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Schmidt: Chris Christie landslide a template for GOP success
The Star-Ledger ^ | November 12, 2013 at 9:13 PM | Jenna Portnoy

Posted on 11/12/2013 9:52:34 PM PST by SoConPubbie

LAWRENCEVILLE — Steve Schmidt, a senior advisor to U.S. Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential bid and New Jersey native, tonight called Gov. Chris Christie's re-election campaign a model for the national GOP.

"There is a template there for success because Chris Christie as much as anything stands for the expanding model of the Republican Party, not the contracting model of the Republican Party," Schmidt said during a talk at the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University.

(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: barbarabuono; chrischristie; christie; finos; newjersey
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1 posted on 11/12/2013 9:52:34 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

Yup; turn the whole country as liberal as NJ and then RINOs can start winning. How brilyunt.


2 posted on 11/12/2013 9:54:21 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: SoConPubbie

So the Jack-Ass that guided John McCain to his epic loss, thinks the same strategy employed by John McCain and Mitt Romney to their losses is not going to work for Chris Christie?!


3 posted on 11/12/2013 9:54:59 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Olog-hai

Steve Schmidt, a senior advisor to U.S. Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential bid


I tend not to take advice from people WHO LOST!


4 posted on 11/12/2013 9:56:59 PM PST by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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As the Marxists overtook the Democrat Party, the unwilling migrated to the Republican Party.

Deport the illegal Republicans!


5 posted on 11/12/2013 9:57:56 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SoConPubbie

Stopped reading after the first sentence.

Schmidt couldn’t get a Mccain win.


6 posted on 11/12/2013 9:58:06 PM PST by RginTN
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To: SoConPubbie

The second I saw this coming from Steve Douche bag I stopped reading..Schmidt is the ultimate piece of crap..look up feces in the dictionary and you see a big picture of this guy


7 posted on 11/12/2013 9:58:50 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: SoConPubbie

The GOP’ template for success is to run candidates who are no different from Democrats?


8 posted on 11/12/2013 10:05:42 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Okay, but what do Nicole Wallace, Bob Beckel, John Weaver, Susan Estrich, Bill Brock and Ed Rollins have to say about it?


9 posted on 11/12/2013 10:07:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Many on the left see faith & family as oppressive, the right sees them as indispensable." Palin)
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To: SoConPubbie

This gives me reason to believe that some people would actually give the USA government over to a Sharia Muslim type of government since/because Christi has appointed a Muslim for the states highest court. I sure don’t trust Hanoi McCain to stay true to the Founders and our Constitution.


10 posted on 11/12/2013 10:08:04 PM PST by noinfringers2
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To: SoConPubbie

I will vote for whoever proves that they’ll put America, and Americans First. I don’t care where they come from anymore, only that they make normal the standard, and put the freaks back in a box where they belong.


11 posted on 11/12/2013 10:09:50 PM PST by Argus
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What template ? NJ Democrats ran a ringer against Christie. He handed them the open NJ Senate seat in compensation.


12 posted on 11/12/2013 10:10:17 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: SoConPubbie

Which universe are these pundits living in? It sure isn’t the one I inhabit. They need a dose of reality in their little bubbles. Cross the Jersey line and christie is a no one going nowhere...at least if I can help it.


13 posted on 11/12/2013 10:10:45 PM PST by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: Olog-hai

Bush Senior lost, just too wishy washy...

Dole lost. Same problem.

Bush Jr. (not really but you know who I mean), barely scraped by twice.

McCain lost.

Romney lost...

The GOPe has “S” for brains. RINOs can’t win, so what do they do? They run more RINOs.

When are they going to pull their heads out and offer an actual alternative to Leftist ideology?

What the sam hell is wrong with these idiots?

What they’ve been trying ain’t working! Will someone please send them a clue. They haven’t had one in literally fifty or sixty years.

These bird-brains wanted George Bush the Elder instead of Reagan. They were never comfortable with Reagan. They are so out of touch, it’s just plain unfathomable how clueless they are.


14 posted on 11/12/2013 10:12:40 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Obama, the Democrat Party, the Left in the U. S., have essentially become the 4th Reich.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Didn’t Schmidt bad mouth Sarah Palin?


15 posted on 11/12/2013 10:22:40 PM PST by Retired Chemist
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Didn’t Schmidt bad mouth Sarah Palin?

Blatantly!

16 posted on 11/12/2013 10:23:57 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (I)
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Can hardcore right wing positions win in Vermont?

Probably don’t need Vermont. How about New York? Well maybe not, but GW Bush won without New York so maybe that can be sacrificed, too.

Can those positions win in Florida given its 2013 population makeup? Is Florida’s population moving rightward or leftward as black and Hispanic birthrates exceed white birthrates? Is there any doubt that the black vote remains monolithic for Democrats, and is growing? Do we believe white potentially GOP voters are turning 18 each day in numbers greater than black voters coming of age?

Of course not. The demographics are not favorable.

And so, have a look at Christie’s positions and determine if they are rightward or leftward of Hillary’s.


17 posted on 11/12/2013 10:28:16 PM PST by Owen
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To: Olog-hai

Look at the source “Steve Schmidt, a senior advisor to U.S. Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential bid’ LOSER. Also, it was a sham election, can anyone name Christie’s opponent? Did a obama supporter run a third candidate, like they did with Cochenille? Christie is a RINO and the only different between him and H.Clinton, is that she wears a skirt, and he wears pants. Or it could be the other way around.


18 posted on 11/12/2013 10:37:10 PM PST by Exton1
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When was the last time Hillary wore a skirt; early 2000s? Thought she lives in pantsuits now?


19 posted on 11/12/2013 10:40:18 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: SoConPubbie

I am really, really interested in the extemporaneous, larval plans of a true incompetent and traitor, especially after he’s given them maybe a week to germinate. This guy should eat dogturds.


20 posted on 11/12/2013 10:45:38 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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