Christie back in spotlight as Perry sags

Politico ^ | 9/24/11 | Maggie Haberman

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With the party’s frontrunner sagging, Chris Christie is reconsidering pleas from Republican elites and donors to run for president in 2012, two Republican sources told POLITICO.

The New Jersey governor has indicated he is listening to big-money backers and Republican influence-makers, and will let them know in roughly a week whether he has moved off his threat-of-suicide vow to stay on the sidelines of a presidential race that remains amorphous heading into the fall, the two sources said.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s candidacy has failed to clear a basic bar with elites and some donors, and his shoddy debate performance in Orlando has only highlighted the window for someone who Republicans searching for a Mitt Romney alternative can rally around.

Christie’s potential candidacy has been an increasingly fevered fantasy of a certain cadre of some media and business elites — mostly based in New York, with a smattering of California technology and entertainment players — since last summer. That’s when he showed up at a Sun Valley conference hosted by the investment banker Allen and Co. and wowed the crowd, including Rupert Murdoch, with what many in attendance described as a nimble mind and a speaking style that was both articulate and blunt-spoken.

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Perry is losing it. The blue-blood GOP establishment is worried that a Bachmann, Santorum, or Cain might rise to the top tier as Perry falls. They're hoping Christie can take over for Perry as the non-Romney to stop them.

And deep down inside, they live in fear that Mamma Grizzly could decide to run. Against her, they have nothing.

[McGavin999]

Perry isn’t going to give up, he’s not a quitter.

[carjic]

You have it exactly right.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Perry isn’t sagging, he’s still at around 30% in the polls, don’t believe these lies.

[carjic]

Blood in the water... watch and see how it goes from here. Christy will suck some from Romney and Perry. Sarah will come in and mop up.

[McGavin999]

Oh they have to do something to prop up the establishment candidate. I love how they tagged Perry as a RINO (along with Rush, Savage, etc.)

[jessduntno]

“Perry isn’t going to give up, he’s not a quitter.”

That’s good...he’s not going to be President, so he won’t have to quit his current activities, or leave Texas.

[trisham]

Palin-Cain 2012.

[Will88]

Is he or isn’t he?

Mark Levin was talking about this last night, then later in the program he had an update saying that the reports were not true, that Christie is not reconsidering his decision to not run.

Who knows for sure.

[Drew68]

Perry isn’t going to give up, he’s not a quitter.

Perry made his missteps early. He's got a lot of time to refocus his message, clarify some of his statements and hone his debating skills. It's far from over for Governor Perry.

[joelt]

Now its Christie? I thought Huntsman was going to save us?

[Polybius]

And deep down inside, they live in fear that Mamma Grizzly could decide to run. Against her, they have nothing.

Against Palin, they do not need anything. All Sarah Palinn can accomplish is to be a conservative spoiler derailing other conservative campaigns.

A Sarah Palin run will simply divide the conservative vote even further than it is divided now with yet another fringe candidate that, like Ron Paul, has extremely loyal but extremely limited support.

Result: Victory to Romney.

There is no denying that both Sarah Palin and Ron Paul have extremely loyal but extremely limited Fan Clubs. The problem with both Sarah Palin and Ron Paul is that, outside of their own Choir, their popularity is downright toxic. (See August, 2011 FOX News Poll below)

The fantasy of Sarah Palin has finally started to kill off all conservative candidates that are not 100% perfect and whose name is not "Sarah Palin".

The winner of this dynamic is liberal Mitt Romney.

Nobody ever won a Super Bowl by perpetually pulling a "Brett Favre" and teasing month after month after month if he would play or not as the quarterback that is actually on the team is attacked and attacked and attacked for not being Bret Favre.

Perry, who Palin herself called "a true conservative", has stumbled as a result of those attacks. Fine. The Palin supporters got their wish

Now is time for Sarah to fly in and save the day like Supergirl.

Come on, Supergirl. Batman Perry is severely wounded. The evil Romney has no real opposition. What are you waiting for, Supergirl? Show up already and get in the fight or declare your intentions so that your followers do not help Romney by attacking every conservative whose name is not "Sarah Palin".

Supergirl?

Are you coming, Supergirl?

The reality is that there is no Santa Claus and there is no Supergirl. This is the reality.

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FOX NEWS Poll released on Wednesday, August 10, 2011

FOX News Poll: (August 7-9, 2011)

Question 25. Sarah Palin - Do you think this person would make a good president or not?

.................YES.........NO.......DK.....Never heard of

ALL...........19%.......75%.........4%.......1%

Dem ............7%........89%.........3%.......1%

Rep ...........34%.......58%.......7%.......1%

Ind ...........20%........74%.......5%.......1%

[TexasFreeper2009]

exactly!

on any given day around here everyone including:

Rush
Ann Coulter
Savage
Hanity
Bush
Cheney

and tons of other conservative icons are derided as RINO’s just because they did one thing or said one thing some didn't like. That is the most ridiculous reasoning imaginable. Candidates like Romney and McCain can honestly be tagged as RINO’s because they have either been on the other side of every major issue at one point in time or they have worked hard at destroying real conservatives and tried to derail conservative legislation at each and every opportunity, they are the enemy not in just words but deeds as well. But in call or insinuate that conservative icons, people that are out there fighting for OUR side, day in and day out, fighting the good fight, taking all the arrows, have records going back decades to stand on are RINO’s just because you disagree with a handful of things they have said at some point in time is ridiculous.

[MNJohnnie]

You have it exactly right.

Governor Palin needs to either get into the race or come out and actively endorse someone in the race.

She can be either King or King Maker. Conservatives need to rally behind someone soon to head off the RINOcrats and Romney.

It’s 3rd and long. We need a game changer move soon or 0, God help us, will probably be reelected.

[Cicero]

I’m not a big Perry fan. But as someone said on a thread yesterday, Christie is worse than Perry, and Romney is worse than Christie.

Christie made some great YouTube videos near the start of his term, in which he lambasted the Teacher’s Union. They were fun to watch. But what has he actually DONE? He is no better than Christie Whitman with a sex change operation.

[R0CK3T]

Christie or Palin will suit me fine.

From what we have seen so far, either of them would be much more positioned to remove the Kenyan in a General Election.

[zerosix]

Christie is NOT "back in the spotlight" except in the dreams of the "wizards of smart!"

These RINO losers in DC and elsewhere in the "smart political punditry" of all things brilliant!

Who out in the REAL America give a rat's ass what those folk think/want.

The person that said those Rockefeller GOP DC denizens fear true conservatives in their self-determined "second tier" pack of candidates might spark some genuine interest and be given enough money to be able to remain in the race, for this is NOT a sprint but a long-distance run.

[TexasFreeper2009]

The liberal media now knows that Obama is toast and they are trying to insure that if Obama has to lose he is replaced by the most liberal electable alternative available on the republican side (romney)

[ken21]

christie needs to govern nj and lose 150 lbs.

[20 years too late]

I say let’s have them in a ring, tie one hand behind their back, give them a weapon and fight to the death. Winner takes all. After all, time’s a wasting with only 13 months to go. All the networks could host the event. Or better yet, in each debate they could play musical chairs with one loser for each debate.
The way it’s going we are going to eat own and the Dems will enjoy the show all the way to the election...if there’s anyone left.