Stick a Fork in the Fat Man - He’s Cooked
It would have to be a BIG fork in light of his enormous girth, but I’m pretty sure this particular RINO is approaching well-done. Let the upcoming electoral disaster be an object lesson to the Republican National Committee that the time for choosing has come for the party of Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan.
According to polling data recently released by Fairleigh Dickinson University, the gubernatorial campaign in New Jersey is now pretty much a coin toss between Chris “The Fat Man” Christie - the alleged Republican candidate and Jon “Boss Tweed” Corzine, the sitting Democrat governor.
Gov. Jon Corzine and Republican Christopher Christie are in a statistical dead heat in the race for Governor of New Jersey, with Corzine leading 38%-37% among likely voters in a Fairleigh Dickinson University Public Mind poll released this morning. Independent Christopher Daggett is at 17%.
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In last month’s FDU poll, Christie had a five point lead, 47%-42%; Daggett was not included in that survey. Two recent polls from Quinnipiac University and Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey had the race tightening with Christie ahead four points and three points, respectively.
Despite his clear gain in the polls, Corzine continues to struggle with upside-down job approval and favorable ratings. He has approvals of 38%-54%, and favorables of 37%-54% — virtually the same as the September FDU poll. But he has made up for earlier losses in Democratic support: 76% of Democrats now say they’ll vote from him, up from 66% in early summer.
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Christie has seen a negative trend in his favorables and is now also upside-down, 35%-42%. He was at 38%-35% last month.
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Meanwhile, Daggett appears to have registered as the winner of last week’s gubernatorial debate not just with the media, but with the public as well. Nearly one out of four voters (24%) said they watched the debate, which aired live on NJN. Of those who did, 14% said Daggett won, 12% said Corzine prevailed and 4% said Christie came off best.
Those surveyed before the debate saw Daggett favorably by a 2-1 margin (12% to 6%). After the debate, his favorables improved, with 21% having a favorable impression of him and 8% having an unfavorable impression.
How, in God’s name, can this be possible? Honestly, folks, by all rights The Fat Man should be at least nine points ahead of Boss Tweed. After all, in the Virginia gubernatorial election Republican Bob McDonnell leads Democrat Creigh Deeds by that margin.
I realize Virginia is not nearly as deeply Blue as New Jersey, but let’s consider the present political atmosphere: since April of this year TEA Parties, town halls and rallies in opposition of the burgeoning hegemony of the federal government (currently under the thrall of the Democrat Party) have been springing up with the speed and proliferation of grass seed in a sunny month after a long April rain. Increasing numbers of ordinary and otherwise politically uninvolved Americans are becoming very angry and, as a consequence, very politically active - and the object of their political wrath is the Democrat Party.
Unlike Virginia, New Jersey is on the verge of economic collapse. Every day productive individuals, families and businesses are fleeing a state where the largest employer is…the state - which is now close to $10 billion in debt with no relief in sight. Everywhere you go in New Jersey you can see businesses boarded up and homes - many of which are no longer occupied - with “For Sale” signs on their front lawns.
According to the poll - and, as a resident of the Garden State, I can tell you that a poll isn’t necessary to know this - the productive residents of this state (i.e., those not sucking on the Trenton teat) are fed up with skyrocketing taxes and a collapsing economy. Even among Democrats the frustration, anxiety and disgust is palpable. This much can be seen in Corzine’s disapproval ratings, which outweigh his approval numbers.
Given all of this, ought not The Fat Man be at least as far ahead in the polls over Corzine as McDonnell is over Deeds - if not even farther ahead? The answer would be a resounding YES - if Christie were anything other than the RINO creature of a RINO establishment GOP in New Jersey.
