Conservatives have no interest in what Chris Christie might say
Yup, it's a real head-scratcher.
Chris Christie is a nationally popular Republican governor of a blue state in the Northeast, a region where the GOP barely remains competitive. He has a 74 percent approval rating, in a state that Barack Obama carried by 18 percentage points. In fact, no Republican presidential candidate has managed to carry New Jersey since 1988.
Yet Christie has been pointedly NOT invited to speak to the highly influential Conservative Political Action Conference, which meets in Washington, D.C. next month. The confab is widely considered an essential showcase for Republicans with presidential aspirations.
Bobby Jindal will be there. A speech by Ted Cruz will close the convention. The NRA’s Wayne LaPierre has a place of honor on the program. Under the rubric “America’s Future: The Next Generation of Conservatives,” Republican up-and-comers Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Rand Paul and Sarah Palin — wait, Sarah Palin? — will thrill convention-goers.
And for anyone who has grown nostalgic for those wonderfully intelligent, provocative 2012 Republican presidential debates, Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum will play featured roles.
But no Chris Christie. According to CPAC organizers, the man has proved himself too liberal to be extended an invitation. The pristine conservative minds of CPAC attendees must not be offended by exposure to someone who dares to venture outside the approved ideology, even if that someone might offer the party a way out of the political wilderness. For much the same reason, the Log Cabin Republicans and GOProud, two gay Republican groups, have once again been banned outright from the convention.
So, same as it ever was.
– Jay Bookman
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stands for decibels - sho nuff like me some watuhmelon, suh!
February 28th, 2013
7:23 am
From the comments at my 7.19 link:
Shorter Bob Woodward – POTUS should get the cia black op guys to sell Cocaine and Heroin to fund an attack on Iran.
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2013
7:29 am
Shortest Bob Woodward:
I don’t understand what the term deficit reduction means and feel kinda’ silly when that’s pointed out and I’m a big famous journalist from the ’70’s so you are being mean to me.
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 28th, 2013
7:30 am
Paul Broun, for example, as their emissary to Germany
I think that Senator Tom Coburn is infinitely more stupid/dangerous than some backbench Congrefsbitch.
Exhibit A.
Fred ™
February 28th, 2013
7:31 am
Doggone: (if you look before the thread changes):I refuse. It started yesterday and as far as I’m concerned, if they want it there so bad…they’re going to GET it there.
Ah. It makes sense now. I saw a little bit of that discussion yesterday but didn’t’ scroll back far enough to see what y’all were talking about. I now understand.
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 28th, 2013
7:31 am
Exhibit B.
Thomas heyward Jr
February 28th, 2013
7:32 am
stands for decibels – sho nuff like me some watuhmelon, suh!
February 28th, 2013
7:23 am
From the comments at my 7.19 link:
Shorter Bob Woodward – POTUS should get the cia black op guys to sell Cocaine and Heroin to fund an attack on Iran.
.—————————————————————————-
.
POTUS is not in charge of that.
Mick
February 28th, 2013
7:33 am
As far as woodward is concerned, what type of “journalist” goes running to sean hannity to blather? Result? Credibility blown up, what a hack woodward has become….
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 28th, 2013
7:34 am
Shortest Bob Woodward:
no, THIS would be the Shortest Bob Woodward, the first Tuesday in 2008:
GASP! you mean the next Preznit won’t strut around an air carrier with a bag of tube socks stuffed in his crotch?
That was probably Bob Woodward at his “shortest”, if you know what I mean and I think you do.
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 28th, 2013
7:35 am
POTUS is not in charge of that.
Why, you’re quite the Gene Yuss in figgerin’ that one out. Well done!
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 28th, 2013
7:36 am
Exhibit C.
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 28th, 2013
7:38 am
Exhibit D.
TaxPayer
February 28th, 2013
7:42 am
SfD,
There are indeed so many to choose from. Broun is simply a home boy that most Georgians should be quite familiar with.
Fred ™
February 28th, 2013
7:46 am
“If that’s the case he owes Nixon an apology ”
LOL too funny.
Nice link dB.
Thomas heyward Jr
February 28th, 2013
7:46 am
The POTUS doesn’t get involved in distribution.
