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posted at 10:42 pm on September 9, 2010 by Allahpundit
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and yes…the smart ones will speak up to voice their displeasure. Jeesh..it’s amazing we EVER win anything with brainiacs like these.
Handel on September 10, 2010 at 2:21 AM
..well said! A friend of mine told me that if we continually keep electing “the lesser of two evils” eventually there will be no evil left.
Christie was a big step in that direction. Think otherwise? Fine, then let’s get in the wayback machine and put Coakley and Corzine in office.
The War Planner on September 10, 2010 at 2:50 AM
The rest of the Republican field hasn’t left the gate and they are eating this guy’s dust.
He’s got stuff DONE. He’s bludgeoned Democrats in a blue state.
Everyone else is just sitting on the sidelines and talking the talk, completely unproven.
Palin? – Would make a good RNC chair, too much of a flake (resigning in the middle of a term is a non-starter).
Romney? – Did Obamacare before Obamacare wasn’t cool.
Chris Christie is doing it. All the others are just posers.
You want someone who can talk a good game, put them in the RNC chair and let them run with the ball (listening, Sarah?).
You want someone who can win the game, go with Christie.
NoDonkey on September 10, 2010 at 3:03 AM
Christie had to make a calculation, and is part of the RGA in going that route. If that is all it takes to anger you, find something else to think about.
leftnomore on September 10, 2010 at 3:14 AM
That’s what I’m talkin’ about.
leftnomore on September 10, 2010 at 3:15 AM
Christie was not the conservative candidate this past election in NJ, Lonegan was. Christie seems to be doing a good job picking the low hanging fruit early in his term as Governor. I hope he keeps it up. President material? Maybe in 2020…
Gohawgs on September 10, 2010 at 3:33 AM
Gohawgs on September 10, 2010 at 3:33 AM
Yeah, OK.
Cutting the budget in New Jersey is just ho hum stuff.
Taking on the unions in New Jersey is NOTHING like running a really rad Facebook page and endorsing moron deadbeats like Christine O’Donnell.
It’s liberals who talk the talk, it’s conservatives who walk the walk.
Don’t talk to me about people who haven’t walked the walk, I’m not interested.
NoDonkey on September 10, 2010 at 3:40 AM
They talk a good game about Republican governors but Gov Palin was the only one to refuse stimulus money with those D.C., phoney green strings attached. (Dear RGA, Are you enjoying your curly, toxic, light bulb overlords?)
So Corazine spent $1BILLION in federal largesse education dollars in one year with nothing to show for it. Where did the money go?
But Haley Barbour wants me to know my vote can change America; stop the Beltway domination. Let’s see how those RGA members value their citizens votes.
–Out of compliance and no excuse with the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act (MOVE Act):
Alabama – R since 2003, term limit out 2010
Connecticut – R since 2004, retiring 2010
–Out of compliance and no excuse with the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) information about their voter rolls:
Texas – R since 2000, up 2010
Rhode Island – R since 2003, term limit out 2010
South Dakota – R since 2003, term limit out 2010
Mississippi – R since 2004, term limit out 2011 (FYI, Gov Barbour)
Indiana – R since 2005, term limit out 2012
Virginia – R since 2010, term limit out 2013
8 out of 23. Tell me again Gov Barbour how Republican governors will help me take my country back to limited government away from Washington undue influence, and more local control and accountability. However, it might be nice and a tad more sincere if y’all weren’t disenfrancising our military and allowing illegal votes.
Maybe you should talk (soon, Remember November) to the two private citizens doing the job American Republican governors wont do?
Military Voter Protection Project
Election Law Center
FeFe on September 10, 2010 at 3:58 AM
They talk a good game about Republican governors but Gov Palin was the only one to refuse stimulus money with those D.C., phoney green strings attached. (Dear RGA, Are you enjoying your curly, toxic, light bulb overlords?)
So Corazine spent $1BILLION in federal largesse education dollars in one year with nothing to show for it. Where did the money go?
But Haley Barbour wants me to know my vote can change America; stop the Beltway domination. Let’s see how those RGA members value their citizens votes.
–Out of compliance and no excuse with the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act (MOVE Act):
Alabama – R since 2003, term limit out 2010
Connecticut – R since 2004, retiring 2010
–Out of compliance and no excuse with the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) information about their voter rolls:
Texas – R since 2000, up 2010
Rhode Island – R since 2003, term limit out 2010
South Dakota – R since 2003, term limit out 2010
Mississippi – R since 2004, term limit out 2011 (FYI, Gov Barbour)
Indiana – R since 2005, term limit out 2012
Virginia – R since 2010, term limit out 2013
8 out of 23. Tell me again Gov Barbour how Republican governors will help me take my country back to limited government away from Washington undue influence, and more local control and accountability. However, it might be nice and a tad more sincere if y’all weren’t disenfrancising our military and allowing illegal votes.
