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Christie has no support from the conservative core

Baloney. He has lots of conservative support and appeal. He will not get the nomination with some of his opinions, but you could say that about anyone. Anyone.

And there is a good possibility he would lose to Obama in a general election.

Baloney. As long as the GOP candidate does not blow bubbles with his drool he will win the Presidency.

Most substantial conservatives would be hard pressed to be motivated to get out to vote for him because his establishment viewpoints and compromising style would produce policies that worked against conservatism just about as much as Obama has.

LOL! Are we talking about the same guy?

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

Yeah, and the unions will stay at home for the other GOP candidates? Give me a break! Regardless of who the GOP nominates, the unions will turn out in droves to vote against him. If the GOP nominated Olympia Snowe they would paint her as the devil incarnate and turn out in droves to vote against her.

I’m with you - shouldn’t we Republicans have a “the more the merrier” view at this point? If only the primary season could help define candidates like it did in the past. Look at the 1976 Democrat primary system. It had 23 participants and it took a LONG time for that to shake out - of course it yielded Jimmy Carter, oof - although he did win the general election.

Bring on Chris Christie, Sarah Palin and anyone else who wants to join this fandango. We are facing the most critical election of our lifetime - 4 more years of Obama is going to destroy our great country and probably make me close the doors of my small business. Let’s get everyone in the ring and see what they have, for crying out loud.

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.