Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) told Chris Wallace on FOX News Sunday, “I’m not arrogant enough to believe that after one year of serving I have the experience to be president.”
Take that, Obama.

It’s just unfortunate that Barack Obama did live by this same principle. Maybe we would have been spared 9.4% unemployment and a $1.29 Trillion deficit.

The Hill reported:

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) brushed off a Zogby poll from earlier this month that showed him leading a pack of hypothetical GOP 2012 contenders, adamantly stressing that’s not in his plans.

“The president can rest easy because the only guy who beats him in that poll isn’t running,” Christie said on “Fox News Sunday.”

“I have a commitment to my state,” he said, adding that he’d only been governor for a year and New Jersey’s problems still need fixing.

“You have to believe in your heart that you’re personally ready to be president and I’m not there,” Christie said. “I am not arrogant enough to believe that after one year as governor … that I am ready to be president of the United States.”

“So I’m not going to run,” the governor said.

 

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  1. #1 January 16, 2011 at 7:11 pm

    PaleRyder commented:

    Obama won’t be ready to be president after 4 years of being president.

  2. #2 January 16, 2011 at 7:16 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    i HEART Chris Christie!! :-)

    ==

  3. #3 January 16, 2011 at 7:20 pm

    nj in fl commented:

    This sounds more like a swipe at Palin, given Christie’s now apparent highly advanced RINOism.

    And yes, he is every bit that arrogant, as his recent attacks on Sarah reveal him to be petty and jealous.

    What did Christie do to further the Republican surge in ’10? Virtually nothing, compared to Palin, but he’s all full of advice for the dumb girl on how to do things right.

    And he really made Meg Whitman look like a strong leader didnt he, with that ridiculous loud mouthed intervention on the ‘heckler’, because she obviously couldnt handle it herself, right?

    Conservatives: wish Christie well, but dont get too close.

  4. #4 January 16, 2011 at 7:22 pm

    paul52 commented:

    There is always 2016, big fella! Barry still isn’t ready.. never will be.

  5. #5 January 16, 2011 at 7:23 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    PaleRyde #1

    LOL!! ya think??

    oh yeah, how he got there, go figure.. *sigh*

    ==

  6. #6 January 16, 2011 at 7:30 pm

    Highlander commented:

    LOL … a masterful backhanded insult if I ever heard one. I wonder … does that qualify as hate speech to Democrats?

  7. #7 January 16, 2011 at 7:39 pm

    Nanna1 commented:

    On another blog, they were saying that Christie is a Rino. He not only trashed Sarah Palin, but he is for gun control., and illegal immigration.

    I have tried to keep up with things, but I had no idea he is a Rino!! If it is so, it just shows how people can be duped even when they are trying to be right. How scary!!

  8. #8 January 16, 2011 at 7:39 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    not so fast nj in fl #3

    every time CC’s name is mentioned, some “poser”
    troll posts he’s a RINO and i usually debunk them..

    not this time, ergo, back it up or shut up..

    ==

  9. #9 January 16, 2011 at 7:39 pm

    MrGoodWench commented:

    nj in fl commented:
    This sounds more like a swipe at Palin, given Christie’s now apparent highly advanced RINOism.

    +++++++

    I think so too.
    Obama was never a governor and Christie will never bring up Obama’s inexperience for any reason.
    He might do that for Palin though because going by the recent yammerings in the media ,
    it seems to be GOP ‘s new strategy .

  10. #10 January 16, 2011 at 7:44 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    MrGoodWench #9

    pure speculation, back it up..

    also try the links @ #5

    gov vs sen is a straw-man argument..

    ==

  11. #11 January 16, 2011 at 7:53 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    Chris Christie on ‘Blood Libel’: Palin Should Have Left it Alone

    [“I don’t think anybody really believes that Governor Palin was trying to
    make someone get hurt or bring violence on. And I think she just should
    have said that and left it at that,” he told me this morning.]

    Palin would give her honest opinion of CC just as CC gave his.. go ahead &
    twist it all you wnat, he said nothimg BAD about Palin, nothing, but you go
    ahead, eat up the MFM headlines, eh, have a sip of kool-aid to wash it all down with..

    ==

  12. #12 January 16, 2011 at 7:55 pm

    bitterclinger commented:

    Sorry, bg, I’ve heard him swipe at Sarah too many times. He just sounds like a know-it-all bully. The MSM immediately blamed Sarah and her family for inciting mass murder, and she wasn’t supposed to defend herself? Sounds like Christie is following the same playbook as the Soros bought-and-paid-for media.

