Posted on 02/06/2014 6:11:42 AM PST by xzins
The gravamen of the media’s case against Christie on Bridgegate seems to be that he is a “bully” — which I painstakingly gleaned from the fact that the governor is called a “bully” 1 million times a night on MSNBC and in hundreds of blog postings and New York Times reports.
Christie is not a bully. If anything, he’s a pansy, a man terrified of the liberal media, of Wall Street, of Silicon Valley, of Obama, of Bruce Springsteen, of Mark Zuckerberg, of Chuck Schumer. It’s a good bet he’s afraid of his own shadow. (In fairness, his shadow is probably pretty big and scary.) About the only thing Christie doesn’t seem afraid of is the buffet at Sizzler.
Even Christie’s defenders call him a bully, but in an admiring way. Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly recently said of the governor: “One reason Mitt Romney lost to President Obama was that Governor Romney is too much of a gentleman. He apparently did not have the ‘fire in the belly’ to deliver a knockout blow. But Christie does and is therefore a threat to the Democratic Party.”
O’Reilly thinks Christie would have gotten in Obama’s face? (I mean other than for a quick make-out session with Obama during Hurricane Sandy?)
By sheer coincidence, that was Christie’s job at the 2012 Republican National Convention. As the keynote speaker, it was his assignment to “deliver a knockout blow” to Obama.
Let’s see how he did.
In Christie’s entire gaseous convention speech, he talked about New Jersey (ad nauseam), his parents, his kids, his upbringing, every tedious detail of his tedious life — “I coached our sons Andrew and Patrick on the fields of Mendham, and … I watched with pride as our daughters Sarah and Bridget marched with their soccer teams in the Labor Day parade.”
Just before I dozed off, I seem to remember Christie sharing his seven-layer dip recipe.
The guy whose role it was to attack the president mentioned Obama exactly one time. Once. And even then, not by name.
Here is Christie the Lion-Hearted taking the fight to Obama: “You see, Mr. President, real leaders do not follow polls. Real leaders change polls.”
And that’s how Christie bravely threw down the gauntlet to Obama on Benghazi, on Obamacare, on skyrocketing unemployment, on crony capitalism, on astronomical government spending and so on. He said: “Real leaders do not follow polls.”
Accusing a politician of following polls is the biggest cliche in politics after “He’s dividing us!” In Obama’s case, it isn’t even true. Would that he followed polls! If he did, we never would have gotten Obamacare.
Of course, there wasn’t much time for Christie to talk about Obama, because the main theme of his convention speech was: Chris Christie, Augustus Corpulus.
He said “I” 37 times and “me” eight times, breaking Kim Kardashian’s old record for a single tweet. He only mentioned our actual nominee (Mitt Romney) seven times — in order to tell us how we were all going to have to sacrifice and make hard choices, and Romney was just the man to tell America the bad news and make us all suffer.
I suppose Christie considered it more than sufficient to announce that he, personally, supported Romney: “If you’re willing to fight with me for Mitt Romney, I will fight with you.”
He — Chris Christie! — supported Romney. What more could voters want?
It was as if Christie had sent his speech to MSNBC for pre-approval.
And it’s not just one godawful speech. Christie’s daily checklist appears to consist of two items: (1) Suck up to liberals. (2) Ask waiter for more bread.
After a 30-minute conversation with Sen. Chuck Schumer last fall, Christie capitulated to the Democrats’ need for 30 million more voters by directing his temporary Senate appointee to vote for the Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill. Schumer considered Christie so impotent that he immediately leaked the news that he had buffaloed Christie on amnesty in a single phone call.
The people amnesty helps are Democrats, who get multiple millions of new voters, and the soulless rich, who don’t care about the country and don’t care about the culture. They just want cheap labor.
Instead of standing up for the long-suffering middle class that is the backbone of the Republican Party — much less the lower class lionized in so many Bruce Springsteen songs — Christie sided with Silicon Valley billionaires and Wall Streeters on their servant problem, while also helping Democrats with their demographic problem.
A few months later, Christie doubled down on amnesty by granting in-state tuition to illegal aliens.
There isn’t a wall high enough to stop illegal immigrants from sneaking across the border when the reward waiting on the other side is free health care, jobs, driver’s licenses and college tuition subsidized by American taxpayers.
But at least Christie no longer has to lie awake at night wondering if Mark Zuckerberg will be his friend.
True, Christie yelled at a few public school teachers, but they richly deserved it.
Taking a page from John McCain, the main targets of Christie’s wrath are his fellow Republicans. This has won him the respect of his most crucial constituency, liberal journalists, who have been precisely as loyal to him as they were to McCain.
If Christie looks guilty in Bridgegate, it’s not because he’s a “bully.” It’s because he believes lawbreaking is no big deal. Maybe he’s hoping his BFF Obama will grant him amnesty.
Agree. Good to see Ann back on track.
As if Chrispy’s hugging of Barky wasn’t bad enough, the “middle-school-nerd-talks-to-cool-kid” tone of his voice, in an interview that followed - was beyond disgusting.
He fell all over himself talking NOT about the Sandy victims or relief...but about how 0 called him from AF1...and “even put Bruce Springsteen on the phone!” I was embarrassed for him and NJ, after I heard that.
Bingo! Her books sales were way down. So now I’ll wait and see who the next rino will be that she’ll fall in love with.
Now she has returned Christie’s ring to him, will she accept JEB!’s next?
Ann, I am happy that you have finally got away from the Lotus eaters. Welcome back.
Amnesty is suicide for America. The Democrats can only see as far as the millions of additional votes they'll gain. What they don't see is that Leftists Hispanics won't take a back seat, like blacks, in the Democratic Party. They will dominate it, turn it into La Raza and kick the liberal honkies out. Corporate America will get enough cheap labor to hammer the final nail in the coffin of private sector unions.
It was really hard reading this piece knowing how much she fawned over him in the POTUS primary run-up to 2012.
I couldn't get past thinking ... We Knew All Of This Back Then, Ann ... but you were completely clueless and blind.
Thanks. Ann still evokes the sentiment “Somebody buy that girl a cheeseburger!”
For some real yuks, look up “Christie Obama Bromance” on youtube. Glenn Beck exaggerates the Boardwalk canoodle only slightly.
Yeah. But she's a girl! And blonde...
Clearly, she fell out of love with Chris Christie.
It always was those New Jersey liberals who were buying all those Ann Coulter books. /sarc
Christie is not a bully. If anything, he’s a pansy, a man terrified of the liberal media, of Wall Street, of Silicon Valley, of Obama, of Bruce Springsteen, of Mark Zuckerberg, of Chuck Schumer. It’s a good bet he’s afraid of his own shadow. (In fairness, his shadow is probably pretty big and scary.) About the only thing Christie doesn’t seem afraid of is the buffet at Sizzler.
OUCH!
She endorses Republicans who are good on amnesty and sometimes weak on other issues.
It is like people who call Rubio or Jeff Flake a conservative. They are not conservative.
Also Scott Brown and Kelly Ayotte.
Ayotte is more conservative than Brown because she is a big neo-con and says she is against abortion.
Brown would be better than Ayotte based on what bills will come to the floor if they want to get 41 votes to filibuster Boehner’s amnesty bill.
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