Gov. Christie gave a tough interview this morning on Meet The Press and it was both interesting and entertaining. One thing many of you may not like is his defense of campaigning for Mike Castle in Delaware. He says unequivocally that Delaware was a missed opportunity to have a great senator.

Enjoy!

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  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/JJWAFS3CTAETTM6GCM4ZA7TNAU don c

    So was CA…

    • Don17k

      So was NV. I think either of the other candidates could have beaten Reid. I doubt anyone in CA (other than a conservative A-lister like Arnold) could have defeated Boxer.

      • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/JJWAFS3CTAETTM6GCM4ZA7TNAU don c

        So the NRSC throws $8 million into a black hole?

        • Don17k

          Happens in politics all the time, on both sides. Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina did it in CA, Miller’s campaign did it in AK… Crist and Meek did it in Florida, Sestak did it in PA… the only time it doesn’t happen is when a candidate is lucky enough to run unopposed. Like Diaz-Balart did in Florida.

          • Rich

            You have no idea what he said do you? Meg Whitman spent a ton of her own money, which she is allowed to do. This is very different from the NRSC totally getting the polling wrong and spending more money in Cali. than they did in any other race. That’s a huge mistake by the NRSC.

  • Shane2813

    These leftist Republicans just don’t get it!!!! Give em a call @ 609-777-2500. Let them know what you think. Clueless just clueless.

    • grizzlybarrmomma

      S- I didn’t hear only the missed opportunity statement…….And even that is clearly the Republican Party’s fault. Christie agrees.

      I know nothing about Mike Castle but I trust Christie’s judgment. However, whether Mike had good character was not the issue- his record showed A Republican WHO THOUGHT MORE OF HIS JOB THAN AMERICA -He wouldn’t listen…

      Christie believes in Tea Party platform and believes Republicans better listen this time -”put up or shut up”. O’Donnell was a lost opportunity if you wanted same old same old..

      O’Donnell— win or lose did us all a favor, ALL REPUBLICANS WILL LISTEN NOW OR ELSE BE “SENT TO THE WILDERNESS” AS CHRISTIE PUTS IT—He’s right….Everything he said in his interview says that it was the fault of the Republican Party not the tea party supporting O’Donnel.

      If I call it’s to tell Christie keep hammering the good old boys……His candor is a breath of fresh air.

      • grizzlybarrmomma

        When I said – O’Donnell was a lost opportunity if you wanted same old same old.. I meant that Castle might have won. Great if you are a LOVE-MY-PARTY-MORE-THAN-AMERICA Republican.

        I believe Christie is saying the missed opportunity was for the R-Party to have listened long ago. And THEY BLEW IT.. He is clear when he speaks, but people want to hear what they want. Listen to the whole interview.

  • Puma for Life

    I really don’t like Christie; a big fat liberal bully.

    • Red in Blue

      @puma What???? Liberal? What’s liberal at all about him??

      • Puma for Life

        He supports cap and trade and the mosque for two things. The only thing he is good at is bullying the public employee unions.

        • Anonymous

          I don’t really get the whole notion that supporting the mosque makes one a liberal. If one was all about supporting the constitution, wouldn’t support of the mosque naturally follow from that?

  • dpk21

    Help me

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/PMLT5XN3DODARW4HIWZCBBS5YA Mickey

    Gov.Christie was right about O’Donnell.One more missed chance to gain seats in the Senate.Good intereview and it’s nice to see some Republicans stand up for us conservatives with common sense.My respect for Gov Christie grows all the time and statements like this are one reason.

    • Stevendufresne

      If you think Mike Castle was a “gain” for the GOP, you’re crazy. Why are we crying over spilled milk? The outcome of the election didn’t turn on Mike Castle. If he won, we wouldn’t have gained the Senate anyway, which was the primary argument of those supporting this liberal RINO. So it doesn’t give me any confidence in Christie that he would insist on pandering to the Establishment by making this ridiculous contention about Castle. Castle doesn’t matter and was exactly what was wrong with the GOP. Apparently, the GOP has not learn anything from the last 8 years of what not to do and what candidates not to nominate.

    • Anonymous

      Gov Christie will go the Way of Scot Brown.

      He is a Good Gov for NJ, and is GREAT on spending, but that is all he is. He is a 1 Topic guy (Public Spending), and has markedly unconstitutional views on all most every issue and would be a TERRIBLE in a national office like senator or gasp president.

