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Fresh off the largest win
by a Republican moderate since Abraham -- Lincoln
that is, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie won re-election in the Democratic
state with 60% of the vote.
Now I worked for New Jersey
Governor Thomas Kean and he also did pretty well in the governor races. In fact, he had the closest and largest
election victories in history in 1981 and 1985 respectively. Moderate Republicans were about to become
near extinct after the reign of Kean.
In 1981 Kean, a moderate
Republican, won the governor's race by the closest margin in New Jersey history, just 1,797 votes of 2.4
million cast. By 1985 Kean won by the largest victory margin in history,
getting 69.5% of the vote in a Democrat state and winning by 794,229 votes.
Kean ran the most successful
"voter inclusion program" ever undertaken by a GOP candidate in the
nation. Kean's record margin included over 60% of the Black, Union and Roman Catholic votes. Kean was a lifetime civil rights advocate and
Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., endorsed the governor
and campaigned for him.
It
was the last time a Republican got over 50% in a statewide Jersey
election.
Tom
Kean was a Princeton blue-blood and genuine nice person, far too nice to be
president of the USA .
But
Christie, well he is another story.
He
went to the University
of Delaware and Seton
Hall law school. Not quite Princeton but quite good schools. He was a volunteer for one of Tom Kean's
governor's races. Then he was United
States Attorney for New Jersey .
With
all the mob activity and corruption in the New Jersey /New York districts not
to mention the Wall Street presence, the US Attorney's handled some of the
toughest cases and characters in the nation.
Christie
is a rough and tumble straight talking Jersey
boy with plenty of girth, grit and gristle.
It is great to see that his diet efforts are paying off as he looked
more fit and feisty at the end of the campaign than he looked in years.
So
far this self-proclaimed conservative with the moderate to conservative
leanings has demonstrated everything necessary to become our next president and
it is a rare day in America
when we have a New Jersey
president. Fact is only one president,
Woodrow Wilson, was a Jersey boy.
Now
the eastern liberal media is terrified of the thought of Christie as president
so they have started a campaign to convince Midwest and Southern Americans that
a smart talking, rather large, and often bombastic dude with a Jersey accent will
never be accepted by the voters in the Midwest and South who carry the national
elections.
MSNBC
talking heads scoff at the thought of a Republican from New
Jersey being on the primary ballot in Iowa ,
or South Carolina .
Well
guess what media mouthpieces, I'm also from the Midwest, Iowa in fact, and there is nothing in our
corn and pork diet or hayseed image that says we don't recognize a leader as
opposed to a politician.
After
five years of Obama inertia and Congressional constipation the voters of America ,
Democrats, Republicans and Independents all, are sick and tired of two party
domination and paralyzed politicians.
Chris
Christie is a rare breed of politician who actually tells you what he thinks
and does what he says he's going to do.
Imagine that! Honesty, even if a
little ruff and gruff, would be refreshing.
The ability to do things no matter how big or small is, well,
revolutionary in politics.
Straight
talk was a Midwestern trait long before the media hijacked the term for
politicians. And an Iowan would NEVER
put the special interests of a political party before what was good for the
country.
A
great, big, giant lie is stretched over this great land of ours like a sinister
blanket of fog. Politicians and
financial people have hidden a deep, dark secret of the vulnerability of America to
succumb to the overwhelming dark cloak of Greed powering a spiraling national
debt.
The
Madison Avenue pursuit of the young teen and adult demographic (what I call the
Fountain of Youth obsession) now expects the children of the nation to pay for
the sins of their fathers and mothers TODAY,
not 25 years from now when they inherit the multi-trillion dollar debt.
I
say kids can't possibly be that stupid.
They know the difference between a politician who works up a head of
steam and one who is lost in a fog.
Christie will never allow that fog to envelop our youth and nation and
that is why he will be elected by the Midwest
and Southern voters, whether Democrat, Republican or Independent.
Move
over Woodrow, another Jersey boy is headed
toward the top.
Say
hello to your next president.
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