Why today is a great day to sell Chris Christie stock

[cali]

Chris Christie just won a higher percentage of the vote than any Republican running in New Jersey since 1985. He won a huge majority of independent voters. He made inroads among African Americans, Hispanics, women, even Democratic voters. The northeastern-centric media universe will hail Christie as the savior of the Republican Party.

All of that is why, if he were a stock, today would be the perfect day to sell shares in Chris Christie.

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The Christie team will spin the governor’s win on Tuesday, over an underfunded Democrat who got little attention from party bigwigs, as proof positive that Christie can appeal across party lines — just what the GOP needs after crushing defeats in two straight presidential elections. But an off-year governor’s race against a broke opponent is different from a presidential contest, in which Christie will face not only well-funded rivals but the pitfalls of moving to the national stage. Here are some of the challenges Christie will face, culled from conversations with a few Republican strategists who have their eyes on the 2016 field, fans and foes of Christie alike:

— The New Jersey image: New Jersey isn’t Iowa, and what works in one state almost never works in another. Christie’s in-your-face attitude plays great in the Garden State, but how will it play in a town hall-style campaign event in Iowa? Or South Carolina, where the genteel way of life masks a sharp-elbowed political culture? Every time Christie gets into a shouting match, it makes for great cable news fodder. It also gives Christie’s eventual opponents the opportunity to take that footage out of context and recut it into a 30-second advertising spot that casts him in the worst possible light.

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And last, but certainly not least …

— The Republican Party: The Grand Old Party that once nominated Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and McCain is gone, replaced by a cast of Tea Partiers who demand fealty on hot-button issues. Christie stepped out of the way of the gay marriage train, banned gay conversion therapy, picked fights with the NRA and walked arm-in-arm with President Obama at a critical point during the stretch run of the 2012 election. Who, beyond the Republican business establishment, is Christie’s base? That establishment doesn’t carry the influence it once did, and it’s not clear whether Christie can grow his support beyond New Jersey’s borders.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/06/why-today-is-a-great-day-to-sell-chris-christie-stock/

[AndyA]

1. Democrats need to remember this: Chris Christie is a CONSERVATIVE

Seems a lot of people are forgetting that. He is against pretty much anything progressive.

[cali]

2. He certainly is.

I posted this this morning. I'm amused that Lt. Gov Scott is framing Christie as a moderate. I hope that repubs, who generally don't like him, hear about this. VT is anathema to them and Scott is a repub who is opposed to fracking, supports choice and marriage equality.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024000668

[Boom Sound 416]

3. I wouldn't sell just yet

Take a look at the jersey shore in 2015. That's the high water mark.

[djean111]

4. So the New Jersey Democrats who endorsed him are just unintelligent?

One shudders to think which Dems would endorse Christie if/when he runs for prez - I think all the current effort to somehow wedge Christie under the bus is just whistling in the dark. Hopefully not misdirection. The dems just basically laid down for Christie, really.

Oh, and the Tea Partiers hated Romney. Freepers swore to depart for whichever fair clime would have them if Romney was the candidate. So much blather - and Romney was the candidate.
And I think Christie shouting at, say, Hillary - will thrill the GOP. Men and women both. They thrive on that shit.