Posted on 08/23/2013 7:27:59 AM PDT by IbJensen
A savior or a sell-out? A compromise or compromised?
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“HE DOESN’T GIVE a s—- what people think,” a Republican “close” to Chris Christie told Politico after the governor denounced the Republican House and Speaker Boehner (yes, by name) for voting down a pork-laden aid bill in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. We pretty much knew Christie felt that way, though it was good to see it confirmed in writing. The bigger question, one that should concern Christie, is what people think about him.
We know he’s home safe in New Jersey, cruising toward re-election this November as he enjoys high approval numbers, a whittled Democratic opposition he himself helped weaken, and growing celebrity among those who care about such things. The problem for him is that almost nothing he’s done to win New Jersey can translate into a winning national Republican candidacy, let alone one that conservatives could in any way trust.
For one thing, there is glaring fact of his New Jerseyness. Big, fat, coarse, he’s forever pushing his weight around, playing the wise guy or the charmer, always insisting on being the center of attention (unless Barack Obama comes calling), the big shot in a small place, the son of a “Sicilian” (not Italian) mother, as he said at the Tampa convention. He may not know better. He’s never really lived and worked anywhere else. How someone this provincial can be said to have national ambitions is a mystery.
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Whatever his political future, it’s hard to imagine we’ll ever see him again stuffing donuts into his mouth on the David Letterman show.
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In some ways, it would be nice if all politicians had the principles of Christie. The thing I like about him is he makes decisions on what he believes and not what others tell him to believe. That does not make him Presidential material though. Too liberal in his principle beliefs.
You’ve nailed it! They call themselves Republicans, but they’re Progressive/Democrats under their sheepskin.
They’re obviously in love with one another. Barry sees a kindred spirit, which in his lingo means another closet case.
A grown man “Republican” who has a boy crush on Obama and on Bruce Springsteen, and doesn’t care about what Republicans think?
He is a whore. Foe to America.
He is simply not Presidential material. We will have already had 8 years of that. No need for 4 more............
That was a Loooong time ago.
That’s a good one, may I use it?
Are you intimating that Barry showed Fatboy his equipment?
Foe. Keep him in NJ. It’s a good fit. Oh and he needs to change his party affiliation to Dem
“Economic conservatives do occasionally make inroads in Northeast states, usually when the local plutocrat population blearily realizes that years of progressive mismanagement have left the neighborhood hedge fund on the verge of sinking into the ocean. But to be a social conservative is another thing entirely, and here Christie measures up. He defunded Planned Parenthood four years in a row, vetoed a bill legalizing gay marriage in favor of a referendum, and condemned the Supreme Court’s decision striking down DOMA as an act of “judicial supremacy.” This is not the behavior of a moderate squish.”
Carrying along a FR tradition, nobody ever reads the freaking article. I myself like Rand Paul’s small government philosophy better. But Christie seems right up a lot of SocCon’s alley on the substance.
Christie fell over at Atlantic city beach and rocked himself to sleep.
A lifeguard had to ask him to leave. The tide wanted to come in.
The Republican Joe Biden ?
Foe and the worst kind, a traitor.
Thanks for the insight into this character. Please continue in the coming months to testify again and again on your understanding of the facts as the RINOs seek to ram this RINO Trojan Horse down our throats.
Christie is a politician. That makes him a foe. With a very few exceptions all politicians are foes. Them first, country a distant second.
If this clown wants to be President, he'd damn sure better start giving a s--t about what the base thinks. And then he'd better make a few changes.
Foe through and through.
By all means! Feel free.
Foe. In fact, mo foe.
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