user1111 wrote:
America has little love for New Jersey, which might not bode well for Chris Christie's campaign as a recent addition to the Republican race for president.

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tbo wrote:
He can run if he wants..(I won't vote for him) but why should we have to pay for it? Isn't that why they have fundraisers? Is that normal?

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/ ... rity_on.html#incart_river

christie had them rolling on the floor with his "tell it like it is" charade. did anyone hear him saying how nj leads the country in job growth, low taxes, productivity, etc?

tbo wrote:
He can run if he wants..(I won't vote for him) but why should we have to pay for it? Isn't that why they have fundraisers? Is that normal?

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/ ... rity_on.html#incart_river

AlexC wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/01/opi ... elling.html?emc=eta1&_r=1

On his new website, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey portrays himself as a guy who gets attacked for ?telling it like it is,? but that?s what his mom told him to do from her deathbed.

It is part of the legend Mr. Christie has carefully cultivated for many years, with startling success. He is described as ?brash? and ?bold,? with a certain rough charisma that his political opponents just cannot handle. ?I get accused a lot of times of being too blunt and too direct and saying what?s on my mind just a little bit too loudly,? he says in the first video for his presidential campaign, showing him with a selected group of adoring voters.

It?s fundamentally nonsense. There are lines between brash and belligerent, between open and obnoxious, and, most important, between ?telling it like it is? and not telling the truth. Mr. Christie crosses those lines all the time, as Tom Moran, the editorial page editor of The Star-Ledger of Newark, documented in a blistering column about Mr. Christie?s ?catalog of lies.?

?Don?t misunderstand me. They all lie, and I get that,? Mr. Moran wrote of politicians in general. ?But Christie does it with such audacity, and such frequency, that he stands out.?

Wishful_Thinking wrote:
Christie, along with Carly Fiorina and Jeb Bush, are the only Republican candidates who acknowledge their issues with the SCOTUS ruling allowing gay marriage, yet don't support states ignoring it, or pushing for a Constitutional amendment. This puts him in line with the majority of Republican and Evangelical millennial, as well as Americans in general.

On this basis alone - while I would cut off my arm before pulling the lever for a Republican - I wish him well in trying to bring some intelligent discourse to the traveling sh@t/freak-show that is the Republican primary slate, and to stand up to the scared old white evangelicals who are dominating the primary process.

iGreg wrote:
Let's see USA sort of accepted a half Negro for a president who proved to be a total lightweight and incompetent political fool.

Maybe a pork face glutton who stuffs his asshole with cake and pizza has a chance this round - (not!)

JCMan8 wrote:
Monroe, you have been Christie's #1 supporter for the past several years. Are you disappointed in how those years have turned out for him?

Also, what is your prediction for who will win the Republican primaries?

Monroe wrote:
Yes, corrupt (and almost equally corrupt) Hudson and Essex counties were the only two counties in NJ not to support Republican Governor Christie in his re-election in blue NJ. No shock that a poll here wouldn't support him.

mrasg1 wrote:
He's going nowhere fast. But watching him
and Trump go at each other - priceless. !!!
Springsteen allowed him to play his music today?