Posted on 01/13/2014 10:13:45 AM PST by xzins
Glenn Beck on Thursday likened New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s bridge scandal to a long list of scandals tied to President Obama, saying both illustrate “why you don’t give so much power to the government.”
“The ends justify the means,” Beck said. “This Chris Christie story is everything we despise in Barack Obama.”
Members of Christie’s staff are accused of closing access lanes to the George Washington Bridge as a way to get back at Mayor Mark Sokolich, who did not support Christie’s re-election bid.
Beck referenced a CNN interview in which DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz claimed the president’s purported ignorance of scandals is different than Christie’s. As she saw it, the president was unaware of “policy issues,” whereas Christie’s was a scandal “in which his staff and possibly him exacted political retribution…”
“How is that different than the IRS scandal?” Beck demanded. His co-host Stu Burguiere argued that if anything, it’s “not as bad.”
Glenn Beck Responds to Chris Christie Bridge Scandal: Everything We Despise in Barack Obama Glenn Beck speaks on his radio program Jan. 9, 2014. (Photo: TheBlaze TV)
“Same attitude,” Burguiere summarized. “And if Chris Christie was president, he would do something similar – maybe not to the level of payback – but he would do something similar to punish his enemies.”
And as was the case with the president, Beck said that even if Christie didn’t explicitly give the order, his ignorance is just as troubling.
“It shows he’s putting horrible people around him and creating some sort of environment where these people think it’s a good idea, it is going to please their boss, to punish … his enemies,” Burguiere noted.
Beck warned that “conservatives need to run from Chris Christie,” saying this is the “quintessential example of why I’m against him.”
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And Beck added that if he starts supporting Christie in 2016 because he is the “lesser of two evils,” his co-hosts need to “slap” him. He went so far as to compare the state of the country — and the Republican Party in particular — to his days as an alcoholic.
Every morning, Beck said he would wake up and say he wasn’t going to drink that day. But something always happened, and he always ended up doing it. The radio host said eventually he was so disgusted with himself that he couldn’t even look in the mirror.
“That’s exactly where we are,” Beck said. “Every election, (we say) we’re not going to vote for one of those guys.”
But when the time comes, conservatives always rationalize that the Republican nominee is at least better than the Democrat, and get sucked back in.
“It’s time to stand up and say what you mean, mean what you say, and accept the consequences,” Beck said, encouraging people to be honest, decent, and true to their beliefs. “Let’s be a curious people that just get down to it, do it for the right reasons, and in the end, you’ll win.”
I’ll be with Cruz if he decides to run, but he’d also be great on the Supreme Court. I guess he can still be appointed after two terms as president. :-)
Only caveat is that Christie fired the people responsible and apologized.
Correction: he fired the people HE SAID were responsible. You believe him, automatically, that he had no involvement.
And even if he didn’t order the roads closed, he did nothing while they stayed closed for four days, and didn’t fight to get to the bottom of why it was happening. Some “hands on problem-solver”. This was big, arrogant government making life worse for average people, and Chris Christie - even if he didn’t cause it - didn’t do squat to solve it.
I don't require perfect; but there's absolutely no sense in voting for Obama's political clone.
I voted for former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, the Libertarian party's candidate, who is far, far better a candidate than Romney.
I would have gladly voted for Ron Paul, had he won the nomination. (And I had no problem with the others: Sanatorum, Gingrich, etc.)
I promised myself after voting McCain (2008) that I would never again "hold my nose" and vote for a candidate: voting Romney would violate that promise.
There is a resemblance between Christy and Capone. You do not want to turn your back to these people.
Thats the thing. We get slammed by the GOP fans about ‘purity’ and ‘purists’ being the problem.
Not one of us that I recall ever said squat about electing Christ. Personally I went by the 80% rule that USED to be the well accepted standard. Romney did bot hit double digits for conservatism. But he pretty much redlined the meter on his record of liberalism.
The saving grace to all this is that there remain but a handful of people claiming that they’ll vote R no matter what. All the screaming and tantrums got them nothing. Many of the names I and others used to argue this with now admit they were wrong or simply refuse to talk about it.
I’d say we have been vindicated. Not that the remaining cheerleaders for lesser evil will ever wake up and accept it.
Romney was never a viable candidate.
His negatives on homosexuality, socialized medicine, and immigration were such that a sizable portion of the base would vote third party or abstain no matter what rhetoric was used to try to weedle them.
People opposed to him who voted for him anyway sacrificed principal without even a remote possibility of gain.
Christie didn’t fire the people responsible. That would be himself and he is still there.
Christie threw some underlings to the wolves to escape further consequences.
"They said if I voted for Romney, the country would be in the hands of a bizarre cult worshiping a ludicrous god, and they were right!"
Ace of Spades HQ
Probably right.
My Dog told me not to vote for Romney.
My Dog was right. Little bits of information that the MSM can grab and run with will always be their favorite toy.
Close, but not accurate enough. May I try?
GOPe Republicans, Such as Christie, Are ‘Everything We Despise’ in Barack Obama
^This^ gets much closer to the gun grabbing, progressive truth of Christie and the once grand old party.
None for me, thanks...trying to quit.
I hold the possibility he knew as well he did not know. It would seem odd to me that when he allegedly learned that the lane closures were a traffic study it would have taken 2 follow-up questions to find out that was a bogus answer. But on the other hand, this was a stupid stunt that never hurt the Mayor but immediately bounced to the governors office. Christie is not a stupid person.
I just wish the press would be as tough on Dem or Rep, we need to watch these guys.
in the primaries I am with you but for those who sat on their hands when it was Romney or O I say a pox on them all.
I laid nothing at the hands of ‘social’ conservatives. I did lay it at the hands of those that sat on theirs saying that O and Romney were the same thing. They were and are not. We have O. So what are WE going to do about it???
and your vote gave us O…
Gary Johnson on a good day is a lunatic and nothing like a conservative
Close, but not exact.
I voted for Romney ONLY because I couldn't imagine anyone as bad on the just-breaking Benghazi as Obama had been.
And then Romney chickened out and last month Ryan attacked our troops.
So even on that I was wrong.
I really want to understand. Why exactly do you feel that electing a RINO that is guaranteed to stab you in the back and run left is better than a Dem that will stab you in the back and is already there?
I’m not being a smart ass. We have 30 years of history proving that electing lesser evils led to the Bhoner/Rubio/Ryan GOP. Why do want to continue on that path?
No, it didn't.
If voting for someone who lost is the same as voting for Obama, then you voted for Obama when you voted for Romney.
Gary Johnson on a good day is a lunatic and nothing like a conservative
I know that while the state was still pretty solidly Democrat he did a good enough job to get a second term and leave office with a better budgetary state than he came in on.
I didn't sit on my hands, I voted for Gary Johnson because that was the best candidate I knew of. If he hadn't run, I would have gone with FR's EternalVigilance.
You see, the GOP isn't entitled to my vote, it has to earn it. I am through giving the party "the benefit of the doubt", let their actions show what their goals are. I'm through "holding my nose" and voting for a candidate, so I'm going to vote for people I think can and will do a good job.
The attitude you embrace is dangerously close to if you don't agree with me, you're wrong
— because there's nothing in there to allow for another human to be their own moral agent and judge for themselves whether or not the candidate is unacceptable.
“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?” — WOPR computer in War Games
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