Posted on 09/24/2011 9:54:20 AM PDT by advance_copy
With the party’s frontrunner sagging, Chris Christie is reconsidering pleas from Republican elites and donors to run for president in 2012, two Republican sources told POLITICO.
The New Jersey governor has indicated he is listening to big-money backers and Republican influence-makers, and will let them know in roughly a week whether he has moved off his threat-of-suicide vow to stay on the sidelines of a presidential race that remains amorphous heading into the fall, the two sources said.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s candidacy has failed to clear a basic bar with elites and some donors, and his shoddy debate performance in Orlando has only highlighted the window for someone who Republicans searching for a Mitt Romney alternative can rally around.
Christie’s potential candidacy has been an increasingly fevered fantasy of a certain cadre of some media and business elites — mostly based in New York, with a smattering of California technology and entertainment players — since last summer. That’s when he showed up at a Sun Valley conference hosted by the investment banker Allen and Co. and wowed the crowd, including Rupert Murdoch, with what many in attendance described as a nimble mind and a speaking style that was both articulate and blunt-spoken.
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Yea, Perry and McCain. Do you have to be a supporter of illegal invaders to get Palin's support?
That was a whole lot of words to say “Yeah, but...”.
Again, if Perry’s running a lackadaisical campaign, explaining himself poorly, and saying stuff that antagonizes potential supporters (and he is doing all those things), and it’s biting him in the ass (and it is), that’s not Palin’s fault, nor Romney’s, nor the other candidates’, nor their supporters’. That’s his and his alone. That’s stuff he needs to fix and fix now, regardless of who’s in the race and who’s not. If he can and does do that, Palin, Romney and their supporters all very quickly become less of a problem. If not...it’s better we know and admit it before we nominate him, not after. It’s not his primary opponents’ or their supporters’ job to give Perry a break, and...spoiler alert...I can guarantee you the Democrat nominee is not going to do it.
He's philosophically incoherent. He can't competently defend what he's done (ie immigration, inncoulations, etc) and he can't put together a cogent attack on the extremely flawed Romney. The race will quit him, IMO.
I don’t really think so. Remember he’s up against people who have been campaigning for president for years. Romney as long as 6 years, Newt for most of his adult life. They’ve been on the campaign trail for months, Perry just walked onto the stage. He has a lot of time.
Uh, unlike some, I read and researched Perry’s history and record.
Face it, Crispy Creme Christie is the poster child for obesity.
“No. I don’t pay much attention to the MSM. Either Perry or Romney will get the Republican nomination. The rest of the candidates are just low level noise.”
Don’t look now but “the low level noise” from one of the “rest” just buried your leading contender 2:1 in the FL straw poll.
Is FL important in US politics?
Maybe Herman should run for mayor or something in Florida. I might give him a B as a fill-in talk show host for Rush but that’s about it. 9-9-9? yeah right.
Christie I think would be slightly better than Romney and not as good as Perry IMO. None excite me that much although I do like that Perry at least is not the Establishments’ candidate.
At least Perry might knock out Romney.
I can’t see Christie getting in this thing. his health won’t allow it. He passed out one day during August, I think. It wasn’t a big deal but I can’t imagine he has it in him to crisscross the country next summer campaigning hard. I just don’t see it.
I totally agree...
It’s rather disturbing how many in this forum will accept no deviations from their own definition of conservative purity. I hope that once we finally select a candidate, this level of puritan fanaticism will fade away.
I’m guessing that you’re okay with Texas giving in-state tuition breaks to people here illegally and paying for their tuition as well? That’s not what most of us consider conservative.
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