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Topic: Can Chris Christie
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Can Chris Christie
rescue the GOP?
Washington Post, by Dana Milbank
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Original Article
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 1/9/2013 11:45:19 AM
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| A pair of polls out this week shows the dire state the Republican Party finds itself in — and a way out of the wilderness, should Republicans choose to take it. Poll No. 1: Rasmussen Reports found that views of the tea party — the wing of Republicanism that dominates party primaries and therefore the congressional Republican caucuses — at a new low. Only 8 percent of likely voters considered themselves tea-party members, down from 24 percent in 2010. According to Rasmussen (which tends to have a pro-Republican bias), unfavorable views of
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Comments:
It looks like there is a full court press for the establishment Republicans. Of course the Democrats are in favor of that.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
VinGoombatz, 1/9/2013 11:47:11 AM (No. 9106963)
Well, if he can´t, perhaps colon powell can, right, Dana?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bassman, 1/9/2013 11:49:19 AM (No. 9106971)
No thanks fat man!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Burger, 1/9/2013 11:49:23 AM (No. 9106972)
No, Chris Christie can not save the GOP.
No Moderate ever will.
Moderates are the problem.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 1/9/2013 11:53:39 AM (No. 9106983)
Awww look at that. Dana is trying to "help" the Republicans by tying Chris Christie around our necks.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
disasterman, 1/9/2013 11:59:00 AM (No. 9106995)
H can´t save it, but he could make it better by leaving.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Kerryman, 1/9/2013 11:59:33 AM (No. 9106997)
The NJ Fiscal Picture is dismal. CC´s 15 minutes are up.
Semper Fi
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bubby, 1/9/2013 12:03:11 PM (No. 9107009)
A Northeast Republican is really just a moderate Democrat. No Thanks. Viewing Chris Christie as a lifesaver is too funny. I assume Dana wrote this a humorous piece. LOL.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
fb2002, 1/9/2013 12:03:45 PM (No. 9107011)
The Republican establishment: the roll over crowd that lies on their back and lets the press and the dimocrats have their way. Christie is so completely clueless. I will NEVER FORGIVE HIM for the stunt he pulled just before election day. Republicans are elephants, so we have very long, long memories.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
robertthomason, 1/9/2013 12:07:09 PM (No. 9107014)
What a great piece of satire. "certainly not a liberal" --- What color is the sky in your universe? The man is in the middle of the trough taking all the federal government money he can get and brags about it. That´s not liberal? Once he starts running for president the national news media will cut him to pieces like they did McCain. They´ve picked their next candidate and it´s not this guy. They just want to see if we will fall for the same stupid strategy three times in a row.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Ruhn, 1/9/2013 12:08:39 PM (No. 9107017)
If the MSM (translation: media arm of the democrat party) offers any advice to the GOP, it´s precisely the wrong advice to take.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
GOPlease, 1/9/2013 12:11:49 PM (No. 9107023)
No!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
melanie, 1/9/2013 12:25:29 PM (No. 9107061)
Not a snowball´s chance in hell. He has turned out to be the kind of Republican we need rescuing from.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
strike3, 1/9/2013 12:33:10 PM (No. 9107074)
Chris Christie couldn´t rescue himself from a fall in the bathtub. He is just another big mouth who helped the silver tongued devil get back into the WH.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
harper, 1/9/2013 12:34:20 PM (No. 9107079)
The Donks propose yet another Trojan Horse...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
chumley, 1/9/2013 12:34:45 PM (No. 9107081)
Maybe if he gets on his knees and begs for Obama´s help.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
kens, 1/9/2013 12:35:02 PM (No. 9107084)
Looks to me like some liberal is trying to rehabilitate Christie after he stepped in his mess kit last week.
Unfortunately, Chris Christie is dead to a lot of conservatives right now with no immediate prospect of resurrection.
