New Jersey’s Chris Christie looks to send a message to GOP with his reelection campaign

Washington Post ^ | November 4, 2013 | Dan Balz

[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........"

[Bigg Red]

Chris who? Never heard of him.

[iacovatx]

Virginia has two characteristics that are often overlooked in evaluating politics in the state. First, a large percentage of the population is black and that is pure Dem. Second, northern Virginia is essentially Wash DC’s bedroom and the Dems have made DC into a very well-to-do region in the past 5 years. No VA is benefitting because the Dem party is looting the US. That tends to get votes—economics. Otherwise, VA is and has always been conservative. Just my analysis.

[jmacusa]

Fat ass Lou Costello look-a-like f’ing RINO>

[Colonel_Flagg]

I’ll send a message to Chris Christie if he runs for President, and I’ll only need to use two of my fingers.

[trisham]

Two? One is more elegant and refined.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Well, Christie is big enough for two.

[Colonel_Flagg]

And perhaps elegance isn’t the real goal of such a gesture :)

[trisham]

Perhaps not. :)

[trisham]

Or three.

[Lakeshark]

I got the message loud and clear. Here's what his message says:

I eat too much, I'm a RINO, I helped Bambi get reelected during the end of the last campaign, I'm stupid, easily used by the left, and generally incapable of being elected by the Republican base so I'm counting on the media to help me......

[trisham]

I got the message loud and clear. Here's what his message says: I eat too much, I'm a RINO, I helped Bambi get reelected during the end of the last campaign, I'm stupid, easily used by the left, and generally incapable of being elected by the Republican base so I'm counting on the media to help me......

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All that and more.

[loveliberty2]

Absolutely brilliant comment! Thank you.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Hard to disagree with that, actually.

[trisham]

Because..?

[trisham]

I’m sorry, I misread your post. I thought that you had said “Had to disagree..”

[VRWC For Truth]

Fat boy is a f’ing DemocRat!

[luvie]

And the message is...”I’m fat and I love it”?
“I love twinkies with everything”?

[bigdaddy45]

Romney led by 8 points? What poll was THAT??? Romney was a fatally flawed candidate. He lost because WHITE CONSERVATIVES didn’t come to the polls. Christie’s late Oct 2012 Bromance with Obama had nothing to do with them staying home.

[entropy12]

Only good thing I have to say about blubber boy is that I will take him over Hillary if it comes down to that. I just hope he won’t be the lone “moderate” in 2016 and win by dividing the more conservative candidates...similar to 2012.

[entropy12]

Oh yes they were so clever by not voting in 2012. Thanks for giving us the socialist community organizer from south side of Chicago. A preferred outcome no doubt for those people.