NJ GOP Governor Candidate Christie Loves Being A Bushie, Corzine Rising In Polls
Listen, I plead guilty to having raised money for Governor George W. Bush because I thought he was the best person to be President of the United States. And I did it in a completely appropriate fashion and enthusiastically for the President. And there's no mystery to the fact that I was appointed to this job because, in part, I had a relationship with the President of the United States.Anybody who receives a political appointment -- I am a political appointee -- there's going to be some measure of politics involved with that appointment.
Maybe it's just me, but I think this is exactly the kind of attitude that voters pretty decisively said they were done with. But good on GOP candidate Chris Christie for being so honest and upfront about what was expected of him as a Bushie. It's especially telling given that Christie talked to Rove about running while still US Attorney, a violation of the Hatch Act and that he gave no bid contracts to Ashcroft and a former US Attorney who had opted not to prosecute his brother.
It's been a fairly nasty campaign in New Jersey, with the added bonus of an Independent candidate, siphoning off some expected Democratic voters. Even so, incumbent Democratic candidate Jon Corzine is up in the polls:
New Jersey Governor, polled by The New York Times, 10/9/09-10/14/09, Likely Voters, MoE +/- 4-5%
Jon Corzine (D) 40
Chris Christie (R) 37
Chris Daggett (I) 14
After a week in which Republican challenger Chris Christie has watched poll after poll showing a dwindling lead in the gubernatorial race in the Garden State, this poll is the first to show a Corzine lead of greater than a point.
What's more, among registered voters, the polls lead really expands:
New Jersey Governor, polled by The New York Times, 10/9/09-10/14/09, Registered Voters, MoE +/- 3%
Jon Corzine (D) 40
Chris Christie (R) 30
Chris Daggett (I) 13
That would seem to suggest that the pool of persuadable voters, who are not yet quite sold on voting, is even more anti-Christie than the corps of likely voters identified by the New York Times.
" I plead guilty to having raised money for Governor George W. Bush because I thought he was the best person to be President of the United States. "
Christie has fallen prey to the uniquely primate trait of making public his stupidity. Call the guys in the white jackets . . . we have a live one!!
"Secular humanism -- a fearless, realistic world view replete with doubt and scepticism that attempts to attain an unachievable state of equilibrium between and among the human qualities of reason, intuition, imagination, memory, ethics and common sense.
is that possible or good?
So what, that excuses his ignorance?
that I was answering. I don't know enough to say anything about his ignorance. if he was a bushie, I doubt he was ignorant - just evil.
maybe the dems he prosecuted should appeal whatever they were charged with if any were convicted.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Hey Jersey Repukes...play lotto instead of wasting money on this born loser...or visit a brothel or strip club.
In New Jersey we may have a repeat of 2000. At that time, Al Gore did not generate a lot of enthusiasm and there was a third party candidate to siphon off votes.
I have gone to Christie’s web site and looked at what he plans to do. In addition to the usual set of promises that every candidate makes with a vague possibility of delivering, he has plans that have me worried.
Complacency could be disastrous for New Jersey.
It isn’t about who you really like, it’s about which result will be best for the next four years.
“If pigs could vote,
the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time,
no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.”
- Orson Scott Card
statistically irrelevent!
Any poll that has a margin of error (+/-) that is greater than 3.0 is meaningless. Basically meaning it's a garble of numbers that mean nothing!
so the first week's poll is worthless, but the second weeks poll is actually credible.
Late,
QSE32
We have electronic voting machines whose source codes are controlled by the county here!
anymore. I admit that Corzine was so disliked that alot of Democrats were planning to stay home or vote Christie just for the sake of changing things up. But Christie has been so resistant to offering any answers to any policy questions, and has been hit so hard with these revelations of parking tickets, travel expenditures, that he is disliked as much as Corzine. There is a "devil you know" quality to this election. It wouldn't surprise me if in the end, Daggett finishes ahead of Christie, especially given the big ad buy and TV time Daggett is preparing for the final week.
Christie's another fat GOP hypocrite. He talks about cutting taxes, but booked hotel rooms on the taxpayers' dime. Also, following the law doesn't seem to apply to him - he got caught driving an unregistered vehicle but managed to skate away from getting a ticket.
MORBIDLY obese!!!!
"A violation of the Hatch Act'? Oh, come on!
News flash! The US Gub'mint been doing that for ages in the form of the War on Drugs. And the Bushie White House got caught in the act! Henry Waxman caught the Office on National Drug Control Policy engaging in using taxpayer dollars to stump for Republicans in various elections. And what happened? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
It's even written into the ONDCP charter that it has to use taxpayer funds to lie to the electorate and block referenda and legislation that seeks to change drug laws. Which means interference in the democratic process...in favor of entrenched interests who already receive taxpayer dollars for their funding. This is EXACTLY what the 'Hatch Act' was supposed to prevent
Wake up and smell the burning Hatch Act (not to mention Constitution and Bill of Rights); it's only been hanging in front of you, flaming, smoking and dropping ashes, for about 20 years...
Fat cat literally and figuratively.
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