Posted on 10/31/2012 3:47:08 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has decided to play the role of a Greek column today for President Obama. Obama and Chris Christie will tour the Jersey shore. Who lives on the shoreline, Snerdley? That's exactly right. The one percent live on the beach. It isn't cheap, Rachel. I don't know if you know this or not. It isn't cheap to live on the beach anywhere. Well, there are a couple places, but, I mean, for the most part.
President Obama and the Greek column, Chris Christie, will be walking the coastline, viewing properties owned by the one-percenters, to whom Barack Obama has said, "You didn't build that. You didn't make that happen."
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RUSH: To the phones we go and we're gonna start in Hoover, Alabama. It's Michelle. Great to have you on the program. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. It's an honor to talk to you for the third time, so I'm gonna try not to be nervous this time.
RUSH: You don't sound nervous at all.
CALLER: Okay, well, that's good. Couple questions for you. It's kind of a two-part question. First, do you think that what Chris Christie is doing and how he's, you know, basically campaigning with Obama today, if that hurts or helps Obama or hurts or helps Romney? And, you know, the other point I wanted to ask you about is, you know, in 2008 when Obama and McCain were campaigning and McCain suspended his campaign, and Obama came out and basically said, "Look, if you can't do both, you know, as president you gotta be able to juggle both, then you don't deserve to be president." Well, he doesn't seem to be able to be juggling both.
RUSH: What Obama said in 2008 was when McCain suspended his campaign and went to Washington, Obama said, "Well, you go ahead," and said what you said, "You gotta be able to juggle a bunch of things. I'm going to Florida, you know how to reach me if you need me," and it was at that point that if McCain had any chance it vanished. Look, before I tell you about my thoughts on Christie, what do you think? You're the caller. You tell me what you think.
CALLER: Well, honestly, you're probably gonna think I'm crazy for thinking this, but in some ways I would think it would help Romney because Chris Christie's a Republican --
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: -- he's doing a good job running the efforts there, and my prayers and thoughts go out to all those people, and that they're gonna say, "Okay, so the president's come here to do his meet-and-greet and look at the ground, but can we now let our Republican governor get back to work to actually helping these people." That's what I think.
RUSH: All right, let me ask you a question. What did you think of Chris Christie's Republican convention speech? You remember it? Did you see it?
CALLER: Oh, heavens yes, I saw it. At first I kind of liked his boisterous personality, but it really kind of seemed like, "let me tell you about me," and it wasn't really about how Mitt Romney would be good for this country --
Gov. Chris Christie's R.N.C. Speech - Election 2012
RUSH: Yeah, it wasn't about that, was it? It wasn't about how good Romney was gonna be, was it?
CALLER: No. Not at all.
RUSH: Okay, now, do you remember what Christie said before the first debate?
CALLER: Yes, I do.
RUSH: What did he say?
CALLER: He basically said that this race is gonna turn on a dime once Mitt Romney debates Obama.
RUSH: Right. He is the only person in the country who thought that. You go back, everybody was scared the first debate 'cause Obama's the smooth talker, Obama's this guy that's gonna mop the floor, and nobody thought what Christie thought. He was the only guy who said Romney is gonna wipe the floor with Obama. Nobody else thought that.
CALLER: I did.
RUSH: I'm asking this series of questions for a specific reason. You may have figured it out; you may have not figured it out. If you haven't, it will be up to you to figure it out. But when you sit there and you're the only guy saying that Romney's gonna clean up, what are you doing? You are raising expectations. It was thought to be unfair what Christie did. He put all kinds of pressure on Romney to mop the floor with Obama.
Remember: Before the first debate, the conventional wisdom was that Obama is just the greatest speaker ever. I'm not talking about you and I. We know he's nothing without the prompter. I'm talking about population at large in the media. So Christie goes out there, raises these expectations to a point that nobody thought Romney could possibly do that, and what if Romney hadn't done that?
What if Romney hadn't come through? Now here we are just speculating. I'm just asking some questions. Here we are a week/six days before the election. And yesterday Chris Christie said, “I don't care. The election's not important right now. I need the president of the United States here. He's been great for me and my state,” and so forth. Now, when you look at it as I have laid it out, what do you think?