    That woman is damned if she does and damned if she doesn’t. If she had remained quiet, then the MFM would’ve said she’s too timid to be president. Chris Wallace had the GALL to call her thin-skinned after every whackjob commenter on the alphabets — and FOX, too — said her support of gun rights, hunting, and a “targeted” electoral map drove a deranged man to kill six people and wound 14 others. Thin skinned? Check out 1600 Penna. Ave. He wrote the book.

    Instead of following Reagan’s 11th commandment, Christie piled on, as did T-Yawn Pawlenty a couple days ago. Christie tried to walk it back today on FNS, saying it wasn’t criticism, but I’m not buying it. He’s too practiced at slamming her for it to be mere criticism.

    Bret Baier’s presidential poll: http://bit.ly/foX5Nn

  13. #13 January 16, 2011 at 8:00 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    bitterclinger #12

    well then, there should be ample examples..

    ==

  14. #14 January 16, 2011 at 8:00 pm

    Henry Hawkins commented:

    I think Christie was brushing Palin back with that one. She was a governor for a buck and some change, if I recall. I think he does this now for one of two reasons: Either he knows who he will support for the GOP nomination in 2012 and is helping by taking this shot at competitor Palin on behalf of whomever he’s supporting, or… maybe it means that, despite strong denials, Christie is keeping his 2012 opportunities open a crack for a spring 2012 Draft Christie movement. In NJ conservatives would love to see him run while liberals would love to see him go, so no arguments or complaints from NJ if he breaks his denials as to 2012. That this could easily taken as a slap at Obama also helps, whether it’s on behalf of a buddy or himself. Hmmm. He left it vague so people could pick who we thought he meant. Actually, it could be pointed at both Palin and Obama. Very shrewd for early on. I’m liking this Christie more and more.

  15. #15 January 16, 2011 at 8:00 pm

    donh commented:

    Teddy Roosevelt was so effective as Governor of NY at breaking up corrupt alliances between politicians and big business the GOP offered him a VP spot to get him out of NY. Cristie needs to stay in NJ and clean that house up . Corrupt democrats and RINOS are trying to bait Christie into leaving NJ where he cannot do any reforming. His success is puts pressure on PA, MD, and NY. The North East is ripe for a BIG change in thinking. The way to change DC is to change the North East .

  16. #16 January 16, 2011 at 8:00 pm

    Al Reasin commented:

    Yea, he is a RINO, but my kind of RINO; one not afraid to go for the jugular. I can excuse his statement of support for Castle, etc.

    I agree; one year is not enough executive experience just as a few years as a Senator doesn’t prepares one for the presidency. Oh, we’re trying that now and its not working out too well.

    Gee, will we make it through 2012 without the election being canceled due to some emergency? Ah, maybe something will happen similar to the German Reichstag fire that worked so well for Hitler suspending civil liberties and taking total control of government. But remember only Congress can declare a suspension of habeas corpus even if President Lincoln did so illegally; he was from Illinois too, if that means anything. And we think we are so immune to what has happened in other countries. At least Lincoln stopped his stepping on the Constitution at prosecuting and sometimes executing civilians by military tribunal.

  17. #17 January 16, 2011 at 8:07 pm

    Bogdan from Australia commented:

    Sorry bg, My Friend. It is rarely that I disagree with you. However Christie clearly took swipe at Palin.

    Appart from that he indeed is arrogant when saying: “…the only guy who beats him in that pool is not running…”

    Although he is talking about “that” pool he used to roll his eyes when Palin was mentioned as a prospective contender. And the phrase “one year governor” is a clear reference to Palin as well.

    He is (and has always been) much more conciliatory towards Obama than Palin his party collegue and that is not the sign of cavallry, mateship, courage and he certainly is not a gentleman.