      Christie is a star purely because he has the balls to attack the Unions. get past that he is just another progressive republican

      • Anonymous

        The only issue the president needs to be good on is public spending. As long as the president won’t let an overrun in spending. It’s the congress’s job to legislate laws. I really don’t want him to be president I think Marco Rubio should run, and should bring in a Christie or a Brown, to be a running-mate to be a centrist and bring in independent votes, who are the ones that REALLY matter. Rubio could bring in an increased number of minority votes (from last election) and Christie (or Brown) could bring in more independent votes, I think a ticket like that represents the best chance to beat a sitting president.

        • Anonymous

          WOW, did they change the oath and duty of the office of the President of the United States?

          I thought the President was to be the Commander & Chief of the Nation, and to Protect and Defend the Constitution of these United States.

          I guess I was wrong, the president is simply a bookkeeper…..

          • Anonymous

            Haha I appreciate the sarcasm. I realize the the expressed duties of the president in the Constitution, but that wasn’t the point of my post. The GOP’s biggest goal in the 2012 election should be find an electable candidate, not to try and find a perfect candidate. If Christie looks like the only candidate that can win, he should be the choice, and I can be fine with some of the issues I disagree with him on, because I know he’s not going to approve any laws that create spending overruns. He would also sing into law a balanced budget act (which I believe that Obama would not). The president does have responsibilities other than bookkeeping, but spending is the biggest issue, IMHO, that a president shouldn’t budge on. People also put too much stock in the president, if the congress is full over Rand Paul’s and Jim Demints, people that probably couldn’t get elected by the whole nation, it doesn’t matter if the president has views that differ from the congress, as long as he is a conservative of sorts.

    • Rich

      You do realize exit polls showed Castle would have lost too, right? Of course, because you have “common sense” that the rest of us must not have, I’m sure you knew that.

      Help me figure something out. You continue to identify yourself as a conservative. So, then how does supporting Mike Castle do anything for the conservative cause? Give me on big issue in which Mike Castle would have advanced the conservatie agenda.

      Finally, I love this notion that Lindsey Graham and other people (you included) are pushing that somehow the establishment candidate has a 100% win rate and tea party candidates can only be losers. It’s as if you think that had if it been your candidate, then there is no chance they would have lost..totally missing the obvious example of Florida in which your guy did lose.

      For the guy who is always preaching truth, you sure do seem to miss a lot of examples of it.

    • BOO Mickey

      Mickey is just a wanna be intellectual…. no Castle wouldve been awful, another Snowe-Collins type. Id rather have Coons so we can have the good guys in there showing exactly who we are, castle wouldve turned off voters showing that “both parties are the same”.

      I’d rather be the minority in the Senate now so Obama cant just blame the Congress in 2012 and CASTLE wouldve given him a great opportunity.

      Mickey wanna be DanielTumser GFY

      • Anonymous

        No Mickey is a Rove Republican that thinks this is a Point’s game. That it is better to have more “R’s” then “D’s” in. Mickey has no principles and thus can not comprehend anyone standing upon them. This is a Game to him and all that matters is when that final buzzer rings on Nov 3 his “team” has to have the high score.

  • http://twitter.com/tai_pan chris

    The exchange over paying for tax cuts, that’s exactly what Rush always saying about not accepting the premise of what the libs ask.

  • http://twitter.com/PopinjayRose PopinjayRose

    I can understand the argument that Mike Castle had a better shot at winning, but Christie’s endorsement made Castle sound like a government cutter which is simply not true.

  • Goldni007

    The Ried/Angle thing perplexes me. Rasmussen (and most other pollsters) were dead on afa projections of all the races BUT the NV one. Although she was not a great candidate (she tore him up in one of the debates) I still would have voted for her over Reid 1000 times out of a 1000.

  • http://twitter.com/hrh40 Heather Hunt

    Christie wrong: Delaware not thrown out. Exit polls show Coons beating Castle. Delawareans wanted liberal. At least some had choice to vote for a conservative.

  • http://doorwaybuck.com CM Sackett

    …the ‘Tea Party’ did NOT ‘cost’ the Republicans ANYTHING, governor.We, The PEOPLE, voted to end the rape and wholesale dismantling of our Republic, and its Constitution… and we got that first job done.We didn‘t ’cost’ Repubs ANYTHING (the party, and its gutless/soul-less ‘professional’ ‘politics’ are the sole culprits there) ~ WE made the first stand in the Restoration of this grand Republic… and we did it as CONSERVATIVE AMERICANS, not ‘party’ members.In short: Dear “Republican Party”, get back to the Constitutional Foundation of the government’s scope, power and reasons for existing, as laid out by We, The PEOPLE (those, governor Christie, are our ‘core principles’)… or the party’s OVER.I’m CM Sackett, and I approved this message.

