Run Christie … Run …

[Cigar11]

Tonight we’ll find out just how Big and Bad Christie really is when he puts his Time and Reputation where his mouth is … this he chews as all maybe he won’t choke!

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/09/chris-christie-speech-reagan-library-/1

Personally, I think the more exposure of these Conservative ... the better.

[Prism]

1. I'd rather he not

Christie scares me. Not in the crazy, fundamentalist sense the other Republicans scare me, but in the "This guy is a serious political threat" way.

Of all the Republicans on the national stage today, I think his style might resonate most in a depressed economy.

I hope he stays in New Jersey (until he's removed at the end of his current term).

[Inuca]

9. Agree

I hope he stays where he is (sorry NJ!). He could be dangerous. Way smarter than Perry, not too extreme to scare the center, and his "attitude" appeals to many, I am sure. I think he can be more dangerous than Romney who has the bad luck (much of it self made, actually) to be good looking and profoundly unlikeable.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. He isn't/can't/won't be running.

Whatever he's done in NJ is so insignificant that Time wouldn't be able to do a one-page article on him. All sizzle and no steak.

[karynnj]

4. He has a commercial that is on cable - here in NJ

He makes a big deal of balancing two budgets - something he is legally required to do. It ignores how he did it. His two budgets were for the fiscal years, July 2010 - June 2011 and July 2011 - June 2012. Corzine also passed balanced budgets, including the toughest one in spring 2009, after NJ tax receipts fell drastically with the collapse of the finacial markets.

I decided to try to compare the trend in unemployment in NJ and similar states a few months ago.

NJ is an affluent state with an abundance of jobs in R&D and in Finance. It is also a state where high school kids are among the top performing in the country. It also has a significant number of older urban centers that were once successful cities. Another state that could be described similarly is MA.

Since Governor Christie was elected in 2009, you can think of these two states as if they were testing the republican and the Democratic economic solutions. From two sources, here are the unemployment rates.


December 2009 (a month after Christie was elected - as a baseline): NJ - 10.0 MA - 9.3
December 2010 : : NJ - 9.1 MA - 8.2 (The budget for the first half of 2010 was passed in 2009 by Corzine)

Then -
May 2011: : NJ- 9.4 MA - 7.6
NJ is WORSE, while MA is continuing to get better. (The August 2011 numbers are NJ at 9.4 and MA at 7.4 )


If you look at NY, also run by a Democratic governor, the results look like MA's. What is clear is that the cuts that Christie forced through have hurt the state of NJ.

Here are the two links:

For the 2009 and 2010 data - http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/25/unemployment-rates-state-glance
For the 2011 data: - http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=13308

(Both are simply releases of the same government data.)

Given the similarities between the states, with the only difference being the policies pushed by the respective Governors, this is not good for Christie.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. The commercial is paid for by a nonprofit 503(c)(3) group on behalf of Christie.

And it has a decided slant about the outcome of the past legislative year in Trenton. If the national media were to research local and state renditions of what happened, that commercial would be decidedly less influential.

[karynnj]

7. Thanks for the info on who paid for it - that IS very interesting

I agree that if it were actually researched it would not be impressive.

[WhiteTara]

3. Are you encouraging him to have a heart attack?

Too much running with that fatty bulk might be bad for his health.

[WI_DEM]

6. He's the Republican Wall Street wants.

[Papagoose]

8. My local news is acting like he has announced, run, won and will be assuming office tomorrow

[and-justice-for-all]

10. They will put everyone they can think of on the table....

and all their madness will be devolged to us all.

[jenmito]

11. Today, Chuck Todd tweeted a link: "Gov. Christie won't enter presidential race, his brother insists"

ST. LOUIS — Members of Gov. Chris Christie's inner circle said today he won't run for president, batting down increased speculation that spiked on Monday when former Gov. Tom Kean said Christie was thinking about throwing his hat in the ring.

Christie's brother, a well-connected Republican fundraiser, said the governor hasn't changed his mind.

"I'm sure that he's not going to run," Todd Christie said. "If he's lying to me, I'll be as stunned as I've ever been in my life."

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/09/gov_christie_wont_enter_presid.html

[WI_DEM]

12. What is it about him that Republicans & the media want him to run so much?

Ok, he's not a tea bagger but he's an old fashioned Wall Street trickle down republican. Maybe that's it!