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7/5/2010

NJ Governor Chris Christie

Filed under: Politics — DRJ @ 1:53 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie explains his principles:

Christie is winning converts in the blogosphere. Does the national GOP have his courage and common sense principles?

— DRJ

32 Responses to “NJ Governor Chris Christie”

  1. In the interview, Christie said 55% of private sector Americans have either lost their jobs or had their pay cut during this recession.

    DRJ (d43dcd) — 7/5/2010 @ 1:59 pm

  2. There’s something about this guy that I like.

    nk (db4a41) — 7/5/2010 @ 2:18 pm

  3. He had me at “hello.”

    RB (198d7e) — 7/5/2010 @ 2:18 pm

  4. No notes. No teleprompter. No hesitation. Total command of the facts and the arguments.

    RB (198d7e) — 7/5/2010 @ 2:19 pm

  5. He is honest and direct. People like people who wear their hearts on their sleeves.

    nk (db4a41) — 7/5/2010 @ 2:22 pm

  6. It’s up to him. But rest assured that Oppo Research is all over this guy.

    Hopefully he has learned a lesson from the “unknown” folks who burst onto the national scence.

    Besides, Jersey is old-skool tough.

    Eric Blair (c8876d) — 7/5/2010 @ 2:27 pm

  7. I doubt very much if he will be on a national ticket in 2012. Lots of people are watching Ireland, which adopted an austerity program three years ago and is steadying the slide it went through. They had a property bubble worse than ours yet they are now doing better than Spain (Not saying much, I concede) and might be out of recession next year.

    The same thing might happen with New Jersey. If he can show results by early 2012, he might even be drafted.

    Mike K (82f374) — 7/5/2010 @ 2:45 pm

  8. The MSM avoid Governor Christie like the plague. And so the American public largely are ignorant of his attitudes and actions and successes – because the MSM is still dominant in setting public opinion, and opinion favorable to Christie is the last thing the MSM wants to see.

    He has said that there’s too much for him to do in NJ for him to even think of national office in 2012, but one can always hope. At the least, he should serve as an electrifying example for other Republican candidates. Imagine, the ability to clearly and bluntly articulate (without teleprompter) the problems facing NJ, and then to convince its bright-blue legislature to trim their spending 9% in one year, to balance the budget without tax hikes. Go Christie!

    Insufficiently Sensitive (8906ed) — 7/5/2010 @ 2:56 pm

  9. I am pulling for him. I wish we had someone like that in Illinois.

    BT (74cbec) — 7/5/2010 @ 3:44 pm

  10. This guy communicates really well. He has a natural, honest vibe, a sincerity that eludes Obama. He doesn’t use any oratorical tricks of weird cadence, intonation and inflection, nor does he need a teleprompter. He also has a calm toughness.

    PC14 (4a4ed3) — 7/5/2010 @ 3:46 pm

  11. He’s great, hitting all the right notes.

    I especially love how frequently he takes the opportunity to extol the intelligence of New Jersey residents and his confidence in them.

    He really believes they’re too smart and savvy to not see through the Dem’s repeated cycle of tax and spend. He knows they’re no fools and his straight-up honest actions evidence this.

    Of course this is another reason the opposition (and media) simultaneously loathe and fear him. Nothing like smart voters who know their relationship with their governor is built on mutual respect.

    What does the opposition (and media) do when voters are confident in their leader and their leader confident in the voters? They start digging, really, really deep, because this man’s governing is really throwing a kink in the business-as-usual plan. There must be something to dig up…

    Christie better keep a third eye watching behind him.

    Dana (1e5ad4) — 7/5/2010 @ 4:00 pm

  12. But rest assured that Oppo Research is all over this guy.

    Yes, but trust me that he’s been thoroughly vetted during the last campaign, when all the usual dumpster divers (i.e. New Jersey Star Ledger) and assorted scumbuckets tried their best to smear him – didn’t work, because the only “blemish” on his record was some trouble that his brother got into where he helped him out. There was nothing there, but they tried mightily to make it so.

    Dmac (93e7cb) — 7/5/2010 @ 4:27 pm

  13. Glad to hear it. I don’t know if CC is material for still higher office, but we need a lot of Chris Christies in government.

    Eric Blair (c8876d) — 7/5/2010 @ 4:34 pm

  14. More Chris Christies, and fewer Charlie Christs.

    AD - RtR/OS! (6e3949) — 7/5/2010 @ 4:36 pm

  15. —I especially love how frequently he takes the opportunity to extol the intelligence of New Jersey residents and his confidence in them.–

    Dana, I have noted the same thing. It’s refreshing, isn’t it, for a politician to both genuinely respect, and tell his constituents that he is relying on them to help participate in the hard process of fixing NJ. That’s what citizenship is–not just paying taxes to the government. It sort of feels like he treats regular NJ residents as his favored special interest group! Another refreshing thing is that Christie seems to be taking the implementation of his campaign promises quite seriously and is wasting no time with it.

    elissa (ac6653) — 7/5/2010 @ 4:40 pm

  16. “Does the national GOP have his courage and common sense principles?”
    If the evidence can be believed…no.

    Jim,MtnViewCA,USA (5c9d97) — 7/5/2010 @ 6:13 pm

  17. There is genius in his insistence that the local governments pay for anything over and above a perfectly reasonable amount of state funding per student. If a given local district insists that there be a Cadillac pension for teachers, or a bloated back office/administration, no problem. THEY must pay for it.

