Posted on 11/02/2013 9:47:26 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike
By now, everyone knows that Mitt Romney’s inner circle was righteously peeved at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for spending the final days of the 2012 presidential race arm-in-arm with President Obama as they toured the Jersey coastline after its thrashing by Hurricane Sandy. The buddy-buddy act boxed Romney out of national media coverage for days while lending the president some bipartisan street cred.
But it wasn’t just the storm. Christie had rankled Romney’s team throughout the campaign: He held back his endorsement as long as possible, flirted with big-shot GOP donors who begged him to jump into the race and used his prime-time address at the Republican National Convention to puff up his Garden State record — without mentioning Romney once.
For Romney’s aides, dealing with Christie’s overbearing team was about as pleasurable as a traffic jam on the New Jersey Turnpike. For Christie’s staff in Trenton, the feeling toward the Romney machine was pretty much mutual.
Many months after Romney’s loss, that toxic relationship is revealed in page-turning detail in “Double Down,” a chronicle of last year’s grind-it-out election by journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. The authors deploy the conversation-driving formula that propelled their previous book, “Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime,” to bestseller status and a movie deal with HBO. (The same network has already optioned the rights to “Double Down.”) The duo’s M.O. — translating insider politics for mass-market readers with behind-the-scenes reporting and Gonzo flair — is custom-built for today’s news cycle, in which scoops explode on Twitter and oblige the rest of the political media to chase, confirm, refute, scrutinize, analyze to death. The digital blast radius for “Double Down” is infinite.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Well, another way to put it is that Chris Christie pulled a Romney on Romney. Romney was busy doing the same thing to other Republican candidates throughout the last several presidential elections. And it was his operatives, lent to McCain, who betrayed Sarah Palin.
So, Romney certainly knows what he’s talking about.
And note well that Huntsman was behind the attacks on Herman Cain
May Huntsman’s shame increase
The RINOs/Republican-E’s will push Tubby for the POTUS ‘16 election granted he doesn’t pull a James Gandolfini and die of a heart attack first. And the Treason party will push Hitlery. That leaves Ted Cruz and/or Palin who MUST campaign on a 3rd party ticket, that’s the only way we are going to win over these slime buckets.
there’s no way that RINO from New Jersey is going to be the nominee.
He’s just like the federal government - bloated, overweight, and out of control!
Huntsman is mentioned in the article?
> Chris Christie pulled a Romney on Romney.
Very well put. Christie should be starved of any support.
I am unfortunately a resident of NJ. I am torn as to whether to sit out Tuesday’s election. I really hate the idea of pulling the lever for Crispy Crème Christie, although the rat woman running against him would be far worse. At least Christie vetoed some of the most draconian gun grabs the rats were pushing.
Agreed. Nothing at all appealing about Christie. I will stay home rather than vote for him.
They are typical MSM journalists. During the campaign they parrot the dishonest MSM narrative. They never say anything insightful, provocative or honest. After the campaign is over and the votes have been counted Halperin and Heileman go back and sell a book based on what they call the real inside story. Some of it is just refuting the lies they told during the campaign. Other parts of their books are one sided attacks by Washington insiders and campaign insiders on convenient targets.
During the 2008 campaign the MSM including the authors told story after story about what a loving marriage John Edwards and his wife had. In their book the authors gave some limited accounts of the real story.
The authors repeated the attacks on Sarah Palin by the McCain campaign staffers and portrayed the most vicious gossip as undisputed facts.
This is just more MSM dishonesty.
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4:21 PM, Jan. 27, 2013
Written by
Michael Symons
"Not in nearly 170 years, and perhaps far longer, have fewer laws been enacted in New Jersey than the 80 bills signed by Gov. Chris Christie in the last legislative session."
I would have agreed that Christie has about a 0.00% chance of winning the 2016 Republican nomination. Until I read that one Republican poll has Christie leading the field for the GOP nomination in South Carolina
http://www.conservativeintel.com/1030-conservative-intel-poll-of-scsen-and-fits-primary-2016/#
Oh, and Romney ran an awful campaign. That was his problem.
I recommend you go out and vote for Christie. It is apparent to me, that too many conservatives stayed home during the last election and thus we have Obama’s 2nd term. If too many chose to stay home, the “rat woman” may just win.
Who is silly enough to waste a few hours reading such books? This kind of inside baseball on inside the Beltway politics would make me sick just reading the forward. Washington DC is such a sicko thieving money grubbing city////// ripping off the taxpayer and now the medical services consumer....
For the hypnotized this is compelling drama with interesting personalities. For me it is a complete zero. Like our zero 0bama
Poor wittle Progressive Liberal Romney.
I have no respect for this lying, progressive liberal.
He proclaimed in January 2012 that he was a ‘serverely conservative’ Governor of Massachusetts and had always been Pro-Life, then in August of 2012 he comes out in support of many of the facets of the Gay Agenda and Abortion in the cases of Rape, Incest, Life and Health of the morning.
On top of his mendacious ways, he refused to fight against the weakest of all Democrat Nominees a GOP Nominee has ever gone up against.
Probably because, as he record as Governor bears out, most of Obama’s policies are policies that Mitt Romney really believes in.
FO Peter Head.
You still fulminating over Romney?
grow up and move on.
In a similar vain I reply: It is obvious you decided to retain your purity and stayed home rather than to vote for McCain or Romney, and thus are partly responsible for 0bama’s election & re-election.
Yes I voted for Romney in the election because I preferred him to re-electing Obama. I supported and voted in the primary for an more conservative candidate, but that person did not end up being the Republican Party’s nominee. Thus instead of going home and sulking on election day; I went out voted for Romney, knowing that he would be immensely better than 0bama.
If you stayed home because Romney didn’t meet your ‘political purity/conservative/whatever’ standards, the you are as responsible for the re-election of 0bama, as those Democrats, Communists, and progressives who voted for him.
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