Maybe He Is Helping Us This Time After All
From today's New York Post:
After months of hedging, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is giving serious thought to jumping into the ring for a GOP presidential run -- and could make his decision next week, The Post has learned.
The announcement may come as soon as Monday, said sources familiar with Christie’s thinking.
The renewed consideration about a White House run came after prodding this week from some Republicans he idolizes, including former First Lady Nancy Reagan, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and former President George W. Bush, sources said....
Christie pals said the pol’s “mind-blowing” experience at the Reagan library in California Tuesday changed his thinking....
Yet when the governor first arrived at the Reagan library, he was still telling his inner circle he was a definite “no” for a presidential run -- and planned to make that clear in his appearance.
Something changed that night, sources said.
Behind the scenes, sources said, the discussions about running took on a more serious and “surreal tenor,” as the encouragement from Reagan, Kissinger, Bush and others began to sink in.
Even Christie’s wife, Mary Pat, has warmed to the idea of becoming First Lady after months of discouraging a run.
She originally thought a presidential campaign would upend their family. But she got a phone call from former First Lady Barbara Bush, who reassured her the challenge is manageable, said a source close to the Christie family.
Mary Pat Christie now is committed to supporting whatever her husband decides, the source said.
Insiders say Christie is ready to put a presidential campaign together “pretty fast.”
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Re: Maybe He Is Helping Us This Time After All
This is getting to be absurd. If Christie again announces next week that he's out, "for real this time," will people believe him?
On the other hand, that he's still considering a bid is consistent with what Professor Tim Groseclose observed yesterday concerning how there are bettors at InTrade who are still pretty confident that he'll jump into the fray.
Aug '11
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If he announces next week that he's in "for real this time," I wouldn't believe him either. Too much flirting, not enough action.
Jun '10
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The trouble is, when you're late getting started, and have never been in a big national campaign, then you're very soon at the mercy of professional handlers. No way around it. These are fast-moving hard-driving people that you probably don't know very well. They make lots of public relations choices for you, and worse, they make lots of promises for you. It's not just the voter that projects their opinions onto the candidate. The campaign's big donors and campaign staff will do it too, especially if they just met the candidate two weeks ago.
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If he does get in, it will certainly raise the level of the debates.
Sep '10
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I hope he does and I think it will be terrible news for Romney. I've looked at analysis of Romney and Perry's economic platforms and I prefer Perrys but I'm terribly put off by his antics so Romney ought to have garnered more support by now than he has but he's just too plain vanilla and he cannot deliver a big state with certainty on his own. Christie is so much better on all counts. No Bob Dole, its his turn, issue.
Jun '10
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Christie will hit the harsh reality of his lessthan staunchly conservative positions on a number of primary issues. Maybe his blunt talk and strength on other issues will overcome those, but we'll see. I'm a Perry guy, as I was a Bachmann guy before that, and a Santorum guy before that. As i repeatedly said the more the merrier. A battle of ideas in the campaign cannot be a bad thing if approached correctly.
Jul '10
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By having another liberal on the panel?
1. Christie is for Climate Change
2. Christie appointed a Islamist to the Courts
3. Christie Is Pro-Obamacare
4. Is anti-Second Amendment
5. Is squishy on the Abortion Issue.
6. Is for Illegal Immigration.
So he's Joe Lieberman.
Oct '10
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This is great news. We need him.
As much as I wanted Paul Ryan to run, we need a guy like Christie to deliver the news to the American people that things have got to change, we are on an unsustainable course, and we don't need to be going the way of Europe.
A guy like Christie running on a plan similar to Paul Ryan's Path to Prosperity could be magic.
Oct '10
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DrewInWisconsin
If he announces next week that he's in "for real this time," I wouldn't believe him either. Too much flirting, not enough action. · Sep 29 at 11:45am
I give him a pass. He's a first term governor, and how was he supposed to know that the field was going to so lacking.
Jun '10
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Michael Tee
1. Christie is for Climate Change
I'm for climate change, too. It's the people who think the federal government should somehow prevent the climate from changing that I oppose.
