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Christie has the perfect temperment and credentials to be a Republican politician from the east coast/new england area. Let’s face it folks, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Tom Colburn would not have a snowballs chance in hell of being elected in New Jersey. Christie makes a good Governor of New Jersey. Perhaps someday he can be a Senator from New Jersey. He agrees with us on issues probably 80% of the time. That’s better than having a socialist bedwetter who agrees with us on issues about 5% of the time. Christie has no chance of being the Republican President or Vice President nominee.

Trying to stir up trouble? Unless you invite your friends, you stand alone in your surrender to the gop-e here at FR. I know they will come, just like the romney team sent their minions, but unlike the walking dead democrats and rinos, we can spot a fake conservative quickly.

"we can spot a fake conservative quickly."

Uh, where in my post did I ever even call Christie a conservative? He's not. As for myself, I am a conservative who leans towards libertarian. I have been posting on here a long time and anyone who has spoken knows my views fairly well. I don't have to justify myself to you or anyone else. Quite frankly, I don't care to.

You see, the difference between yourself (if in fact you are some take no prisoners, not one step back type of person) and myself is that I am a realist. In matters of my own state (Pa) and the country at large, I always support the most conservative option. I was a fan of Rick Santorum in the last Presidential election. I think he would have made the best President out of the candidates that were on the ballot. As for extremely liberal states such as New Jersey and New York, I realize that a Rick Santorum would never get elected there. He is too conservative on social issues. I'm okay with the fact that in New Jersey and New York they run a Republican who is moderate on social issues but conservative in other areas. The reality is that if the Republican party runs a Tom Coburn in New Jersey he loses and we get a faux pas socialist. This country did not turn this far to the left in one election. It has taken around 100 years to get to this point. Do you truly think it's going to flip back the other way over night? If you do, you are a fool. We have to make incremental gains. In the Marine Corps, you learn that a war is not won in a day. You have to take the long view. One campaign at a time.

My main beef is with extremely conservative states such as South Carolina and Arizona having McCain and Lindsey Graham. That's where our concern should be. Also, other states like North Carolina should never have a Democrat who claims to be conservative in there. We know what happens, when push comes to shove. They tow the party line. These are the states that need to run extremely conservative candidates.