    I know, I shouldn’t intrude in American politics. Still…

  18. #18 January 16, 2011 at 8:10 pm

    maraz commented:

    VIDEO: Chris Christie: Obama’s speech was excellent, Palin needs to be more unscripted
    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/01/13/chris-christie-obamas-speech-was-excellent-palin-needs-to-be-more-unscripted/

  19. #19 January 16, 2011 at 8:13 pm

    maraz commented:

    And as a follow up to above posted link and as HotAir points out in below link… liking Obama’s speech is the current litmus test for RINOism in my book…

    VIDEO: Krauthammer vs. Limbaugh on Obama’s speech – liking The One’s speech could be the new RINO litmus test. (Chris Christie flunked!) And so did Krauthammer…
    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/01/13/video-krauthammer-vs-limbaugh-on-obamas-speech/

  20. #20 January 16, 2011 at 8:14 pm

    Spider commented:

    I don’t know enough about Chris Christie, so I’m interested in this debate/discussion of his credentials; and way of thinking.

    I do know about, and like the way he has zeroed in (is that ok to say?) on the NJ teacher’s union and not necessarily the teachers themselves, to win some concessions and try to get a grip on Jersey’s finances.

  21. #21 January 16, 2011 at 8:15 pm

    maraz commented:

    Then there’s also this tidbit if anyone’s still in doubt of Christie’s RINO tendencies

    Gov. Christie plans to nominate [Muslim] lawyer [Sohail Mohammed] who represented post-9/11 federal detainees for N.J. judgeship
    http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/01/gov_christie_plans_to_nominate_1.html

  22. #22 January 16, 2011 at 8:18 pm

    Bogdan from Australia commented:

    Appart from that, in general the GOP leadership’s attitude towards Palin during the entire Tuscon-gate is more than shameful, it is revolting in its cowardice and two-facelessness.

    Nobody has contributed to GOP’s and Conservative movement so much as Palin.

    Now, thay are stabbing her in the back.

    It stinks like there is something nasty at work. Coupled with the cowardly sallivating by the entire GOP leadesrhip over Obama’s Tuscon speach and his alleged move to the “centre” the silence over barbaric attacks on Palin is an indication that both sides of politics are determined at all cost to prevent Palin from becoming the President.

    Even if than mean allowing Obama win the scond term.

    Only a complete idiot would fall for the notion that Obama is sincere in his menouvering.

    If Christie, McCain, Boehner, Kantor and so many others pretend not to see it, they obviously have ulterior motives towards Palin.

    And Palin has certainly noticed that. In her video she used the term “the other party” when refering to GOP.

    I strongly believe that she and Todd are furious at such a hypocrisy and back-stabbing.

  23. #23 January 16, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    Bogdan from Australia commented:

    #18 Maraz. Absolutely! Excelent spech! What a load of crap!

    And Palin neds to be more unscripted.

    I wonder why this jerk (Christie) hasn’t bothered to notice that palin has give dosens of unscripted speaches during the primary.

    Is he blind and deaf or nasty?

    I think the latter…

  24. #24 January 16, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    maraz commented:

    And even in this video… not only does Christie praise Obama’s speech… but he makes it sound like he’s going to solve the teacher problem too. Only problem is he mentions this program called Teachers for America

    VIDEO: Chris Christie on Imus in the morning – discussion about firing bad teachers that do not perform well – and rewarding good teachers
    http://www.therightscoop.com/awesome-more-chris-christie

    When I did a quick search on Teachers for America… I found this video report on the organization. Sounds an awfully lot like Organizing for America. Young black teacher in video mentions her loan will be taken care of if she participates in program. And while the report claims she’s our best and brightest teacher… I didn’t see any evidence of that in the way she communicated. Also the premise of making teachers move around sounds very similar to the premise of spreading the wealth.

    Notice at around the 1:00 minute marker how her body language shakes her head no when she’s supposed to be saying she’s happy about moving and helping out.

    Teach for America Program
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hofQdYWM4Js

  25. #25 January 16, 2011 at 8:27 pm

    Granny commented:

    #24 Maraz,

    Teach for America is not a new program, nor is it a program that is part of Obama’s Organizing for America. The program was in place when I last walked off a college campus in the early 90s, the idea being to help districts that were having problems getting an adequate number of teachers with bright new grads who needed a little help paying off their education. TFA is a national program, but a number of states had their own programs at the time and some still do.

    There are similar programs for other high demand fields, particularly the medical fields.

  26. #26 January 16, 2011 at 8:27 pm

    Mr. Potato Head commented:

    Christie is a fiscal conservative trying to get NJ out of the ditch.

    The rest about him is similar to Scott Brown. Not impressive.