.
The POTUS takes care of the competition…..via………….Hellfire.
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 28th, 2013
7:47 am
Ok, so I actually poked around and found this from Tiger Beat on the Potomac:
The Obama aide “yelled at me for about a half hour,” Woodward told us in an hour-long interview yesterday around the Georgetown dining room table where so many generations of Washington’s powerful have spilled their secrets.
Let that sink in a minute. Woodward is so butthurt over being “yelled at” by a WH meaniehead that he cries to Tiger Beat for an hour.
Recon 0311 2533
February 28th, 2013
7:49 am
Not unexpected that the left is dissing Bob Woodward because he correctly criticized the campaigner-n-chief for becoming the sequester jester and through his antics puts America in jeopardy.
Thomas heyward Jr
February 28th, 2013
7:49 am
Additionally…….the POTUS also takes care of the Protection racket via the Justice Department and/or the Money laundering.
.
See Banksters.
Mick
February 28th, 2013
7:50 am
What ever happened to carl bernstein? I guess he stayed true to his journalistic credibilty by just reporting instead of becoming the news himself…
Mick
February 28th, 2013
7:53 am
recon
You just like him since he criticized obama for the sequester. The real truth is that both parties are to blame but at this moment in time, it’s the republicans who are refusing to correct the problem and that is a fact…
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 28th, 2013
7:53 am
t the left is dissing Bob Woodward because he correctly criticized
We’ve been pissing on him for a decade, ever since he signed on as Cheney’s fluffer.
Fred ™
February 28th, 2013
7:53 am
Yup. Del just confirmed that Woodward is the new FOXBOT talking point lol. Thanks Del. Ever since Neal went off the air I haven’t had a direct source to the right wing talking points.
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 28th, 2013
7:55 am
I guess he stayed true to his journalistic credibilty
well… you might want to click that link I posted @ 7.19 before you go overboard, there.
(granted, it’s just one anecdote, and maybe bernstein did it out of simple loyalty…)
Fred ™
February 28th, 2013
7:55 am
LOL Neal the coward won’t take comments on his anti American lunatic ravings anymore.
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2013
7:56 am
Recon
We are?
I’m quite sure we are “dissing” him because he said something wrong.
(BTW, “dissing”??? showing off your street cred!)
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 28th, 2013
7:57 am
Let’s PLEASE not lose sight of what is truly monstrous about Woodward. It’s not that he’s criticizing the President (sh-t, I do that every day and twice on Sundays)–it’s that he seems to think a Commander-in-Chief is obligated to finance military campaigns off the books.
julia
February 28th, 2013
7:57 am
CPAC is a big freak show, with all the losers of the GOP. oh, & Turd Blossom, can’t forget him.
Fred ™
February 28th, 2013
7:57 am
Gotta love it, Del is complaining about the President NOT breaking the law. Does the far right wing fanatical FOXBOT hypocrisy ever stop?
DownInAlbany
February 28th, 2013
8:02 am
So, you guys are ok with the WH tellinig a reporter that, “…you will regret…publishing your article…”? Call it butthurt, call it whining. I guess on the flip side, you are ok with ABC cutting M Obama’s ill-conceived “automatic weapon” comments?
Mick
February 28th, 2013
8:03 am
stands
Who’s going overboard? Have you heard or seen from bernstein the past decade???
Fred ™
February 28th, 2013
8:03 am
great, good old “turd blossom”…………. now who in the hell is that supposed to be? You sound like a FOXBOT or talk radio show host such as Sean using little “cutsie” names for people. Well you out “cutsied” yourself because I have no clue who you are talking about.
straitroad
February 28th, 2013
8:03 am
Why all of the hate for Woodward all of a sudden?
Recon 0311 2533
February 28th, 2013
8:05 am
mick,
The Republicans will if they hold their position force the campaigner-n-chief to govern, which has been his failure either by avoidance or by incompetence. If the sequester does in fact occur and the president plays politics and attempts to create needless pain for the American people only to embarrass Republicans, articles of impeachment should quickly follow.
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2013
8:08 am
DIA
It could be worse….he could be on an enemies list.
