Posted on 11/07/2012 3:33:33 PM PST by drewh
National Review reporter Robert Costa talks to an unnamed Mitt Romney adviser who indicates there are a lot of hard feeling between Romney’s inner circle and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie over the latter’s embrace of President Obama after Hurricane Sandy:
Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, the adviser adds, is persona non grata in Romney’s inner circle. “He went out of his way to embrace the president during the final week of the campaign,” the adviser says. “It wasn’t necessary and it hurt us. Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock, and Chris Christie undermined the Republican message.”
Christie, of course, had earlier been one of Romney’s most able surrogates. He was an early supporter of Romney and delivered the keynote address at this year’s republican convention.
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It’s a poor excuse, yes. Bear in mind, these “campaign inner circle” creeps usually come out after the election to try and clean their records.
The Akin Mourdock criticism is valid however, because the media blew it out of proportion and it fed into the ‘war on women’ narrative, which we now know Obama was pushing hard under the radar, in radio ads targeting women.
While Christie’s idiocy wasn’t responsible for Romney’s loss (I think it was an inevitable demographic barricade we wouldn’t have ever been able to overcome), the unnecessary amount of fawning was annoying to watch. Christie fell on that day, in my eyes, and blew any shot he might have had at higher office.
God bless Lee Atwater! what a stratigist. God rest him.
Christie = Specter = Rino
Romney lost because he’s Romney.
Dead on. The fat boy and the twin idiots were the margin. Christie made Obama look like captain at the helm, and the two idiots made the fake and nearly dead “war on women” meme become very real in the minds of women across the country.
Smooth.
If anyone cares what I posted here since 1998, I ALWAYS say vote for the republican even a RINO, against the left wing democrat. I despise people who go third party ,etc.
If Chris Christie were on fire I would not urinate on him. He will never get my vote for reelection. He not only sold out Romney and the country (and he did) he got absolutely nothing for his suffering citizens in NJ in return. They still are in desperate straights and there is nothing special from FEMA, Obama, or Christie.
I will look forward to denying that childish fat fool my vote.
Oh, Christie also went on about crying because Obama put leftist Bruce Springsteen on the phone with him, and that fulfilled Christie’s childhood dream to talk to Springsteen! Hello, it wasn’t about you you load of self importance.
Never again.
screw Tubby Turncoat and his Springsteen blubberling
Exactly! The Springsteen thing was reprehensible.
One of Christie’s advisors is that arch RINO Tom Keane Sr of NJ.
Keane pulled a similar stunt on George H Bush and George W Bush.
The objective was to torpedo Romney so Fat Boy can run in 2016.
I am no fan of Christie’s, and Romney’ placing the blame for his loss is so very Obamalike. That Romney did not take the president to task in the debate for his audacious handling of the threat to our ambassador in Libya is more likely to be one of the reasons for his loss, since the media was loyally silent on the subject. Also vote fraud figures in his loss big time!
bloomberg endorsed bozo
I fully expect Ryan to be thrown under the bus as Sarah Palin was in ‘08. The fact is that many conservatives wouldn’t have shown up to vote in either election had the vice-presidential candidate made them more palatable.
Romney’s advisors undermined Sarah Palin and John McCain so that Romney could get in this election. This trashing of Palin continued long after the election again predominately by Romney’s staff/advisors.
The rape comments cost a couple of points among women. That’s all it took.
“The objective was to torpedo Romney so Fat Boy can run in 2016.”
He might waddle but he can’t run.
Christie shoudl have kept his big mouth shut and not have obama for a photo op, even the Dems said Christie played into their agenda and helped them
Christie could have said where is obama,, why is he out there when people are cold and homeless but no he wanted to praise obama and it played right for the media
“blaming mourdock and akin after you handily took those states is just ignorant....”
Think so? Go to any other state in America. Talk to 20 random women under 35 in a starbucks. Ask who they voted for and why.
Their message was damaging and spread far beyond safe presidential GOP territory into the far more narrow swing states.
These two asshats ran their mouths because they were in safe GOP territory and thought they had it in the bag. They never gave a thought to closer states and how their nutty talk might harm the larger effort.
romney lost because there is a bigger rat base. the cake was baked long before the election . uninspired Obama voters came out big.
Seriously, 2 Senate seats just flushed down the toilet because these idiots felt the need to blather on about the rape/incest abortion issue. Just shut the **** up. "I oppose abortion in all cases except the life of the mother". Period. Leave it at that. Don't spew a bunch of garbage about God's intent or women's bodies shutting down to prevent pregnancy. It's just amazing how awful some of these "grass roots" Senate candidates are. If we can't nominate someone good, then let's go with the establishment suit and at least take the seat.
And another thing, when the polls show clearly that a clownish Senate candidate like Akin can't win after making stupid statements....stop propping him up and insist he get the heck out of the race. We could have won that seat with almost anyone. Claire was that unpopular. And here she got 6 more years because morons like Huckabee raced to his defense and encouraged him to stay in the race.
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