Posted on 11/07/2013 9:37:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
You could call him the storm after the storm. First there was Hurricane Sandy, and then, in the far reaches of the Republican Party, there was Hurricane Christie. The former was a devastating act of nature, the latter a desperate act of conservative frustration that came when the New Jersey governor embraced Barack Obama in the final days of the 2012 campaign. To hear the right wing tell it, the PDA between the Republican Chris Christie and the Democratic President should have been as lethal as a Michael Corleone kiss. Romney's campaign sulked. Talk-radio Republicans demanded blood. Tea Party leaders branded Christie a traitor.
Christie, however, didn't give a damn. Throughout the intraparty fight, the Jersey boy tore a page out of his hero Bruce Springsteen's songbook and defiantly struck a "No retreat, baby, no surrender" pose against withering right-wing rage. And now the Nov. 5 election results suggest that brazen, Christie-style bipartisanship might actually work.
Christie is the first New Jersey Republican in a quarter-century to win a majority of votes statewide....
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Christie is for Christie. Period.
Reagan didn’t unite the Republican Party, he went around it directly to the voters. How convenient that they forget the liberal Republicans running John Anderson against Reagan as a third party spoiler ( it didn’t work). Reagan appealed to the conservative, blue collar democrat voter of which there are too few left today to count on.
Washington will never be the answer. Only the state legislatures can restore our Constitution now:
http://www.conventionofstates.com/
I agree w/you about the theater/media blather part. I was just wondering (and doubting) how much traction Christy might gain ex-Jersey, and I frankly don’t think it will be much. There’s no way he’ll beat Hillary, no way at all. *IF* things get really, really bad and the people get religion (figure of speech) as to reducing entitlements and actually letting the economy work etc; and want a stern Daddy, then he could potentially beat a really bad Dem candidate. (I don’t think that happens, either) I don’t think he beats even an average Dem candidate; he could beat a stinker. This is the RNC/GOPe clutching the only straw they’ve gotten in a long time and is a nothing.
I’ll support Christie if he’s the candidate
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I won’t.
I’ll spend election day cleaning my toenails and filing down the padding on the bottom of my feet instead of voting for Christie.
I look at Christie, and my first thought is that he is the modern-day version of “Da Kingfish.”
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