Anyway, I’m pretty sure Woodward already regrets his error, why else
kneel before the altar of Sean “Baby Jesus” Hannity?
independent thinker
February 28th, 2013
8:08 am
Well the NRA and right wing loons have found a new role for the crazy loon from Alaska-whipping up hysteria over the Black marxist’s plans for federal tyranny—-
“”"”"”"”alin – who wrote on her Facebook page on Tuesday, “We’re going to default eventually and that’s why the feds are stockpiling bullets in case of civil unrest” – joins conservatives Alex Jones of InfoWars.com, who wrote about the ammo buy last year, and radio host Mark Levin, who said on his radio program earlier this month that the government is “arming up” because society is “unraveling.”
“Law enforcement and national security agencies — they play out multiple scenarios. They simulate multiple scenarios. I’ll tell you what I think they’re simulating: the collapse of our financial system, the collapse of our society and the potential for widespread violence, looting, killing in the streets, because that’s what happens when an economy collapses,” Levin said on his radio program.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/feds-media-debunk-sarah-palin-stockpiling-bullets-claim-88179.html#ixzz2MCNNAdQ3
Guess she will be tag teaming with LaPierre at the CPAC circus.
Mick
February 28th, 2013
8:09 am
recon
Impeachment? Really? It’s the republicants who refuse to govern. How many fiscal cliffs did we have during bush? They tried it once during clinton, how did that work out for newt???
Fred ™
February 28th, 2013
8:09 am
You know DowninAlbany, your Chicken Little, foxbot induced, “The sky is falling” routine is more than tired. It’s gotrten to the freaking crazy stage.
Yeah the white house guy was threatening Woodward that they were going to use drones to sic a black helicopter on him and that after that they were going to go all Ron Brown on him because they had an Air Force pilot with a 13 person crew all willing to sacrifice their lives by flying a plane into a mountain just to kill him.
Who knew that down south Georgian rednecks were such scairdy cats and cowered in fear under their beds for every FOX induced scare lie.
Just damn. How far the breed has fallen.
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 28th, 2013
8:12 am
Why all of the hate for Woodward all of a sudden?
Sudden? No. It’s been building for a very, very long time. Actually well before the aforementioned fluffing gig…
Exhibit A.
In ”Shadow,” Woodward enumerates every ”questionable activity” he can find in or near the executive branch since Nixon’s resignation, yet makes scant distinctions among them, from the lawbreaking of Iran-contra to the carousing of John Tower. In his Puritanical scheme, one size of crime or misdemeanor fits all. It’s the same lack of proportionality in assigning moral weight to sins that put non-Washingtonians at odds with the Beltway establishment last year.
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 28th, 2013
8:12 am
crisis SHEETZ
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2013
8:13 am
Campaigner in Chief?
Is that supposed to be an insult?
Cause it ain’t.
It’s a compliment.
It points out his continued action towards his stated goals.
as opposed to the Republican House, which after being out all last week is taking tomorrow off too.
so….
Does that make Boehner Vacationer in Chief?
Which is of course, not a compliment.
stands for decibels - Race Traitor!
February 28th, 2013
8:14 am
Who’s going overboard?
’tis but an expression. I agree he’s laid quite low compared to Woodward.
anyway, if you listen to the story Sam Seder tells, Bernstein didn’t care for Woodward basically being called a neocon tool, in public. Again, I can understand him doing that out of loyalty…
headin’ upstairs.
Recon 0311 2533
February 28th, 2013
8:14 am
Janet Napolitano head of homeland insecurity allows ICE to release thousands of illegal aliens who’reconvicted felons and the White House says they were unaware. Incompetence or direlection of duty. Neither is acceptable.
indigo
February 28th, 2013
8:15 am
Recon – 8:08 “articles of impeachment”
There aren’t many things in America you can really count on.
However, cons yelling “impeachment” for Obama is, without question, something we can ABSOLUTELY count on.
DownInAlbany
February 28th, 2013
8:17 am
Welcome back, Fred. I see that your snarkiness didn’t subside any during your Jay-ban. I would like to hear how my questions turned into “chicken little, foxbot…blah, blah, blah.” (which is MORE than a little tired). But, of course when folks don’t want to engage in adult conversations/debate or when they don’t want to answer questions, they usually resort to juvenile name-calling. I’m glad to see that you’re sticking to your guns!