Jun '10
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Michael Tee
5. Is squishy on the Abortion Issue.
Q: On abortion, quite controversially for a New Jersey governor, you came out strongly against it, a pretty liberal state when you became Governor?
A: I just told people about it right up front. I'm pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother, but I do believe that life is precious and should be protected.
Source: Interview on CNN "Piers Morgan Tonight" , Jun 15, 2011
Jun '10
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Michael Tee
5. Christie Is Pro-Obamacare
You mean because New Jersey didn't join the lawsuits against Obamacare, therefore he supports it?
Edited on Sep 29, 2011 at 1:20pmSep '10
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Todd: This is [terrible] news. We need him. [in New Jersey].
. · Sep 29 at 1:03pm
FIFY. At this point, I would be very unimpressed with a Christie candidacy. It would immediately paint him as a flip-flopper on the one issue he has complete control over. I like him a lot. Glad he's on our side. But he's not getting my vote. Not now.
Apr '11
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He appointed a Muslim to the bench not an Islamist. I worry about Republicans ability to sometimes tell the difference. The theological divide between Islam and Christianity not with standing the majority of the friction is cultural and culture exptends beyond religion. An American muslim will not be the same as a Saudi muslim though maybe they may be more similar then an American Evangelical and a Saudi muslim.
As to his stance on the second amendment I don't see how a strict constructionist could view that the states have no right to restrict gun ownership. Also gun ownership like Abortion are essentially out of the power of any executive to really influence in a fundamental way. Christie is far more likely to pick good judges then Obama and to better administer government funding and regulations to protect life than any democrat. Actually he might be more effective then even the most ardent Pro-Lifers because he can actually run an Executive branch. Good intentions are nice, but they are no substitute for effectiveness.
Apr '11
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ABP
May '10
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There are some issues that will be seen as problematic to the primary base. I would expect Christie to end up flaming out roughly like Perry for somewhat different reasons, many of which are less real than are portrayed (as Joseph and Valiuth point out; we should be smart enough on the Right to discern reality from bumper sticker images). The Wall Street lobbyist issue is probably a lot bigger than, for example, the climate change concern. He's said that humans can have some kind of effect on climate, which is pretty undeniably true, but not that we have the primary, or even a worrisome (let alone catastrophic) effect, the important distinction.
But the biggest problem I see is that the NY-NJ in-your-face confrontation style simply does not play well outside of the Northeast. Female swing voters will swing back to Obama so fast they will get whiplash. Add to that a very thin- solid, but short, and thus thin- resume.
Aug '11
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I can see the SNL skit now. Cast member in a fat suit wearing a white "Tony Soprano" robe. By the pool.
Man in pool, looks like Kissenger. "Yo, Christie. You gettin' in?"
Christie:"Nah. It's too cold."
Reaganesque woman: "Its nice. Get in."
Christie: "I aint much for swimmin'"
Rudy Guiliani as himself: "Don't be such a wimp."
Christie scowls, drops robe to "Eeuuwww!" from the crowd. Jumps into the pool to a monstrous splash.
Camera pans out. Pool is now empty except for a small puddle in which Christie sits. People from pool stewn around its edge.
Guiliani (sprawled on the pool edge as if ejected): "Live, from NY..."
Edited on Sep 29, 2011 at 2:55pmNov '10
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Duane Oyen:
But the biggest problem I see is that the NY-NJ in-your-face confrontation style simply does not play well outside of the Northeast. Female swing voters will swing back to Obama so fast they will get whiplash. Add to that a very thin- solid, but short, and thus thin- resume. · Sep 29 at 2:41pm
Who plays better with the rest of the country, do you suppose, Duane? Christie? Or Perry? Where would you place Cain on the "how would he play in Peoria" spectrum?
(These aren't leading questions, btw, just questions: I'd just love to hear what you think.)
Nov '10
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I think that Cain will "play" well everywhere except in Manhattan and Massachusetts.
I rather doubt that Christie will "play" well in my home country (the South), although the people around here are ready for ABO (anybody but Obama).
Christie's stand on the Second Amendment kills him for me as does, what I understand to be his position on illegal immigration. The extension of the Bill of Rights to the States by Court interpretation of the 14th Amendment does impose the restrictions of the 2nd Amendment on the States.