PJ Media » Chris Christie: The GOP’s Next Crummy Presidential Nominee?
By Tom Blumer On February 7, 2013
Sensible conservatives have had to put up with a lot since Ronald Reagan left the White House —
and to be clear, Reagan also had a few very weak moments [1]. But expecting us to get enthusiastic about the sadly realistic prospect of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie becoming the Republican Party’s next presidential nominee is, at least for me, way beyond the pale.
If Governor Christie isn’t the most cynical, self-centered, egotistical opportunist exploiting a carefully developed but fundamentally false conservative persona on the political scene today, I don’t want to meet the person who is.
The event representing the straw that broke the camel’s back, causing me to reject the idea of Christie ever rising any further than Garden State governor, took place on Tuesday, when he lashed
out [2] at the federal flood insurance program’s utter failure to come through in time of dire need for the victims of Superstorm Sandy. ...
Why did this bother me so greatly? I’ll explain.
Just three months earlier, on October 31, President Barack Obama visited the areas wrecked by
Sandy, and promised [3]:
... [w]e are not going to tolerate red tape. We’re not going to tolerate bureaucracy.
At the time, just days before the November 6 presidential election, instead of delivering the measured gratitude appropriate in such early-stage circumstances, Christie made the rounds of the
morning TV shows praising Obama [4] as if he were the second coming of Mother Teresa and Clara Barton combined, even though all the president had done was pay him a photo-op visit and utter some encouraging words: “[t]he president has been all over this and deserves great credit. He gave me his number at the White House and told me to call him if I needed anything.” We have Match.com for that, Chris.
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Sensible conservatives have had to put up with a lot since Ronald Reagan left the White House —
and to be clear, Reagan also had a few very weak moments [1]. But expecting us to get enthusiastic about the sadly realistic prospect of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie becoming the Republican Party’s next presidential nominee is, at least for me, way beyond the pale.
If Governor Christie isn’t the most cynical, self-centered, egotistical opportunist exploiting a carefully developed but fundamentally false conservative persona on the political scene today, I don’t want to meet the person who is.
The event representing the straw that broke the camel’s back, causing me to reject the idea of Christie ever rising any further than Garden State governor, took place on Tuesday, when he lashed
out [2] at the federal flood insurance program’s utter failure to come through in time of dire need for the victims of Superstorm Sandy. ...
Why did this bother me so greatly? I’ll explain.
Just three months earlier, on October 31, President Barack Obama visited the areas wrecked by
Sandy, and promised [3]:
... [w]e are not going to tolerate red tape. We’re not going to tolerate bureaucracy.
At the time, just days before the November 6 presidential election, instead of delivering the measured gratitude appropriate in such early-stage circumstances, Christie made the rounds of the
morning TV shows praising Obama [4] as if he were the second coming of Mother Teresa and Clara Barton combined, even though all the president had done was pay him a photo-op visit and utter some encouraging words: “[t]he president has been all over this and deserves great credit. He gave me his number at the White House and told me to call him if I needed anything.” We have Match.com for that, Chris.
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