. There’s a reason.

Team Pawlenty is waiting on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to make a decision about entering the field as a presidential candidate, The Daily Caller learned Friday.

Key staffers who formerly made up the Pawlenty campaign have been in discussions with Christie all week and the talks are still ongoing, sources told TheDC. They are reportedly very anxious to have Christie officially place his hat in the ring. At one point, there was discussion of Christie flying to Texas at the beginning of the week; he ultimately nixed that plan

Chrisite can't win the nomination. He is a gun grabber and a global warmist. And he's proud of it.

BTTT.

I like Christie on fiscal matters, and for having the guts to publicly tell the unions to shove it. For that matter, he has plenty of guts (meaning courage) to campaign for statewide office looking like he does. But the gun-grabber crap is an absolute killer for me - NFW I will ever vote for him because of that. Further, the GW crap is an absolute non-starter for me. It is not science in any way, just another means of strangling business in this country (not China or India, mind you, just here) and for its backers to skim taxes and fees for themselves.

These 2 stances disqualify Christie for the Presidency in my view. He would, OTOH, make a great OMB Director or possibly a good Secretary of the Treasury (though that's a bit close to the top of the line of succession for my tastes).

Bottom Line: You don't trust me with guns, I don't trust you with power.

IMHO...

He has lots of conservative support and appeal.

His conservative support and appeal is from "conservatives" who do not staunchly support the whole conservative platform, mostly those Republicans in heavily liberal areas who call themselves conservatives but are lenient towards sodomy, islam, deficit spending, etc. I had said he had no support from the conservative "core", meaning people who sign on to the whole platform.

To illustrate, NJ has been in the grip of the likes of McGreevey and Corzine prior to Christie. It is the home of RINOs, it has numerous large mosks, is apathetic towards immorality and remains under union thug control. After Christie's election, he has a basically balanced budget for fiscal 2011. For us in NJ, that's an earth-shattering move towards the political right. But everything else, every underlying problem, is still there and when the next less disciplined Governer is elected, NJ can go right back to deficit spending. And NJ has about $30 billion in debt, which, of course, can't be paid down until there are surpluses. And it has, of course, a state pension system that is in a mess as well. IMHO, if that's all a Republican does, the market would have accomplished the same thing by denying NJ the abilility to sell bonds.

I feel the need to send a message to the Republican party that I simply will not support RINOs of any stripe. When they lose, and someone like Obama is elected - Americans "in the middle" politically get burned badly by his actions and it convinces them to think twice before voting him in again. If a RINO is elected, he creates decades of election fodder for Democrats and the left, since the RINO overspends, creates new Feral agencies, expands existing ones, compromises with unions, welcomes jeehadists-in-waiting, allows government to spit on the 2nd Amendment; basically operates like a socialist. That sets the stage for future Democratic victories and the cycle of failure starts over again. People - voters - actually think that they "tried" conservative policies under the RINO - but they didn't. If a true conservative is elected, they can manage the budget well, but they can also appoint super-conservative Judges, eliminate an agency or two, try to make some wholesale changes to shrink the scope of government control, and then some piece of definite success of the principles can be demonstrated.

Unions across the nation would turn out in droves to vote against him.

Since he's had high-profile confrontations with them, he would generate a higher turnout than the Repubs currently running. The Repubs running for President currently can speak with a "voice of reason" tone in their campaigns since they have not vociferously fought with unions like he has. Then, once elected, instead of having a very public grandstanding blowhard fight with unions, they can take real action.

Chris Christie slams fearmongering over Sharia law

Aug 4, 2011
New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie defended his decision to nominate a Muslim judge to the state Superior Court against conservative critics who warned that the new judge will implement Sharia law. The notoriously blunt-spoken Christie calling their fears “crap” and “crazy.”
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/chris-christie-slams-fearmongering-over-sharia-law-210648303.html

Anyone stupid enough to want to appoint Muslims into government positions is dangerous.

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Watch this short video wherein
Col West states eloquently why Muslims- all Muslims are a danger to America.
We need this man in the new Republican administration to come.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkGQmCZjJ0k
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Watch yer mouth LOL just kidding

What worries me about this is that people may leave Romney in the dust and go big for Christie. He talks tough and is aggressive. I don’t like what comes out of his mouth anymore. What if he wins? A lot of people really like him.

He and Romney could also work together like Huck and McCain last time.

People who don’t pay attention could be fooled.

Who knows anymore? I need a notebook to keep track of people running. For me, I won’t have any choice in it anyway with a May primary here. The candidate is usually chosen long before.

So far no human has won the Republican nomination without winning my state (South Carolina) primary as long as there has been a South Carolina Republican primary. My guess at this point is that unless he does something stupid Rick Perry can win the South Carolina primary. I don’t say that to support Perry, it is merely my opinion from observation. Regardless of what Republican is nominated this is guaranteed to be the nastiest contest in the general election during my lifetime. There will be lying by the left and the propaganda arm known laughingly as the “news media” on an incredible scale and there will be off the scale vote fraud and that is the BEST CASE scenario.

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