Posted on 11/12/2013 3:10:46 PM PST by neverdem
He won re-election as a Republican governor by almost 60 percent of the vote. He loved to talk about what he called the “Teamwork Government” he had brought to his state capital — especially when it came to contrasting what he and his tight-knit band of advisers deemed as the wild success and popularity of his Teamwork Government with the chaos of Washington.
He boldly went where other Republicans would not go, winning an unprecedented pledge of neutrality from the deeply liberal labor movement. Stunningly, of the 24 members of the American Federation of Labor’s endorsement board, 22 wanted to enthusiastically endorse him, the union finally declining out of respect for the remaining 2 members who favored his Democratic opponent.
He was fearless in taking on his critics in his own Republican Party, repeatedly lecturing them that government was created to meet the needs of man, bluntly rejecting what he called “the blind obstruction which Democrats claim is our habit and some Republicans would like to take as our role.” At one campaign rally he was especially defiant. “It is the job of a majority party to build, not to tear down; to go forward, not to obstruct. It is not the function of a political party to die fighting for obsolete slogans.… In a generation torn by strife between extremists and fanatics, let us have the balance… to prove that democracy can maintain itself as a master of its own destiny, feed its hungry, house its homeless, and provide work for its idle… without the reliance on political racketeers.”
He loved the idea of medical insurance for the poor...
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Pragmatism is the language of governing failure, its result a serious Republican Establishment responsibility for the nation’s $17 trillion debt and $90 trillion in unfunded liabilities...
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The liberal mainstream media keeps telling us that Christie is the only republican that could win a national election. They did the same thing for us with John McLame.
Dewey was called “ the man on the wedding cake” because of his appearance. Christie could be called the man who ate the wedding cake.
Yep. The Libs want him SO bad. It’s all we’re going to hear about for 2 1/2 years until such time as they force his nomination on us, and then they will turn on him like rabid dogs and whatever the Dems nominate wins ... again.
Yep. The media will be focused on his incessantly.
He will be a horrible right-winger and a team player with Democrats at the same time, sometimes in the same article, depending on the intended audience.
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Because a larger percentage of voters could not even name his opponent!
“They” are not going to force his nomination on us. A poll that just came out shows that the only place Christie leads a “generic” Republican candidate in Repulican polls is the Northeast Christie loses to a “no-name” Republican in the rest of the US, most heavily in the West.
Stick a fork in the fat pig. He has cooked his goose with the majority of Republican voters.
The libs want Christie to be the republican nominee because they know he would lose.
They will turn on Christie as soon as he gets the nomination. They did the same exact thing with McLame.
Probably in the same sentence, if I know TIME. That rag is amazingly schitzo, but they always come up with the same conclusion:
CAPITALISM, BAD
SOCIALIST TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP, GOOD
They'll probably have Christy's face on the cover for every issue until the election.
We suddenly find Time Magazine credible? What happened to “The MSM is pushing Christie on us!!!” Now they’re damning him and it’s believable?
What is interesting and what is never mentioned is for years the voting public has been voting (in their opinion) for the lesser of 2 evils. And what do we have today? Evil in control of our nation. There is no significant difference between Dem’s and Pub’s except the names. If this was not true we would not be in the current huge mess. And this situation has been in effect for 100 years or more. It is time to nominate a very conservative person as the Pub’s leader. Perhaps, if Goldwater had been elected in 1964 in lieu of Johnson we might have never reached today’s mess. But that huge defeat has had the Pub’s on the run ever since. Wake-up America and Americans’ before the sun sets on our Nation.
I don't care if Christie resurrects the body and soul of Washington himself...I'm still ain't voting for him.
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