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Gov. Christie: Gingrich ‘Has Been An Embarrassment To The Party’
Mediaite ^ | 1/22/12 | Josh Feldman

Posted on 01/22/2012 9:55:44 AM PST by Nachum

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie appeared on Meet the Press today to do damage control for Mitt Romney and to explain why Newt Gingrich would not be an ideal Republican nominee despite his strong victory in South Carolina last night. He claimed that Gingrich’s past actions have embarrassed the Republican party, and Mitt Romney was more suited to be the nominee because of his record and how he conducted himself in office as opposed to Gingrich.

David Gregory asked Christie to explain what about Newt Gingrich’s politics or his character disqualified him from being the Republican nominee against President Obama. Christie suggested that Gingrich was too much like Obama, and “we don’t need another legislator in the Oval Office.” He reminded Gregory that Obama jumped directly from a position as a legislator to the presidency, making the argument that executive experience was vitally important for the next president to draw a stark contrast with how Obama has governed.

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KEYWORDS: chrischristie; christie; embarrassment; fatmanchristie; gingrich; newt; newtwinsscprimary; party
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To: blueunicorn6
The country clubbers are pretty much the folks who provide structure to the Republican party. There are those who claim the Young Republicans put the boots on the ground, but these other guys you are disparaging, the country clubbers, provide us the same element of organization that's provided by unions, trial lawyers and captive industries (e.g. abortion) to the Democrats.

The Knights of Columbus used to be reliable elements of the Democrat party working structure. These days I would imagine you find a number of their top officers more likely within the ranks of the country clubbers.

When you want to badmouth leftwingtards do so. If you don't like the party's apparatus, name the people who you disagree with. This class blame stuff doesn't cut it. We, in fact, like rich people.

61 posted on 01/22/2012 10:33:48 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Ron/GA
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Bill Kristol-nacht

Dana peperoni

ex-congress critter-bitch molinari

62 posted on 01/22/2012 10:34:26 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke The Terrorist Savages)
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To: Yossarian
By my memory, Mark Steyn's objections to Newt Gingrich are based on the same reservations many of us have here on FR.

Haven't you heard? We're not allowed to deviate one iota from prevailing FR orthodoxy. Pretty soon the list of people who are considered "RINO's" or worse will be, oh, about 300,000,000 or so. Just sayin...

63 posted on 01/22/2012 10:35:36 AM PST by Wolfstar ('The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.' Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: Sequoyah101

Ditto!

ALL incumbents must go!


64 posted on 01/22/2012 10:38:12 AM PST by mardi59 (Newt brings hope, and change is coming. 2012!!)
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To: Ron/GA

Bolton!


65 posted on 01/22/2012 10:38:33 AM PST by SweetCaroline (He is the Antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son. 1-John 2:22)
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To: PowderMonkey
This is the sort of garbage that will hand Obama another four years in office. Sometimes I can't help but believe that is exactly what the RINOs and country club Repubs want.

You are right, but drawing the wrong conclusion. This is a war on ALL elected professional politician of both parties. The choice has narrowed to the "least bad" from the choices we have been dealt.

These professional politicians and their hidden financial supporters fear the Tea Party movement more than Dracula fears garlic.

That is why the "extreme right wing Tea Party" is credited with polluting the "purity" of the Republicans, by Wasserman Schultz (Weiner light) overtly, and the establishment "Conservative Republicans" covertly.

The elected Establishment of both parties created our national crisis and, short of armed revolution, only they can reverse it. As voters, all we can do is erase all the (D) and (R) from our ballots and elect or dump politicians as often as necessary until the right people, with the right backbones, begin solving the problems.

Good luck blaming the Tea Party; it has no leadership, no "Big Dogs" fighting for a lifetime of bennies, and mouthing platitudes. The productive electorate, all of it has finally seen the problem, and they all better be afraid; very afraid.

66 posted on 01/22/2012 10:39:03 AM PST by Publius6961 (My world was lovely, until it was taken over by parasites.)
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To: Nachum
Christie suggested that Gingrich was too much like Obama

Compared to Romney!?!

Somebody put acid in the donuts.

