Posted on 11/07/2013 4:08:53 AM PST by Kaslin
The obvious takeout from the elections on Tuesday is the Fat Guy—not me—wants to go from being governor of the United States to president of the United States.
Why?
He wants the country to resemble New Jersey.
In other words: If you like your current government, you can keep it.
"I know tonight, a dispirited America, angry with their dysfunctional government in Washington,” said newly reelected Governor Chris Christie, “looks to New Jersey to say, 'Is what I think happening really happening? Are people really coming together? Are we really working, African-Americans and Hispanics, suburbanites and city dwellers, farmers and teachers? Are we really all working together?'”
Oh, please God, no.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m all for people working “together,” but New Jersey? Really.
That’s what we are striving to become?
I’d set my sights a bit higher, say like, Romania, if the other choice is New Jersey.
Or perhaps New Colorado, coincidentally and colloquially known as Ransomtopia.
On Tuesday night, six of eleven counties in Colorado voted to leave the state and form a more perfect union. The largely rural, northeastern part of the state that voted for secession would need legislative approval—which they won’t get—and the approval of the governor—which they won’t get—to form a new state.
We’ll tentatively call the new state Ransomtopia, not for any personal reasons, but because I’m that generous and it has a certain ring to it.
It wouldn’t be named after me per se, but I would allow it to be named after my dog, Lexie Ransom, who would need my approval anyway, being a dog, and which, I would not withhold.
She’s a good girl.
In other election results, Old Colorado soundly rejected a billion dollar tax increase supported by government unions and they rejected union-backed candidates in school board races across the state.
In my home county of Douglas—soon to become the home to the capital of Ransomtopia—voters retained a slate of reformers who kicked out the union, instituted a voucher program to support more choice in education and a pay-for-performance plan that gets rid of teacher tenure.
“And no other local school board election anywhere in the country has so galvanized parents and politicos and attracted national attention and the financial resources of outside groups,” reported Denver’s KDVR, “all convinced that Tuesday’s votes here can be an inflection point in the national debate around education, a critical test case of just how far reform can go.”
It can go far, baby, really far.
“I think there are a lot of school districts who would like to take on these reforms they’ve done in Douglas County but they’re afraid the teachers unions are going to do exactly what they’re doing in Douglas County,” said Dustin Zvonek, who is both a personal friend and head of Americans for Prosperity in Colorado.
So let’s just say that New Jersey isn’t the only—or even the best—example of reform.
Denver also elected a slate of “reformers,” as did Jefferson County, the largest district in the state. And while those reformers may not be as bold as the folks in the capital of Ransomtopia, they represent a real change from the 100 year old, failed model of education that has been dominated by unions, professional educrats and special interest who always shout “Show me the money.”
Kind of like the failed, big state model that New Jersey is operating under.
Don’t get me wrong: For an East Coast Liberal, Christie makes a heck of a conservative, just as Mitt Romney made a heck of Republican in blue state Massachusetts.
But the media love affair will last only until he becomes the Republican nominee, and then he’ll just be another Tea Party extremist, like John McCain and Mitt Romney were to the media.
And Christie thinks that the “real problem” with Obamacare was that people weren’t told the truth. Well that doesn’t help, but it’s not the “real problem.”
The real problem is that Obamacare won’t work and when it collapses another generation will have clean up the mess, just like Social Security.
Just like all big government schemes.
It’s clear from all this that Christie will tinker around the edges of government. But he won’t solve the structural imbalances that require wealth to be redistributed from say New Jersey to, say Kentucky. Or from 18-25 year olds to 59-death year olds.
Christie, in short, thinks that if you like your current government, you can keep it, Obamacare and all.
And unlike Obama, he means it.
Christie has reached his highwater mark.
Richard "Wage and Price Controls" Nixon? George "No New Taxes" Bush #41? Bob Dole? George "Compassionate Conservative" Bush #43? John McCain? Mitt Romney?
Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan? And....?
Lets all hold hands and sing so Christie can bring us together LOL
I am moving to Delaware!
As much as it galls me to say this, and what a mess Christie is, he’ll still get elected over Hilary.
Man, what has happened to this dang country?!
CRUZ 2016
No he won’t.
Even though he won big in NJ the Rat in the race was a unfunded no body.
Exit poles showed Hillary would beat him in his own state by 6 points.
The Rats are trying to select our candidate again.
Disgraceful. When is this nightmare going to end?
When is this nightmare going to end?
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One of my older brothers used to say this all the time. He fretted and worried about the deterioration of our country. The question was answered for him on June 25th of this year when he died from a massive heart attack. I hope and pray that’s not how the nightmare ends for everyone.
I like Ted Cruz almost as much as I like my weird uncle, but I don't think he's electable anywhere except in dark red states. It wouldn't be a McGovern-style or Dukakis-style bloodbath, but it wouldn't be pretty. My (foggy) crystal ball doesn't see Christie beating Hillary. My problem is that I really don't see an electable Republican candidate for 2016 who's appeared at this point, unless Obama and the 'rats screw things up so badly that there is literally blood flowing in the streets.
(Possible, but not probable. The free Obamaphones, free birth control and free food are keeping the masses at bay. "Bread and circuses" worked -- at least for a while -- before. They may be unhappy, but not unhappy enough to burn down their large-screen TVs.)
I still say it.
You are kidding right? Right???
Christie will lose bigger than Dukakis - he would not even take jersey!
Now he might pick up 2 or 3 states that would vote in a dog rather than any democrat but that’s it.
I guarantee he will lose here in Florida & the other swing states are big losers to him - perhaps to any present GOP prospect.
Actually, I am. I have no faith in Christie. The GOPe building him up as a “victory” disgusts me to the core.
NJ has a history of corrupt government...and this obese fool wants to push that great “legacy” on the rest of us. One can only hope that he spends his time eating many more cheese blintzes.
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