CALLER: Well, I just don't think Chris Christie is... I mean, there are things about him that I love and things about him that I don't like. I just don't think that Chris Christie, being such a strong Romney supporter and advocate -- especially during the primaries, out there with Romney -- you know, saying these things and putting the president up on a pedestal, so to speak... I think maybe he's just saying, “Look, you know, I need some federal money here, and I need to get it as fast as I can.” But ultimately if I'm a person in the state of New Jersey like I was a person here in Alabama when we had all those tornadoes...
RUSH: Yeah. Okay. All right, well, look. Let me share with you an e-mail that I have here. I have e-mail from the Rush 24/7 subscriber email. That's a private e-mail address. You only get that e-mail address if you're a subscriber at RushLimbaugh.com. And it's from William Ganz. He said, “Oh, my, this is great. The narcissist-in-chief took the bait. Governor Christie baited Obama to come to New Jersey to survey the damage.
“And Obama is now wasting precious time in a state that he's gonna win anyway. So Obama wastes time in New Jersey while Governor Christie's friend takes Ohio, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and, as an added bonus, Christie scores big Obama bucks for his state, which shores up his status as a good governor for the whole population of New Jersey.” So this take is, this a brilliant move by Christie. He asked Obama to come, and Obama said, “Sure.”
(interruption) Who made this request? Do we know? We don't know who made the request. So this guy's assuming that Christie called Obama and said, “Come in,” and Obama said, “Okay, I'll be glad to. I'll be there.” So Obama landed just now. Air Force One just landed in a marsh and they're gonna get together. This guy thinks that Obama's been rope-a-doped. They're together on Marine One right now. Okay, they're together on Marine One. They're flying to the devastation of one-percenters in people that live on the shore
Chris Christie PRAISES Obama on FOX NEWS
So Obama's gonna go out and he's gonna give money to the one-percenters in New Jersey, 'cause that's where most of the damage is on the Jersey shore. And Christie has said it's unthinkable. It's unbelievable, this devastation there. So that's one take, that this is a slick move by Governor Christie. It’s really smart. It gets Obama out of the White House. It gets him out there, wasting time in a state he's gonna win anyway. Christie gets the Obama bucks.
New Jersey gets its help.
The election isn't gonna be moved. It's gonna happen Tuesday. Of course, the opposite theory is, “What the hell is Christie doing? He's giving Obama a chance to look presidential, clean up a state, look competent, look like cares and so forth. What's a Republican doing propping up Obama?” That's the other take on this. (interruption) How long before who gets fed up? (interruption) Well, Snerdley's asking how long before New Yorkers get fed up with how long it's gonna take to restore things.
The thing is, nothing is going to get fixed by Election Day. Obama is not Superman. He can't go to New Jersey and get the water out of people's homes in the one-percenters' houses. He can't rebuild the 80 houses that went up in flames in Queens. Hundred and ten now. He can't rebuild. Do you know that Bob Turner's house is one of those? Bob Turner, Congressman Bob Turner, was the chairman/CEO of Multimedia.
I would hate to know that my governor was second fiddle to Barrack Obama! But my gov has dealt with worse hurricanes than Sandy!
I don’t know why everybody is on Christie for.... He knows Obama is a low down dirty POS that if he didn’t suck up too would slow walk any help to the people of NJ....If Christie made it political...
Sometimes you got to shallow your pride and do what is right for the people put in your trust...even if it means sucking up to a worthless piece of vermin like king Zero...
Arizona could be hit a Category 8 earthquake and still no way in hell Jan Brewer for would ask for money from the communist. I have never trusted the RINO walking donut and never will.
I sorta agree with you and if I could add. Christi is a Republican in a blue state. He stated on one of the morning shows that this wasn’t about the election. That right there is powerful in the sense that he was going to do everything he could to get his state and the people whole as soon as possible.
After that, the good people of NJ will see what this Republican Governor did for them and maybe, just maybe start getting rid of the DemocRATS.
I know, wishful thinking but it might be his strategy.
Perhaps Obama gave Christie’s fat a$$ it’s very own Zip code.
If Obamas wins, I will donate money to ANY democrat that runs against that tub of lard.
Perhaps Obama gave Christie’s fat a$$ it’s very own Zip code.