67 posted on 01/22/2012 10:39:57 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Nachum

Well after coming out for Mitt, he has to say that. The press might be overplaying this a bit as well. Chris says a lot of things.


68 posted on 01/22/2012 10:39:57 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: Ron/GA

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Hugh Hewett
Mark Steyn
Glen Beck


69 posted on 01/22/2012 10:40:08 AM PST by InterceptPoint (TIN)
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To: Wolfstar

“Pretty soon the list of people who are considered “RINO’s” or worse will be, oh, about 300,000,000 or so. Just sayin...”

Shhhh... there’s serious purification going on here. You’re spoiling the fun.


70 posted on 01/22/2012 10:40:34 AM PST by brownsfan (Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)
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To: Wolfstar

Amazing. The very suggestion that Steyn is ANY sort of RINO shows an Orwellian wave of Newspeak has finally swept through.


71 posted on 01/22/2012 10:40:55 AM PST by magritte ( "Welcome to Stepford.")
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To: NELSON111
Well...the prediction that the establishment would start to unload on Newt is coming to pass...and pretty quick too.

Yes and once again the establishment goes harder after a fellow Republican then they have ever gone after Obama. It's as though they want to say these or similar things about Obama, but think it would be too risky, and so they can't wait to unload on a safer target; ie, on one that the media won't at al mind them attacking. And as with so many things in America today, it all comes down to the media and to too many politicians supposedly on our side who feel compelled to go out of their way to avoid antagonizing the media too much.

In the end, they fear the media more than they fear us getting sick and tired of their groveling ways. Yet more reason why we need someone like Gingrich to shake up the status quo and that's what has the status quoers striking out in anger, for they know Gingrich in power would mean many of them out of power.

72 posted on 01/22/2012 10:41:18 AM PST by Humbug (the media rule the world and they know it....they are our true foe, not the puppet in the WH)
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To: Nachum

So Christie the RINO took his Elephant disguise off..
Hes showing the horn on his nose..

I love honesty.. even of feigned..


73 posted on 01/22/2012 10:41:39 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: nikos1121
I'm afraid you overeached with Mark Steyn.

See ya!

74 posted on 01/22/2012 10:41:53 AM PST by Publius6961 (My world was lovely, until it was taken over by parasites.)
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To: DManA

The worst thing to happen to Romney is the blatant bias of the elites on display. If they would have left it alone he would have been better off.


75 posted on 01/22/2012 10:41:53 AM PST by Bayou Dittohead
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To: Yossarian
Incredible how some Republicans reject the idea of having a fiscally sound federal budget.

It would appear real fiscal Conservatives are the only ones who back Newt.

76 posted on 01/22/2012 10:41:56 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: USS Alaska

Kristol has never jumped on the Romney bandwagon. He’s been pushing other candidates the whole time. Kristol never said Romney had it wrapped up or anything and kept mentioning how things were still wide open. Kristol wrote a piece this morning giving credit to Sarah Palin for giving Newt her approval and the impact it had in SC, down by 12 before she said it, wins by 12 after she said it.

the other two you mention yes, but Kristol is no shill for Romney.


77 posted on 01/22/2012 10:42:05 AM PST by jeltz25
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To: Nachum

“Christie suggested that Gingrich was too much like Obama, and “we don’t need another legislator in the Oval Office.””

Is that the BEST that Christie can do? How TOTALLY LAME.

And by the way, one can argue, I think, that being Speaker of the House is as much Executive work as it is legislative - especially with all those RINOs constantly trying to undercut you.


78 posted on 01/22/2012 10:43:20 AM PST by BobL ("Heartless" and "Inhumane" FReepers for Cain - we've HAD ENOUGH)
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To: Nachum

Looking deeply into my crystal ball, I predict a bright future for Christie with the Media Corpse, if he continues along this line


79 posted on 01/22/2012 10:44:48 AM PST by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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>> Christie suggested that Gingrich was too much like Obama, and “we don’t need another legislator in the Oval Office.”

Why so anxious, Christie?


80 posted on 01/22/2012 10:46:32 AM PST by Gene Eric (C'mon, Virginia -- are you with us or against us?!)
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