Chris Christie is a tax-cutter and gubmint-shrinker; he is a TEA Party (Taxed Enough Already) candidate in the purest sense, who is also unabashedly pro-life. Until someone has spent the last 25 years here in NJ, they’ll never understand his popularity. As for presidential material, I don’t think he’d do well, but here in NJ he has all the right enemies.
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.
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.
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.
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.