How I know Christie Will Lose in November
Aside from the fact no Republican ever won an election without the support of the conservative base, I have another indicator that Chris Christie – a political zeppelin in every sense of the word – will be making a Lakehurst-style landing on November 3.
Yesterday I and a great many others received an e-mail letter from a young mother who attended both the Leonard Lance and Chris Smith Cap and Trade protests. She writes:
A couple months ago, I went to a Family Research Council event that had Mike Huckabee as its guest speaker. That night I met Chris Christie. I assumed that because he was there, he was someone whose values reflected mine. I talked with him for a while about the state that we New Jerseyans have found ourselves in. He was sympathetic and offered me many solutions that he had come up with to solve some of our state’s problems. I listened to him talk and believed what he was telling me. I told him that I had originally wanted to vote for Lonegan because he is a conservative, but that based on what I was hearing that night, I would vote for him instead.
I kept my word and voted for him.
After returning from the Obama/Corzine protest she opened an e-mail that directed her to Richard Zeundt’s post featuring Chris Christie’s welcome wagon video for President Man-Child. The next day she saw Michael Illion’s post on Christie’s endorsement of Sonia the Wise Latina.
Naturally, she connected the dots and the emerging picture infuriated her.
Clearly, these are not the moves of someone who supports the conservative framework. Seeing him on a Youtube video welcoming Obama was a slap in the face to me. I had just spent hours against many obstacles attempting to protest Corzine and Obama. We were sequestered by the State Police into an area located two parking lots away from the main event. Our constitutional rights were trampled as Christie was welcoming Obama. Something is very wrong here.
I feel duped and lied to. I am angry. I called his office and voiced my concerns to one of his workers. I told her that running the middle line does not work, and used McCain as my example. I explained to her that we conservatives want someone who will represent our views and be our voice. I told her of my conversation with Christie and how I kept my word and voted for him and how I wish I could take it back. I told her that I had one vote. Just one, and I used it for him, but I could not guarantee that I would use my next vote the same way.
Now consider how many other sincere, conservative-leaning Republicans have experienced this heartbreaking epiphany and weigh it in the same balance as the ever-growing numbers of conservative Republicans who are declaring open rebellion against the establishment in this state and elsewhere.
Apparently the New Jersey GOP fails to grasp what the Obama people figured out a long time ago: news travels fast on the Internet – even faster if it’s bad news. What folks like poor, Deluded Dino either don’t realize or refuse to accept is that the game is over. The carnival mask of conservatism has been pulled away. Colossal Chris has been revealed as the perfect symbol of the New Jersey GOP: a bloated, double-talking, go-along-to-get-along, party-hack RINO with no conservative principles whatsoever.
The fact that ordinary, workaday Republicans who aren’t news or political junkies realize this is yet another indicator of a spectacular Christie defeat in November – followed by the implosion of the state GOP afterward.
This bit of archive footage will give you an idea of what to expect on election night:
I’m glad you mention Leonard Lance, Colonel Rash. There is a very important question related to Lance.
As politicker reported back on 12/6/07, “Lance also has the strong support of Assemblyman Mike Doherty.” Mike’s message to us was effectively, “Trust me, vote for Leonard Lance and send him to Congress.” That endorsement naturally comes with the responsibility of explanation.
How does Mike Doherty explain being a big enabler to positioning Lance to take that cap-and-tax vote in Congress?
July 18th, 2009 at 1:26 pm“How does Mike Doherty explain being a big enabler to positioning Lance to take that cap-and-tax vote in Congress?”
Perhaps you should ask Mr. Doherty.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:42 pmAlso, please remember that there is a great deal different between endorsing someone that turns out to be a liberal and being a liberal yourself. I hope you as a PrincipledCitizen, know not to put much faith in endorsements. All those Christie endorsements should have proved that point unequivocally. Afterall, it is said that politics make strange bedfellows.
Doherty’s voting record in the Assembly is as good as anyone’s. He is an outspoken leader and true to his conservative principles.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:59 pmThank-you, Manly, for taking what I wrote and expounding on it beautifully. Rest assured that Christie fooled me once, shame on him, but he will not fool me twice.
July 18th, 2009 at 2:19 pmP.S. I am the mother that met Christie. I have revealed to Manly that it is now my mission to get Lonegan elected. I am writing his name in come November.
July 18th, 2009 at 2:22 pmChristie has a problem. When you pander to EVERYONE, you stand for NO ONE!
