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New Jersey’s Chris Christie looks to send a message to GOP with his reelection campaign
Washington Post ^ | November 4, 2013 | Dan Balz

Posted on 11/04/2013 11:33:11 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

"......“I said this to the RNC last summer,” Christie said aboard his bus later that day, referring to the Republican National Committee, “I’m in this to win, because if you don’t win, you can’t govern. If you can’t govern, you can’t move the country, the state, the city — whatever you’re running for — in the direction it needs to be moved in. I think we’ve had too many people [in the Republican Party] who’ve become less interested in winning an election and more interested in winning an argument.”

Tuesday’s gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia will highlight both strains of Republican conservatism, with Christie representing one approach and Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II — a tea party favorite and underdog in his race against Democratic businessman and fundraiser Terry McAuliffe — representing the other.

A loss by a tea party favorite in a swing state and a victory by Christie in a Democratic stronghold would probably set the terms for the next phase of the debate within the Republican Party about the way forward. If Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) has become the symbol of the GOP’s tea party wing, Christie is poised to become the anti-Cruz........"

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014; 2016; antiteaparty; christie; christie2016; christiedncpick; christienewromney; christierinopick; conservative; cruz; cuccinelli; gope; njfatman; rino; teaparty
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Rush is on a tear about the GOP Establishment. He said after watching a Rove interview today (where he said that Cuccinelli will probably lose to McAuliffe tomorrow), he senses that the GOP-e is okay with that outcome as Cuccinelli is a Reagan conservative supported by the Tea Party.

Rush says Tea Party wants to win but the Establishment wants them discredited as a force in the Republican Party.

1 posted on 11/04/2013 11:33:11 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Memo to Christie: what gets fat and liberal in New Jersey stays in New Jersey.


2 posted on 11/04/2013 11:36:13 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Rush says Tea Party wants to win but the Establishment wants them discredited as a force in the Republican Party.

It probably is just that larger businesses, wall street, and large corporations want main street to do as they are told. If they succeed the Pubs will be a minority party for a long time. After all, why vote for someone who won't fight for you.

Ted Cruz and the Tea Party will fight for me!

3 posted on 11/04/2013 11:40:53 AM PST by wmfights
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To: C. Edmund Wright; All
Uniting the Right - Freedom is the idea that can bring our fractious movement together ".........................Individual freedom and ordered liberty made possible by the imposition of limits on government is the idea that unites conservatives and Republicans, and should be their rallying cry. The idea is fundamentally opposed to the “equality” that is the goal of progressives and Democrats. Progressive equality — that is, racial, gender, and class equality, or equality by collectives — is not what the Founders fought for and not what the constitutional framework guarantees. There are no ethnicities or genders identified in the Bill of Rights; the words “male” and “female,” “black” and “white,” do not appear in the Constitution. There are only individuals who are, in the Declaration of Independence, proclaimed equal in the eyes of their Creator and endowed with unalienable rights that government cannot take away.

The equality enshrined in the Declaration is incompatible with the equality that progressives support. The equality in the Declaration is not an equality of abilities or deserts. It is an equality of importance in the eyes of Nature’s God, and therefore in the eyes of the law — equality not as men and women or whites and blacks but as individuals, and individuals alone.

The equality proposed by progressives and Democrats is a declaration of war on individual freedom, and therefore on the American constitutional framework. The steady erosion of that freedom is the consequence of progressives’ political successes. This is the war that divides Left and Right. Conservatives must recognize that it is a war, and prosecute it as a war to defend individual freedom. That should be the unifying idea of the conservative cause......."

4 posted on 11/04/2013 11:42:14 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“move the country, the state, the city in the direction it needs to be moved in”

Well, Christie, does that mean moving your state of New Jersey into the direction of becoming a depraved, fag-marriage state? You stood by like a coward, last month. Damn you to hell, Christie.


5 posted on 11/04/2013 11:42:35 AM PST by greene66
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To: C. Edmund Wright
"What gets fat and liberal in New Jersey stays in New Jersey."


CC: Does this helicopter make my butt look big?
BO: I'll get back to ya on that Chrissie. And don't get any closer dude.

6 posted on 11/04/2013 11:43:58 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross
CC: Does this helicopter make my butt look big?

Chris and Michelle have something in common besides being liberal.

7 posted on 11/04/2013 11:45:57 AM PST by Alaska Wolf (I)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I have a ‘Ted Cruz for President’ sticker on my car and I will never, never vote for Christie, I don’t care if he is the nominee. I will never forget how Romney was leading Obama by 8 points one week before election day, and that fat blowhard from New Jersey went on TV, praised Obama over the hurricane, and threw the election to President Bystander.


8 posted on 11/04/2013 11:47:14 AM PST by tonyome ("What we need is more Patton, less patent leather" - Michael Savage)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

What’s the message — Fat Rinos Are Unbelievably Dynamic (AKA FRAUD)?


