Rand Paul to Chris Christie: You need to talk to more real Americans

By Ralph Z. Hallow and David Sherfinski-The Washington Times Friday, July 26, 2013

Republican rivals Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky are escalating their feud over national security policy and liberty.

In comments at a forum of Republican governors in Aspen, Col. Thursday, Mr. Christie said the libertarian strain championed by Mr. Paul currently coursing through the veins of political parties — as evidenced by broad, although ultimately unsuccessful, lobbying in the House of Representatives against NSA surveillance programs this week — is dangerous.

“This strain of libertarianism that’s going through parties right now and making big headlines I think is a very dangerous thought,” Mr. Christie said Thursday in Aspen, Colo. on at a forum of Republican governors. “You can name any number of people and [Mr. Paul is] one of them.”

Mr. Christie, like Mr. Paul considered a possible 2016 presidential contender, criticized what he called “esoteric, intellectual debates” that Mr. Paul and fellow conservatives such as Sen. Mike Lee of Utah have been conducting over the constitutional limits on unreasonable search and seizure and warrantless government surveillance.

Mr. Paul fired back Friday morning on his official Senate Twitter feed, writing that the governor “worries about the dangers of freedom. I worry about the danger of losing that freedom. Spying without warrants is unconstitutional.”

A top aide to Mr. Paul immediately fired back, telling The Washington Times the senator’s opposition to government drone policies and surveillance programs are designed to “protect the freedoms that make America exceptional.”
“If Gov. Christie believe the constitutional rights and the privacy of all Americans are ‘esoteric,’ he either needs a new dictionary or he needs to talk to more Americans, because a great number of them are concerned about the dramatic overreach of our government in recent times,” Paul senior advisor Doug Stafford said.

“Defending America and fighting terrorism is the concern of all Americans, especially Senator Paul,” Mr. Stafford, who is Mr. Paul’s closest adviser, said. “But it can and must be done in keeping with our Constitution and while protecting the freedoms that make America exceptional.”

Mr. Christie, appearing with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, told the Aspen forum that critics like Mr. Paul should sit down and sit across from the families of 9/11 victims. He noted that the Obama administration has largely kept in place the security and surveillance programs set up under GOP predecessor President George W. Bush.

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I wonder what the reaction of those 9-11 families would be to :

Governor Christies Dirty Islamist Ties
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2011/01/...amist-ties.html

or
Gov. Christie's Strange Relationship with Radical Islam
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0111/em...rinter_friendly

or
NJ Governor Christie Hates Public Unions, But Loves Islamic Ones
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011...lamic_ones.html


or
CAIR-NJ Thanks Governor for Islamophobia Warning
Note: I had to look this web page has been archived
http://web.archive.org/web/2011011317530...hp?readmore=201