  27. #27 January 16, 2011 at 8:28 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    albeit i adore Palin, i’m certain she’d be the first one to agree with me that loving her back is not a requirement nor should it be any sort of litmus test for politicians who don’t love her back.. if CC is RINO, then his voting record will show it, and i am a firm believer that anyone, most especially politicians, should be judged by their own merits/demerits, not who they like or dislike.. unless of course they’re closely associated with noted radicals & scoundrels, something that should be a given..

    Governor Christopher J. ‘Chris’ Christie (NJ)

    bottom line: if he is a RINO, and you want to take him down, bmy best advise would be to stop connecting him to Plain, because if he winds up not being a RINO, then you’re only serving to help kill two birds with one stone.. negative is still negative even when it’s as assumed positive ie: CC vs Palin = RINO

    okay, doing my own research, not looking good for CC for other, more
    pertinent reasons, nothing to do with Palin which imho, is still petty per
    se..

  28. #28 January 16, 2011 at 8:28 pm

    Spider commented:

    Oh well. It is New Jersey, so Christie’s gotta be an improvement over Corzine, right?

  29. #29 January 16, 2011 at 8:31 pm

    maraz commented:

    Granny -

    While I understand your point that the organization has been around for a number of years, that doesn’t absolve it from being a LEFTIST agenda program. How are the loans being dissolved? At the taxpayers expense? Federal subsidies? And as I said before, the concept still resembles the idea of spreading the wealth – we’ll take from this area that has a lot of teachers and move them to an area that doesn’t.

  30. #30 January 16, 2011 at 8:34 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    gah!! posted vs edit #27

    ergo, pardon typo’s, etc..

    ==

  31. #31 January 16, 2011 at 8:42 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    maraz

    name one active in government politician
    has not praised Obama’s speech, uhg..

    pardon the source..

    ==

  32. #32 January 16, 2011 at 8:48 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    maraz #18

    OMG!! i’ve never seen Imus in a suit never mind w/o
    a cowboy hat on.. :D WTH is up with that?? gah!!

    ==

  33. #33 January 16, 2011 at 8:50 pm

    NickDeringer commented:

    Chris Christie will be a serious contender in 2016. Right now he’s providing great counter point to the Prancing Prince of Illinois. He’s keeping the debate about the facts and not the fluff.

  34. #34 January 16, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    maraz commented:

    bg #31

    Good question… but the one’s that don’t think highly of Obama’s speech are probably the one’s we don’t hear from… I’m guessing the true conservatives like DeMint, West, etc.

    They’re probably resorting to the old saying to stay on the safe side of: If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all

  35. #35 January 16, 2011 at 9:03 pm

    Big Al commented:

    Have to say I tend to agree that that Was a broadside against Palin. There is just something about this guy Christie that worries me. Another republican from a deep blue state who, I think, will turn RINO…ala Scott Brown.

    I am not even a huge Palin fan but the piling on Especially from ” conservatives” is just shameful. That Fox news Sunday panel this morning was reprehensible.

  36. #36 January 16, 2011 at 9:11 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    bitterclinger #12

    oh come on now, i’m sure i would have heard something, not to mention
    GP would have posted about it.. but seeing as how neither occurred..

    link please..

    Christie: I was not criticizing Palin

    whether i agree with what he said or not,
    i firmly agree he was not criticizing Palin..

    Gov. Chris Christie defends Sarah Palin, Obama

    typical MFM, squeezing CC for all the koolite headlines
    & spin they can muster, it’s pitiful absolutely pitiful..

    Giuliani criticized CC and he’s got Bloomberg??

    aah, the worlds gone to pot.. *sigh*

    ==

  37. #37 January 16, 2011 at 9:18 pm

    Henry Hawkins commented:

    To win in 2012 will require a GOP-er who is at least fiscally conservative and (s)he’ll need some measure of social conservative chops, if not the entire slate. These, I believe, are prerequisites to beat Obama. But just as important is that this particular 2012 GOP nominee needs to project some energy, some mojo, some personality, and it needs to be sincere. When I look in turn at Romney, Huckabee, Gingrich, Pawlenty, Thune, et al, I can accept most of them without feeling like I’m having to swallow too much bad with the good. But I gotta tell ya with that set: “Yaaaawn.”

    Palin meets my ‘energy, mojo, and personality with sincerity’ criteria, but she is such an absolute original there is little to compare her too in our history of experience with politicians. I have minor concerns about her length of service as a governor, but lots of respect for her accomplishments busting up bad bidness in Alaska. As president I’m confident she’d assemble a good administrative team and secure top advisors. So, Palin has the ‘pop’ to energize against Obama’s billions in 2012, but her experience and readiness is in doubt, not with me, but with a lot of other people. They’ll vote how they believe, which renders whether it’s true irrelevant.

