Mulshine on Christie at the debate: "An empty suit taken to the cleaners"

by: Jason Springer

Mon Oct 05, 2009 at 01:00:00 PM EDT

That's the assessment of Paul Mulshine, who has been a consistent critic of Chris Christie from the right throughout this campaign. Here's how he began his latest critique:

Chris Christie began this campaign telling voters he's no good at math.
He's ending it by showing them he's not too hot at English either.

He tore apart Christie's math regarding the budget:

"What we will do, Michael, is very simple. We will get down to Trenton and we will get into that budget and we will work cooperatively with the Legislature and we will make sure we bring the budget down and we will cut it significantly."
Wonderful. But how could he cut $10 billion or so from a budget of $29 billion? As independent candidate Chris Daggett was later to point out, you could fire every worker in the state twice over and still not make up the deficit in Christie's math.

And moving back from Christie's math to the english translation, Mulshine is blunt pointing out the contradictory statements:

Here's the English: Christie's confused. Was he sincere when he spoke approvingly of the flat tax in the winter? Or was he sincere when he later attacked it in the spring? Is he sincere now that he seems to like it again?
I doubt he himself knows. As far as I can tell after following him since February, Christie has no belief other than that he is the inevitable winner in November. That was also the belief of the Republican establishment when they united behind him. They forgot the fact that his brief political career in Morris County in the 1990s is memorable mainly for the fights he had with fellow Republicans.

Mulshine has been critical of Christie, his campaign and strategy all along. He thinks that Christie has managed to make his lack of a plan the central story of the campaign. I don't know if it's that bad, but there certainly has been a shift to coverage that is more critical of his lack of specifics in recent days and weeks.

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Mulshine on Christie at the debate: "An empty suit taken to the cleaners" | 1 comments

Kudos To Mulshine.... (0.00 / 0)

...if you read the comments section, you'll see that he actually responds to the readers and does so with vigor! That's good for democracy!

As someone Mulshine would categorize as a "liberal" I must say that this would have been a far more intellectually and politically interesting contest had Lonegan won in the primary.

Christie's idiotic tactic of relying on the terrible state of the economy to simply give him the win (based on Corzine's getting the blame) by playing out the clock only works in a two man race in which Corzine remains a passive fool.

In this situation Christie is exposed as being, essentially, a stupid self inflating arrogant bully/buffoon...while Daggett comes across as a reasonable adult.

Christie was toast from day one....the guy is a fraud. But a few more debates like this one and Daggett may get his 34%!

Corzine needs to take the gloves off and stop relying on Daggett to spoil Christie's vote.....and Christie needs to come up with real plans with real numbers that make real sense.....until he does that Christie IS the "Tooth Fairie"!!!

Corzine musn't shoot for a "win" in which he just gets a small plurality....that kind of "win" leaves him as a weak governor.

Jon Corzine has it in him to kick ass....there's no reason he can't win this BIG with 60% or more! All he has to do is be more aggressive and more progressive.

by: Nick Lento @ Mon Oct 05, 2009 at 18:03:21 PM UTC