Why not man-up and answer the questions. I never knew that libs were so scared to answer honest questions. But, then again, real men don’t resort to name calling, so I’m sure I’m wasting the tips of my fingers typing this.
straitroad
February 28th, 2013
8:17 am
stands for decibels – Race Traitor!
February 28th, 2013
8:12 am
Maybe the question should have been “why all of the liberal hate for woodward all of a sudden?”
DownInAlbany
February 28th, 2013
8:19 am
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2013
8:13 am
Campaigner in Chief?
Is that supposed to be an insult?
Cause it ain’t.
It’s a compliment.
It points out his continued action towards his stated goals.
Why not stay in DC and actually do something rather than merely talking about it? Oh yeah, he gave pubs 7 whole minutes yesterday! I guess if they’ll donate $500k to his PAC, they could get better access?
DownInAlbany
February 28th, 2013
8:21 am
indigo
February 28th, 2013
8:15 am
.
Impeachment is pretty strong, but, it’s not like we can expect the libs/dems to hold him accountable for anything. With him the buck stops anywhere but here!
Fred ™
February 28th, 2013
8:21 am
You asked no question Albany. You stated a foxbot lie and pretend it’s something of substance. When you ask a REAL question, I’ll have an answer. You just made a crap hill out of a poot and expect everyone to be all foxbot up in arms because the weak minded are.
As for foxbot? It fits. You crow the latest FOXBOT lie and pretend it’s your OWN thought? you now think lies up on your own at EXACTLY the same time as the FOXBOTS do? Really?
DownInAlbany
February 28th, 2013
8:24 am
Fred ™
February 28th, 2013
8:21 am
Generally speaking “?” at the end indicates a question. There are two of them in my original post. Did you even read the QUESTIONS or did you automatically attack? (”?” indicate a question)
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2013
8:25 am
DIA
Why doesn’t he stay in DC?
Because that would be stupid.
The President needs to get outside the beltway as frequently as possible.
No need for a bunker mentality.
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2013
8:26 am
Recon
Convicted Felons? I don’t think so.
Besides the process allows for them to remain under surveilence in a way that saves taxpayers money.
You do want to save taxpayers monet don’t ya’?
DownInAlbany
February 28th, 2013
8:29 am
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2013
8:25 am
When does he stop campaigning and start leading? Afterall, he’s the one that’s scared the bejeebers out of the public with his, sky-is-falling because of sequester bs.
Fred ™
February 28th, 2013
8:30 am
Albany? Just because you put a question mark doesn’t indicate a question?
Are you still beating your wife? Do you still bugger your goats?
Both of those have a question mark but is either one based in any fact? Is either one worth responding to? If you answer (hopefully truthfully) NO to either one of them it leaves the impression that you WERE beating your wife and buggering your goats, you just have stopped for the time being.
Same with that stupid crap you posted. No one was “threatened” therefore there IS no valid question and no answer to give. Dude, you REALLY need to try to learn logic. You have a ton of time to post stupidity here, so I know you have time to learn if you want to (which I doubt.) Here let me help you out:
https://www.coursera.org/course/intrologic
It starts April 1. I high;y recommend you sign up, it’s free. Of course once you DO take and pass the course you MIGHT actually think for yourself since you will have the tools to see how stupid the FOXBOT lies are so that might scare you away.
DownInAlbany
February 28th, 2013
8:31 am
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2013
8:26 am
Usually it takes a judge to incarcerate someone and a judge to let them out. How does this differ?
DownInAlbany
February 28th, 2013
8:33 am
Fred ™
February 28th, 2013
8:30 am
Thanks for your insensitive remarks. My wife died last month after a 6 month battle with cancer. But, I’m sure you couldn’t care less. Heartless bast@rd.
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2013
8:34 am
DIA
Leading from DC? I guess that’s good enough for somebody like you, but the rest of us
want him out and about.
Pushing our agenda. Driving our agenda.
A great leader never stops campaigning – He keeps up the pressure. Revs up the public.
