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.
LOL!
He is NOT a Tea Party candidate by any stretch of the imagination. He's trash talked them in the past, did nothing to support a Republican candidate for the Senate seat that Booker won, etc.
As governor, he is the best one since Gov. Kean, and that's not saying much. His "straight talk" is less than straight. He's a wheeler-dealer. He did little to support Romney, and even said he'd never win NJ. His only concern is with his own ambition.
We need someone that is ambitious, but let them be ambitious in doing what is right for the country. The GOP needs to look long and hard at what they are doing. Maybe they should find a sincere candidate with high ideals.
It is getting pretty tiresome being lectured on "bi-partisanship." It is worse that they mock and bully Tea Party people as radicals. Christie is not a conservative, he is whatever will further his own political career.
BTW, At, first, I thought you wrote that article. I thought you went off your rocker. LOL
He gets asked two important questions. One was about so-called immigration reform and the other was about Iran.
Christie refuses to answer the two questions!
And then he barely says anything bad about Obama and he says nothing bad at all about Obamacare when he's asked a third question, about Obamacare.
This is how the current crop of GOPe politicians behave. They are afraid to speak the TRUTH and take on the national media, the Democrats and the President.
This a strategy that has failed.
We don't need Chris Christie to extend this strategy.
Where do you come down this? What would you need to see from Iran in order to support relieving sanctions?
CHRISTIE: Well, you know, George, I have to tell you something, I think there are people who are significantly better briefed on this than I am as the governor of New Jersey. And I think it's dangerous for folks like me to get involved in the middle of this and start giving opinions.
Listen, we have to let Secretary Kerry do his work. And then once we see the produce of that work, we can all make a judgment. But, right now, I'm not briefed well enough to be able to give an opinion.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But can you support a deal that allows Iran to continue to enrich uranium?
CHRISTIE: Yeah, George, listen, I'm the governor of New Jersey. And I think for me to be expressing opinions on this this morning would be ill-advised. And I'm not going to do it.
Geez what a bold leader Christie is, right?
Nothing, if, you are comparing to dumBO.
Polarizing? I think he’s conservative...for New Jersey. I don’t think conservative...for New Jersey...is going to work for him much better than being conservative...for New York City...worked for Rudy Giuliani. I think Rudy might actually have been less problematic than Chris.
You also said that undocumented students in New Jersey should get in-state tuition rates. Do you think other states should adopt that policy as well?
CHRISTIE: Listen, I think nationally, they have to fix a broken system. And I think this is one of the real frustrations that people across the country have on this and a myriad of other issues is they look at what governors do, like in New Jersey, where we confront problems, we debate them, we argue about them, then we get to a table, we come to an agreement, we fix them and we move on. And in Washington, that seems to almost never happens.
And so I think, listen, everybody has got to sit at a table, everyone is going to have a point of view on immigration, and a myriad of other issues. Well, let's have our argument out publicly, then let's get to the table, come to a consensus and then move on.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So -- but do you think that national solution should include both a path to citizenship and that relief on in-state college tuition?
CHRISTIE: I think the national solution has to be -- has to be figured out by the people who are in charge of our national government. My job is to fix what's going on in New Jersey.
But I will tell you this, George, we're not going to be able to fix all the things we need in New Jersey until national leaders set a national immigration policy. That's federal law, federal policy that needs to be fixed. It's a broken system, it's not working for the economy, it's not working for the individuals who are affected by it. It's not working for the governments. So we need to get them in a room, the president needs to lead and members of congress need to do it, too. And if they do that, then I think it will help our economy and help our country if we get to some resolution.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Including a path to citizenship?
CHRISTIE: George, I don't get to make those determinations, the folks in Washington, D.C.
That's leadership?
Maybe because he’s wearing the Van Allen Belt?
quick take. He’s a northeast republican that isn’t afraid of confrontation when he knows he right and he makes a great governor of a democrat state. He has attributes that people in the rest of the country can relate to, but too many flaws that they can ignore. Not a good fit for national office but I can see him running for senator.
He’s a gun banner which should disqualify him immediately. That might work in Jersey, but it won’t work in SC, FL and Iowa.
That’s how he strikes me - as a traditional, pro-American liberal Democrat. A species that is extinct in the party that gave birth to it.
Need I say more?
The short answer is Christy is a back stabbing liberal RINO who hates conservatives and we want NO PART of him. He has ZERO chance of winning or of the Republican base’s support.
“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.”
HE can dream all he wants; he has no chance, and may hope to get on a ticket as VP.
He’ll win in NJ as long as he runs.
I believe he has already reached the pinnacle of his career, and he knows it.
He made his position clear on ObamaCare when he refused to set up a state exchange for it. He can’t stop the federal government from passing bad laws, but he certainly doesn’t need to collaborate with them on it.
“Geez what a bold leader Christie is, right?”
They are asking a governor questions in which he has no role; why would he answer them? To put him on the news the next day as opposing people in his own party, or undermining our heroic president? They didn’t ask the mayor of my town about Iran’s nuclear program; he has as little to do with it as Christie does.
“That’s leadership?”
That’s reality; if Christie cracked down on illegal immigration and is simply stopped by the federal government (or hampered due to it’s refusal to protect the borders), then in the end it is a national, not state, problem. Here in NJ we have tons of illegals, and not many states are further from Mexico than we are.
Again, they didn’t ask the mayor of my town these questions for a reason.
Stating he is a gun banner is not fair in my opinion. I am a NJ gun owner, and the latest gun bills passed by the legislature was going to be my red line to vote for him. If he signed them, no vote. However, he vetoed everyone of them that had anything to do with tightening the gun laws in NJ. There has been no meaningful changes in the gun laws unlike our neighbors and Colorado I might add. In the recent past, not twenty years ago, he stated he would contemplate loosening NJ gun laws, but not if the effort would be futile, and to be fair it would with the present composition of our legislature.
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