Posted on 06/05/2013 4:30:32 PM PDT by neverdem
By now you’ve probably read about 1,000 versions of Chris Christie’s political obituary in the last six months, and will probably do so again in the next few months. The story is always roughly the same: Christie was already in peril in a Republican presidential primary, given his status as a relative moderate from the Northeast. Further complicating things, the Republican base believes that his effusive praise of Barack Obama’s handling of Hurricane Sandy cost Mitt Romney the 2012...
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In 2012, the New Jersey electorate was 44 percent Democrat, 30 percent Independent, and 26 percent Republican. In 2009 -- the early stages of a perfect storm that aided Republicans -- it was 41 percent Democrat, 31 percent Republican, and 28 percent Independent. In other words, he simply can’t win re-election by just tending to his base. He needs to win Independents by at least the 30-point margin he achieved in 2009...
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Chris Christie is a poor fit for the state(Iowa), even setting aside his definitively Northeastern persona. He is pro-life, but he supports civil unions. He believes homosexuals are not sinners. He believes global warming is real and at least partly caused by humans. He favors some gun control measures. Beyond this, he is a rather staunch conservative. But the strikes against him are more than enough to tank his chances in Iowa...
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That sort of campaign works well for a true outsider, someone who has angered his party a bit, at a time when people are disgusted with Washington. It also works well for an “authentic” individual. Chris Christie oozes authenticity, much as McCain did not in 2008 (but did eight years earlier). It would be an interesting matchup against Hillary Clinton, who epitomizes “Washington insider” and who often suffered from a wooden persona in 2008...
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I wouldn’t sit an election out, but I would vote for someone else on the ballot. Otherwise (A)Democrats can try to claim “it was mispunched” for the Democrat (count it as an ATTEMPTED vote for Rat) or (B)it is “interpreted” by the chattering anchors/analysts as “evidence” that conservative numbers are shrinking. If “you can’t be motivated to go to the polls” then you are out of the election process and your vote is no longer sought (or again the pundits will claim you’ve now voted Democrat).
In case anyone was wondering what “lipstick on a pig” means . . . . there ya go.
Me either. But I did vote 3rd Party instead of Romney.
Christie Kreme is way to chummy with comrade Hussein 0bama to EVER get my vote. When you sell your soul to the devil like he has, he can go to hell and he ain’t taking me with him!
The hugfest with 0 is where he made his biggest mistake.
That hugfest is ongoing.
Not genius....populist crud works well with idiot voters. Same show that Bill O’really puts on five days per week. But thankfully he is not a politician. If he were we would have another rino.
Chris Christie is NOT a genius. He is a transparent opportunist.
A big, fat, stupid-looking, self-centered opportunist.
He’d be a genius if he picked a Republican for the seat and then ran a campaign to HOLD the seat, which actually wouldn’t take a genius in the year of Democrat scandals.
I do t want my taxes to go up S that pinniped uses more fuel in Airforce 1 than any three presidents combined would.
What dreck. This writer is a complete and utter fool. The only stuff McQueeg ever oozed cannot be mentioned here, lest I get the zot. McQueeg came out of the womb as a reptile, and has only gone downhill since.
Maybe if there was a decent Republican in jersey that would be able to beat the mayor of _______(Trenton?). Christie reminds me of Tony Soprano. He licks your ear till you give him what you want. I have a feeling he’d bury you if you were to really try to back stab him.
Christie is Obama lite!
Booker?
I like the way you think.
"Sean Trende is Senior Elections Analyst for RealClearPolitics. He is a co-author of the 2014 Almanac of American Politics and author of The Lost Majority."
I don't think the author would be joining Michael Barone as a co-author of the 2014 Almanac of American Politics if Barone thought like you. Barone is far from being a dummy, very far.
In 2012, the New Jersey electorate was 44 percent Democrat, 30 percent Independent, and 26 percent Republican. I am not too sure about the electorate in New Jersey but there is a whole lot of supposing going on here. I am one of those Independents (not from New Jersey) but it will be a cold day in Hades before I would EVER vote for EL TUBO LARDO..
Ditto
One of the things that makes Christie so "authentic" is that he is authentic -- but that only works in New Jersey and is not likely to give him much traction anywhere west of the Delaware River.
Personally, I think he's going to be angling for a spot in a post-2016 Republican administration -- as the U.S. Attorney General.
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