    Granted, we have to eat something sour with every candidate, but I like Hayley Barbour as a good match of the ability to do the job with the personality to win it. Pence has both, I think, in decent measure. Daniels seems bland but sure has the fiscal chops. Of course, Chris Christie has both as well, though he needs to see success in NJ long enough it’s obviously due to his policies and practices. I think he’s smart enough to map his own shortcomings (executive experience) and set up his admin and advisors accordingly. He pops off that screen though when he’s on. He’s a counter-conventional wisdom guy – corpulent, cocky, and sharp-tongued.

    So, for experience and personality, we have Christie, who insists he’s not running, and Palin, whose fortunes are impossible to predict because she’s so original and is operates unlike anyone I can recall with the FB, Twitter, FOX, documentaries, along with more traditional speeches, appearances, and interviews. I have no problem with it, but will it work? Is that a viable pathway?

    The wild card is a horse currently so dark he or she is invisible as yet. I don’t think many folks had heard of or gave a chance to Carter or Clinton at a similar time before their election wins, so maybe someone will step up and wow us. Could happen.

  38. #38 January 16, 2011 at 9:18 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    Big Al #35

    oh please, anyone who knows me knows i post more about RINO & ELITIST REPS, especially when they go against Sarah Palin, than anyone else in here.. and imo Chirs Christie is not one of them, sorry, he’s just honest, may be a bit brutal, but he’s still honest..

    ==

  39. #39 January 16, 2011 at 9:20 pm

    bg commented:

    ps re: #38

    which is more than i can say for 99% of the rest of our public servants,
    and ironically enough, why i ADORE Palin, she too pulls no punches.. ;-)

    ==

  40. #40 January 16, 2011 at 9:23 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    Henry Hawkins #37

    ALAN WEST & SARAH PALIN OR VISE VERSA!! :-)

    and stick Dr. Jasser in charge of defense.. woot!

    ==

  41. #41 January 16, 2011 at 9:24 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    oops, ALLEN WEST.. :-)

    ==

  42. #42 January 16, 2011 at 9:28 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    maraz #34

    i HEART Jim DeMint too.. :-)

    another honest politician imo..

    ==

  43. #43 January 16, 2011 at 9:33 pm

    wanumba commented:

    How much more mismanagement can this country take and survive? 2 years? 4 years?
    CHristie as a grown-up wouldn’t dream of taking a job without background experience, but not the Democrats. Forget all else: the GOP MUST win in 2012 and pull the nation from the brink – and it won’t be easy at all, there will be terrible abuse for the hardest job ANYONE will have ever done – or the nation will not survive as it was given to us by our forefathers.
    It’s not business as usual, we have an emergency created by four years of hyper spending by the Democrats on our hands, with great sums of money diverted to Democrat constituencies expressly to empower them to protect the Democrat Party hold on power. Normally, Christie could focus on NJ alone, but he needs to understand FAST this is bigger and more foundational than one state, it’s about the survival of our Constitution and governance by consent of The People.

    So far, only Palin seems to grasp the cold truth of this. And probably precisely because of the nature of the attacks on her. They ripped her speaking, her looks, her accent, her wardrobe, her economic status, they set up a harrassment lawsuit factory just for her, they mocked and insulted her children on national TV, and evidently that wasn’t sufficient, so they just blamed her for mass murder, hoping tp scare her by jacking hate against her.
    Since the Left acts like it wants her destroyed politically, emotionally, and with the tsunami of death threats, possibly physically, what must she do to protect herself and her children, who we been informed by the back-stabbing “tolerant” are “fair game”?

    Palin is everywoman, her children are everyone’s children. WHat is being done against her to break her will, will be done against ANYONE the State is afraid of.

    There are only two options: curl up into a surrender, whimpering, fetal position or fight back and WIN.

  44. #44 January 16, 2011 at 9:34 pm

    Henry Hawkins commented:

    Allen West is great, but he’s been a congressman about ten minutes. He’s got a tough order just rewinning his district in 2012. Heavily Dem where he is, and in 2012, Obama’s on the same ticket. I like him though, big time.

    I wouldn’t mind Barbour/Christie, with Christie made the WH budget hawk, working with Congress to right the $$$ ship. Barbour/Palin works for me.

