Is Chris Christie Trying to get Barack Obama Re-Elected?

CC would run in N.Y. minute (0.00 / 0)

if he thought he could win.  There is no real reason for him not to, the wind is at his back with many billionaires  behind him to keep the sails filled with cash.

You would think that after being so successful at making Obama look impotent, the GOP  would have had a plan and a campaign to replace him.  I guess that is their problem...they are just not that smart.  Thank goodness!!

"Only a fool would follow a bully"

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by: brendanod @ Wed Sep 28, 2011 at 14:40:15 PM UTC

I Tend To Disagree (0.00 / 0)

I think Christie KNOWS he could't be elected this cycle or any other cycle, nationally.
Outside of a few rabid, misinformed and overly displeased hardline republicans and tea partiers, he isn't appealinhg in any way and his record is pathetic on success stories.

He has driven unemployment UP in New Jersey, he has attacked the old, the poor, women, the disabled and done nothing to improve the tax problems in New Jersey.
Aside from being a bully who likes to "Shoot straight" (with both barrells, at the afore mentoned groups) and have detractors physically escorted from the room for asking him the REAL and IMPORTANT questions about his lackluster and destructive policies, he has nothing to stand on as a national platform.

What we are seeing is a republican party flundering with a slateb of wholey unappealing and underwhelming candidates and nobody in the background who looks any better.

Christie is just a new flavor that has a passion, a hateful and nasty passion, but a passion none-the-less.

America, as a whole, would never elect Chris Christie. Of this I am confident.

If we don't stand together, we fall alone
That didn't last long.

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by: Couch Potato Politics @ Wed Sep 28, 2011 at 15:37:38 PM UTC

Obvious reason (Christie won't run.). (0.00 / 0)

Hey, I like flundering. Could be the next, cool blended word (flunk/ flounderiing). While agreeing with comments on Christie's unelectability, I think Christie honestly knows that he is unqualified and incapable of being President. That's why he won't run.

mmgth

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by: mmgth @ Wed Sep 28, 2011 at 22:01:55 PM UTC

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I still think that Christie is going to run. (0.00 / 0)

Unless he already has made a deal with Norcross/Sweeney and Adubato/Oliver to suppress Democratic turnout in Camden and Essex Counties (and any other blue county where they have influence) the way that they did in 2009, he is not guaranteed to win re-election in 2013 and if he doesn't get re-elected, he is not going to be a Presidential contender in 2016.

What is the filing deadline for New Hampshire?  How many signatures are required?  Is it possible that enough signatures could be collected at the last possible moment so quietly that he could wait to announce until filing day?  If so, I think that he is going to continue to stoke the myth that him so that he can limit the amount of time that caucusgoers and primary voters will have to experience who he really is.  He might even try to get away with skipping Iowa.

But I think that he knows that 2012 is going to be his best chance to become President and anyone here who thinks that he would not be the most dangerous opponent that the Republicans have is fooling themselves.  All of his negatives that have been widely discussed here are true, but irrelevant for the most part, because most people who live in NJ don't pay attention to the nuances of NJ politics and people who live outside of know even less.

The image and myth of Christie to many inside NJ and most outside is more or less how he described it in his speech last night.  Nobody knows about the inside baseball game that he has been playing with Norcross/Sweeney and Adubato/Oliver.  Nobody even knows who these people are and how they are destroying our party and our state.  All they know is that when forced to deal with a Democratic legislature in MA, Romney "delivered" marriage equality and Romneycare, while Christie and his DINO allies defeated marriage equality and have all but broken the unions.

Details don't matter.  Hell, the truth doesn't matter.  The only thing that matters is the myth, and the longer that Christie can keep Republican money on the hook for him and sidelined, the greater his myth becomes and he knows that he can jump in at the last possible moment and make a huge splash, figuratively if not literally.

And anyone who thinks that this is going to result in Michelle Bachmann or Sarah Palin or some other high-profile tea partier running as a 3rd party candidate is fooling themselves.  For whatever reason, the Republican base is willing to look past whatever "moderate" qualities we think that Christie might have more than they would for Huntsman or Romney or anybody else in the moderate field.

Hell, I have been shocked at the hits that Perry has taken for vaccinating teenage girls and educating illegal aliens.  Then again, the latter was the issue that derailed Hillary Clinton's run in 2008, so if it is a big deal amongst Democratic primary voters, it must be the end of the world to the GOP's faithful.  Do illegal aliens pay in-state tuition in NJ?  If not, the Democrats should try to pass a bill that would allow them to do so during lame duck just so it could become an issue that blows up in Christie's face.

All I know is that someone should begin compiling a Best of Blue Jersey and sending it to the Republican candidates so that they are well armed when he does enter the race, because anybody who underestimates the myth of Christie against the Republican field or against Obama does so at everyone's peril.

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by: Bertin Lefkovic @ Thu Sep 29, 2011 at 00:18:35 AM UTC