Meet the Next Republican Candidate For President

~ Laura

I am no fan of Gov. Chris Christie. He is crushing education in our state and increasing inequities. But you gotta check out this video. Shut up about Palin running for office. This is the guy.
Gov Christie calls S-L columnist thin-skinned for inquiring about his 'confrontational tone'

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Be afraid. (via Jeremy S.)

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6 thoughts on “Meet the Next Republican Candidate For President”

  1. The big O’s been eatin’ up guys like that since the first time he talked to a barbershop blowhard down on the South Side.
    I would say that God does not love Democrats so much as to give us someone like Christie as the R opponent in ’12, but Obama has already drawn Alan Keyes and John McCain. So maybe he has a special dispensation or something.

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  2. I have no idea who that guy to Christie’s right is, with the red and black tie, and he did not do anything the entire video other than smile and laugh and the Governor’s little jokes, but I could not take my eyes off of him, and now cannot help but loathe that man with a white hot passion.

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  3. Hehe Two kinds of people, those that will love this clip for its “common sense porn” and those that will loathe it. As far as 2012, I dunno, but it’s intriguing.

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  4. Rose – 2012? That’s awfully soon, and historically the Reeps tend to like guys who have waited their turn. Veeps, and guys who have been making convention speeches for years, etc. Ike was their really big exception to that, and worked out pretty well for them.
    The Christie clip is riveting, though. I’m going to tell a California story: Jesse Unruh was the dominant figure in the state legislature for years. He used to sit the newbies, just elected, down and say, “Son [almost always it was ‘son’] if you can’t eat their steaks, and drink their whiskey, and fuck their women, AND VOTE AGAINST THEM IN THE MORNING, you don’t belong here.”
    Jersey has a long history of people who didn’t vote against them in the morning (Corzine was both figuratively and literally in bed with the union) and who kicked the can down the road making deals with state and township employees which can’t now be met.
    Jersey was also making much too much of its money taxing its highest earners – this is easy to say in hindsight, as we see their incomes, and the taxes they pay, plummet. The rich are not making as much, and they can move. California has had this problem, too, even though if you like California you have to give up a lot moving to another state, in contrast to Jersey people who can move to Delaware or Virginia and get lower taxes and similar amenities. Maryland millionaires are moving to Virginia in droves.
    From the outside (I am in VA) it looks like Jersey is paying more than it can sustain to provide state services, and some of this is that it is providing a lot of services and some is that it is paying service providers more than it has to to get people to take the jobs. How do you climb down from that? Illinois? California? New York? Mass? Managing decline, how do you do it in the fairest way? Christie may be a model. Schwarzenegger hasn’t done well. Paterson does not inspire. Who knows what Spitzer would have done, had he not been caught with his pants down.

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  5. Managing decline, how do you do it in the fairest way?
    Sad to think, but this may be the new rubric we’ll be using to measure many of our politicians. Good to keep in mind here in NY.

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