FeFe on September 10, 2010 at 4:04 AM
Maybe, Gov Barbour, you should talk (soon, Remember November) to the two private citizens doing the job American Republican governors wont do?
Military Voter Protection Project
Election Law Center
FeFe on September 10, 2010 at 4:05 AM
Hey Dude! How have you been? I’ve missed you since I quit hanging out at that other place where we used to get together.
backwoods conservative on September 10, 2010 at 4:15 AM
That is a bit strong, don’t you think. First of all, saying Palin is a flake because she quit the governorship sounds TROLLY to me….its too much a LEFTY talking point. Saying that she is eating his dust is also not true. She is out there every day hitting the left HARD. And heaping her in with MITTENS is just wrong. I don’t think you are from NJ but I am. Crisite is GREAT and has done a few great things and has great potential but he has made some big missteps. As mentioned before there is Castle, Immigration etc. He also BLEW the Race to the Top money for education. Now we can debate the wisdom of the grants but it was horrible PR and New Jersey isn’t forgetting it. Even conservatives. In the end it will blow over but just not sure about him in the long run. He was a great corruption busting attorney just not sure about his record in terms of support for certain legislation. However, I do think he would make a hell of an attorney general.
Dan Pet on September 10, 2010 at 6:33 AM
Christie is NO RINO…at least not yet. However, I do think he has the makings of a bigtime ESTABLISHMENT republican which has the potential of being even worse at this point in time. I mean, CASTLE?? The man voted for Cap and Trade and Christie is out there with his arm around him saying that Castle has been a staple of the republican party for years. YIKES!! What is that? We need to see more of Christie’s legislation to really get the whole picture.
Dan Pet on September 10, 2010 at 6:53 AM
99% of what the left says is wrong, but on this one, they have it right.
When danger reared its ugly head, brave Sarah turned her tail and fled, brave, brave, brave, brave Sarah Palin.
She got rolled by Democrats from an Alaskan igloo, DC Democrats will have her for lunch with a side of fries. They don’t place nice like the eskimos do.
On what, Facebook! Oooooooooo. Maybe she can get a reality TV show and do some real damage.
NoDonkey on September 10, 2010 at 6:58 AM
Ground Zero mosque supporter, gun grabber, amnesty pusher and endorses fellow RINO.
Yeah boy. Just what we need.
Big Orange on September 10, 2010 at 7:14 AM
Always fun to see the Palin fans criticizing the sitting governors who are getting stuff done. “but but in two years she saved the planet”
“dead to me” comments show a shocking naivety about how politics really works. But I’ll write it off to the idealism of the young.
Bradky on September 10, 2010 at 7:16 AM
The rest of the Republican field hasn’t left the gate and they are eating this guy’s dust.
He’s got stuff DONE. He’s bludgeoned Democrats in a blue state.
Everyone else is just sitting on the sidelines and talking the talk, completely unproven.
Palin? – Would make a good RNC chair, too much of a flake (resigning in the middle of a term is a non-starter).
Romney? – Did Obamacare before Obamacare wasn’t cool.
Chris Christie is doing it. All the others are just posers.
You want someone who can talk a good game, put them in the RNC chair and let them run with the ball (listening, Sarah?).
You want someone who can win the game, go with Christie.
NoDonkey on September 10, 2010 at 3:03 AM
I think you should change your name to “AllDonkey”
He’s a Gun Grabber
Likes a pathway (code for amnesty)
He loves him some Mike Castle
In my book he’s a fiscal Democrat
He might fly up North but we’ll crush him down here
wheelgun on September 10, 2010 at 7:18 AM
Bradky on September 10, 2010 at 7:16 AM
Seriously you have an unhealthy obsession.
CWforFreedom on September 10, 2010 at 7:21 AM
Principles before personalities. ’nuff said.
Randy
williars on September 10, 2010 at 7:24 AM
Forcing the Teacher’s Union to take what it is given is a shocker in NJ. It’s a shocker anywhere in the Nation, at this point. These early rounds point to what must be done in the long run by all Governors: de-certify public employee unions as it is their pensions that are busting State and local budgets.
There is zero need for a public employee union, anywhere in the US. Going after them and showing that they are the problem that allows for entrenchment of their establishment to run roughshod over elected officials is necessary. You will not get budget cuts in the States without getting the public employee unions down and out of the picture.
