Posted on 11/14/2013 4:53:11 PM PST by Kaslin
WASHINGTON -- They are at it again. They are again telling Republicans and conservatives how dreadful their political condition really is. I am speaking, of course, of the voices of the Kultursmog, and to hear them tell it we are in a hell of a heap. We lost the governorship of Virginia. Even worse, we won the governorship of New Jersey. What dreadful news.
Of course, in Virginia the Republicans lost to a congenital liar, backed by the most famous congenital liars in American politics, the Clintons. It is only a matter of time before he is in deep do-do. Governor-elect Terry McAuliffe's campaign was an amalgam of lies as flagrant as his lie in his memoirs. There, for no reason whatsoever, he lied claiming The American Spectator charged Bill Clinton with ordering "the murder of political opponents." When I asked him about this lie he did not simply shut down or ignore my inquiry. He actually initiated a series of puckish letters to me never admitting that he had lied but constantly caviling with me on some obscure point that he raised. The upshot of our correspondence was that he could never identify where it was that The American Spectator said Clinton had asked people to commit murder. McAuliffe performed similarly against Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, and if it were not for the fact that he had the funding to outspend Cuccinelli by two to one I have no doubt he would have lost. As it was, once Cuccinelli began tying him to Obamacare, McAuliffe's lead dwindled from double digits to just a margin of 2.5 percent.
In the New Jersey race the Republicans won and with 61 percent of the vote. Yet, according the Kultursmog, they really lost because the victor, incumbent Governor Chris Christie, is a "polarizing force." He offends the tea party, and that means he can never win higher office, for instance, the presidency. But wait a minute. Is not the tea party's major concern the fiscal health of the Republic? It was in 2009 when the tea party was getting started. Back then if a candidate brought up the social issues that candidate was doomed with the tea party, according to the voices of the smog. Well, as Christie told the New York Times this week, "I've cut taxes, cut spending, reformed pensions and benefits. ... My record is my record. I'm proud of it. And it is a conservative record, governing as a conservative in a blue state." As for the dreaded social issues, he is opposed to abortion and to gay marriage, though he called off a legal challenge to gay marriage in October perhaps seeing it as a futile fight. President Barack Obama might do the same with his monstrosity, Obamacare.
Doubtless there are people who do not like Governor Christie and think his star has risen far enough. Yet I will tell you he is as conservative as he says he is, and that it is a winning combination with funders, ordinary citizens, and even with journalists. Back in 2010 when I had him to a large American Spectator dinner in New York City he was a hit with just such a crowd. He was the complete gentleman, suave and amusing. He talked about economies in government, lowering taxes, and balanced budgets. He is not polarizing at all. Once again the Kultursmog is in the dark about Republicans and conservatives.
Yet we are told he cannot beat the Kultursmog's "inevitable candidate," Hillary Clinton. In the New Jersey exit polls she trounced the governor. So let me give you another set of polls. According to the Rasmussen poll,Hillary polled highest when a sampling of Democrats was asked "which candidate they would least like to see with the nomination." A WSJ/NBC poll found that she had fallen from an April favorable rating of 56 percent to 46 percent and her negative rating was on the upswing to 33 percent. Doubtless, there will be more. She was the least popular first lady in history.
I do not know if Christie is going to run for the presidency. Nor do I know if he could win, but I believe he is a contender and if he runs he will be contending for the nomination in a very competitive field of Republican candidates. As for the Democrats, they have Hillary right now and, possibly, Joe Biden. The Kultursmog is desperate.
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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