Posted on 01/10/2013 4:20:25 AM PST by Kaslin
Let me say on the record that I don’t really care about New Jersey. I know very little about it. But, I know this much: I don’t want to live there and I don’t want the rest of the United States to resemble New Jersey.
For me New Jersey is the Joe Piscopo character asking anyone and everyone “Are you from Jersey? I’m from Jersey.”
Also, I’ve never seen the TV show “Jersey Shore,” but still I don’t like it. And know that I don’t want the rest of the country to resemble it, either.
It’s the state that elected Jon Corzine governor. You know?
So I’m a Jersey hater- which is OK because I suppose if Jersey knew me they’d hate me right back.
So we’re even.
But that’s one reason why I’ve never understood conservatives’ fascination with Governor Chris Christie.
I mean, heck: He’s from Jersey.
In general, I’m not a fan of Republican politicians, like Chris Christie, who win elections in those liberal east coast states, like New Jersey. One day, I’m sure someone will prove me wrong, as an exception, but in general politicians who win state-wide elections in places like New Jersey and Massachusetts are the political equivalent of fishing lures.
Yeah, they’re very pretty in the water, they wiggle a lot to attract attention, they flash and gleam, but once you bite, you’re hooked. By the time you try to protest they have you scaled and gutted.
Conservatives know this about guys like Chris Christie, Mitt Romney and Scott Brown, to take recent examples.
Yet they still can’t resist the draw to fawn on the pretenders.
It’s a kind of a “conservative guilt” that guys like John McCain try to feed on. And it’s this guilt that has a variety of “conservatives” folding on tax increases and debt ceilings and elections in the pursuit of fair play and the can-do American spirit.
The “bipartisan” fairies from the news media then sprinkle “bipartisan” dust on the great pretenders, yuck it up with them, let them mug and preen on TV mostly because they know it drives conservatives like me crazy.
It also undermines our conservative ideals.
Christie, for example, appeared on CBS This Morning on Wednesday suggesting that the government isn’t doing enough about gun control.
Yeah, he mentioned it in the context of focusing not only on “gun control,” but adding preventive steps like mental health screenings, but he’s not stupid.
Mental health screenings are gun control.
That’s what the NRA says and they are right.
The “comprehensive approach,” which Christie advocates, is the “government approach,” which conservatives dread.
Christie seems to take a comprehensive approach to everything especially talking.
So, someone needs to remind Christie that he’s not Governor of the United States.
He’s from Jersey for crying out loud. It’s like a perpetual off-ramp on the way to somewhere else.
It’s a place where Jon Corzine was elected governor.
And while that’s not a very fair comparison for Christie, I’ll at least say this much in his defense: Christie makes a much better Democrat governor from New Jersey than Corzine ever did.
Look at how far it got Jiffy Jon.
We can only hope Christie will do as well.
Maybe not. But he does do a fairly decent imitation of the Goodyear Blimp. And what could be closer than that?
This guy is not going to attract many people to agree with him after his despicable remarks about New Jersey.
That is fantastic.
he is dead to me...
(a bit harsh, but it’s only a saying)
he is completely disqualified in my book for any public office...
too bad, because he talked like a tough guy, and we so need that in 2016... That is too say, we need a strong guy to swoop in and take command and beat the pants off these dems..
but he blew it with us... I learned my lesson with him.
Be merciful. "Why it’s Romney and Not Very Close" - November 1, 2012
Republicans just took back NC. Statehouse and Governorship.
Nothing but defecation comes out of their faces, nothing good or loving gets uttered by these fatsos. They only make us eat their self image garbage with no humility and full of immodesty.
A whore on red tube is less filthy.
Aside from his politics, let me dwell on a few superficial characteristics about Krispy Kreme that drive me up the wall:
1) You can hear the slobber in his mouth when he speaks. This may have to do with his being an enormous, morbidly obese walrus.
2) His voice sounds like the typecast geeky next door neighbor kid from TV and movies. Think “Larry Mondello” from “Leave it to Beaver.”
3) He’s an egomaniacal, waddling wad of fat.
That’s GOOD NEWS.
I’m sure North Carolina Republicans, unlike most New Jersey Republicans, are really conservatives.
“I think Romney lost mainly because of the apparent improvement in the economy.”
Good point. But I think PART of his problem was just focusing on the economy when this fraudulent monster in the Oval Office had so many vulnerabilities.
I think if he picked Chris Christie, he would have done WORSE. I might not have voted for him then.
I LIVE in New Jersey. With Christie it is all about HIM - nothing else.
He’s anti-Second Amendment, he’s pro-Muslim and he’s against the First Amendment.
He has really done an AWFUL job as governor. The State’s economy is still in the toilette, New Jersey is STILL # 2 from the BOTTOM in business friendliness, AND while he did beat up on the civil service unions in general, he has left the WORST offenders - the police and teacher’s unions pretty much alone DESPITE his raucous rhetoric.
He’s a damn RINO and I will never vote for him again.
If Romney had picked Marco Rubio instead of Ryan, he WOULD be sitting in the White House now.
As for not seeing him get elected, I NEVER thought a Marxist Muslim whose nationality was in question would EVER be elected TWICE for President.
Politics is strange and unpredictable.
Thanks for the invitation!!
If I can convince my wife, I’ll go there.
If it was good enough for Davy Crockett, its good enough for me.
I really, really hate this state more and more each day.
I was talking about John Ransome, not Christie.
I share your views on Christie. He helped lose the election for the GOP. I also think he’s unelectable for pres himself. Another Herman Cain in a way, and the voters don’t like blowhards, really, although they can be amusing in the short run.
This puke’s popularity has shot up. That’s too bad.
Conservatives need to mount a primary challenge against him, we’ll probably lose but we need to try this swine is no Republican.
Uh, I think this author is out of the loop. Pork Porkie had 15 minutes of fame - - much like Scott Brown in Massachusetts did - - when he boldly confronted a teachers' union thugette and somebody posted it on YouTube. That was, in political terms, a long time ago. I don't know any conservatives who still think the gun-grabbing, Ubama-hugging, Muslim-appeasing Pork Porkie is a conservative.
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