Posted on 04/01/2014 7:30:22 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
“It’s time for us as a party to stop killing each other,” Christie said, according a Politico report. “I’m not in this business to have an academic conversation. I am not in this business to win the argument. I’m in this business to win elections. And here’s why – because when we win elections, we get a chance to govern and we get to mold and shape the future of our state and country. When we lose, we don’t.”
Cruz often says to Republicans, "first you win the argument, then you win the vote," and Christie's words seem to be a direct reference to Cruz's argument that Republicans do not win national elections with watered down candidates and policies.
Though Christie said his more moderate brand of politics wins elections, that has never been the case on the national level for the GOP. Ronald Reagan won two terms running on bold conservative policies after moderate Gerald Ford lost in 1976. George H.W. Bush won in 1988 when he ran for Reagan's third term and lost in 1992 when he ran as a patrician moderate who broke his promise of "no new taxes." Bob Dole lost in 1996 as an establishment candidate while George. W. Bush won two terms with the strong support of the Evangelical base. In 2008 and 2012, Republicans nominated the candidates the mainstream press insisted had the best chance of winning the general election in John McCain and Mitt Romney, respectively, and they got smoked.
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It’s common knowledge that New Jersey is mafia central thus there are certain and necessary criteria one has to possess in order to be governor of that state
What you get is a chance to funnel more money to your cronies.
“It’s time for us as a party to stop killing each other,””
Translation: We RINOS can be as nasty as anything, but conservatives must be singled out for rocking the boat.
“I’m not in this business to have an academic conversation. I am not in this business to win the argument. I’m in this business to win elections.
“And here’s why – because when we win elections, we get a chance to govern and we get to mold and shape the future of our state and country. When we lose, we don’t.””
And running RINO’s for national office is a guaranteed loss. See Dole, McCain and Romney. What part of RINO does Christie not understand?
If that’s not the look of love (in Krispy’s eyes), I don’t know what is.
Krispy’s angry tone, in his Las Vegas speech, is understandable. He’s a lover scorned.
Fat boi is DOA at the voting booths outside his corrupt NJ.
2016: Let’s Win, Just Because
Quote from Krispie Kream about two years from now: “I can’t believe I’m losing to this guy!”
You can Call Christie a lot of things, but gutless isn't one of them. ;-)
if RINO boy is indeed Chris Christie....I have to say, gutless does not describe his physique.
But he was not a Social Conservative, we need to remind people of that. It was not just the Daisy add, that defeated him.
Granted. I do think it fair however to combine him with Reagan compared to the rest of the list.
Sure do, but somehow it seems to look the same as what the old mold and shapers did.
Electing “Republicans” who govern like Democrats is no improvement at all
Chris Chrispie will never get the nomination - but then I thought that about a Kenyan Muslim Communist back in 2008.
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