Christie’s Biggest Problem Isn’t Bridgegate
Click here for reuse options!With the contretemps over lane closings on the George Washington Bridge on the back burner for now and Mr. Christie laying groundwork for a Republican presidential run, the persistent skepticism, unease and, in some cases, distrust that he faces from social and religious conservatives may be the biggest and least understood obstacle in his path.
Yet Mr. Christie, who prides himself on his defiance of political convention, refuses to communicate the kind of emphatic, crowd-pleasing message that would leave him unassailable with that crucial constituency, and he has shown little enthusiasm for befriending its self-appointed leadership, elements of which are turning on him with speed and vigor.
In a sustained and high-profile attack more than two years before the election, advocates of conservative judicial philosophy have begun to pummel Mr. Christie as failing to nominate sufficiently right-leaning judges to New Jersey’s highest court. They are also bankrolling derisive billboards in states where he is campaigning for Republicans this fall and flying a banner over the Jersey Shore declaring, “Christie can’t be trusted.”
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Linda1961 October 13th, 2014 at 09:58
What a pickle – Christie needs to appeal to social cons to have a chance to get the gop nomination, but that would alienate a much larger segment of the voting public in the general. Besides, no matter how much the pundits make the claimto the contrary, Bridgegate will hurt him.
tiredoftea October 13th, 2014 at 12:16
Bridgegate will be spun as a Dem attack and his base will eat that up. If he runs and if he runs ahead of whichever other Repubs enter the 2016 race, his handler’s will placate the religious fringe crowd that is hurting him now.
Linda1961 October 13th, 2014 at 09:58
What a pickle – Christie needs to appeal to social cons to have a chance to get the gop nomination, but that would alienate a much larger segment of the voting public in the general. Besides, no matter how much the pundits make the claim to the contrary, Bridgegate will hurt him.
tiredoftea October 13th, 2014 at 12:16
Bridgegate will be spun as a Dem attack and his base will eat that up. If he runs and if he runs ahead of whichever other Repubs enter the 2016 race, his handler’s will placate the religious fringe crowd that is hurting him now.
Carla Akins October 13th, 2014 at 11:57
I’m sorry, Christie’s biggest problem is that he’s a greedy narcissist pig that wouldn’t recognize the truth if it were disguised as food.
M D Reese October 13th, 2014 at 13:41
He probably ate the truth years ago thinking it was a meatloaf.
Carla Akins October 13th, 2014 at 11:57
I’m sorry, Christie’s biggest problem is that he’s a greedy narcissist pig that wouldn’t recognize the truth if it were disguised as food.
M D Reese October 13th, 2014 at 13:41
He probably ate the truth years ago thinking it was a meatloaf.