Posted on 11/07/2012 3:33:33 PM PST by drewh
National Review reporter Robert Costa talks to an unnamed Mitt Romney adviser who indicates there are a lot of hard feeling between Romney’s inner circle and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie over the latter’s embrace of President Obama after Hurricane Sandy:
Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, the adviser adds, is persona non grata in Romney’s inner circle. “He went out of his way to embrace the president during the final week of the campaign,” the adviser says. “It wasn’t necessary and it hurt us. Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock, and Chris Christie undermined the Republican message.”
Christie, of course, had earlier been one of Romney’s most able surrogates. He was an early supporter of Romney and delivered the keynote address at this year’s republican convention.
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This. +1
“A coworker just today who I’ve always regarded as relatively nonpolitical mentioned Akin just this afternoon as the kind of person the Republican party needs to dump before people he knew would consider voting for the party.”
I just wonder how many people complaining about Akin would have found another reason to vote for Team Kenya. This shouldn’t have been close. Obama has been a historic disaster.
The real problem is these low information voters are the swing in the entire electorate. The Greatest Generation is gone and we are left with the American Idol gen. uh oh...
Can’t disagree with any of that.
I supported and voted for Tom Hoefling, a conservative. Like Romney, he didn’t get enough votes to win, but his prospects were never worse than Romney’s.
To quote Col. Sherman T. Potter, “Horse Hockey”...
New Jersey got the snot beat out of it with Frankenstorm. The POTUS came to survey the damage. Regardless of the POTUS motives, decorum dictates that the Governor greet the POTUS. Christy was doing what his constituents elected him to do. And he came out with a better public perception. Couple that with his speech at the convention, and Governor Christie is most likely the most memorable Republican currently.
I grant that the situation shredded the picture of the POTUS that his campaign had painted. But anything less could have been portrayed as the Republicans playing politics with the disaster.
And the lesson to take away is that the American electorate has seen Obama working with a Republican. If the House leadership over-reaches in the discussions over the fiscal cliff, there is a danger the public will hold the republicans responsible, not the administration...
Yes, i think many women in the starbucks would never vote for us. But i am certain that a small percentage were swayed when these two made GOP look too stupid to vote for.
Regular people simply have limits.
And last i checked TEA meant “taxed enough already”. TEA formed around resistance to TARP and Obamacare. TEA was very broad based. Until guys like Akin try to glom onto TEA and make it a religious movement, it was an effective way to attack the economic destruction of America.
Yeah, Christie went full tard. But it’s not like he’s going to win the nomination anytime soon anyway. He seems like a fun guy, but politically, he’s Rudy Giuliani plus fifty (a hundred?) pounds and minus a nice chunk of Rudy’s party loyalty. (That’s not sarcastic. Rudy’s a moderate, but based on his stump performances, he doesn’t seem terribly worried about whether Democrats like him.) But again, his biggest problem with running for president is like John Cusack’s with playing Rush Limbaugh, except in the opposite direction: Both will die trying to make weight for the part.
And with all due respect, nobody outside their states would know much or care much about Akin or Mourdock if they had the minimal sense required not to say what they did. You’d have John King or Anderson Cooper or whomever announcing their win, or more likely see the results go by on the crawl, and you’d go “cool, they won” and then forget about them. I know I would. Especially Akin. And I’m not talking about caving on pro-life, so don’t even go there. It is possible to be a principled pro-lifer and defend that position and campaign holding that position and win without saying what they said. In fact, it’s really not even that hard, people. It’s been done before, many, many times, over many, many years. You know the press is not going to give you an even break on that subject. Not ever. Certainly not now. You have to know. Akin should have known. Mourdock should have definitely known after Akin. And the other guy even more so after those two. They’re going to screw you on that every time they can. You have to keep from presenting them that hole. Period.
And finally...I don’t need anonymous campaign staffers to tell me what I saw with my own two eyes. Or even worse, try to tell me something the complete opposite of what I saw with my own two eyes. You could get rid of ninety percent of the political consultant industry all across the political spectrum (”getting rid” being defined as anything from retraining them as fast food waitstaff to termination with extreme prejudice) and they never would be missed.
“......Regardless of the POTUS motives, decorum dictates that the Governor greet the POTUS. Christy was doing what his constituents elected him to do. And he came out with a better public perception. Couple that with his speech at the convention, and Governor Christie is most likely the most memorable Republican currently.....”
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IMHO you are either completely blind or are on Christie’s staff. The only thing memorable about Christie’s Sandy performance and his RNC keynote address is what they revealed about his character—or, more accurately, his lack of character. The self-centered Rotundity proved his worthlessness to anyone but liberal democrats.
This just shows what we all knew and only some of us were willing to admit. Mitt Romney is no friend of conservatives, especially social conservatives.
The FACT is that Obama did nothing except briefly cheerlead. Christy should have met him if he came, but should have been holding his feet to the fire. They still have freeing people wanteding the streets there without food, fuel, water, and power.
Christy actually sucked for real. Not just appearances, but his and Obamas actual performance. I see a lot of press conferences and photo ops, but not much real relief effort.
Longbow, absolutely agree about Mourdock and Akin
what people should be infuriated about is that they KNOW that the liberal media will ask them tough questions on abortion, and they need to have sensible answers, not “rape is God’s will...”
these guys are lazy and dumb and don’t do their homework... just like Obama before the first debate
No, I based that assessment on comments made by friends who are Democrats who asked why Christie was not running for national office. Those comments were made in real-time during open houses I held on each night of both the Republican and Democrat conventions. My circle of friends contains Pubs, Dems, a couple self proclaimed Libertarians and several “unaffiliated”.
Preaching to the choir is not going to get more backsides into the pews.
He hurt Romney at the convention also. However, it was Romney’s fault for embracing him.
“New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie over the latter’s embrace of President Obama after Hurricane Sandy”
Horsecrap; that insider is in my view just channeling Rush and I thought Rush was wrong when he put that out; and as far as I know he was the first to.
I’m in New Jersey and no giant booster of Christie either - he’s less Conservative than I am and I think he has governed as less of a Conservative than he could, successfully.
AND, I was not happy with how much time he was out in other states campaiging for Romney - but that he was doing big time - compared to how much one-on-one public campaign time he was making with our people like own GOP Senate Candidate.
But Christie was never going to deliver his own state for Romney, no matter how the mainstream media boosts his GOP image, and I never believed Christies support outside of New Jersey was going to make or break the case for Romney.
To me he was doing no more than punching his dance card with all the “I campaigned for you” debts he could rack up and hope to call in in the future.
So, his one big meeting, as Governor of his storm ravaged state, with the man who is the president (and what storm ravaged state governor would have conducted himself a lot differently), and that is suppose to be doing some political favor to Obama, and a slight at Romney.
That’s bull.
So, McCain’s folks sought to transfer the blame to Palin and now someone in Romney’s camp wants to transfer the blame to Christie, because the last thing that these campaign people are willing to do post-mortem is look themselves in the mirror. Their inflated egos cannot believe they are not as brilliant as they thought they were - somone else outside of the inner circle is to blame.
Will Obama return after this storm? No political reason now...
LOL so true. And Bruce didn’t have to pretend to like them.
Bloomberg is an Independent, no longer a Republican. Add to that he didn’t blubber all over Obama or ask him to have Springsteen ring him up.
i agree- blaming Christie is a piss-poor excuse for a bad campaign....
blaming mourdock and akin after you handily took those states is just ignorant....
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Perfect beings cannot be held responsible, so failure will be attributed to others.
But yeah. Little Lord Fauntleroy just doesn’t have what it takes.
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