I don’t care if the person doing it is Left (although that is their lifeblood so they would never touch the unions), the Right, Centerist, R, D, L, or just way out there but willing to do a tough job that no one else will say has to be done. Christie has a fight on his hands and it is the best kind of fight around that takes money and power out of an entrenched, corrupt establishment and allows voters to set the agenda without tax money flowing to corrupt unions telling people how to vote. He can worry about National politics after he cuts the unions off in NJ as they have picked a fight with him. Until then I really don’t care what he says about stuff going on outside of NJ as he needs to clean house before the cockroaches overwhelm the place. In case that has been missed.
One man, with courage, makes a majority.
ajacksonian on September 10, 2010 at 7:29 AM
As opposed to you making sure to follow my every comment…
Bradky on September 10, 2010 at 7:32 AM
Christie pwns.
I’d pull the lever for him in a heartbeat for Pres. Twice.
Castle haters also need to get over themselves.
Christie – a bare-knuckled, straight talking conservative, won in a deep blue state in the middle of what was supposed to be an era of liberal ascendancy. Palin, a bare-knuckled, straight-talking conservative, won in a red state. And she resigned that office.
Don’t get me wrong – I love Sarah, but I wish she hadn’t resigned the governorship. As such, I’m more impressed by what Christie is doing because he faces longer odds and more entrenched and hostile interests in his fight.
I’m impressed by both, but moreso by Christie at the moment. He’s fighting a tougher fight. Sarah’s running around selling books. Nothing wrong with that and with making some scratch, but let’s look at current reality here.
Good Lt on September 10, 2010 at 7:44 AM
If you go back and read where the dems sent 16 lawyers to Alaska to dig dirt on Sarah Palin and start legal proceedings of bogus accusations which would drag her into the courts you will find she made the correct decision. The dems do this and it takes tons of money and legal lawyers to sort through the mess. Sarah saw this and stepped down. Smart move on her part to save her state a lot of money and bad press.
mixplix on September 10, 2010 at 7:45 AM
And these RGA videos are just fabulous, by the way.
Feel like I’m watching a great movie.
Good Lt on September 10, 2010 at 8:04 AM
I am proud to say that I am from New Jersey. I always have been.
Haiku Guy on September 10, 2010 at 8:15 AM
I agree with you. I’m admittedly fairly snarky re Palin but do think she could play a very valuable role in the next couple of years in generating enthusiasm and GOTV efforts. But as a presidential contender I think that would be a very bad idea.
Bradky on September 10, 2010 at 8:23 AM
FeFe. Excellant point. Everyone here is duped into thinking that voting Repub will fix everything. It will NOT. Its just going to slow the slide to Hades, thats all, prolong the agony.
Our Repub Gov candidate here(ALA), Bentley, wants to copy AZ on immigration, etc, etc. But whats he going to do when the Fed withholds all that money??? Even WITH the billions from the Fed we are in the RED INK.
Putting Repubs in place is Step1, there are many Steps after that, and the whole issue is to turn the Fed upside down, empower the States, and make the States become fiscally responsible. But I really doubt that will happen, human nature dictates otherwise.
orbitalair on September 10, 2010 at 8:28 AM
mixplix on September 10, 2010 at 7:45 AM
Gee whiz, Sarah faced LEGAL FEES?
Well, I see now why she threw in the towel then.
You know, I know guys who have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq three or four times and have lost friends.
I’m sure they will understand why Palin resigned her post in the face of (gasp!) legal fees.
And I’m also sure that Democrats in DC would never think of doing anything similar. Because they’re really good people.
NoDonkey on September 10, 2010 at 8:31 AM
Bradky on September 10, 2010 at 8:23 AM
Agree and it just baffles me how anyone could think she’s presidential material.
I like her, she’s a good person and she would make an outstanding RNC Chairman.
She’s not presidential material and that’s no knock on her, few people are.
NoDonkey on September 10, 2010 at 8:32 AM
Exactly.
I think a lot of Palinistas think that if you say she’s not a good candidate for Pres. that you’re syaing she should just disappear.
We’re NOT saying that.
She has a role to play, for sure. She’s one of the most popular conservatives in the country, for better or worse. Messaging, advocacy, and even party apparatus leadership could be good places to employ her talents.
But in terms of holding office, well, she was in office doing a great job and she, um, quit.
That’s just a fact. It isn’t the Democrats making it up. She didn’t “have to” quit just because there were some Democrat anklebiters trying to gum up the works in her governorship. But she did. And she (and her supporters) have to acknowledge that the next time she runs for something, a familiar attack line will be thus:
SHE QUIT WHEN THE GOING GOT ROUGH. WILL SHE QUIT ON YOU? WE CAN’T AFFORD TO TAKE THAT CHANCE ETC ETC…
She made the decision to do what she’s doing, and she’s on her own terms now. Good for her, but don’t be hating and dumping on Chris Christie or Mike Castle because of that.