Layouts the operation over and over.
Brings it to the people.
It’s a good thing.
TiredOfIt
February 28th, 2013
8:35 am
DownInAlbany
February 28th, 2013
8:02 am
So, you guys are ok with the WH tellinig a reporter that, “…you will regret…publishing your article…”? Call it butthurt, call it whining. I guess on the flip side, you are ok with ABC cutting M Obama’s ill-conceived “automatic weapon” comments?
++
Andrea Mitchell got a similar, but worst talking down to by the Reagan WH because of talking about Iran Contra.
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2013
8:37 am
DIA
Are you calling for the end of the use of stuff like house arrest and ankle monitors for everybody
or just “those” people?
Are you calling for wasteful spending?
Why?
DownInAlbany
February 28th, 2013
8:38 am
TiredOfIt
February 28th, 2013
8:35 am
Thanks, Tired…I wasn’t aware of that. Goes to show that you do learn something new every day…unless your name is Fred because he already knows it all. Don’t believe me, ask him?
Anyway, I don’t agree with Reagan/Mitchell either. It’s something called freedom of the press or some such nonsense.
Fred ™
February 28th, 2013
8:40 am
Thanks for your insensitive remarks. My wife died last month after a 6 month battle with cancer. But, I’m sure you couldn’t care less. Heartless bast@rd.
And I’m supposed to know how? My statement is a common example used for stupid unanswerable “questions.”
I’m sorry for your loss.
it doesn’t excuse your silly ass non question though.
DownInAlbany
February 28th, 2013
8:42 am
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2013
8:37 am
No, of course not, but, we are a nation of laws. Who gave ICE permission to arbitrarily release these folks? The so-called cuts haven’t even taken place yet. Maybe, just maybe (slim chance, I know) sequestration can be avoided. And, surely, there are better ways to save $. And, let’s face it, if the feds can’t get along with 2% less (actually 2.4% less of an increase) we are royally screwed. Remember, the taxpayers were forced to do without 2% less in our paychecks just recently.
DownInAlbany
February 28th, 2013
8:44 am
Fred ™
February 28th, 2013
8:40 am
Nor does your lack of knowing excuse your juvenile name-calling.
Fred ™
February 28th, 2013
8:45 am
Thanks, Tired…I wasn’t aware of that. Goes to show that you do learn something new every day…unless your name is Fred because he already knows it all. Don’t believe me, ask him?
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Nope, unlike you FOXBOTS I don’t claim to know everything. But I don’t repeat lies and then get all pouty because I’m called on them because I don’t research them like you do. Nor will I entertain a lie and use a silly “argument” like “someone else did it too.” Although I guess that’s what you expect and accept rather than the TRUTH.
You can get all mad at me because I expect truth but I don’t care. You can keep your hypocritical attacks up on me because I don’t care about those either. But just remember every time you attack all the times you whine about BEING attacked. How many X chromosomes do you REALLY have?
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2013
8:48 am
DIA
Who says ICE needed permission to do what it did?
Are you trying to tie the hands of the law enforcement community?
Why do you want to steo pver dollars to pick up dimes?
DownInAlbany
February 28th, 2013
8:50 am
Fred ™
February 28th, 2013
8:45 am
You wouldn’t know the truth if it walked up, growled at you and bit you on your butt! All you can do is deflect, and name-call. You are a pathetic little boy.
Granny Godzilla
February 28th, 2013
8:51 am
All you can do is deflect, and name-call. You are a pathetic little boy.
Pot meet kettle
Fred ™
February 28th, 2013
9:04 am
Aww leave him alone Granny, his impotent anger and irrational hate fill his mind to the point where he can not even fathom the truth or learn anything. I’ll bet he won’t even take the logic class I so graciously linked him to.
You can lead a jackass to water but it will still be a jackass whether it drinks or not.
- Stonewall Jackson
DMac8889
February 28th, 2013
4:41 pm
Its not just that Christie isn’t a Conservative, he is not, but that he has improved his poll numbers in a Liberal state by attacking individual Conservatives on a personal level. He simply doesn’t belong there, and he won’t be missed. I could say the same for JEB Bush.