Quote: FP123 wrote in post #10

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In 2009, Christie squeaked by with 3 percent. This time around he's running against a non-candidate as the man who got New Jersey through the storm. Whatever numbers he gets won't translate to a national election against Hillary Clinton. And the glowing media profiles will shut off once he gets the brass ring and becomes the fat man standing in Hillary's way. And then the hero will become the villain. That's what happened to moderate mavericks like John McCain and Mitt Romney.

Learning from history isn't really a specialty for Republican operatives. And unlike his prospective opponents, Christie will be able to show that he won Democratic votes in a recent election. And he expects that with a few tough talking videos the base will learn to love him while the party will come around the way that they did on amnesty for illegal aliens. Everyone wants to win, don't they?

Christie certainly does. The Governor of New Jersey is many things, but a loser isn't one of them. Unfortunately he's also opportunistic, unprincipled and completely cynical. Christie went from being a US Attorney prosecuting terrorism cases to using his office to pander to terrorists once he ran for public office. He spent his first term releasing punchy video clips of him yelling at people to give the impression that he was dramatically turning things around, when he was actually slapping band aids on the bruises. And in both elections, he used Obama as his political trump card to win a blue state.

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Quote: Cedric wrote in post #18

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Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #17

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Why don't you use the Top & Flop buttons, like everyone else?

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Quote: Cedric wrote in post #20

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Quote: FP123 wrote in post #19

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Quote: Cedric wrote in post #18

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Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #17

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Why don't you use the Top & Flop buttons, like everyone else?

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Hey! Don't you have a vested interest in that? I read somewhere here that you developed the software for that! Full disclosure, please!

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Oh yeah, I "forgot" about that!

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Quote: FP123 wrote in post #19

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Quote: Cedric wrote in post #18

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Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #17

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Why don't you use the Top & Flop buttons, like everyone else?

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Hey! Don't you have a vested interest in that? I read somewhere here that you developed the software for that! Full disclosure, please!

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Quote: Justme wrote in post #26

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Quote: Cedric wrote in post #16

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Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #15

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Quote: W-Girl wrote in post #8

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FWIW .....

Rush said yesterday, he thinks it is possible that Christie could run as a Democrat in 2016.

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Christie could just as easily be a -D as a -R.

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Yeah, I'm sure a Governor Christie with a "D" would've defunded Planned Parenthood.

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There are pro life democrats

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Quote: Weird Tolkienish Figure wrote in post #6

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I just fail to see who else the GOP could run in 2016?

Die-hard conservatives live in a fantasy world where a die-hard yet unlikable conservative candidates can run and win against someone like Hillary. People like Rush push the myth that "conservatism has never lost", and then get to claim it's true because they can find something they don't like about every GOP candidate. Conservatism cannot even win primary elections, sometimes.

Low information voters decide elections based on how much they personally like a candidate, period. And we need these people to win elections.

Or else we will end up with someone much worse than Obama.

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Quote: Cedric wrote in post #21

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Rush said yesterday, he thinks it is possible that Christie could run as a Democrat in 2016.

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