Posted on 11/14/2013 4:53:11 PM PST by Kaslin
What else needs to be said.
All massive spheres have poles.
Nothing. He is a centrist moderate lacking core conservative values. He and McCain have a lot in common. He wouldn’t polarize anyone. Think Mitt Romney....
Assuming what you say about Christie is true, that he is conservative, he still has a major problem. He's afraid to fight against the Democrats and the media
Look at Boehner and McConnell. Both have conservative voting records. But both are failures because they don't lead and fight against the Democrats. They capitulate.
And judging by Christie's recent comments he would capitulate too.
“What Is So Polarizing About Chris Christie?”
He’s fatter than the storm!
How can you be a polarizing figure if you don't believe in anything?
Except your own political advancement, of course...
I think you'll find that nearly all TEA partiers also support the Second Amendment.
That is where Chris Christie fails miserably. Christie is an untenable GOP candidate outside the Northeast...
This past Sunday on Fox News, Chris Christie voiced favor for banning guns, or, as he idiotically put it, “banning violence.”
Christie just made CAIR’s list of people who are fighting Islamophobia. Isn’t that just sweet?
He says he recognizes his Catholic church condemns homosexuality, but he, himself. thinks there is nothing wrong with it. And he said is happy for lesbians and fags who can now get “married” in NJ.
You can keep your gun-banning, queer-loving, Muslim-sucking blowhard of a governor. He’ll hever get my vote.
There isn’t a conservative bone in any bush!
First Sowell and now Tyrell. What has become of my heroes? Please, someone check on Mark Steyn.
Chris Christie has battled the media (100% in the teachers’ unions pockets) since he was elected; he simply doesn’t play their games, and points to his record (addressing voters, not the media). When he said he wanted a snowstorm for the Super Bowl next year in NJ (because that is part of the game), the media was reduced to complaining how he was insensitive to homeless people. That is what he has reduced them to; he has helped destroy their credibility here in NJ, and given them nothing to throw at him.
“Before the chorus of conservative outrage hits you with full force, I say bravo to you. I am a fan of Governor Christie as well. I spent the last eight years under Mitch Daniels, so I know what it’s like to have a wonderful conservative governor who is inexplicably loathed by outside forces - especially now live under the inept confederacy of dunces of Pat Quinn in Illinois and have experienced what “liberal” really means.”
Thank you; unfortunately so many here on Free Republic have bought into a lot of nonsense about him (while the hard-pressed taxpayers of NJ support him overwhelmingly).
“That is where Chris Christie fails miserably. Christie is an untenable GOP candidate outside the Northeast...”
He recently signed some gun bills related to mental health, and refused to sign others; in any case those aren’t TEA Party issues (unless you buy what the media has spun the TEA Party into, far beyond the original stated purpose of lowering taxes and shrinking government). Newark NJ recently laid off 160 cops because the state government refused to keep subsidizing them (thank you, Governor Christie).
As far as a GOP candidate for president, I don’t think he’ll play well in real “American” states.
Battling the teacher's unions (several years ago) and saying he wants it to snow on Super Bowl Sunday is a very short list of examples where he battled the media.
Watching him on the network shows he is quick to criticize the Tea Party, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and he is hesitant to criticize Obama the Democrats and Obamacare.
Don’t worry, you don’t vote in NJ. For the GOP in NJ, I can only compare him to Governor Whitman (the one who was whining about how the Repubs were too far right/conservative); the taxpayers here overwhelmingly support him (while the usual suspects from the left oppose him), and that used to mean something on Free Republic.
If Christie is allowed by the media to be the Republican candidate, it would only be because they know he’d get crushed in a landslide. As he likes to point out himself, he represents the people of NJ, and I’ll point out that he does it better than any I recall in my lifetime.
He made it clear who he was voting for, and was one of the governors ripped by Obama TODAY for not setting up an ObamaCare exchange for NJ.
The war against the teachers unions, who OWN THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY, is a daily war here in NJ; I see few people as successful as him in calling them out on their thuggery and extortion. Walker was in diapers when Christie was doing it.
You’re right that he always says he just wants to do his job as governor, but in the next sentence, when he’s inevitably asked if he has presidential ambitions, he always says, “Look, I don’t know where I’ll be in a few years.” In other words, yes.
2nd Amendment wobbliness, pro-amnesty, pro-Ground Zero Mosque, hugged Obama a week before the election, barked at the GOP Congress for more moolah after Sandy, stood aside and let the courts turn NJ in a fag-marriage state without a fight, criticizes conservatives who stand on principle, and more telling than anything else: cried like an emotional teen-age girl over a phone call from Bruce Springsteen... pathetic beyond words!
Just another in the long line of worthless GOP mushes. A perfect example of the kind of politician I’ve come to truly despise. And why I no longer even see the GOP as representing my views nor my values. I will not vote for Christie under any circumstances.
I find Tyrrell’s wet sloppy kiss to Krispy Kreme well.... unseemly.
Bob knows better.
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