It was her choice.
Good Lt on September 10, 2010 at 9:02 AM
Yep. I could see an a campaign ad – a variation of the “It’s 3 A.M.” and beside the ringing phone is a resignation letter.
People would howl as to how unfairly it characterizes things but it would be very effective in my opinion.
Bradky on September 10, 2010 at 9:04 AM
Right. Not necessarily true, but effective.
Good Lt on September 10, 2010 at 9:08 AM
Dead to me? Are you stinking kidding me?
I don’t pretend to know why Christie endorsed Castle, but I’m sure not ready to throw Christie under the bus. Christie is a good man who wants what’s best for NJ and the country.
I am all for getting rid of RINOS, but many on here are starting to sound like Puritans. I will not cut off my nose to spite my face and neither should any of you.
Look, I passionately want the GOP to take back Congress and get our country back on track. I despise the spend, spend, spend mentality in DC and I DESPISE government control. And I can barely wait until Obama packs his bag and flies out of Dodge in January 2013. But I REFUSE to write off as dead a wonderful guy like Chris Christie because he made one bad endorsement IMO.
And I’m sick of hearing people **tch and moan about Sarah Palin. Good LORD people, she’s here to stay.
Oink on September 10, 2010 at 9:21 AM
Christie is good for New Jersey and what they need at this point in time to nudge them right, but he’s not what America needs. America needs solid conservatism and he ain’t it. I don’t care that he appeals to moderates. They’re just standing around in the middle of the road, waiting to be run over. He could have stayed mum on Castle, and should have. I want him in the party, but I no more want him the leader of it than I want McCain or Graham in that spot.
Extrafishy on September 10, 2010 at 9:26 AM
America doesn’t need a nudge to the right?
Good Lt on September 10, 2010 at 9:29 AM
Wow.
I’m sure everyone here is intensely concerned about keeping your interest.
applebutter on September 10, 2010 at 9:29 AM
We need a hard pivot…a real one, not a fictitious Obama-type pivot.
Extrafishy on September 10, 2010 at 9:36 AM
I don’t think Christie is giving NJ an Obama pivot.
He’s giving them a shot of responsibiltiy and sensible governance. That’s exactly the opposite of what Obama has given the country.
You don’t think Christie could give America a shot of Reganism?
Good Lt on September 10, 2010 at 9:47 AM
I anyone seriously thinks that Sarahcuda couldn’t nuetralize the “quitter” talking point is not living in the same reality as I am. She will turn that back on them easily and move on. Her base doesn’t care. It is history in a time when nobody has a history anymore if they don’t want to.
SurferDoc on September 10, 2010 at 9:54 AM
Her base is far from 60 million strong – that is the weakness with your sentiment. More people have a concern about it than don’t.
Bradky on September 10, 2010 at 10:11 AM
It doesn’t have to be an either/or, Christie or Palin. Both are solid weapons with different tactics. You have to diversify your force if you want to win.
Missy on September 10, 2010 at 10:11 AM
But she did quit.
She quit in a state where she was loved, and she quit when her approval ratings were near 80%.
If you can’t press on in that kind of environment, what makes you think she’s better-suited to succeed in a much more hostile national environment?
Good Lt on September 10, 2010 at 10:12 AM
Nobody’s base is 60 million strong.
Missy on September 10, 2010 at 10:12 AM
Actually, I don’t think they were that high – they had dropped since the 2008 election, in part due to the huge negative media during the campaign, in part due to the ethics complaints themselves. I think she was still well over 50% though.
Missy on September 10, 2010 at 10:15 AM
Christie is not running for POTUS this cycle he said so at least twice, adamently on Fox and Friends yesterday.
I think he believes in doing the job he was elected to do as did Sarah before the politicos used the Alaska system to handcuff her where upon she appointed her like minded successor, reloaded and started baggin some big mouth anti-American, anti-Freedom hacks.
Palin bashers, remember this:
The political landscape in Alaska is littered with the rotting carcuses of the elite, rulers who took on Sarahcuda, and now she comes for the nation!