    Of course, the federal courts will nullify this as the Newark schools, for example, are incapable of being funded at the levels its voters would approve. Wealthier counties would inherently have advantages that busing and worse have largely eradicated by judicial fiat for five decades.

    Let this be the first shot in a fundamental transformation!

    Ed from SFV (27d3cb) — 7/5/2010 @ 6:14 pm

  18. He really believes they’re too smart and savvy to not see through the Dem’s repeated cycle of tax and spend. He knows they’re no fools and his straight-up honest actions evidence this.

    For tactical reasons, that’s a smart and appropriate position to take. But in reality there are a lot of uber-blue-state, latte-liberal residents throughout New Jersey. Northeastern urbanite voters in particular who discount the value of common sense because it doesn’t seem big-hearted and sophisticated, or populist, enough. They’re the ones whose backs have to be thrown up against the wall before they’ll accept anything a bit right of center.

    I bet a good percentage of them who pulled the lever or plucked the chad for Christie probably did so while holding their nose. Only years and years of feel-good irresponsibility and flat-out corruption from the left/Democrats made them finally blink.

    Mark (411533) — 7/5/2010 @ 6:30 pm

  19. Watching his battles with the teacher’s union was awe – inspiring. Watch how he takes a somewhat hostile and/or neutral audience and gets them on his side of the ledger. Would love to see him take on Obama without his telly someday.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ksLlAi3iIc&feature=player_embedded

    Dmac (93e7cb) — 7/5/2010 @ 6:51 pm

  20. Christie in a debate against Obama would be worth my right arm.

    Dustin (b54cdc) — 7/5/2010 @ 7:40 pm

  21. The most refreshing part of the interview is Christie not saying “ummmm” every third word.

    Rick (d430ea) — 7/5/2010 @ 8:35 pm

  22. I love him. Flat out, I’m an appreciative fan. Heck, I was born in New Jersey and southern New Jersey is one of my favorite places ever. I’m pulling for him.

    Vivian Louise (643333) — 7/6/2010 @ 4:21 am

  23. Bush/Palin conservatism is to spend, spend, spend … while saying they are for small government because the Democrats will spend even more. The entire thing of cutting taxes to shame government into reduced spending is FAIL. Republicans are idiots for what they’ve done. They are idiots for not being capable of articulating fiscally responsible arguments.What a freaking disaster this so-called fiscal conservative party has become.

    Good for Christie. What a leader.

    Wesson (648bfd) — 7/6/2010 @ 7:06 am

  24. You have a point about Bush…but Palin? Not sure where you’re getting that vibe at all.

    Dmac (93e7cb) — 7/6/2010 @ 7:16 am

  25. On message and an engaging personality.

    That’s a winning combination.

    GeneralMalaise (9cf017) — 7/6/2010 @ 7:56 am

  26. None of you must live in New Jersey because this guy hasn’t cut anything except aid to Republican towns and our homestead rebates. That, for those of you who don’t live or pay taxes here, is the “tax relief” the four figure income tax checks we pay is supposed to provide. His cabinet is full of liberal Democrats. He’s a total fake and once people (in the suburbs at least, because the cities got aid increases), get their tax bills his already bad poll numbers (in New Jersey, not the irrelevant out-of-state blogosphere) will get down to Nancy Pelosi levels.

    BobbyRomano (b5d258) — 7/6/2010 @ 10:23 am

  27. State government spending, not state aid to towns funded by income taxes, but actual state government, is up 7% this year. He hasn’t laid off one state employee or cut one liberal spending program. His compromise budget increased welfare, food stamps and programs for illegal aliens.

    BobbyRomano (b5d258) — 7/6/2010 @ 10:59 am

  28. You have a point about Bush…but Palin? Not sure where you’re getting that vibe at all.

    It’s a standardized demonization talking-point of the Left, which Wesson-oil is a poor representative for.

    AD - RtR/OS! (1087df) — 7/6/2010 @ 11:12 am

  29. Democrats like to lie.

    Bobby Romano would have you ignore Chris’s amazingly success with teachers. And he would blame you for the budgets of a democrat legislature. That’s how they roll.

    Wesson would have you blame Palin for the US Deficit.

    There’s no rhyme or reason beyond hatred of any threat to Obama and his ding dong followers.

    Dustin (b54cdc) — 7/6/2010 @ 11:15 am

  30. Comment by BobbyRomano — 7/6/2010 @ 10:59 am

    Well, if all you say is true, he will be destroyed on the pages of the NYT, which will lead to the flaying of his carcass by the major-market TV media in the area, and he will become a non-entity.

    So, that leaves the question:
    Why doth thee protesteth so much?

    AD - RtR/OS! (1087df) — 7/6/2010 @ 11:16 am

  31. Does the national GOP have his courage and common sense principles?

    No they dont, and havent for a good long while now.

    Mike D (cfd823) — 7/6/2010 @ 1:53 pm

  32. It’s pretty refreshing, and unfortunately rare, to like a politician more after he gets elected than when he was campaigning for the job. A tell tale sign of the real thing.

    eddieb (b26ebb) — 7/15/2010 @ 7:20 pm


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