That sounds like a good blog post!
July 18th, 2009 at 2:32 pmThank you, Di Marco, for your comments.
The real issue is Mike Doherty asking us to put stock in his conservative blessing on Leonard Lance in the primary. Mike’s message was “trust me, believe me, vote for Leonard Lance and send him to Congress.” Mike helped sell us on Lance, and I think all conservatives agree that one must bear responsibility for such a sales job.
I see your point about “endorsing someone that turns out to be a liberal,” but that doctrine does not apply with Lance. Lance didn’t “turn out” to be liberal; he’s been liberal for a long time. So liberal, in fact, that Mike Doherty himself discussed and contemplated challenging Lance in the state senate primary in 2007. So Mike knows that Lance is liberal enough to be challenged by Mike himself in a state senate primary in 2007, but then Mike develops amnesia and forgets that Lance is liberal when it comes to an endorsement for Congress in 2008? Come on, give me a break.
Lance’s cap-and-tax vote was a surprise only to those who are willfully ignorant, turning a blind eye to Lance’s prior ten-year voting record and Lance’s own “green conservative” campaign.
Mike, Lance’s own running mate for many years, had to know very well that he was selling a cap-and-tax kind of candidate. A fair question is: why? (As Colonol Rash says, “Just questions, because people really do want to know.)
Also, we’ve called on every Republican to condemn the cap-and-tax 3. Yet, I’ve heard NOTHING from Mike Doherty, who bears much responsibility for giving us Congressman Lance. I have to agree with Mr. Zuendt about this: “Silence can speak volumes about a person.” Mike was very VOCAL in endorsing Lance, but SILENT since the cap-and-tax vote. If someone has seen something from Mike Doherty on this, please pass it along. Otherwise, the month-long loud silence still stands.
July 18th, 2009 at 2:48 pm“I’ve heard NOTHING from Mike Doherty, who bears much responsibility for giving us Congressman Lance. I have to agree with Mr. Zuendt about this: “Silence can speak volumes about a person.” Mike was very VOCAL in endorsing Lance, but SILENT since the cap-and-tax vote. If someone has seen something from Mike Doherty on this, please pass it along. Otherwise, the month-long loud silence still stands.”
Well said, sir. I’m in agreement. It’s time Mr. Doherty favored us with his response on these matters.
July 18th, 2009 at 2:55 pmI’m with Elaine. I’m writing in Steve Lonegan, and I’m encouraging my family and friends to do the same.
July 18th, 2009 at 8:47 pmIt’s amazing to me how bitter the Lonegan people still are. Your guy lost, move on.
July 19th, 2009 at 7:05 pmI do not believe for many that it has much to do with the fact the Lonegan lost the election. I believe it has far more to do with the kind of candidate the Republican standard beared is. After Junior Kean, McCain, Zimmer, and now Christie, what you are seeing is the utter comtempt Republicans, and especially conservatives, have for the party establishment.
WE ARE, to quote the Howard Beale character from the movie, Network, AS MAD AS HELL, AND NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!’
July 19th, 2009 at 7:19 pmSo the answer is to allow the Democrat to win? That type of logic escapes me.
July 19th, 2009 at 7:40 pmBTW, how did Brett Schundler fair in his election?
July 19th, 2009 at 7:40 pmChristie has a HUGE problem come in November, and even a horrible Governor in Corzine may escape defeat because of the incompetence of the Christie campaign.
Pandering DOES NOT work. As for Bret’s campaign, first off, his own party stabbed him in the back every where he turned, and I mean the RINO establishment. He himself hurt his campaign by a) keeping the establishment in place after he won the nominaton, and b) distancing himself from the Pro-Life plank, much like we are seeing in Christie with the disappearing Family Values section of his older website.
No one said the answer is to “let” the Democrat win. The answer is to run Conservative candidates.
The NJ GOP has NOT learned their lession; From Forrester in ‘05, to Kean in ‘06 to Estabrook, Unanaue, Zimmer in ‘08- RINO candidates LOSE and if they happen to pull out a victory, there voting record insures we lose anyway.
July 19th, 2009 at 8:00 pm“It’s amazing to me how bitter the Lonegan people still are. Your guy lost, move on.”