There’s a WHOREHOUSE called Washington D.C. that needs cleanin up and Sarah is the one to do it!
dhunter on September 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM
I didn’t say he was and I don’t think Christie is anything like Obama. I was clarifying “hard pivot”. Understand, I like Christie, but I believe America needs solid conservatism to create that hard pivot. Christie is not an across-the-board conservative and I believe he would narrowly focus his efforts fiscally and leave the rest of the agenda up to the Democrats. That’s what I think Bush did to get his GWOT initiatives. He pretty much gave over domestic policy to the Dems in order to get what he wanted on the one area he believed was most important. History will tell if he was right, but he did rack them up for Obama, who for two years has been running the table.
Extrafishy on September 10, 2010 at 10:20 AM
Not for long.
Good Lt on September 10, 2010 at 10:36 AM
Chris Christie is a very rare breed in politics–a man with the courage to do what he said he would do, even if he knows some people get PO’d about it. Taking on the teacher’s unions in New Jersey, which is more worried about condoms on bananas than raising SAT scores (as the son of a NJ teacher, I know what they’re up to!), takes lots of guts and cojones, and Christie is DOING IT. In a state where 40% of the voters are knee-jerk liberals and everyone is spoon-fed liberal drivel from the NYC and Philly media, including the New York Slimes, Sarah Palin or Haley Barbour or Rick Perry wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance in Hades, but Christie is focused on what he CAN do–get the state’s finances back in order, bring business into the state, lower the crippling tax burdens, and get people off the dole and back to work. He is doing his job, he is exactly what NEW JERSEY needs right now, and he currently has a 57% Job Approval rating.
Is Christie Presidential material? It’s too early to tell, and Christie has work to do trying to clean up the armpit of the nation to worry about 2012 and the other 49 states. If he can truly turn New Jersey around in 3 years as Governor (he was elected in 2009), he could become a shining example of what a FISCAL and ECONOMIC conservative leader can do, even for a deep-blue state, and he could eventually win the electoral votes of NJ and NY in a Presidential election, which no Republican has done since Reagan in 1984.
As for his endorsement of Castle–why not? Castle is the best hope for a halfway-conservative Republican Senator (instead of a completely liberal Democrat) from Delaware, and Christie (from a neighboring urban state) probably knows Delaware better than Sarah Palin, from faraway wild Alaska.
Politics is the art of the possible, not of perfection. Strong, ideological conservatives can get elected in states like South Carolina, where weak-kneed squishes like Lindsey Graham deserve to be primaried out. But in states like New Jersey, long-indoctrinated with liberal propaganda, “social conservatives” are always demonized, but independent voters still respond to the idea of saving money on taxes, which is what Christie offers them. From a conservative point of view, he’s a whole lot better than Corzine.
Steve Z on September 10, 2010 at 11:03 AM
dhunter on September 10, 2010 at 10:17 AM
Oh yeah, the Cuda really did in those Democrats when they brought those ethics charges. Whew!
She showed them by resigning.
Folding like a deck of cards.
That’s the kind of spirit we need in Washington!
Talk tough and when trouble appears, cave in!
Then go on a million talk shows and say you really didn’t.
Just stop, you’re embarrassing yourselves.
I truly hope Palin is smart enough to know that she doesn’t have what it takes to be President.
NoDonkey on September 10, 2010 at 11:33 AM
NoDonkey on September 10, 2010 at 11:33 AM
She continued her policies through her hand picked predecessor when the Liberal idiots were tying her and her state in knots costing both time and money!
Anyone so ignorant as to not be able to understand that is not worthy of debate!
Troll on though your Hillarious!
Hope Axeholerod or Mitt are not payin ya too much!
dhunter on September 10, 2010 at 1:32 PM
I don’t always agree with Gov. Christie but he might be a great presidential candidate.
MCGIRV on September 10, 2010 at 2:10 PM
People are looking for Ronald Reagan. He’s dead folks. I loved almost all the stuff he did in office but he is with Jesus. He also raised taxes as Governor. Not everything on his record was clean either.
We aren’t going to find people that we agree with 100% of the time. If you are “offended” because of a stance he took on a issue, I propose you go be a liberal. Because they are the ones who get offended. Support the issues behind the person. Christie is the real deal so far and I am going to get behind him. Even Reagan had nay sayers back in his term. Don’t be one of them.
closetgop on September 10, 2010 at 4:16 PM
How’ve you been, bc? You got out of the “old place” before I could get your email addy. I stuck it out until this March and have only been back once since.
**** NoDonkey — yes you are ****
Gohawgs on September 10, 2010 at 8:54 PM
It’s not an all or nothing kind of thing. I support what Christie is doing to get NJ’s fiscal house in order and I think he’s a very good governor for NJ right now. That doesn’t mean that I have to march in lock step with those who think that makes him presidential material. I’m not looking for perfect, but my sights are set higher than Christie.
Extrafishy on September 11, 2010 at 2:36 PM
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