CPAC: Chris Christie’s not invited this year
posted at 7:21 pm on February 25, 2013 by Allahpundit
I have my issues with him just like you do, but c’mon. Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush are conservative enough to speak at CPAC but not Christie? He’s the current vice chair of the RGA and will be chairman next year for the midterms. He’s headed for a landslide reelection victory in a deep blue state, where his approval rating is currently the highest for a New Jersey governor in the 17 years since Quinnipiac started tracking that. He’s one of the few members of the party with a national profile who’s reasonably well liked by voters across the board. Leverage his popularity, if only for a day.
I understand wanting to punish him for slobbering all over Obama after Sandy, but how do you find a spot for Chris Hayes and not for this guy? For cripes sake, Joe Scarborough’s spoken at CPAC. David Frum could probably get on a panel if he really tried. Their definition of “conservative” isn’t strict.
At least eight potential presidential contenders will be speaking at CPAC: Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania.
There will also be five former presidential candidates attending: Romney, Perry, Santorum, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich of Georgia, and former Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin of Alaska…
One potential 2016 hopeful who won’t be there, however — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Despite being the keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention and having a sky-high approval rating in the Garden State, CPAC officials told First Read Christie was not invited.
Christie rankled some on the right with his public support for President Obama’s handling of Hurricane Sandy in the weeks leading up to the 2012 election.
All they’re doing here, whether they realize it or not, is throwing him into the briar patch. Christie was never going to run as the conservative choice in 2016 and lord knows he’s not going to run as a conservative to get reelected in New Jersey. That’s how Democrats will try to paint him, of course, but now he has fresh evidence to rebut the charge — he’s unwelcome at the preeminent gathering of American conservatives. CPAC’s unwittingly helping him burnish his brand as the country’s most formidable centrist Republican. Expect him to gets lots of mileage out of it in interviews over the next month.
Maybe Netroots Nation will snap him up for this year’s gala instead. Exit question: Was last night’s photo op with FLOTUS the last straw?
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Add to that, No vetting of Obama by the LSM…ever.
kirkill on May 22, 2013 at 2:37 PM
Corruption? Provable corruption?!? Now can I get a check too?
I’m tired of being the check writer.
Squiggy on May 22, 2013 at 2:39 PM
Why are you trying to politicize this thing? It merely took a year to properly select and vet the person who would ask the question at the ABA meeting – which is the proper venue for such revelations.
Also, the IRS leadership was actively searching for the culprit at root cause of all this – Mr./Ms I Don’t Know. We have heard in testimony from a wide variety of Administration employees that this person – I Don’t Know – is at fault. Perhaps a BOLO should be issued for I Don’t Know and have their azz hauled before one of the Congressional committees to explain their behavior.
in_awe on May 22, 2013 at 2:41 PM
Guys, you over-estimate HAL.
He’d be up against the wall, screaming “But I’m one of you! Not them! I don’t belong here!”
The fate of most useful idiots.
The_Livewire on May 22, 2013 at 2:46 PM
The funny thing is, you think you’re a member of the protected class. Judging by your lack of sophistication, you’re definitely not one of the special people, just another fellow traveler. And they are always the first sacrificed by the ‘elite’.
Squiggy on May 22, 2013 at 2:50 PM
Great point, can all of us conservatives who paid taxes while this abuse was going on get our taxes back? That would be a heck of a class action lawsuit.
theCork on May 22, 2013 at 2:52 PM
Releasing the report in September might have got in the way of stealing the presidential election of 2012!
Priorities people, priorities!
slickwillie2001 on May 22, 2013 at 2:55 PM
Nixon won also with a much bigger mandate (49 states) than Obama ever dreamed of. That didn’t stop your side from going after him did it.
chemman on May 22, 2013 at 3:09 PM
You don’t see arming Mexican Drug Cartels and the 300+ citizens (and counting) to include 1 U.S. BPA, killed with those weapons & the follow-on cover up as a case of “high crimes and misdemeanors”?
You don’t see asking Al Qaeda, the perpetrators of 9/11, to protect our US Ambassador, refusing to provide security, ordering a rescue team to stand down thereby abandoning Americans fighting for their lives to die, then lying & covering up to hide their ‘incompetence’ a case of “high crimes and misdemeanors”?
