Gov. Chris Christie: President Obama 'kept every promise' on storm aid
Source: Associated Press
HIGHLANDS, N.J. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday that President Barack Obama "has kept every promise he's made" about helping the state recover from Superstorm Sandy.
Speaking on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program on the 6-month anniversary of the deadly storm, the Republican governor said presidential politics were the last thing on his mind as he toured storm-devastated areas with Obama last fall.
"The president has kept every promise he's made," said Christie, widely considered a potential candidate for the republican presidential nomination in 2016. "I think he's done a good job. He kept his word."
Christie's warm embrace of Obama after the storm angered some Republicans, who said it helped tip a close presidential election to the Democrat and away from Mitt Romney, who Christie endorsed and for whom he campaigned last fall.
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Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)or 'how to win Democratic friends and influence Democratic people'
tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)The Republicans will use this against him throughout the primary season. They don't like people who can reach across the aisle to get stuff done.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)but he is expecting enough to have learned the lesson of 2012. It will be fascinating to watch as it all plays out.
JustAnotherGen
(31,683 posts)It's not fascinating. It's hell. Seriously.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)... than to march in line with the Teapots again. Someone's got to pull the party's head out of it's ass, and I suspect Crispy thinks he might be the one.
Not to say he hasn't signed some egregiously bullshit pieces of Tea-leaning legislation in the past couple years, though ...
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)However, if he does then he might be betting on the fact that the current Republican Party will need someone like him, a moderate, by the time the next election rolls around??
Botany
(70,291 posts)graham4anything
(11,464 posts)Perhaps in her cabinet.
Normally 2 terms and out for a Governor.
But he won't be President on the republican ticket
(though he could be Jeb's vp but why would he want Hillary to kick their arsse?)
Hekate
(90,189 posts)In reality, I think Christie is wedded to NJ for the time being. He wouldn't take any kind of appointment in a second-term Obama administration.
Pterodactyl
(1,687 posts)Life Long Dem
(8,582 posts)In order to bash Obama, the Republicans use lies. Without the spin of lies they would all sound like Christie.
Adam-Bomb
(90 posts)As much as I dislike Governor Christie, he WAS honest enough to
tell the truth about President Obama keeping his word and doing
what needed to be done; how many R's would have had enough
intellectual honesty to do so? Not many, I would say.
If it hurt his mouth to tell the truth to folks, who cares?
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)name not needed
(11,660 posts)Hekate
(90,189 posts)Whatever the Democrats of NJ think of Christie's overarching policies, when he has the opportunity to appear on the national stage he demonstrates that he can co-operate with leaders from the "other side." He displays self-deprecating humor, and can laugh at a joke about himself.
In other words, he is going to be a very attractive Republican candidate in 2016, if he can only make it past the primaries. If he does get the GOP nomination, he will be a formidable opponent to whomever the Dems run. The people of this country are sick to death of Washington DC getting nothing done, of the party politics, the gridlock, the whole thing. They will look kindly on this big man who is not afraid to bark at idiots to get off the beach in a storm, to embrace the US President for bringing aid and comfort to the stricken, to laugh at himself. As with Ronald Reagan, the average voter will not see much beyond that.
Unless our Dem activists/voters can get their shit together next year and somehow send the current Democratic President a Congress he can work with, we are going to be very hard-pressed to get a Democrat back in the WH in 2016.
ProgressiveChristian
(24 posts)gets the nomination. The Republican primary/caucus voters are the people who post on that other site, they are the right wing fringe. They have complete distrust of any Republican north of the Mason Dixon line, and blame the 2012 loss on two things: Romney not being "conservative" enough and Christie's embrace of the President after Sandy. They are upset with Rubio now because of his support of some type of immigration reform, Palin continues to be their idea of a "leading Republican". Christie is not dumb enough to run, he would be "Giulianied".
JustAnotherGen
(31,683 posts)If he wins in November - he is going to flip our State government. Seriously. He might not run at the Federal level when he can inflict punishment - serious punishment on Women in NJ.
Hekate
(90,189 posts)I was appalled when he was elected President. But then, I only liked him as governor for about 2 minutes.
I came to California the year I started college, and my fellow students were hot to get rid of Governor Brown (Pat Brown, the current Gov's father). AAAAAAnybody would be better, even that guy Reagan, because Pat Brown had failed to do this, that, and the other and was just not liberal enough to even call himself a Democrat (in their eyes).
Well, I was young (17) and stupid, and this was exciting talk, and I remember repeating some of it. It's not like my vote made a difference, because I wouldn't be able to vote until I was 21, but still it is embarrassing to recall.
By the time I supported Gene McCarthy for president, and worked as co-manager of the local HQ, walked precincts, etc, I was almost 21 and my Democratic ethos was set for life and more discerning. Well before the time Hubert Humphrey went down to a humiliating defeat to Richard Nixon that year, I had learned this lesson: never help destroy a fellow Democrat, ever.
That's more than a little off topic (or maybe not, given how acrimonious this board has been), but my point is still this: People outside New Jersey do not know Christie the way you do. If he chooses to run for president, he may get the nomination because the GOP thinks he electable. He would be a formidable candidate.
Hekate
JustAnotherGen
(31,683 posts)We can stop him in November. It would at least cripple his bid.
And only New Jerseyans can do that. It's just disheartening to see the same people that vilified Scott Walker at DU (non Wisconsins to boot) basically give Christie a verbal blow job. It's sickening and it's what is wrong with the Democratic Party in general. No quarter for the enemy I say. Look what happened for 8 years (as you pointed out) to this country. Me? I grew up with a father who would threaten to "send you to live with Ronnie" when we were misbehaving. That's how deep the hatred ran for the man in my parents house.
I think we just need the 2,125,101 people that voted for Obama last year to show up. We have an advantage in registered voters.
Here's how the election map looked in November 2012 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_Jersey_Presidential_Election_Results_by_County,_2012.svg
Hekate
(90,189 posts)Please do that for us.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)In fact the thoughts of Clinton vs. Christie is down right scary! There are far to many people that don't like Hillary, don't want another Clinton or a right of center Dem and are sick of Democrats after 8 years and want a change. Christie isn't far right but could get all the desperate ReThugs, Christian right and lots more Indies.
I also don't think we can depend on the young as their ideologies aren't harden yet. If they don't feel strongly about a candidate they very likely might not vote...especially if Obama doesn't keep all his campaign promises. The fact that Hillary would be the first women president is a big advantage...especially with the ReThugs war on women.