Posted on 01/22/2012 9:55:44 AM PST by Nachum
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie appeared on Meet the Press today to do damage control for Mitt Romney and to explain why Newt Gingrich would not be an ideal Republican nominee despite his strong victory in South Carolina last night. He claimed that Gingrich’s past actions have embarrassed the Republican party, and Mitt Romney was more suited to be the nominee because of his record and how he conducted himself in office as opposed to Gingrich.
David Gregory asked Christie to explain what about Newt Gingrich’s politics or his character disqualified him from being the Republican nominee against President Obama. Christie suggested that Gingrich was too much like Obama, and “we don’t need another legislator in the Oval Office.” He reminded Gregory that Obama jumped directly from a position as a legislator to the presidency, making the argument that executive experience was vitally important for the next president to draw a stark contrast with how Obama has governed.
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The Knights of Columbus used to be reliable elements of the Democrat party working structure. These days I would imagine you find a number of their top officers more likely within the ranks of the country clubbers.
When you want to badmouth leftwingtards do so. If you don't like the party's apparatus, name the people who you disagree with. This class blame stuff doesn't cut it. We, in fact, like rich people.
Bill Kristol-nacht
Dana peperoni
ex-congress critter-bitch molinari
Haven't you heard? We're not allowed to deviate one iota from prevailing FR orthodoxy. Pretty soon the list of people who are considered "RINO's" or worse will be, oh, about 300,000,000 or so. Just sayin...
Ditto!
ALL incumbents must go!
Bolton!
You are right, but drawing the wrong conclusion. This is a war on ALL elected professional politician of both parties. The choice has narrowed to the "least bad" from the choices we have been dealt.
These professional politicians and their hidden financial supporters fear the Tea Party movement more than Dracula fears garlic.
That is why the "extreme right wing Tea Party" is credited with polluting the "purity" of the Republicans, by Wasserman Schultz (Weiner light) overtly, and the establishment "Conservative Republicans" covertly.
The elected Establishment of both parties created our national crisis and, short of armed revolution, only they can reverse it. As voters, all we can do is erase all the (D) and (R) from our ballots and elect or dump politicians as often as necessary until the right people, with the right backbones, begin solving the problems.
Good luck blaming the Tea Party; it has no leadership, no "Big Dogs" fighting for a lifetime of bennies, and mouthing platitudes. The productive electorate, all of it has finally seen the problem, and they all better be afraid; very afraid.
Compared to Romney!?!
Somebody put acid in the donuts.
Well after coming out for Mitt, he has to say that. The press might be overplaying this a bit as well. Chris says a lot of things.
Feel free to add more...
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Hugh Hewett
Mark Steyn
Glen Beck
“Pretty soon the list of people who are considered “RINO’s” or worse will be, oh, about 300,000,000 or so. Just sayin...”
Shhhh... there’s serious purification going on here. You’re spoiling the fun.
Amazing. The very suggestion that Steyn is ANY sort of RINO shows an Orwellian wave of Newspeak has finally swept through.
Yes and once again the establishment goes harder after a fellow Republican then they have ever gone after Obama. It's as though they want to say these or similar things about Obama, but think it would be too risky, and so they can't wait to unload on a safer target; ie, on one that the media won't at al mind them attacking. And as with so many things in America today, it all comes down to the media and to too many politicians supposedly on our side who feel compelled to go out of their way to avoid antagonizing the media too much.
In the end, they fear the media more than they fear us getting sick and tired of their groveling ways. Yet more reason why we need someone like Gingrich to shake up the status quo and that's what has the status quoers striking out in anger, for they know Gingrich in power would mean many of them out of power.
So Christie the RINO took his Elephant disguise off..
Hes showing the horn on his nose..
I love honesty.. even of feigned..
See ya!
The worst thing to happen to Romney is the blatant bias of the elites on display. If they would have left it alone he would have been better off.
It would appear real fiscal Conservatives are the only ones who back Newt.
Kristol has never jumped on the Romney bandwagon. He’s been pushing other candidates the whole time. Kristol never said Romney had it wrapped up or anything and kept mentioning how things were still wide open. Kristol wrote a piece this morning giving credit to Sarah Palin for giving Newt her approval and the impact it had in SC, down by 12 before she said it, wins by 12 after she said it.
the other two you mention yes, but Kristol is no shill for Romney.
“Christie suggested that Gingrich was too much like Obama, and “we don’t need another legislator in the Oval Office.””
Is that the BEST that Christie can do? How TOTALLY LAME.
And by the way, one can argue, I think, that being Speaker of the House is as much Executive work as it is legislative - especially with all those RINOs constantly trying to undercut you.
Looking deeply into my crystal ball, I predict a bright future for Christie with the Media Corpse, if he continues along this line
>> Christie suggested that Gingrich was too much like Obama, and “we don’t need another legislator in the Oval Office.”
Why so anxious, Christie?
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