Bitterness? Not at all. What is involved her far transcends a mundane election. This state and this republic are teetering on the brink of collapse. If you cannot see that or appreciate the implications for this and future generations, then consider removing yourself from the equation insofar as you are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
July 19th, 2009 at 8:01 pmSchundler was undermined by people within the party. He made a number of mistakes to satisfy the liberal wing of the party and achieve “unity” and it cost him in the general election.
We don’t want democrats to win. We just do not see much of a difference between Christie and Corzine. I, for one, was going to support Christie after his primary victory. Unfortunately, his refusal to denounce those that voted for the reappointment of Albin, his utterly ridiculous environment/energy proposal, his failure to condem the three NJ Congressmen for voting for the Cap & Trade bill, his support for Sotomayor, and also his fawning over Obama have combined to cause me to realize that he is not a Republican at all. He is a democrat who happens to being running in a column that has the word Republican at the top.
If Christie had built a foundation under the conservative rhetoric his used during the primary, I would have been happy to support him. Instead he moves further left that I could have ever imagined.
Let me explain the benefit if someone other than Christie wins. We all know the solutions proposed by the democrats are destined to fail. If the Republican Party can show a united opposition like they did on a national level in 1994, then they will have a chance to convince voters that conservative principles will get the state on the right track. As long as Republicans are complicit in the failed proposals of the democrats the voters will realized that they are screwed whomever is elected.
July 19th, 2009 at 8:13 pmOkay, let’s say that Christie wins and lowers taxes, cuts the state budget, and brings jobs to NJ. Will you vote for him in 2013?
July 19th, 2009 at 8:22 pmI think you are getting way ahead of yourself. Ask me again in three and a half years. I will do my own state of the State analysis along with candidate evaluations at that time.
July 19th, 2009 at 8:33 pm“Okay, let’s say that Christie wins and lowers taxes, cuts the state budget, and brings jobs to NJ. Will you vote for him in 2013?”
Hell yes. But it isn’t going to happen and if you think it will happen you are deluding yourself. A leopard never changes its spots.
Christie must be defeated and the GOP establishment torn down and rebuilt.
July 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pmI think one of the quotes that Zuendt uses is appropriate when confronted with such a hypothetical question as posed by BK:
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself”
July 19th, 2009 at 9:26 pm- Mark Twain
BK wrote:
“So the answer is to allow the Democrat to win? That type of logic escapes me.”
Given that you do not understand that Christie is in fact a Democrat because he advocates Democratic policies – to the point of embracing the head Democrat, Barack Obama and his atrocious environmental agenda, all while expressly snubbing the most popular national conservative today, Sarah Palin – it is no wonder that logic escapes you.
Monetary inflation consists of the government destroying the monetary unit while still calling it a “dollar,” even while that “dollar” buy fewer and fewer goods. RINOs engage in a form of inflation by destroying the term “Republican” so that it includes so many non-Republicans that the term utterly has lost its meaning.
BK further wrote:
“Okay, let’s say that Christie wins and lowers taxes, cuts the state budget, and brings jobs to NJ. Will you vote for him in 2013?”
Such speculation makes about as much sense as wondering how my life would change if I won Mega Millions. Would it change my life? Sure. But I cannot plan my current life based on such a remote possibility. Similarly, if Christie wins and does something completely unfathomable (in a good way), then I will re-evaluate at that time. But until he offers a specific plan for me to evaluate as to how he will cut taxes and spending, there is no more reason to consider how my life would be different if he happens to win and happens to accomplish those things.
The closest thing to Republicanism that I can envision from Christie is that he will cut taxes without cutting spending. That would be disaster. I wish Democrats would learn to hit Republicans over the head with the “borow and spend” label the way Republicans hit Democrats with the “tax and spend label.” “Borrow and spend” is a lot worse than “tax and spend,” and it would be great if the political vernacular in America recognized that fact.
BK further wrote:
“It’s amazing to me how bitter the Lonegan people still are. Your guy lost, move on.”
If you think it is “bitterness” to ask for specific proposals as to how a candidate will advance a conservative agenda, that is your preogative. But it only reveals that you have no understanding of simple words and concepts in the English language.
Chris Christie has embraced Barack Obama, so it is obvious he knows how to embrace others. When he shows even the slightest embrace of anything conservative, I suggest you come back to this site and post it.
July 19th, 2009 at 9:42 pmThere are no words to describe how all the pain and and anguish coming from all you pathetic Lonegan whores amuses me. Keep crying in your beer you irrelevant losers. LMAO @ all of you!
