Posted on 11/08/2012 5:42:50 PM PST by Justaham
I don’t know, guys. I just don’t know.
“We didn’t have a political strategy discussion. I said, `Congratulations on your win last night, Mr. President,’ and he said, `Thank you,”’ Christie told reporters today at a National Guard Armory in Franklin Township…
Asked if he’s spoken to Romney since his loss, Christie said: “No; we exchanged e-mails last night,” Christie said. “We haven’t spoken on the phone yet.”
One of Romney’s biggest fundraisers told WaPo (anonymously), “A lot of people feel like Christie hurt, that we definitely lost four or five points between the storm and Chris Christie giving Obama a chance to be bigger than life.”
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Is it possible - just maybe- that he was thinking more about the people of his own state who had just gotten slammed by a hurricane, and less about Obama and the election? In other words - exactly what he said?
Not sticking up for the guy, nor am I here to argue or defend him; but trying merely to see from another perspective. I can’t figure out why he would fraternize with the enemy at that specific moment in time.
Other posters out here said variously that he may have been pissed that Romney chose Ryan over him as VP (but that doesn’t make sense, because he emphatically said that he didn’t want the VP slot - he was finishing out his governor term);
The other line I read was that he was trying to ensure that he would be re-elected in Jersey - a heavy Dem state - so he may have been doing this to hedge that bet a bit.
Thoughts?
I’m not saying that it was the right thing to do, and I’m pretty pissed about it as you are, as well.
What a jack hole.....And so many wanted him to run for president....no thanks
yeppers!!!!
No, that’s not possible. He gave Obama a tongue-bath. It was disgusting. He betrayed his party and his country.
The RINO boosters will be back to tell us how great he is and how he will win the independents to win the next election. Ugh!!
My prediction: Christie will pull a Specter sometime between now and his primary, claiming that there's "no place in the Republican Party for a guy like me anymore" (and at least we all agree on that) and all will be forgiven with the NEA.
Christie will be given some dumbass job, like Commerce Secretary, in a subsequent Democrat administration, and his appearances will always be prefaced with "former Republican Governor Chris Christie, whose bipartisanship offended hardline conservatives in the GOP said today that ..."
Can we set up an Intrade Market for how many days from now this happens?
I thought it an overly excessive display as well - especially since it actually was the ONE thing FuBO SHOULD be doing - his job.
So you think it was more calculated towards another purpose?
Again, why? and to what end? That’s the part that’s bugging the sh*t out of me.
There are no other states where the native motorists are so helpless or stupid that they need highly trained Pakistani’s to pump gas for them. Even West Virginians can figure it out for themselves.
I heard him referred to as a “Fat Bastard” on the radio this morning. Sounds about right to me.
You hit the nail on the head and even Haley Barbour concurs. AGree or disagree with what Christie did and said, he wants to make sure the government is helping his state. Haley was criticized by the media for NOT criticizing Bush during Katrina. The role of a governor is to look out for his state and people and to make sure he plays nice with uncle Sam as he has deep pockets. At this point, it makes all the sense in the world for Christie to bend over backwards to be nice to Obama, who is the President. Romney, the two time loser, can’t help Christie. Some of you are angry and that’s understandable but you are politically clueless.
I have so many posts on this that I’m not going to repeat them. But here’s the bottom line: Christie is a professional politician, and he did what he did in the full national spotlight in the last 100 hour news cycle before the election. Whatever the motivation, it was deliberately done to help 0bama and defeat Romney. We can speculate all day about reasons, but NO ONE should have any illusions about the intent — because Christie most assuredly knew full well what he was doing.
Slob. After 2 terms with this Marxist SOB, Christie could run against an Iranian goat and I’d vote for the goat. I’m numb to everything at this point.
Yeah, here in california we pump our own gas. We don’t need no stinking union type to do it for us and for that luxury we pay .53 in taxes for every gallon on top of the multi blends we have to pay so we are easily $1.50 over the national average right from the start. TODAY’S PRICE, $3.79 (87) $3.89 (89) and $3.99 for the high octane at the cheapest ARCO station in the Long Beach, CA. area.
Nice pic. There’s a “0bama will get re-elected when pigs fly!” joke in there somewhere but I’m not gonna touch it.
He is responsible for a state full of disfunctional, dependent people. He had to kiss the ring. Distasteful, but necessary. He wasn’t going to lead the Revolution anyway, no matter what. Now, if he becomes a toady, that’s another thing entirely.
Is there anyone else that thinks he needs to shed a few kilos? Stress + fat = ___
It is YOU who are politically clueless.
The slobbering effulgence of Christie's praise for 0bama during the last 100 hour news cycle before the election, in the full national spotlight of one of the most over-hyped storms in the history of the country was fully calculated for maximum detrimental effect. It was deliberate. It was despicable. And if he were actually worried about helping his constituents, he would have been out days ago yelling about the absolutely awful response by FEMA IN THE AFTERMATH.
So far: bupkis. But at least he was passionate about one thing: his man-love for his has-been, no-talent, Bob-Dylan-impersonator idol, "The Boss." That got his juices flowing.
He's finished outside of New Jersey. Deservedly so. He's a backstabbing POS.
“..it was deliberately done to help 0bama and defeat Romney...”
It sure does seem that way. But the motivation - self-preservation, or was he just pissed at being passed over (again, after repeatedly saying he didn’t want it...)
“...At this point, it makes all the sense in the world for Christie to bend over backwards to be nice to Obama, who is the President...”
We knew he was a RINO - yeah, he talked tough to the union folks that are bankrupting the state, but that ultimately means nothing. They’ll still be there long after he’s done and gone.
And it was premeditated self-aggrandizement, it backfired, because he is pretty much despicable right now.
“...Christie will pull a Specter sometime between now and his primary,..”
I’m of that mindset as well - “I didn’t get my way, so I’m taking my ball and going home”. Specter was a pure, grade-A, POS.
I just saw a post from one of my high school classmates on Facebook. She’s from New York, Black and a huge Obama supporter. No surprise there, but anyway, she just posted “Christie for President 2016. She says he has her vote.
Says it all, really....
F.N. Judas
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