    How about Lieberman/Castle? I know, I know… Spector/Crist? lol

    I found the cure for depression or the mopes. All I do is remember that Alan Grayson is out of congress.

  45. #45 January 16, 2011 at 9:50 pm

    Bogdan from Australia commented:

    Bg, My Friend. Allen West will not run. He won’t abandon his congressional seat immediately after having started his tenure. It wouldn’t go well with his votes who gave him their money to represent them in Congress. If I were his voter I’d treat such a move as a batrayal.

    He is too NOBLE for that

    Appart from that it would pave the way to the congressional seat for his arch enemy Ron Klein who would use it as a powerful political tool to smear West and accuse him exactly of that; a betrayal of votes’ trust.

    However, the different story would be for him running with Sarah Palin as VP. He could enter the race at much later stage when the majority of his good work would be done.

    The VP would give him the excelent position to start his own bid for Presidency in 2020 thus ansuring the continuation of Palin/West political agenda for the next 16 years.

    Both would make a formidable and unvincible team.

    Such a long period under such an excelent leadership would allow America to fully recover from ravages wrought by Obama and his communo-fascist criminal gang.

    Quite frankly, I don’t see anyone who is even close to Palin in terms of professional and moral quallities combined.

    #37 Henry hawkins. Palin has almost twenty years of experience as a public servant on various positions where the Governoship was a coronation of her long service.

    Plus, of course an extensive experience as a small busines person.

    Appart from that, when I compare Palin with other the so called “world leaders” who actually provide the “Western world” with NO LEADERSHIP, she looks even better.

    In comparison with her, Berlusconi, Sarkozy, Balkenende and others look like a bunch of half-mad, infanatile, sex-starved jerks.

    No wonder that they are like a plasteline in Putin’s bloody hands.

    Unfortunately, the only Western leader with the character and courage, the former Polish President Janusz Kaczynski has been murdered by the KGB last year in the air disaster near Smolensk in Belorussia when he decided to venture there to pay the homage to Polish Officers murdered in Katyn.

    Since then Poland began sliding back into Russia’s sphere of influence.

    Only America under the leadersip of Sarah Palin can reverse that sinister trend.

    God Bless America!

    God Bless Sarah Palin!

  46. #46 January 16, 2011 at 9:54 pm

    Sonya commented:

    Taking into account that just before Christie’s statement about being not arrogant to run for President after one year on his job, Wallace mentioned that Obama used a political climate or something like that, it sounded for me more like a swipe on Obama.

  47. #47 January 16, 2011 at 10:00 pm

    martha commented:

    I’m thinking Michelle Bachman for Pres in 2012, I’d love to see Pence on the ticket but I do’nt think he’s going to run.
    How about DeMint?,Paul Ryan in 2016?
    We have some good people out there I do’nt think we should accept a Huckabee or a Romney, especially since the MSM seem to like them

  48. #48 January 16, 2011 at 10:18 pm

    Bogdan from Australia commented:

    #43 Wanumba. I second your opinion 100%. NO ONE has displayed so much courage and steadfastness in the face of such barbaric attacks as Sarah Palin has.

    Appart from that, she seems to posses some almost super human ability to turn all the bile, hatred, vomit, poison spewed at her into some kind of energy that is powering her political engine.

    It is almost like processing DARK MATTER into the FORCE.

    Even her enemies on the Left admit that.

    That’s why they are trying to destroy her with all that ferocity of hungry-mad hyenas.

    If there is anyone with enough courage and determination to push the ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY reforms to save America it is Palin.

    And no one else.

    Her detractors on the “right” won’t admit that but the real roots of their anxiety is their own inability to get outside of the “box” and and come to terms wiht the reality that, indeed, the woman of an incredible, almost piercing beauty who looks like the older sister of her own daughter could at the same time contain all the features, quallities and virtues necessary to be e succesful leader of the most powerful nation on Earth.

    They don’t understand how it is possible to achieve that. Hence their confusion.