If Obamas wins, I will donate money to ANY democrat that runs against that tub of lard.
Perhaps Obama gave Christie’s fat a$$ it’s very own Zip code.
If Obamas wins, I will donate money to ANY democrat that runs against that tub of lard.
I agree with you about giving Christie a pass on this one. NJ is absolutely DEVASTED.....IMO Christie is doing what he has to, to get his state all the help he can get. IF potus reached out and made himself available to get Christie the help he needs, I dont have a problem with him saying Potus has been great about it. Of course, I KNOW Potus is prob doing this reaching out for political gain, but if the end result is to get help to the people of NJ quickly, then so be it. I think the majority of people in our country already know Potus is a POS...... and I would bet my last dollar that if Potus doesnt provide the help like he says he will......Christie WILL be out there chastising him. For all the people coming down on Christie,,,,,go back and LOOK at the pictures of the aftermath of hurricane Sandy.....and ask yourself, what would you do if you were in Christies shoes? Prayers to all my fellow peeps in NJ....my heart breaks seeing the devastation.
Is anyone going to vote for Obama because of a photo-op with our governor? The only one on the planet who could possibly believe that is Obama.
There are 81 days between now and Inauguration Day. Fixing the damages from Sandy is going to cost a ton of money and take years -- better to start cashing the checks today than wait for smaller checks from a fiscal conservative in January.
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Thank you. I’m glad to see someone else besides myself who can look at the devastation and beyond politics in this. I’m not a big fan of Chris Christies, but I do believe he loves his job and state. I’m mostly amused by him; however, there isn’t anything funny about what he is dealing with right now and if it means getting through all the red tape to get quick funding - then he is doing his job - even if it means sort of kissing zero’s ring. He’s just overwhelmed with gratitude and people fault him for that? I don’t.
Please somebody inform me as I can’t think of a single issue where Chris Christie is conservative. I disagree with the guy on almost every stance economic or social the guy seems to represent.
The picture is hilarious.
The reference is perfect.
Perry did something a couple of years ago and Perry got no money from Bammy for the fires.
I hated seeing christie schmoozing, but that incident was in my mind, guess I thought everyone knew it.
Bammy should not act like a donor, like he’s the late p. Morgan or a Carnegie or so, but since when do the rules apply to him or his jet setting wife?
Jersey is hard hit. Not just at the shore, where folks I know aren’t talking anything about FEMA, but about who is going to house Grammy while the guys and the insurance co.s assess the next best step.
Jersey is, on the other side of the Hudson from NYC, a land of suburbs, commuters, and many and varied corporate headquarters.
Densely populated.
They’re going to need that money and Bammy lives to be schmoozed. Heck, he’s probably on such a high from it he’s taken his mind off the prize.
I don’t know what Christie’s doing, but I do know what I’ve witnessed in Bammy’s actions as Prez.
Now all your Red State Republicans think that statement is the very reason these pukes ought to be kicked out of the Republican party.
Even here in Virginia we have this annoying Romney ad on TV that tells us that Romney can work with Democrats ~ like I give a big rat's adze.
Outside of Arlington and Alexandria not even the Democrats want to vote for a Republican who says he'll be playing cozy with the Democrats in Congress!
Are you familiar with Rita and Ike?...both stronger than Sandy.
Christie would have been used as an example of refusing to "reach across the aisle", and it would have done more damage to Romney than saying "come on down" to obama.
Don't mistake CAT, based on windspeed in the tropical winds core, with total storm strength.
Sandy was a large hurricane with a lot of water that formed in a few hours just South of Jamaica. It ran into and was absorbed by a large Nor'Easter that was in turn part of a front that extended from the tropics to the arctic! This one storm center was 1000 miles wide. Try pi r squared for territorial extant. It was UNIQUE.
Ike and Rita had nowhere near the destructive force of Sandy ~ which is still spinning BTW!
I of course meant NJ, not NY.
Well, Christie’s smoozing with Obama has certainly given Obama more than a full day of non-stop postive coverage by the lap dog media. I heard it all day on radio and saw it on TV the few times I tuned into TV news, even on Fox.
This was a move that could only help Obama and if Christie didn’t know that he’s a naive politician. I expect he knew it would help Obama and many will not forget it if he ventures beyond NJ politics in the future.
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