9 posted on 11/04/2013 11:48:49 AM PST by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

10 posted on 11/04/2013 11:50:09 AM PST by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Is the message...
"Wouldn't you like to be a RINO too"
11 posted on 11/04/2013 11:52:08 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: tonyome
"I will never forget how Romney was leading Obama by 8 points one week before election day"

He never led by 8 and Willard the Ringer was never going to win. He was there to make sure a Conservative/Tea Partier didn't get anywhere near the nomination. A role that the fat Jersey slob will try to play in 2016 to hand the election to Hillary.

12 posted on 11/04/2013 11:53:01 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: ScottinVA

Any feelings on tomorrow?


13 posted on 11/04/2013 11:55:14 AM PST by yellowdoghunter (Welcome to Obamastan!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

He would have to demonstrate a complete rebirth as a Constitutional Conservative before I would ever consider voting for him.


14 posted on 11/04/2013 11:56:29 AM PST by Iron Munro (When a killer screams 'Allahu Akbar' you don't need to be mystified about a motive.)
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To: Iron Munro

I don’t vote for Johnny-come lately’s and I still do not buy Romney’s conversion to conservatism either.


15 posted on 11/04/2013 11:57:40 AM PST by GeronL
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To: tonyome

I think we’ve had too many people [in the Republican Party] who’ve become less interested in winning an election and more interested in winning an argument.”
...........................................................TThe mans quote tells the whole story

Winning, no matter what.

Principles and arguments do not matter, it’s winning that counts.


16 posted on 11/04/2013 11:59:26 AM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

If the GOP chooses Christie as its chosen schmuck then the conservative wing will pass as the did with mitt and Juan McLame.
Hey Christie ya rino puke.
You’re delusional is you think you will get conservatives backing.


17 posted on 11/04/2013 12:09:31 PM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) ( Hey Rubio, eat pooh pal))
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To: yellowdoghunter
Any feelings on tomorrow?

Well.. I talked to a member with the Peninsula Patriots Tea Party group this a.m... she spoke yesterday to a rep with the state GOP who told her Cuccinelli's chances "looked good," but it's tough to reconcile that with polling data that came out this a.m. (McAuliffe +6 Quinnipiac; +7 PPP), but the enthusiasm level for Cucc is higher. It's going to come down to turnout and the resolve of the Sarvis supporters, i.e., if those erstwhile GOP backers are truly willing to throw the election to McAuliffe. In all reality, I think Cuccinelli's chances are slim at best, but if those who DON'T want Virginia to be Maryland-ized coalesce and show up to vote, who knows? I've been distributing flyers like mad, so at least those in my area will have a chance to know the difference. As for the downticket races, it's looking like Bishop Jackson is toast. He hasn't been within double-digits of Northam (D) in weeks. Right now Northam leads by anywhere from 13-19%. The closest race, and the one we have the greatest chance of pulling off a win is the AG's race. Mark Obenshain (brother of FNC's Kate Obenshain, BTW) is running neck and neck with Herring (D). The takeaway from all this is the election indicates the population of conservatives in Virginia simply isn't as high as we'd all hoped... For years, the theory was that if the GOP ticket would run conservatives with conservative ideals, they'd draw out the GOP base and win. This ticket is the most conservative I've ever seen here in VA and it's simply not drawing the hoped-for support. Virginia is turning out to be a microcosm for the rest of the country -- formerly somewhat conservative, but sliding now into the center-left territory.

18 posted on 11/04/2013 12:17:14 PM PST by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: ScottinVA

I don’t know why I’m not seeing paragraph breaks.... let’s try this again.

Well.. I talked to a member with the Peninsula Patriots Tea Party group this a.m... she spoke yesterday to a rep with the state GOP who told her Cuccinelli’s chances “looked good,” but it’s tough to reconcile that with polling data that came out this a.m. (McAuliffe +6 Quinnipiac; +7 PPP), but the enthusiasm level for Cucc is higher.

It’s going to come down to turnout and the resolve of the Sarvis supporters, i.e., if those erstwhile GOP backers are truly willing to throw the election to McAuliffe. In all reality, I think Cuccinelli’s chances are slim at best, but if those who DON’T want Virginia to be Maryland-ized coalesce and show up to vote, who knows? I’ve been distributing flyers like mad, so at least those in my area will have a chance to know the difference.

As for the downticket races, it’s looking like Bishop Jackson is toast. He hasn’t been within double-digits of Northam (D) in weeks. Right now Northam leads by anywhere from 13-19%. The closest race, and the one we have the greatest chance of pulling off a win is the AG’s race. Mark Obenshain (brother of FNC’s Kate Obenshain, BTW) is running neck and neck with Herring (D).

The takeaway from all this is the election indicates the population of conservatives in Virginia simply isn’t as high as we’d all hoped... For years, the theory was that if the GOP ticket would run conservatives with conservative ideals, they’d draw out the GOP base and win. This ticket is the most conservative I’ve ever seen here in VA and it’s simply not drawing the hoped-for support.

Virginia is turning out to be a microcosm for the rest of the country — formerly somewhat conservative, but sliding now into the center-left territory.


19 posted on 11/04/2013 12:18:46 PM PST by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

A conservative America sends a message to Christie. You will not win an election for President on a Republican ticket..


20 posted on 11/04/2013 12:20:48 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign for the American Revolution 2013 and the Crusades 2013?)
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