    • Bsm138

      Why is everyone just looking at a few Senate seats and saying OH the Tea Party “cost” you. How about the 60+ house seats would that have happened w/o the tea party? Hell no. How about the unbelievable 600+ state representatives switching from Dem to Repub. again w/o Tea Party that would never happen.

      • http://doorwaybuck.com CM Sackett

        Aye, indeed!

      • Puma for Life

        Exactly. If it weren’t for the teaparty the Republicans would still be a minority but they are focusing on two very difficult races (interesting that the conservatives were both women; easy to attack I guess). I still believe Reid cheated…and no one was going to defeat him because the Mafia controls Nevada. And Delaware ain’t real straight-shooting either.

        Of the 20 congressional races Sarah Palin endorsed, 18 won. Gee, let’s focus on the two she lost and how she cost the Republicans the House…get a grip is all I have to say to Christie and all the rest of the establishment politicians.

      • Red in Blue

        @BOO Mickey ABSOLUTELY!

    • Red in Blue

      @CM Perfectly put!!! Dead right.

    • Anonymous

      You really should say We, the PEOPLE WHO ASSOCIATE OURSELVES WITH THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT.

      I hate to say it, but you don’t speak for the American people by a long shot. Neither does anyone else for that matter – but there are some of WE, the PEOPLE who abhor the conservative movement, and we’d appreciate it if you stopped implicating us in your every action.

      • http://doorwaybuck.com CM Sackett

        “but there are some of WE, the PEOPLE who abhor the conservative movement, and we’d appreciate it if you stopped implicating us in your every action.”

        …never happen, sir. You hate our Constitutional form of governance, the history of our national exceptionalism and our American way of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (NOT the ‘guarantee’ of it) ~ then at least have the common decency and fortitude to go ELSEWHERE and either join a country already embroiled and suffering your form of “right” and “happiness”… or have the spine and self-respect to START YOUR OWN.

        You mess with what was founded, fought and died for 235 years ago (and fought and died to protect and continue since)… and you do NOT represent “We, The PEOPLE of the United States of America”.

        You represent an insidious, oft-tried, ALWAYS-FAILED way of thinking that MUST ENSLAVE the majority “for their own good”. It comes in various flavors ~ communism, maoism, socialism, ‘progressivism’, etc. But it only and ALWAYS has only one sick goal… utter dominance of your fellow man, and only one outcome… enslavement (and all that historically has gone with it).

        At that point, you and I are no longer “fellow Americans”. One of us, by virtue of inescapable outcome… must be the “enemy” of this nation, AS IT WAS FOUNDED. At that point, we are no longer two AMERICANS, with a simple “difference of opinion”, but a diametrically opposed determination of how we (and our fellows) are to be treated/governed (and in your view, DEALT WITH… for I, and my fellow American citizens CANNOT, under your determination, be allowed to live FREE ~ as laid out in our Constitution, and historically lived by Americans to this point).

        Under our Constitution, your RIGHT to disagree, and even hate our freedoms (and the vast majority of We, The PEOPLE of this Republic who hold them dear) is guaranteed… and I am thankful it is.

        …under your determined assault against us, We, The PEOPLE… have NO RIGHT to expect our rights to continue, if they interfere (or even MIGHT SEEM TO) with your view of how things “should be”… for:

        1. Land, you DO NOT own
        2. Environment, you DO NOT own… and CANNOT control (and won’t even be honest about its condition, or man’s long-lasting impact on it)
        3. People, whom you DO NOT OWN (at least, not yet)

        etc., etc., etc.

        Under our Constitutional form of governance, I WILL NOT “rule” over your right to determine your own course of Life and action.

        Under your sick, perverted sense of “superiority” over the lives and actions of other currently-free men, the wives and children of We, The PEOPLE are being molested and fondled (under the guise of “security”) IN OUR OWN AIRPORTS… while moslem men AND burkha’d women, who refuse the naked-scan (on “religious” grounds) are waved through ~ we are having our privately-owned companies taken over (and run into the ground), under the guise of “protection” ~ we are being told what we can and cannot eat (i.e., the SF “law” against Happy Meals)… etc., etc., etc.

        ____________________________________________

        No sir, at this point, Daniel… one of us IS the ENEMY of 200+ year old Constitutional government/governance of these United States. And we are, by virtue of our individual DETERMINED stand… the ENEMIES of each other.

        So be it.

        CM Sackett

        • Anonymous

          Thanks CM, Well said.

  • Anonymous

    Christie knows he’s one lucky Governor. The Constitution of New Jersy gives the Governor the power that some other states deny their executive branches. He didn’t mention it when asked about his nationwide campaigning, but I have seen him bring it up before and it’s probably why he is so keen on spreading his message. He knows that other Governors are not going to be able to do what he has done.