Throughout his entire campaign - culminating in his laughable performance in the NJN-sponsored television debate the other night - Christie has gone out of his way to offer nothing but platitudes and vague, glittering generalities that pay feeble and ultimately insulting lip service to the core principles of Reaganism that once made the Republican Party the champions of liberty and prosperity nationwide and in New Jersey. Every pointed question directed to him is met with a rambling, dissembling non-answer, a fact that became painfully clear the night of the NJN debate.
Christie has no real plan to rescue this state from its crisis because Christie has no core conservative values and can only offer a RINO version of Obama’s “hope and change” mantra. To date, he has not outlined a detailed agenda and when he makes the mistake of going into any kind of empirically verifiable detail, the plan is easily and quickly demolished as either completely unrealistic or mathematically impossible. He really has no substantive platform - which makes sense, seeing as how - incredible as it seems - the establishment GOP still refuses to adopt the platform of the national Republican Party.
Chris Christie is nothing more than a mealy-mouthed political hack whose primary campaign theme is “Vote for me…I’m NOT Jon Corzine.” It is telling that Christie assiduously avoids all TEA Party gatherings or any gathering, for that matter, where he runs the risk of having his pudgy feet held to the political fire.
Hence his appearance on Sean Hannity’s show on the Fox News channel and then, in the company of fellow RINO Rudy Giuliani - at whose altar the dimwitted and irritatingly repetitious Hannity routinely makes his obeisance and supplications in much the same manner he once did for Gov. Muscle Head in California.
Christie counted on Hannity’s infatuation with Giuliani to shield him from hardball questions and he was rewarded with a softball interview that garnered him significant publicity over his primary rival, Steven M. Lonegan, who Hannity never bothered to interview.
To this day dimwit Hannity continues to bray like a jackass about being a conservative and not a Republican while continuing to maintain his support of Chris Christie - a RINO party hack who makes John McCain look like Ronald Reagan.
Lately, Joe Scarborough called out The Fat Man on his reluctance to put himself into any situation where he may have to face potentially embarrassing questions :
But I digress.
The question before us is this: why is Christie now tied in the polls with Corzine?
It has nothing to do with Corzine’s millions or the fact that he is deluging the electorate with negative ads. It has nothing to do with the fact that New Jersey is a dark Blue state or that registered Democrats significantly outnumber registered Republicans.
It has everything to do with an indisputable fact of political life: no Republican in the past thirty years has ever - EVER - won an election without the unwavering support of the party base which - especially these days - is decidedly conservative. Now it is certainly possible for RINOs to win an election in spite of this fact, either through stealth (by posing as conservatives), by desperation (”if you don’t vote for me, the Democrat wins”) or a combination of the two. They managed this strategy very well for the past decade. Hell, it is the reason most Republicans voted for John McCain in 2008.
Unfortunately for the RINOs, it’s a strategy that no longer resonates. The election of Barack Hussein Obama ensured both an on-going economic collapse and the nearly complete polarization of the country into a clearly-defined Red/Blue divide, with the purple midsection trending much closer to red than blue. The era of “hands across the aisle” bipartisanship is over; the era of the Cold Civil War is now under way and slowly beginning to heat up.
When a RINO says “Vote for me because I’m not the Democrat” all he hears now is derisive laughter. After all, Obama is now in the White House. How much frickin’ worse can things possibly get?
Chris Christie is losing because there is little to differentiate him from Jon Corzine (aside from mealy-mouthed platitudes, assurances of “hope and change,” the claim he is not Jon Corzine and, of course, a hundred pounds of body fat). He’s losing because increasing numbers of Republican voters are realizing that, if elected, he won’t make a dime’s worth of difference in the way Trenton is being misgoverned.
He’s losing because the Republican base is beginning to realize the only chance this state ever had of recovering the liberty and prosperity that made it the envy of the Union resides in a plan that neither Corzine and the Democrats nor Christie and the Republicans (at least the NJ GOP) would ever embrace, much less implement.
He’s losing because the Republican base realizes no matter who gets elected in November, New Jersey WILL collapse - and when the collapse does come, it’s better that a Democrat governor - and by extension, the Democrat Party - gets the blame.
