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Chris Christie

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In honor of him being on the Daily Show, he seemed to handle himself in a few traps and did okay, not good, but the best he could do.

The few of you who read my posts and don't assign team politics know that I am an extreme economic liberal who has no home in the current Republican Party. I don't know a whole lot about Chris Christie, but he seems to be a straight shooter that doesn't do a lot of pandering. Unlike most Republicans who talk about fiscal conservatism but do the opposite, he seems to walk the talk.

To me, he is the most intriguing Republican in America right now. I'm curious to hear about how much he sucks and hates poor people and is awesome because he tells public unions there is no more money.

Most of what I know of him comes from sound bites, it would be especially appreciated if people in New Jersey told me how much he sucks and/or is awesome.
 
I remember a while ago he appointed a judge who happens to be a Muslim. There was a huge uproar and Chris Christie denounced the criticism in a very blunt way- he said it was bigotry and he wouldn't stand for it. A lot of politicians would have pandered, but that doesn't seem to be his style.

He got some more heat from his party for praising Obama during the Hurricane Sandy emergency, which happened to be right before the election. It probably didn't help Romney, but he made it pretty clear that he puts New Jersey's interests before the GOP's.

One more thing I like about him: he's not a crook like his predecessor, Jon Corzine.
 
I don't know much about his policies; however I did gain a lot of respect for him during Hurricane Sandy. He wasn't afraid to give credit to Obama for his handling of the response, despite being branded by his fellow Republicans as a traitor. He put the constituents of his state before party politics, and I think most people would agree that is an admirable thing, especially in today's divisive political climate.
 
When it came to nominating a Republican to run against Obama, he was Ann Coulter's first choice.
 
UTLonghorn said:
I don't know much about his policies; however I did gain a lot of respect for him during Hurricane Sandy. He wasn't afraid to give credit to Obama for his handling of the response, despite being branded by his fellow Republicans as a traitor. He put the constituents of his state before party politics, and I think most people would agree that is an admirable thing, especially in today's divisive political climate.
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I appreciate that too. As Americans we argue about damn near everything, but tend to come together in disasters when people are clearly hurting, I find conservative talking heads who criticize Christie for not treating a natural disaster as a partisan political event to be particularly disgusting.
 
My feeling about him at the moment is that if he has any interest in running for president in 2016, and the rest of the GOP doesn't nominate him, then the GOP as a whole is every bit as blind and stupid as the most rabid liberal blogger makes them out to be.
 
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My feeling about him at the moment is that if he has any interest in running for president in 2016, and the rest of the GOP doesn't nominate him, then the GOP as a whole is every bit as blind and stupid as the most rabid liberal blogger makes them out to be.
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Do you care elaborate why?
 
Pretty clear isn't it?

Christie seems to be the only prominent Rep who is non-pandering, non-hypocritical, non-rabid, non-stupid, and non-creationist.
Seems like a reasonable and fairly competent guy, the only one in the Republican stable at this time.
 
FYI, I appreciate his willingness to hold "questions & answers" sessions that don't seem to be pre-picked or censored. I wish more politicians would be straight shooters about what they think and not worry about pandering or offending someone. That Christie seems to be so willing to speak his mind is why he intrigues me, it also makes me wonder if he can succeed on a national level. Is pandering to intellectual children necessary?
 
Why do you see it as Pandering? Maybe Christie is just being sensible and refusing to pander to anyone and ensuring that he is doing his job well and serving his constituents to the best of his abilities, which is more than can be said of many of his colleagues.
 
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Why do you see it as Pandering? Maybe Christie is just being sensible and refusing to pander to anyone and ensuring that he is doing his job well and serving his constituents to the best of his abilities, which is more than can be said of many of his colleagues.
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From what I have seen, Christie is a straight shooter who doesn't pander, I ask if this will hurt him nationally?
 
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Do you care elaborate why?
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Fishbob summarized my feelings pretty succinctly. From what I've seen, he seems to be the only politician on the national stage who interprets being a Republican as "a conservative approach to getting helpful and necessary stuff done," rather than "advancing a narrowly-defined, uncompromising, ideologically-driven agenda at any cost."

As for whether that approach will render him unviable, it's too early for me to venture a guess. In a political climate as sharply polarized as ours has been over the last few years, I'd say yes. But thankfully there seems to be a faint glimmer of hope that that's changing, and that the few sane factions of the GOP are realizing they need to ditch their more extreme factions to remain viable. If that trend continues, seemingly reasonable people like Christie might have a shot.

I still don't know I'd vote for him. All I know is that based on what I've seen so far, I wouldn't immediately and irrevocably write him off like I have every single Republican primary candidate for the past two elections.
 
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From what I've seen of him, he seems a very respectable guy to me. He seemed 10 times the politician any of the GOP candidates this election were. So far I've not seen him resorting to empty rhetoric or pandering once, which I'm glad to see others commenting on here as well.
 
From what I have seen, I am guessing it will. I have a feeling that Christie is also well aware that he will have to wade against a current of "stupid" if he ever decides to throw his hat into the ring for 2016. In fact I guess one reason he decided not to run this time may have been that there was just too much "stupid" floating around and he felt that too much energy would be wasted effectively countering this. Perhaps he will bide his time until the situation betters itself and saner minds more interested in solving problems and resolving issues once again becomes predominant.
 
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