    The Governor of Rhode Island, for example, is not much more than a figure head. But that’s the way the state Constitution is written.

  • seniordog

    The Ruling class Republicans are crying like babies because they didn’t win the Senate. They blame the Tea Party candidates for the loss of Delaware and Nevada and California. I believe that the NRSC didn’t give O’Donnell and Angle any help or support. These two ladies had a uphill battle. The Republican Party was against them and the of course, the liberal media was all over them like they are over Sarah Palin. The lady in California received help but that is really a liberal State and it would be a miracle if any Republican won a Senate seat. The Ruling class Republicans did not lift a finger to help these two ladies. In Delaware they backed the RINO- Mike Castle, just like they are doing in Alaska. NRSC has not helped Joe Miller at all. They want Lisa Murkowski. Because of the Tea Party movement the Republican won 60 seats in the House and six in the Senate. One has to wonder, what in the heck is wrong with the GOP leadership. Rush Limbaugh is correct when he talks about them.

  • seniordog

    The Ruling class Republicans are crying like babies because they didn’t win the Senate. They blame the Tea Party candidates for the loss of Delaware and Nevada and California. I believe that the NRSC didn’t give O’Donnell and Angle any help or support. These two ladies had a uphill battle. The Republican Party was against them and the of course, the liberal media was all over them like they are over Sarah Palin. The lady in California received help but that is really a liberal State and it would be a miracle if any Republican won a Senate seat. The Ruling class Republicans did not lift a finger to help these two ladies. In Delaware they backed the RINO- Mike Castle, just like they are doing in Alaska. NRSC has not helped Joe Miller at all. They want Lisa Murkowski. Because of the Tea Party movement the Republican won 60 seats in the House and six in the Senate. One has to wonder, what in the heck is wrong with the GOP leadership. Rush Limbaugh is correct when he talks about them.

  • Red in Blue

    I love this guy. Cut the spending of this bloated govt, please, leaders in govt.

    • Anonymous

      Gov Christie is nothing more than a one trick pony. One of the reasons he endorsed Castle is because he voted for the clean energy act.

      Vowing to be “New Jersey’s #1 clean energy advocate” if elected governor, Republican Chris Christie today announced he would require solar farms to be built on landfills, and give tax credits to energy manufacturers who relocate to the state.

      http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/gop_candidate_chris_christie_l_1.html

  • Anonymous

    Castle voted with democrats on American Clean Energy and Security Act H. R. 2454 on jun 6,2009

    here is a list of his votes which went against the GOP votes.

    http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/c000243/votes/against-party/page2/

    click at bottom to see older votes.

  • M Tabor

    good. he called it. This is an extension of the current tax structure. The Dems have contorted language every way they can think of. They are Bush’s tax cuts, and they should be extended. Cut lavish trips to India. Cut the President spending his days on campaigning. Cut the Congressional pay scale. Cut one and two term Congresspersons health care for life. Cut money to NPR. Cut money to fund stupid studies. Cut expense accounts. Find the 1/4 of Pentagon budget that Rumsfeld pointed out is lost. Cut stupid ad campaigns to convince seniors that their costs are not going up. Cut the bs.

    • Anonymous

      that all sounds good, but when 70% this year, and 80-90% in coming year, of the Federal Budget is Made up of SocSec, Medicare, Welfare, and Intrest on Debt your cuts are meaning less

      We are not going to solve the problem by Cutting Funding to NPR…..

  • Conservative Hippie

    Oh my heart…Nooooooo Chris! Come Back!

    • http://twitter.com/JoshuaLKahn Joshua Kahn

      He was never really here. Bob McDonnell will be remembered as the more bankable conservative of the two.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ODMBL4O4U4OFB7NC43JQBZCOS4 Jim

    Christie might not be perfect, but if I could swap everyone in the government with people who thought like Christie I would do it.

  • Mediaaccess

    The Republican establishment didn’t work with Christine O’donnell. She was a winner, for any knucklehead that wants to argue that point, we should argue about the Bearded Marxist, her opponent – Coon. There are some reasons I like Gov. Christie, but there are more reasons why I don’t. No compromise! No mosque! No compromises with Obama! There isn’t anything good in the Health Care Bill. Mike Castle was just another RINO, like Christy! – And that’s why this interviewer from “Meet the Press” is so pleasant.

  • http://twitter.com/SovereignSlave Bruce Hedrick

    Interesting guy- I could alomst live with having a social liberal IF they are serious about being fiscally responsible.