Posted on 11/05/2013 7:52:19 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
As Chris Christie prepared for almost certain victory for a second term as New Jersey governor, he was sounding like his thoughts are already on the 2016 Republican presidential primaries in an interview Tuesday with CNN's Jake Tapper.
Asked whether he considers himself a member of the tea party element of the Republican Party, Christie sounded conciliatory, telling Tapper, "There are elements of the tea party that are Republicans at their best."
Tea partiers, he noted, favor limited government and individual liberty and freedom. They are tough on government spending and question the need for raising taxes.
"The core of the tea party movement, as I understand it, I think is consistent with good Republican conservatism," Christie said.
But Christie added that when some people try to use the tea party movement to try to enhance themselves politically, it can get "perverted."
"Some of the stuff that's happened of late down in Washington is not even consistent with what a lot of the real folks who started the tea party movement would agree with," Christie said.
He didn't specify whether he was talking about the 16-day government shutdown that gave Republicans a black eye. But he sounded as if he might be alluding to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas earlier in the interview when he said, "Sometimes I feel like our party cares more about winning the argument than they care about winning elections."
Cruz was criticized by establishment Republicans for leading the effort to try to force President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats to delay the individual mandate of Obamacare. Cruz said he was keeping the promises made to his constituents and not grandstanding to boost his own potential in 2016.
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Preach it. Me too.
And tonight Michael Savage was advocating voting for Krispy-Kreme for prez in 2016! His reasoning was, KK was more centrist and therefore more electable, and then with KK you could get maybe 60% of what your conservative heart yearns for, whereas with Hildabeast, you wouldn’t get any. He said that Cruz was totally unelectable so you would also wind up with nothing that you wanted voting for him. Does Michael Savage have a drinking problem? I would have a very hard time voting for Odungo’s hug-buddy.
We’re going to need a popular gospel resolution. The Cross has to precede Cruz or Cruz won’t fly.
resolution=>revolution
I'm thinking financial, if he is selling Christie this early in the game.
I can understand people making "lesser of evil" calculations when your rino is the last man standing. You don't make those calcs two years out for a man who is governor of a tiny state with no traction among conservatives whatever.
Talk show host Laura Ingraham is pimping Christie as well....sickening.
What, no BARF alert?
He probably fears the popular support won’t be there for a Cruz as it is so far in the pocket of the Democrats (and the devil) now.
That can change, but that is a matter of theological concern.
Holy crap he kicked the Dems butt!
Let the *ss-kissing begin, but he’ll be wasting his effort.
Four million stayed home in 2012, right? Think we can make it eight in 2016?
I agree with you whole-heartedly.
Our problems are deeper than anything politics can resolve.
Politics must rest upon a moral foundation, and that in turn rests upon a spiritual one. Without rebuilding our moral and spiritual foundation, we are going to be forever slipping further and further over the cliff, always waiting for the next election to set things right and it never happens.
We've got a God-problem and we're trying to solve it at the ballot box and it doesn't work. Solve the deeper moral and spiritual problem and the politics will take care of themselves. Fail to solve the deeper problem, and no politics can ever save us.
I think Cruz knows this, and its necessary that we know it too.
You got it!
The Founding Fathers knew that without Christ as the foundation of the Republic we were doomed.
He’s been hated and mocked, treated like some wimpy woman instead of the KING WARRIOR He is...and look what’s happened to our country.
The ONLY thing that will save America is a spiritual revival, IMHO.
I wish people would stand up to this crap! Cruz didn’t have anything to do with shutting down the government other than voting for the CRs sent over from Boner. Boner is the one who should be blamed. But nooooo. He’s one of the elites.
Give it up Crispy we not votin for ya.
Fat boy can kiss my arse
He rode a lot of voter discontent with public-sector unions to a very strong showing in both of his races ... in an overwhelmingly "blue" state, no less. I never thought I'd see the day this would happen, but within his first six months in office he had effectively reduced public school teachers in New Jersey to a level of respect somewhere down with lawyers, arsonists and child molesters.
I'm still trying to figure out how he managed to do this in a state like New Jersey.
Yes he did, and he had our attention and the perfect chance to nail down conservative support. He squandered it, stupidly, and I don't think there is anything he can do at this point to turn it around.
Shut your damn mouth, Christy, you flapping fat ass.
It's also worth noting that despite the Christie landslide, New Jersey isn't doing very well from an economic standpoint. We lag behind the rest of the country in a lot of economic measures, and it's pretty amazing that this wasn't a bigger issue in the campaign (probably because even Democrats in New Jersey know damn well that they don't have any workable solutions themselves).
One interesting wild card here is the New York City mayor's race. This is one of the few areas of the country where off-year elections are actually interesting, since New Jersey holds all of their state elections and New York City holds their mayoral elections in these off years. NYC just elected an outright communist as their new mayor, and I'm looking at a distinct possibility that a large-scale flight of private employers out of New York City in the next few years may actually boost New Jersey's economy in a big way.
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