Besides, when all is said and done. New Jersey is a corrupt union enclave with a bunch of Obama voters. Hard to feel sorry for them.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Foggybottom, 1/9/2013 12:55:19 PM (No. 9107136)
In a word, no.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
olcap, 1/9/2013 12:59:51 PM (No. 9107147)
Leap ahead. It´s 2016 and Chris Christie is te GOP nominee for POTUS. Won´t hear much complaining then, just a lot of, "well, I will have to hold my nose, but I´m voting Christie, as he is the lesser of two evils".
I´m SURE everyone can see this exact scenario being played out, as always.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
fritzilou, 1/9/2013 1:03:17 PM (No. 9107158)
He isn´t wanted to rescue my GOP. Christie is a self promoting blowhard.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Penney, 1/9/2013 1:03:20 PM (No. 9107159)
Can any pol from New Jersey or Illinois & New York be trusted? ...So far, not so much.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
3XALADY, 1/9/2013 1:15:51 PM (No. 9107184)
The only thing that can rescue CONSERVATIVES is a new party, not the same old same old GOP. I´m ready. People say you will only lose. Really? You have to start somewhere.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
tisHimself, 1/9/2013 1:28:11 PM (No. 9107218)
Chris Christie is neither the biggest problem facing the GOP nor the solution.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
jerseyden, 1/9/2013 1:28:27 PM (No. 9107219)
I like Christie, but I think he wouldn´t stand a chance in the general election. The MSM would stay quiet until he won the primaries then would gather 1000´s of gays, minorities, union thugs, unwed mothers, etc to show they were mistreated by him. He is not PC so there is plenty of film showing him telling it like it is to these people and you know the media will edit it to make him seem worse.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
bighambone, 1/9/2013 1:28:51 PM (No. 9107220)
This is another instance of the liberal Democrats instructing the Republicans as to who they should run for President.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 1/9/2013 1:30:17 PM (No. 9107222)
Yeah - in the same way that Obama is "rescuing" democracy, Dana Milquetoast.
What a laugher.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
jeffreyabigail, 1/9/2013 1:46:49 PM (No. 9107253)
I´ll take Christie over Santorum and Bachman, who could never in a million years become president.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
nonsense, 1/9/2013 2:03:56 PM (No. 9107307)
No...or, hades No.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
belwhatter, 1/9/2013 2:10:22 PM (No. 9107329)
LOL Christie is a democrat beneath his outer covering - isn´t he?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
msjena, 1/9/2013 2:16:09 PM (No. 9107343)
Are there any Republicans who like Christie? There seems to be unanimity here, at least, that Christie is a non-starter.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
jt26, 1/9/2013 2:17:13 PM (No. 9107346)
If Chris Christie is the answer I don´t want to know what the question is. After this last presidential election I am now an unregistered libertarian, I would not waste one more vote or one more dime on the GOP.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
frenesi1, 1/9/2013 3:42:04 PM (No. 9107520)
I am done voting for liberal Republicans.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
absalom, 1/9/2013 4:04:39 PM (No. 9107561)
Christie is a lefty R in the Clifford Case & Tom Kean mold. As Gov, he has done squat, other than run off at the mouth. NJ remains a D bastion addicted to big government, exhorbitant taxes, pc and emmigration.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
NJVol, 1/9/2013 8:48:11 PM (No. 9108006)
To respond from some posters, CC is not like Tom Kean (however much I also disdain him) or Cliff Case: they would never swear and curse in public like this low-class, bullying Soprano governor; at least they had some class -- Fat Boy has none, none whatsoever. Secondly, do you really think Fat Boy could ever get down on his knees to Obamessiah even if he wanted to (no less get back up)?!
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Pocket Aces, 1/9/2013 9:48:32 PM (No. 9108078)
F##k Chris Christie. He´s dead to me.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
civilservant, 1/10/2013 11:33:43 AM (No. 9108970)
#18, I can guarantee you that I will NOT be touting CC in 2016.
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