Posted on 10/11/2011 11:04:13 AM PDT by RobinMasters
The only thing surprising about this is the timing:
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, just one week after definitively announcing he will not run for president in the 2012 race, plans to endorse Mitt Romney for the job Tuesday afternoon, Fox News has learned.
The event is set to take place in Hanover, N.H., the site of the Republican presidential debate being held Tuesday night. The endorsement will be made in advance of the debate.
Marking a fast turnaround for Romney, the endorsement comes one week to the day since Christie called a press conference in Trenton to end once and for all the speculation that he would make a late entrance into the race.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Obamacare must be repealed in 2012. Romney is the only candidate who signed off on universal health care and defends its individual mandate as ardently as a Democrat. Electing him to repeal Obamacare would be like hiring an arsonist to put out a fire.
The other candidates may have their faults, but none has such a striking conflict of interest with our #1 issue as Slick Willard. Well, Huntsman would probably go squishy on it, but I don’t think even the establishment cares a whit about him, so he’s a non-factor.
We need GOOD people right now to get behind. It is CRITICAL. Romney-Cain or Romney-Christie would work out 1 BILLION times better than Obummer-BidenTime.....
He’s a GOP establishment tool.
The one obvious difference being the democrats black constituency gets paid every now & then.
only a week ago or so right here at free republic, posters were begging Christie to run for President. I said he had never had his conservatism tested under any kind of fire and, as such, he was not presently the best conservative candidate. well, his conservatism has now been weighed and measured and found wanting. No surprise here.
True.
No sale.
As for Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan, I'm against the imposition of a national sales tax that does not eliminate the income tax. Remember that the original income tax (16th amendment) instituted in 1913 was 1% on those making $3,000. (equal to $67,000. in 2011) or more, with 7% the top limit on incomes over $500,000. (11 million, today). The point is that (a) once a tax is imposed, it is never, ever removed and, (b) as sure as the sun rises, the rate will go up. In my state, we have an onerous 6.3% sales tax so under Cain's plan, I would be paying a total of 15.3% in tax ever time I purchased so much as a stick of gum. On a $30 meal in a restaurant, I would pay an additional $4.00 in federal and state sales taxes. On a $30,000 new car, I would be paying the federal and state governments a total of $4,000. in tax. That is outrageous - and unacceptable. Not while I'm still paying income taxes, to boot.
Herman Cain needs to answer some tough questions about his tax plan but frankly, unless there were a huge change in the congressional political environment, I can't see a 'President Cain' getting this done so I'll still support the 'Hermanator'. He is intelligent, accomplished and articulate as well as bold. Oh yeah, one more thing; he's black. This is driving the left crazy. They trotted out a few of their usual loons (Cornel West, Harry Belefonte) to call Mr. Cain stupid names but he basically flicked them aside, as they deserved. Herman Cain continues to grow in stature and leftist name-callers only show his superiority as a candidate and as a man.
Dog bites man!
I will never vote for Romney either.
So the big question now is, who will Palin endorse?
So the big question now is, who will Palin endorse?
Ho-hum. After all, Christie refused to enjoin the law suit against Obamacare. Birds of a feather except that Christie sounds more forceful and assured.
Conservatives play the same role in the GOP that blacks do in the Democrat party - farmed for contributions, votes, enthusiasm and horsepower, but left in the barn at night.
An enlightened post! The truth has rung like a bell for me this morning.
Exactly. Christie’s endorsement just demonstrates that his left wing tendencies are not the product of necessity governing a liberal state, they are his views.
Wow, I’m totally shocked, NOT, YAWN ....
The only reason Christie was being urged to get into the race was to detract from Cain who was surging in a big way, folks are stupid and think it would have hurt Romney but they were wrong, it would have hurt Cain. Thus they’re still at it, this is all being orchestrated by the GOP, you know, you’re party ...
Phase 1 - 9-9-9
•Current circumstances call for bolder action.
•The Phase 1 Enhanced Plan incorporates the features of Phase One and gets us a step closer to Phase two.
•I call on the Super Committee to pass the Phase 1 Enhanced Plan along with their spending cut package.
•The Phase 1 Enhanced Plan unites Flat Tax supporters with Fair tax supporters.
•Achieves the broadest possible tax base along with the lowest possible rate of 9%.
•It ends the Payroll Tax completely – a permanent holiday! •Zero capital gains tax
•Ends the Death Tax.
•Eliminates double taxation of dividends
•Business Flat Tax – 9%; Gross income less all investments, all purchases from other businesses and all dividends paid to shareholders.
•Empowerment Zones will offer additional deductions for payroll employed in the zone.
•Individual Flat Tax – 9%;Gross income less charitable deductions. •Empowerment Zones will offer additional deductions for those living and/or working in the zone.
•National Sales Tax – 9%; This gets the Fair Tax off the sidelines and into the game.
Phase 2 – The Fair Tax
•Amidst a backdrop of the economic boom created by the Phase 1 Enhanced Plan, I will begin the process of educating the American people on the benefits of continuing the next step to the Fair Tax.
•The Fair Tax would ultimately replace individual and corporate income taxes.
•It would make it possible to end the IRS as we know it.
•The Fair Tax makes our exported goods and services the most competitively internationally than any other tax system.
Today, he is a fat RINO.
Yawn.
Endorsements don’t help pols. They only, maybe, tell you something about the endorser.
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