  49. #49 January 16, 2011 at 10:25 pm

    MrGoodWench commented:

    @ bg

    I think Republicans had been bashing Sarah Palin much before the Tucson incident, including people like Nicole Wallace and Barbara Bush . It was on the sly and very sudued, but it was there.
    Once the Tucson thing happened, NO ONE in the Republican party had the sense to get on TV and call out Obama to shut up his minions in the media and Congress about Palin, and wait for an investigation. Not even McCain, the guy who has crossed the aisle so much he isn’t in any aisle anymore.
    After 4 -5 days of being accused of carrying out a massacre and NO ONE being able to shut up Hussain’s accusations, Palin came out to defend herself, ON FACEBOOK and thats when all hell broke loose.
    Starting from CK to Christie to Perino to Wallace to Hume, they all had one opinion , which was the same as MSNBC…why did she defend herself ?
    I think the last straw was the campaign rally at Tucson when every one was drooling on the magnificant Hussain and his cosmic speech . Its like they were not even watching the same speech which the rest of us were watching.
    This is too coordinated . The GOP doesn’t ned Palin anymore. Until the next elections that is

  50. #50 January 16, 2011 at 10:36 pm

    Spider commented:

    Bogdan, your posts tonight (East coast USA), have helped me chrystalize some of my thoughts and feelings about Sarah and the way she is viewed by the right and the left. I whole heartedly agree with you.

    And as you do, hope she can win over the doubters on the right and get the nomination for 2012.

  51. #51 January 16, 2011 at 10:37 pm

    Bogdan from Australia commented:

    #49 Mr God Wench.

    Again you are 100% on target. Bahaviour of the GOP leadership is simply disgusting.

    And refering to Christie, if he made, let’s say ten jabs at Obama and one at Palin, we could accept the notion that he is a straight talker and a hard player.

    After all anyone even with the shred of common sense will admit that Palin is at least MILLION times more quallified both professionally and morally than Obama.

    The tragedy is that the large chunk of American population together with majoriy of GOP NOMENKLATURA expect Palin to be TEN MILLION times better than Obama to accept her as a viable candidate for nomination.

    In that case thay all are just busy with sawing off the very branch on which they are sitting.

    Palin can certainly thrive without being the President of the US.

    Without Palin it shall be much, much more difficult to put America back on the right track.

    If they know that and we know that they do, what then are their motives?

  52. #52 January 16, 2011 at 10:39 pm

    Bogdan from Australia commented:

    #50 Spider. Thak you very much. God Bless you!

    Sometimes an objective glance cast from the distance of 20 000 kilometres can be helpful.

  54. #54 January 16, 2011 at 10:53 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    Bogdan #51

    re: [If they know that and we know that they do, what then are their motives?]

    position of power ergo control in the NWO..

    they could give a bats guano about the Constitution they claim to defend..
    they, like Obama, are using it to the best of their advantage, not “we the
    people’s” jmho..

    not only is ObamaCare not going to be repealed, but crap &
    tax will pass, just as S510 did, no problemo, wait, you’ll see..

    ==

  55. #55 January 16, 2011 at 11:04 pm

    Bogdan from Australia commented:

    Bg, it is as true as it is SAD…

  56. #56 January 16, 2011 at 11:13 pm

    Bogdan from Australia commented:

    Anyway, GOD NIGHT bg!

  57. #57 January 16, 2011 at 11:59 pm

    wanumba commented:

    #48 January 16, 2011 at 10:18 pm
    Bogdan from Australia commented:
    #43 Wanumba. I second your opinion 100%. NO ONE has displayed so much courage and steadfastness in the face of such barbaric attacks as Sarah Palin has.
    Apart from that, she seems to posses some almost super human ability to turn all the bile, hatred, vomit, poison spewed at her into some kind of energy that is powering her political engine.
    It is almost like processing DARK MATTER into the FORCE.
    Even her enemies on the Left admit that.
    That’s why they are trying to destroy her with all that ferocity of hungry-mad hyenas
    …………….

    They see the Spirit of God in her, so they are frantic.
    But for the rest of us, that’s awesome, and explains how every rotten thing tried against her has been turned away, and blessed her further.

  58. #58 January 17, 2011 at 12:01 am

    murray commented:

    Obama was a governor? Who knew?!

    Seriously folks, Christie is taking a shot at the people who thought Palin was qualified to be vice president after serving for half a term of the least populous state in the nation.

    Jim Hoft hasn’t got the brain cells to work that out and instead turns it around to pretend he’s talking about Obama. Scraping the bottom of the barrel much?

  59. #59 January 17, 2011 at 12:11 am

    Chisum commented:

    Murry,

    Regardless of how you choose to interpret Gov. Christie’s words, the fact remains that even with only one year under his belt as governor, Christie is far more qualified to be president than BO was when he was elected.