You don’t call a complete lack of control resulting in Constitutional Violations and broken laws through an abuse of power & mis-use of govt agencies (IRS & DOJ) to target Americans & the medai a case of “high crimes and misdemeanors”?
There comes a point where even ‘stupidity’ reaches the level of ‘CRIMINAL’ and a ‘THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY’.
That being said, this is NOT a case of igorance or stupidity – this is an arrogant, narcissistic man tutored by Communists, mentored by racists hate-spewing Anti-Americans, spoiled by the media his 1st term that has flaunted his lack of concern for both the Rule of Law and the Constitution, giving them both a back seat to his agenda. He, like every other Liberal and certainly every politician in Washington, believes he is above both the very laws they pass for us as well as the Constitutional they (Liberals/Socialists) call ‘outdated’!
easyt65 on May 22, 2013 at 3:16 PM
easyt65 on May 22, 2013 at 3:16 PM
(The reason I listed all those issues is because according to the WH these were all cases of ‘I don’t know / Wasn’t me’ incompetence.)
easyt65 on May 22, 2013 at 3:17 PM
Follow the UNIONS!!!!
All these agency’s staff are exchanging target information through their Union shop stewards.
barnone on May 22, 2013 at 3:23 PM
THERE IS NO ‘THERE’ THERE, PEOPLE!
(Poor b@stard!)
easyt65 on May 22, 2013 at 3:50 PM
Seriously. I don’t think I could get that drunk.
CurtZHP on May 22, 2013 at 3:51 PM
Miller:
“I personally conducted an investigation into the IRS issue. Who did the teargeting’? I object to the term ‘targeting’. Schulman said to you that none of this was going on…did he lie? While what he said was wrong, he did not lie. Does Congress deserve to know what was going on? I anwered the questions that you asked truthfully, do not feel obligated to tell you about problems going on, and I thought you would find out the same way Obama finds out everything – through the news. What am I going to do to ensure this doesn’t happen again and what will I do to those who carried this out? Nothing – I leave at the end of June…not my problem.
The IG donated to the Obama campaign.
The man behind the IRS probe (No, not Miller) dated Michelle in college…
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Now WHY in the world would anyone an Independent Investigatice Counsel to step in and investigate these scandals when the DOJ & Obama administration can easily do an INTERNAL investigation themselves?!
(Ummm, part of the administration’s/Holder’s/IRS/DOJ argument is that these scandals happened becasue they were/are so incompetent/disorganized/ignorant….but then try to convince us that no Independent Counsel is needed to come in and investigate because they are competent enough to do that themselves?! What the …)
easyt65 on May 22, 2013 at 3:58 PM
(Meanwhile, quietly being reported in the back pages of newspapers:
‘Fed chairman warns ending stimulus would carry substantial risks…’
‘Bernanke Has Now Injected Foreign Banks With Over $1 Trillion In Cash… ‘
– ‘Ending STIMULUS’? I thought we HAD ended ‘stimuls’ spending?!
– That would be $1 Trillion in BORROWED tax payer dollars going OUT of the United States
easyt65 on May 22, 2013 at 4:04 PM
Drudge has a link to a story that The IG used to date Michelle Obama??
huh?
workingclass artist on May 22, 2013 at 4:30 PM
I’m thinking Obama is starting to regret that. He could be retired in Hawaii, playing golf, raking in millions in speaking fees from his adoring minions.
Instead, he’s probably sitting in the oval office, sulking, feeling like a combination of Tony Montana and Richard Nixon.
MichaelGabriel on May 22, 2013 at 4:57 PM
Prediction:
Boehner will cry, Issa will develop laryngitis, Cheney will tsk, tsk, Sarah Palin for daring to defend America, and the Alinsky-ites? They too will skate free.It’s the Chicago way.
Don L on May 22, 2013 at 4:59 PM
To be fair, it was only one time…some sort of frat Star Wars theme party or something…
coldwarrior on May 22, 2013 at 5:19 PM
So he had the sense to dump her. Point to him.
slickwillie2001 on May 22, 2013 at 6:04 PM
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