They're still courting Christie for prez
Bruce Rastetter, an Iowa energy company executive, and a half-dozen other prominent Iowa GOP donors sought the meeting with Christie, the governor's chief political adviser, Mike DuHaime, told The Associated Press. The get-together is set for the governor's mansion in Princeton, N.J., on May 31.
They're still courting Christie for prez
Matt Katz, Inquirer Staff Writer
A report this weekend said that some major Iowa Republican fundraisers are headed to the governor's mansion this month to ask, cajole and plead with Gov. Christie to run for president:
Bruce Rastetter, an Iowa energy company executive, and a half-dozen other prominent Iowa GOP donors sought the meeting with Christie, the governor's chief political adviser, Mike DuHaime, told The Associated Press. The get-together is set for the governor's mansion in Princeton, N.J., on May 31.
The meeting speaks to what some Republicans nationally say is a lack of enthusiasm about the emerging roster of contenders. It's also unusual because candidates typically court Iowans, who get the first say in presidential nominating contests, and not the other way around...
"There isn't anyone like Chris Christie on the national scene for Republicans," Rastetter told the AP. "And so we believe that he, or someone like him, running for president is very important at this critical time in our country."...
Appearing on 1210AM this morning with Christ Stigall, a conservative talk show host and a self-described "gushing" Christie fan, the gov again said he's not yet ready to run for president but acknowledged that he has become something of a kingmaker. Former ambassador to China, Jon Huntsman, is launching his possible presidential run this week with a visit to Drumthwacket, Christie's governor's mansion, according to USA Today.
"I want to make sure that the things, the principles, that we're standing for here in New Jersey take hold across the country...so if I decide to support a candidate for president, I want to make sure I get to know that person," he said on 1210.
Huntsman is the fourth such potential candidate to come to Drumthwack and kiss the proverbial ring.
Want to personally tell Christie to run -- or not run? He'll be in our area Tuesday at a town hall meeting in Evesham. RSVP here.
Do it CC, Do It! Shine a light on the sham of a Governorship and fraud campaign. Just what the GOP needs against a soaring Obama. THIS is a political party? No, the GOP is a joke, plain and simple.— SreamingBloodyMerman- @SreamingBloodyMerman - Since when is Obama "soaring"?!? Were you distracted from the real issues by the inconsequential killing of Bin Laden?!? As bad as Bush was, the country is now in worse shape than when Obama took over. Unemployment higher. Foreclosures up. Inflation off the charts. Now engaged in 3 wars!!!— Citizenc92
- Citizenc92 - only in Fox/Rush/Hate radio do your words matter. Everywhere else, it's called delusion.— SreamingBloodyMerman
- Matty my boy, her's a "suggested" chronical. Skip the mundane and investigate why in this current era of inflation where food, clothing and gasoline prices are sky high, wages and interest rates are so depressed? "It's the economy stupid; it's the economy!"— lefty
- I think it is funny CC even said he is not ready to be president but they want to Ram him in there any way.— cuso20
- Please convince christie to run— the commodore
- Citizenc92: Did you think all the damage Bush did to the country would be gone after two years. I remember the days in 2006 when you guys were still blaming Clinton for the economy. It may take us 30 years to dig out the hole Bush put us into.
If you don't like the state of your country don't ever vote Republican.
Somehow Fox has convinced you it's all Obama's fault. They also convinced you he exploded the debt. When all he did was stop hiding all the debt Bush created. You know like the wars not being on the books.
So let me get this straight.
You want the same guys who came in after Clinton created 23 million jobs and left them with a surplus for the guys who lost 15 million jobs, left you with record deficits a war started on lies and a fiscal policy that bankrupted the country in 8 years.
You do know Bush bankrupted the country. My fault. You watch Fox. Obmaa did it. Even though he wasn't in office.— Bush Destroyed America - Please let him run. So America can find out he paid for his US Attorney's position. Then they can look at how he let a fraudster who stole 50 million from people not be prosecuted and let him work for the govt while he paid him 20,000 a week. Of your tax dollars.
Yes let him run so they can see how many of his cases as US Attorney are being overturned.
Let him run so they can see how he lied about the home rebate program and then raised taxes on Senior citizens while vetoing a tax raise on the rich.
Let him run so we can see him lying and blaming Obama for the 400 million dollar grant fiasco that was all his doing.
Yes let him run. Even though he wouldn't win in NJ if the election was held today.— Bush Destroyed America - "Citizen92: Were you distracted from the real issues by the inconsequential killing of Bin Laden?!?"
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"inconsequential"
Bush wasted over 4 trillion on Bin Laden. Yet now it's, "inconsequential."
The most wanted man in the world is dead and we found the biggest stash of information on our biggest enemy and now it's, "inconsequential."
To catch the man Bush tortured people, lied us into war, set up illegal prisons and ignored our Constitution you guys so love.
Yet it's, "inconsequential."
If you read what you wrote you would realize you should never ever vote Republican again. Bush wasted a whole lot of time, money and American lives on someone who is so, "inconsequential."
I guess you are just like Bush who did all those things and then didn't think much about Bin Laden.
You are a true idiot. Just like Bush. Thanks for proving it.
— Bush Destroyed America - I guess there will always be people willing to flush good money down the toilet. A fool and money are soon parted, but no one said how the fool got the money in the first place.— Trident252
- BushDA. First, anyone "cleaver" enough to select your particular nom de plume SHOULD be clever enough to recognize that it was ex-prez William Jefferson Blythe III who allowed a then much more accessible bin Laden to escape detection. The first occurred in Sept, 1996, while President Blythe played golf with Vernon Jordan. He REFUSED to take the numerous calls from his Natl Security Adviser, who was trying to alert the man about detection. In the Fall of '98, five years AFTER the WTC bombing, Sandy Berger (NSA) again failed to make contact. The man was no where to be found, nor was his posse of SS agents that accompanied him to who knows where. By the time he called Berger back, the two hour window, allowing for tomahawk missiles to destroy the location, was exhausted. Imagine if GWB had some liaison which "impaired" his willingness and DUTY to timely respond? Oh, the moniker? It's really not clever, just telling!— lefty
- Let me qualify my earlier statement, by stating in real time, bin Laden didn't escape detection. No, he escaped decisive action to kill him AFTER he was detected. Had President Blythe III acted as CIC instead of some wobbly-kneed dilettante, the slime ball would have had his muslim burial two decades past.— lefty
- It is funny how left in this country contributes everything they don;t like to Fox, Rush, etc. So, SreamingBloodyMerman, who do you get your info from - Huffington, MSNBC, Rueters, or this great source of wisdom Janeane Garofalo? Why do you deny a possibility that some of us can actually think for themselves? Is it because we think differently? Wow, people disagree with you? Can't happen. Lets call them names. "Soaring" Obama? Don't make me laugh. The only "soaring" I can see is deficit, gas and food prices... You could blame it on Bush, but who would listen anymore? Only your lefty friends. But their opinion doesn't matter anymore. People of this country finally woke up from the gaze Obama sold them. Time for you to get smart too.— hollandpa
- Someone better tell the king he has no clothes......Or moo moo's.— CiceroSpuriousDeodatus
- chris christie is a heartless, classless bully. plain and simple. i hope he does run for president so that the national media can expose him and show the world what he truly is...a right wing extremist who is solely in it to allow his wealthy people to accumalate more and more money at the expense of everybody else.— slanted and enchanted
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