Bye haters!;-)
July 19th, 2009 at 11:47 pm“There are no words to describe how all the pain and and anguish coming from all you pathetic Lonegan whores amuses me. Keep crying in your beer you irrelevant losers. LMAO @ all of you! Bye haters!;-)”
What a strange, angry and ultimately impotent little man you are, Dino. But please don’t say good-bye…every village needs an idiot just as every royal court needs a jester and you fit the bill so nicely on both counts…a sort of court buffoon with political Tourette’s Syndrome.
Without your predictably irrelevant and unhinged rants, this place would never be the same. In particular, I look forward to the hours of entertainment you will provide as Christie continues his lurch to the left and you continue your descent into madness as his poll numbers begin to tank.
Election day promises to be a veritable Dinofest of lunacy – assuming, of course, you haven’t drunk yourself into a stupor by 8 PM.
July 20th, 2009 at 12:03 amThe only impotent individuals are the twenty to thirty people here who are so pathetically bitter that they will waste their vote writing in their fallen, illegal alien hiring Furher.
Elaine, cry me a river. Is Chris supposed to stop trying to win an election just to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside? Get over it and move on with your life you big baby.
You people are nothing, you’re nobody, you’ve never won anything in this state and you think the best way to connect to New Jersey voters is to buy up copies of Joe the Plumber’s book and dress it up as Lonegan rally.
Yeah, you people are sooooo in touch with New Jersey voters, aren’t you? Maybe your buddy and resident brainless xenophobe Zbiggy can help you morons coordinate an anti “RINO” rally in Auchwitz.
July 20th, 2009 at 12:26 amCrudetti:
Why don’t you go back over to that minor league blog, Save “Chris Christie’s butt” Jersey and write another post claiming how conservative the Whopper is. Oh, wait, you can’t, why, because this Christie is going to make that other Christie look like a card carrying member of the John Birch Society.
Crudetti, you are the moron because you cannot see what Chris “What the hell am I doing” Christie really is. Christie, along with all of the other RINOs in the Repubic Party have no principles, no ethics and are nothing but a bunch of liars. Of course this should make you feel right at home with them, since you have all of the same qualities.
Go back to Save “Chris Christie’s Butt” Jersey, don’t go away mad, just go away. You are just another drone of the RINO leadership. That other blog claims to want to get rid of Jon “Stupidhead” Corzine. The only problem with that is they are just going to replace him with something worse, a very large RINO!
“I am not a crook.” Richard M. Nixon
“I want you to listen to me. I’m going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” William J. Clinton
“Being in this country without proper documentation is not a crime”! Chris Christie, Conservative (?) Republican Candidate for Governor.
July 20th, 2009 at 6:14 amColonel:
The one (and perhaps only) good thing about seeing Dino post here is that he does, in fact, represent what Chrisite and his RINO followers believe. He saracastically taunts Elaine and calls the rest of us “bitter,” because Chris Christie lied about who he is, some here were fooled, and those who were fooled (like Elaine) feel like they were taken advantaged.
Dino is informing all who did not already know that is what you should have expected all along (and should continue to expect in the future) from Chris Christie and other RINOs.
Anyone who thinks that Chris Christie would be a better friend to Conservatives than Corzine is wrong. Dino has told you that here.
Not only should we not vote for Chris Christie, we should work actively to ensure his defeat. He is not superior to Corzine in any way – unless you stand to benefit from the enhancement of his own political power.
July 20th, 2009 at 7:32 amI am going to disagree with those who say we should work to defeat Christie. He will lose and defeat himself, he will not need anything from us to do so.
The work needs to be on deserving Assembly incumbants and candidates as well as local Mayor and Council races, again as long as they are conservative. That is where I think we should put our efforts.
Think about it, how great will it be in November when the conservatives control the Assembly, we have a new speaker, and Christie goes to private practice.
I just do not want everyone to take their eyes off the ball so to speak. WE MUST win the Assembly this fall. Christie will lose regardless of what anyone does based on history and his own stupidity.
July 20th, 2009 at 7:56 am“The only impotent individuals are the twenty to thirty people here who are so pathetically bitter that they will waste their vote writing in their fallen, illegal alien hiring Furher.”
“Maybe your buddy and resident brainless xenophobe Zbiggy can help you morons coordinate an anti “RINO” rally in Auchwitz.”
Dino, the correct spellings are “Führer” and “Auschwitz.” Good grief, if you are going to violate Godwin’s Law at least learn how to spell the key words.
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