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Christie struck a sour note with conservatives for palling up with Obama during Hurricane Sandy. The bill to send money to victims was full of pork, and republicans wanted to make sure that the money was only going to the victims- not special interests. Christie attacked them for it.
Christie Spends $4.7M In Sandy Relief Funds On Pseudo Campaign Ads Featuring Himself
This far out, any prediction on whether Christy will even run for the White House is unrealistic.
Who knows how well he will do losing weight after his recent surgery? No one, and not all stomach surgery turns out well.
Christy may well prefer to keep the Governorship, if he can, for at least another term. While we have elected a lot of Governors, the ones who were seasoned and successful were the ones who won. The one-termers have largely failed.
You stumbled on the last question. The media won't make sure of anything. All they will do is report and concentrate on the leader, as they always do. Don't fall for that lie- it is always the voters who decide, and they decide from a wide variety of reasons. Not all of the reasons are connected to the media, especially now, with the predominance of the internet as an information source.
He's already making a play for the NY money. I read something last week, I think, that he was schmoozing in the Hamptons. It's all about the money. Don't underestimate Fox News in this, either. It will be interesting to see if Christie and Peter King run which one Fox News will fall all over. Because he's in NY, they put Rep. Peter King on Fox News all of the time. It's who you know, you know, that gives you your cachet with the next President.
Here you go:
"Chris Christie is ditching the Jersey Shore for the Hamptons this weekend to woo big GOP donors for his re-election campaign, far away from South Carolina where other star Republican governors will gather Monday to support Nikki Haley. "
The vetters were stunned by the garish controversies lurking in the shadows of his record. There was a 2010 Department of Justice inspector general’s investigation of Christie’s spending patterns in his job prior to the governorship, which criticized him for being “the U.S. attorney who most often exceeded the government [travel expense] rate without adequate justification” and for offering “insufficient, inaccurate, or no justification” for stays at swank hotels like the Four Seasons. There was the fact that Christie worked as a lobbyist on behalf of the Securities Industry Association at a time when Bernie Madoff was a senior SIA official—and sought an exemption from New Jersey’s Consumer Fraud Act. There was Christie’s decision to steer hefty government contracts to donors and political allies like former Attorney General John ********, which sparked a congressional hearing. There was a defamation lawsuit brought against Christie arising out of his successful 1994 run to oust an incumbent in a local Garden State race. Then there was Todd Christie, the Governor’s brother, who in 2008 agreed to a settlement of civil charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission in which he acknowledged making “hundreds of trades in which customers had been systematically overcharged.” (Todd also oversaw a family foundation whose activities and purpose raised eyebrows among the vetters.) And all that was on top of a litany of glaring matters that sparked concern on Myers’ team: Christie’s other lobbying clients, his investments overseas, the YouTube clips that helped make him a star but might call into doubt his presidential temperament, and the status of his health.
I think if democrats like him that much, they should nominate him and vote for him. He seems to be all they have other than ole Hillary with the either real or staged head injuries.
Christie is a very smart guy and also a savvy politician. I would not write him off yet. He is a Republican governor in a state where there are more Democrats ... so he has shown he can interest voters from the other party. He comes across as an independent guy who is willing to go against even his own party.
I'm convinced, however, the hard-core ultra-Conservatives and so called Tea Partiers will never accept him. They regard him as a RINO. If that extremist faction of the GOP loses influence in 2014 Christie might have a chance.
It's been quite a while since he had the bariatric surgery, but he looks as heavy as ever. Maybe it's not working for him.
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Christie is a joke
