Posted on 10/11/2011 12:57:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, just one week after definitively announcing he will not run for president in the 2012 race, endorsed Mitt Romney for the job Tuesday afternoon.
At a press conference in Hanover, N.H., Christie described the endorsement as an "easy decision."
The announcement came just hours before the Republican candidates gather for a debate nearby at Dartmouth College. In securing the support of Christie, Romney will have at his side a tough-talking governor who during his two years in office has built a reputation as a fiscal hawk not shy about taking on the public employee unions.
The former Massachusetts governor is enlisting Christie at a time when his front-runner status is once again being challenged. Romney saw his lead slip after Texas Gov. Rick Perry jumped into the race in August. Perry has since fallen back in the polls, but businessman Herman Cain broke through to within a few points of Romney in several recent national polls.
Marking a fast turnaround for Romney, the new endorsement comes one week to the day since Christie called a press conference in Trenton to end once and for all the speculation that he would make a late entrance into the race....
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The fix is in. I find this VERY upsetting. I hope Cain keeps to his word and goes after Romney tonight.
I am saddened by this, but I have not surrendered to the media creation that is RINO Romney.
The herd of RINOs is taking shape.
It was radio, so I couldn't tell if the copy boy was reading it with a straight face.
It was radio, so I couldn't tell if the copy boy was reading it with a straight face.
Welcome to RINO land. It’s as if the RNC wants to lose the election and the MEDIA wants Romney because he is a sure bet to lose.
Grrrrr
Christie may be a fine governor, but has he examined the playing field closely enough to render an endorsement?
He should be pressed as to why, point by point, Mitt is the man vs the others. And I mean something other than what Romney has promised NJ if elected POTUS.
The big fat weasel is a puppy dog begging for a treat - - the VP slot.
Entirely predictable for Christie to endorse a neighbor.
But I don’t think it will help Romney much.
Christie’s appeal is his toughness, his personality, his ability to articulate his positions and get things done.
Romney has none of these. Next to Christie, Romney looks like milquetoast.
Of coarse they want to lose it. Just how in the world are they going to benefit if someone actually starts to straigten out the Permanent Political Class? The Republican establishment is woefully devoid of leaders and that makes them perfectly willing to play the bad cop in the game.
Money has to be involved here, probably from a great political distance. Somebody wants Romney to run against Obama, not Cain.
I wonder if Herman Cain’s SURGE has prompted this urgent rollout of the Christy endorsement for Romney.
Christy and Romney may be fine men, however, Cain is NOT a career politician like they are and this should be a MAJOR factor as American’s appear to have had FAR TOO MUCH exposure (especially to Obama) with typical career politicians.
I have a close friend who's a professional athlete.
Doesn't make me any skinnier.
“I am saddened by this, but I have not surrendered to the media creation that is RINO Romney”
I think most conservatives learned their lesson last time around with mclame. We will NOT be swayed by an endorsement for a RINO this time. Our childrens’ futures depend on it.
One Rockefeller Republican endorsing another Rockefeller Republican. Not big news.
Thought Reagan just about killed off these RockyPubs 30 years ago. Guess they're back with a vengeance.
Hold on now!
RINO See...RINO do...
Exactly.
This makes me MORE inclined to go back and give Perry another look and to continue to promote the ideas of Mr. Cain at least. Maybe a Perry/Cain ticket?
Notice to Jim Demint, Marco Rubio, Pat Toomey, Paul Ryan and others. You need to get officially behind either Cain or Perry or see the GOP taken completely out from under you and the hard work you have tried to do since 2010 squandered by either a 2012 GOP “loss” or a 2012 GOP “victory”, which, with Romney at the lead will be one and the same thing; and you know it.
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