In the text, there is this one:

http://enlightennj.blogspot.com/2007/03/jon-corzine-carla-katz-timeline.html

and this one…

http://www.redstate.com/markmeed/2011/01/30/its-only-money-the-top-6-stories-of-public-servants-at-the-trough-that-will-make-your-eyes-bleed/

Somehow, I believe him.

But if Obama wins in 2012, Christie will win in 2016.

fat President. He weighed over 300lbs. He left office in 1913. Christie is probably in the same ballpark. That would be nearly 100 years without a fat President. The WH chefs would probably be real happy, if he ran.

Setting aside the fact that I have been and remain a Palin supporter, let me say this: I am more than willing to overlook Christie’s purported “shortcomings” in the area of social issues to get a straight-talking, honest, fiscally-conservative fighter in the ring. And I think you’re right, if he were to secure the nomination, it would make it very difficult for Obama. He could pick a more down-the-line conservative as his running mate to placate the SoCons who are less convinced than myself and shore up the base.

I hope he runs. It would certainly make things interesting.

Though if he did, the NJ unions would probably vote for him as POTUS just to see him get out of the state.

For whom I’ll vote if she is the candidate. I AM sick of her right now though.

I think N.J. needs him more right now and he can also be a beacon of light to all the newly elected Republican governors and legislatures across this nation. They can look at him and say, “If he can do it in N.J. we can do it here in XX”.

just as important to speak the truth as to hear the truth in order to be free. We have to stop supporting those who are willing to speak something other than the truth, in the many ways that can be done, in order to be elected. Winning elections with less than truthful candidates is losing the country and the freedoms it was founded on. We have to stop thinking about whether a candidate is “electable” if they are not honest. A dishonest office holder is NOT an advantage to our side. If they will lie for you, they will lie TO you. If they will lie about the basics, they will lie about how they will vote, why they voted that way, and what is really in the bill they are voting for. You cannot win by voting for a liar. So, lets start looking for truth telling candidates at all levels and hope they win. We have let ourselves be lied to long enough!

I haven’t heard a politician speak like this since Ronald Reagan took on the air traffic controllers who walked off the job and left millions of people stranded.

It was tough love, but sometimes you gota’ have it.

Chris Christie is actually one of the few people these days that can still inspire me when I hear him speak. I agree that me may be a good Pres. or VP candidate one day, but he does need to finish what he started in NJ. While he is very popular most of the time, the libtards are gonna pull out all the stops to get that state gov office back when he is up for re-election. They are gonna dump money into NJ in dump trucks. Now I don’t believe it will work but we need to be ready for it.

…he goes after the shariah-pushers in our midst as fiercely as he does the public-sector unions.

That is, to co-house soldiers and bureaucrats and congresscritters on base?

Mew

Great job by the Governor here, but I do want to correct him with one thing he said, which actually drives home this point even better. He said that cash-out of sick leave is not part of the Federal system. It is.

I have a good friend at DoT that will retire in about 6 years and he’ll be cashing out his sick leave to the tune of about $40,000.

As someone who spent around 3 months in military hospitals in 1966, I’d have to object to the statement that the military doesn’t get sick leave. Technically that is true, sick days are duty days. You go on sick call and the medics (at whatever level local circumstances dictate, MO, PA, etc.) decide whether you are fit for duty, or are relieved from duty for whatever time period they determine is appropriate. You are paid normal pay and allowances for those days (hospitalization and separate rations issues not considered). Installations without medical facilities involve Tri-Care, or contracted medical care, at civilian facilities to replace the Medical Officer, etc.

The only real difference between that system, and most “sick leave” outside the military is varying requirements for a physician’s slip to justify the sick days (and, obviously, having to pay the physician some amount as co-pay or payment). Some companies/government agencies require a sick slip for any days more than one, others have differing requirements. I have never heard of any employment which granted sick leave without any requirement for physician certification at all. Obviously, there are private companies with no provision for sick leave. But even then, there are many where they have an informal practice of giving a day or two off for sickness with pay (and some which will not pay = period).

I agree he is better than the rest.