  60. #61 January 17, 2011 at 8:00 am

    firstHat commented:

    I am so very glad folks are seeing Christie’s RINO leanings. I’ve lost lots of points over on Intense Debate for knocking on that door when no one wanted to listen.

    Having said that, I will say this as someone who has had some personal experience with Christie: he may not always say what he is thinking (thus can hide his RINOism), but when he does say something on a topic, he shoots straight and he does say what he’s thinking. As a prosecutor he is evenhanded and both sides should beware. He believes in the law, uses the law, and is even handed as he uses it. THOSE are wonderfully refreshing qualities.

    SO, he is a good person and once you pry his word from him you can trust it. But he is still a politician and will let you project on him anything you wish to. Be careful not to try to “read” him, but test his positions, ask him the hard questions, and hold his feet to the fire.

  61. #62 January 17, 2011 at 8:24 am

    curth commented:

    Christie obviously has no idea he is being used to create the lie that Governor Palin is somehow unqualified and thus unelectable . He also is too dumb to know that all of these polls are fake and designed to choose a Republican of the week with the hopes that one of these “names” will catch some momentum and “beat” Palin.

    Christie is a huge disappointment.

  62. #63 January 17, 2011 at 9:47 am

    Big Al commented:

    Thx 53 for the link to the Great One. Nice summary of my concerns. Lots of squishiness there. I applaud Christie for his stand on teachers unions and pensions but really worry if it is the real thing. For the sake of NJ and the nation I do hope it is.

  63. #65 January 17, 2011 at 1:47 pm

    Joanne commented:

    God makes great Presidents, not being a Governor for more than a year.

  64. #66 January 17, 2011 at 1:49 pm

    man_in_tx commented:

    maraz wisely opined:

    #21 January 16, 2011 at 8:15 pm
    maraz commented:

    Then there’s also this tidbit if anyone’s still in doubt of Christie’s RINO tendencies

    Gov. Christie plans to nominate [Muslim] lawyer [Sohail Mohammed] who represented post-9/11 federal detainees for N.J. judgeship
    http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/01/gov_christie_plans_to_nominate_1.html

    ///////////////////////

    Unfortunately, while Christie is — as maraz so accurately points out — the epitome of a RINO, Christie’s egregious pandering to New Jersey’s (substantial) Muslim populace by appointing this Muslim to the bench is fueled by something far worse than “RINO tendencies.”

    What Christie is shamelessly showing himself to be is what is known in the Muslim world as a Dhimmi, roughly a religious Quisling.

    Sultan Knish goes for the jugular regarding this issue:

    Governor Christie’s Dirty Islamist Ties
    http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2011/01/governor-christies-dirty-islamist-ties.html

    Christie is a punk.

    As always in politics, follow the money.

    Out of self-interest, at this point, a patriot must assume that Christie is bought-and-paid-for by the Muslims. Exhibit A: Just as Mayor Bloomberg is bought-and-paid-for by the Muslims.

    Christie is Bush on steroids. Remember: among a thousand other things, Bush hand-picked Robert Gates for the position of SecDef, who gave us a military that is tolerated Major Hasan in its midst and is now opening up its flanks — er, RANKS! — to poofters.

    If you liked Bush, you will LOVE Christie…. while you learn how to speak Arabic.

    Follow the money.

    I have now lost ALL respect for Christie. Despite his frequent demurrals, he obviously wants to be President. Praying he won’t make it! (What would it mean for Israel?)

  65. #67 January 17, 2011 at 2:09 pm

    Joanne commented:

    There is a reason Chris Christie doesn’t want to run for President. Check out barenakedislam.com and see the truth – holy crap, where have all the good men gone.

    bg – tell me if you love him after reading the article posted at barenakedislam.

  70. #73 January 18, 2011 at 12:28 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    Joanne #67

    posted my own link here, and yes, until i have thoroughly
    RESEARCHED it, i will not help the MSM pull a GWB on him..

    ==

  71. #74 January 19, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    duh, i am so slow some times..

    may be because i don’t “think for other people”..

    tuh, have a hard enough time doing it for myself..

    at any rate & whatever, it occurred to me that some of you may associate
    “i heart Christie” with “Christie for President”.. well, you’d be wrong.. there
    are great number of people on my list that i’d love to see as a US President
    long before i’d get to his name..

    ==

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