This is much is certain: after Christie loses in November, the establishment GOP in New Jersey will become extinct by 2012.
Sorry, Di Marco.
The GOP will learn nothing.
Stop hallucinating.
Christie needs a new game plan. There is no way he can win this election by only pointing out what the people of New Jersey already know. That is, of course, that the state is in a mess. He needs to explain WHY Corzine’s policies are bad.
Corzine’s knows he will not get a majority of the people to vote for him. He only needs Dagget to siphon off some votes. Unless Christie changes tactics he gives no reason for a voter to choose him over Dagget.
A very puzzling entry, since it (a) was directed at Di Marco BEFORE he posted his comment and (b) is completely irrelevant with regard to his comment.
Any explanations other other than prescient obnoxiousness?
In Mad Dog’s defense, he and Di Marco have a history. As I recall, DiMarco discussed the merit of Christie getting the votes needed to win.
In fact, Manly and Di Marco have gone a few gentle rounds themselves on this very topic.
There’s no prescience required. Most of us know how Di Marco feels on this subject.
I think for Mad Dog, it was more preemptive than prescient.
Good point. My apologies to all. It was not prescient obnoxiousness.
It was preemptive obnoxiousness.
Sorry for any confusion.
From our Mutual Assured Destruction Dog.
DRAFT LONEGAN! If Christie had an iota of intelligence he would have made Lonegan his LG.
But Repubes don’t think.
Listen to Reggie, he is the VOE when it comes to rePUBES…
I could have written this column for Manly. The NJ Republican Party has as it’s motto ‘Stuck on Stupid”.
The hacks who control the party are quite happy to have political power and be a minority. With beauties like Junior Kean, Phony Baroni, et al as office holders, the Republicans are in the minority until they elect REAL Republicans and not RINOs.
Christie is an example of what the hacks have to offer, and the resulting disaster. But…….the Junior Keans, Baronis, etc. don’t really care because they remain, the Republican “leaders” in the state, and the jerks from the RNC will continue to pay homage to them, even after their types lead us to disaster one more time.
Lonegan would have not only shaken up this numbing campaign, he would have made The Beard look like the fool he is and given the Dems a very hard time.
But the RINOS control the Republican nomination and so you wind up with another hack like Christie who will hand the state over to the Dems. Once more.
Write in “Steven M. Lonegan” on election day and send the RINOs a message. They won’t listen, but you can nevertheless send the message.
And I didn’t know there was such a thing as repuberty.
And that’s why I’m writing in Steven M. Lonegan at election time.
Hell, it is the reason most Republicans voted for John McCain in 2008.
And quite a few libertarians, as well.
Sigh….
And the message that Republicans had better come up with candidates that adhere to truly conservative economic values is one appropriate for those here on Staten Island, as well.
thanks, Manly. I agree with every word you wrote. I don’t know if NJ would have collapsed if a real conservative like Lonegan was elected. Now we will never know. But now, even if it doesn’t collapse, it will not be good at all.
I usually don’t say this about even moderate Republicans, but I see little difference between Christie and Corzine. I don’t trust him and he has no ideas or plans. He just wants to be governor, that’s it and it doesn’t fly.
And he insulted all of us NJ conservatives and Lonegan voters who carry the Republicans in elections in this state, when he picked a pro-choice running mate. He pays lip service to us and not much of it at that.
He has ignored us and insulted us. So I cannot vote for him.
The only reason I thought I might is to send a message nationally about Obama. A blue state going red. But that won’t stop Obama anyway or his followers. And anyone else with any sense will still oppose Obama no matter what NJ does. They can look at Virginia for a Republican victory.
I too will be writing in Lonegan’s name. I’m so glad to see there will be others doing the same thing.
I’m done with NJ RINO’s. I voted for them long enough. And Christie is one of the worst examples.