Maybe Steele can personally convince Christie on Palin

by: Jason Springer

Wed Jul 08, 2009 at 06:51:09 PM EDT

National GOP chair Michael Steele wants Sarah Palin to campaign in NJ and Va for Republican candidates for Governor. Chris Christie's campaign wants nothing to do with the idea of bringing in Sarah Palin. Maybe they will have time to discuss the differences when Steele joins Christie for an event on Monday. It appears they will be making a few stops. From a tweet sent by the Logan Twp GOP:

Chris Christie to visit Gloucester County Monday @ 1:00 pm with GOP Chairman Michael Steele 130 North Woodbury Rd. Pitman, NJ 08071

And then they will campaign in Ocean City with the 1st District candidates at 5pm. In fact, NJ Republicans seem so excited about Steele's arrival, that there is no mention anywhere on the State GOP site, the Atlantic County GOP site, the Gloucester County GOP site or Chris Christie's site. But the Democratic national Committee was aware and had this to say:

"Instead of offering solutions to the problems facing New Jersey, Chris Christie is surrounding himself with ultra-conservatives like Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele, who time and time again have failed to offer solutions to the problems we face. Christie and Steele?s vision for the future is out of line with the values of New Jersey voters.

Funny they should mention values, because it's been twenty days now since Christie lost his shared values. Maybe while they're talking about Palin, they can discuss those missing values.

For a preview of Michael Steele, here is a video put together by TPM recapping his first 100 days as chair.

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The Republican Two-Step (4.00 / 1)

Perhaps Christie can get some running shoes so that he can get as far away from his national party as possible. No press releases or mention from the state party of Steele's visit is a telling sign. Christie can bring in someone as milquetoast inoffensive as Romney, and to little fanfare, but that's about it.

That said, Logan Township is a strategic location -- in Democratic GlouCo, but a county and township that isn't heavily so.

On one hand, when Steele was running against Cardin for senate, he didn't seem that far to the right, at least in my estimation. But then one reads bizarro Steele comments like this one:
" "We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my fingers as quotation marks, is part of the cooling process. Greenland, which is covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason, right?"
Perhaps Steele can pontificate with the Cape May Republicans on how global warming isn't real and how the N.J. coastline shouldn't be at the forefront of renewable wind energy. Perhaps he can do that after renewing his call for Palin to campaign on behalf of Christie after she gets done with her FoxNews book tour.

by: Martin @ Thu Jul 09, 2009 at 00:23:47 AM UTC