Chris Christie Is an Extreme Right-Winger -- Don't Fall for His "Moderate" Act

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http://www.alternet.org/chris-christie-extreme-right-winger-dont-fall-his-moderate-act



From the moment he was declared the winner in his reelection campaign, Gov.
Chris Christie (R-N.J.) has been billed as a new kind of Republican. Is it a
fair characterization? Yes and no.

Yes, this likely presidential candidate has done a few things other GOP
politicians don't usually do. Yes, he has won re-election in a traditionally
Democratic state. And yes, for a few weeks he was actually cordial to
President Obama. Even considering the context -- he only won against an
underfunded opponent and he was only nice to the president when asking for
hurricane relief funds -- these are, indeed, rare accomplishments for a
Republican.

That said, these atypical parts of Christie's record have little to do with
the concrete policies that he has touted and that he would probably champion
if he were elected president. On that score, Christie isn't new at all. He
is the opposite -- a Bush/Cheney-esque neoconservative promoting the old
politics of division and ignorance.

Take, for instance, Christie's declarations about civil liberties.

A few months ago, Christie alluded to 9/11 when calling criticism of the
National Security Administration "dangerous." Then, in truly Cheney-esque
fashion, he warned that "the next attack that comes, that kills thousands of
Americans as a result, people are going to be looking back." Christie's
insinuation, of course, was that if America is hit again, it will rightly

[Mass]

1. There is no moderate Republican anymore.

What the media call moderate Republicans are people who do not call Obama traitor. They are all conservative.

[Katashi_itto]

2. By any metric Jabba is highly dangerous.

Yeah I dislike everything about this bully. He uses his shoggoth-like mass to intimidate and win face-to-face arguments, unlike a normal large person.

[LuvNewcastle]

3. Just what we need, another Bush.

They're going to push him as an East Coast Reagan. We'll here about the 'Jersey Miracle' and how he personally rebuilt the state after Sandy.

Then he'll stir up fear of Muslims and the Chinese and Russia and tell everybody how our military has been allowed to fall apart under Obama. We'll need more defense spending in order to bring us back from the brink of being overrun by all our enemies, who are legion. The military will love him.

He'll tell us how Obama has alienated Israel and how we need to stand for democracy in the Middle East and our Judeo-Christian heritage.

Gubmint will be the problem, not the solution. It'll be Morning Again in Amurika. Pray for us in your new charter schools, kids. Adoption, not abortion.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

8. I've Got A Secret For You....

There is no "Jersey Miracle". He was on the talk shows bragging about 140 thousand something private sector jobs. That's pathetic in a state with traditionally one of the strongest economies in the nation. We lag in unemployment with the state still north of 9%. Property taxes were supposed to be his signature issues. They've gone up under his reign. Sandy recovery? It's off the rails with the only money spent so far being to build things back right in the same place they got destroyed in the first place. I'll say it again, he's not another Bush, he's something worse.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. I can prove you're wrong.

If Christie wasn't an excellent person, then why would the Democratic Establishment back him over a reliable Democrat?

Regards,

Third-Way Manny

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5. !

[MannyGoldstein]

6. An apology would be the right way to proceed.

After all, bashing Democrats is forbidden on this site.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

7. Its Not That He's An Extreme Right-Winger

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He has no real ideology,other than the agenda of his backers. He's a created person, calculatingly built. Propped up by NJ business and development interests to the NJ Governorship. He was identified by the Koch Brothers as a usable piece and it played directly into his massive ego and ambition and their ultimate end. The first time he got caught on YouTube berating someone it went viral and a brand new T.V. character was born. That's why he's really dangerous. He's a fiction. He has no policy goals, he has no idea of governing other than Machiavellian principles of how to obtain and maintain and grow power. He's surrounded by a disciplined cadre of manipulative operatives who know how to burnish his image and how to use some of the unprincipled Democrats in NJ to further their ends. They smell the White House right now and things are going to get uglier here in the Garden State. He's no W, he's way worse.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. Tell it to the DNC and the NJ Democratic Party and to the 'Democrats' who voted for him in NJ

Most of the country finds him to be an insult to our sensibilities, a bigoted, self indulgent loud mouth. His sort of act does not function well outside his own dirty fishbowl.