I personally think he would make a great VP first then move on into his 8 in the big chair. Alas he has already said he won’t run, he still has things to finish in NJ, so it is a dead issue for 2012.

funny, I have been paying for part of my own ins. for quite a while now, so I have ZERO sympathy for him.

No results yet. Has not accomplish anything as governor.

2 or 3 years from now. If the state gets better. He he gets some results. Then I would be happy to jump on the bandwagon.

But now all I hear from his fans are, ( You have a pretty mouth boy. I like the way you talk. )

I really like his honesty, but I have to be honest that I’ve heard some not so conservative stories as well about Christie. Mark Levin always seems to be putting some article out there about how Chris Christie is not a conservative.

Makes me wonder……I’d like to hear something from some residents of New Jersey about this.

Christie is cutting the budgets of many cities/counties, that’s great in a way. He sure is on a rampage against the labor unions, and they do need desperately to be brought under control. Look at the cuts to Camden in particular. The city council there voted to layoff 25% of their police and firefighters, back in December. I lived in NJ for 25 years, and, I promise, I wouldn’t drive through Camden in the daylight. They deserve to be the crime capital of the world. It really is that bad.

It appears that Christie is after the state unions, and in particular, the Teachers, OK. He is giving no direction to the cities/counties as to where they need to cut their budgets, and I don’t know for sure if he has that authority, but, I guess he does. By allowing these communities to cut the police and fire, in some of the highest crime communities, is he trying to make a statement against the unions, but, abandoning the citizens of those communities? The Libs are famous for cutting police and fire services, as a way to make a statement, it’s a play on the citizens fear factor. The state workers seem immune, but not the essential services. I’ve noticed that Christie hasn’t done any major haircuts to the state staff. As Governor, he has had no alternative plan to insure the safety of his communities.

and that’s good enough for me. He’s pro-life, at least, so if he changes his mind and runs RS can endorse him.

Right now in the US we only have one issue. The cost and overreach of government. Chris Christie is one of the only politicians standing up to government employee unions and working to actually produce real decreases in the cost of government. Mitch Daniels did it in Indiana and TPaw did it in Minnesota. The new governor of Florida is working with Jeb Bush and they are taking on the whole education establishment with talk of moving to all charter schools.

Frankly I don’t give a rip where these men stand on just about anything else including abortion, gay marriage and the second amendment. If we don’t kill the beast at the pocketbook none of those things will ever matter because we’ll look like either Greece or Egypt. There are lots of other battles that need to be fought, but they don’t need to be fought now or until the financial underpinnings of this country are once again solid.

Different for sure but it’s such an _effective_ difference … why isn’t everyone trying to do the same?

His blunt manner of speaking works so well … and yet is so rare. If he talked the way nearly every other politician talks he’d be lumped in all the mealy-mouthed moderates. Give him some leeway considering where it is that he’s running but even so … he’s taken some … ahem … let’s be kind and call it _nuanced_ … positions on some issues.

But. Wow. The blunt answers work so well that you’d think _every_ potential GOP candidate would be wasting no time at all following his example. On social issues he’s neither exactly what a social conservative would want or exactly what a libertarian would want … but it’s so unusual to find someone willing to speak so bluntly and so plainly that it looks like he could pull votes from all over that spectrum.

NONE of the other candidates whose names get tossed around all the time sound even remotely as appealing as this guy. They’ve practiced sounding like politicians so much that they sound like politicians.

Campaign slogans about blunt talk don’t sound like blunt talk. They sound like campaign slogans.

Imagine him debating Obama. Imagine him as someone’s VP candidate debating Biden. For that matter imagine him debating any of the GOP candidates in the primaries … the nomination really would be his for the taking.

Okay … back to earth … he’s smart to wait for four year or eight years depending on what happens in 2012. Being a half-term governor isn’t worth much when it comes to running for the Presidency. Maybe in the meantime he can get Huckabee as a personal trainer or something.

Then again … the wait might not be quite so long … I’ll bet he’s already on the VP short list of any potential candidate who isn’t afraid of being overshadowed by him.

This took me a while to figure out as well.

The “subject line” or comment title is the only part of the comment that has text. It’s used to alert the reader looking over the comment titles (middle of the 3 columns on RedState.com) that there will be nothing else other than the subject-line comment.

It’s for quick comments, snark, etc.