Gov. Christie trashed GOP two weeks before the storm
Two weeks before Hurricane Sandy hit the coast of New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie displayed a cavalier disregard for party loyalty that he was to repeat when he praised Barack Obama days before the presidential election. Christie is up for re-election next year, so at an October 16th town hall meeting in West Milford, Morris County, he tried out his post-partisan ploy again. It’s the same one he used in this video released by his campaign in 2009:
Don’t get us wrong, anyone who has been watching Chris Christie as long as we have (since his failed run for State Senate in 1993) knows that Christie believes in loyalty. . . to Christie. It kind of stops there. He is a deeply self-absorbed politician. Right and wrong, good and bad, exist only in the reflection of his self-interest.
It is amusing to watch the Governor grow frustrated and angry as he fails to grasp what he did to Mitt Romney with his over-the-top embrace of Barack Obama last week. Psychologically he is unable to see other points of view as valid. They are only encumbrances to his will.
Christie’s deafness to others was in play again at his town meeting two weeks before Sandy hit shore. A stunned New Jersey Herald reporter couldn’t believe the exchange between Christie and a Democratic candidate for County Freeholder (for our many out-of-state readers, a county freeholder is like a county commissioner or supervisor in other states):
“What I’m seeing , though, often, up in my neck of the woods, where Republicans run the show is, our taxes aren’t going down. Taxes are going up. I’m seeing the double positions, public service, the whole bit. Lots of government, lots of members of the club.”
“Yeah,” interjected Christie.
“And that’s not our side. That’s…
“But let me make really clear that New Jersey didn’t get into this circumstance in anything but a bipartisan way,” Christie said.
“The problems we find ourselves in… This is what happens in, you know, at times in places like Sussex, or in other counties, like Hudson or Camden or Essex or Sussex or Warren, where there’s one-party rule,” Christie, who twice referenced Sussex, said in leading up to his remark about how “the club becomes clubbier.”
Christie elaborated that he objects to poor decision making by both Republicans and Democrats at the municipal and county level.
“My battle is against local and county government that isn’t being responsible and responsive,” Christie said.
Williams then revealed that she is running for office in Sussex. “I actually have stepped up and am running for freeholder up there,” she said.
“I agree, the checks and balances are very important,” she told Christie.
Each thanked the other as the exchange concluded.
Sound familiar? Providing aid and comfort to a Democrat at the expense of a Republican didn’t start or end with the Christie-Obama love fest. It is something the Governor does whenever he takes a notion to - and woe to them who dare object to his thoughtless, self-centered pronouncements. Those who suggest toning it down are cast out as “disloyal” in the only way that disloyalty matters - to him, to the redux of “the one”.
Governor Christie is a pathological grudge holder. Grudges dig themselves deep into his psyche and come out when he is seething with emotion. Cross at having been passed over for Vice President, we saw evidence of this last week.
At his town meeting in Morris County, Christie singled out the all-GOP Freeholder Boards in Sussex and Warren County - whose voters went for Christie’s opponent in the 2009 Republican primary - but didn’t mention the all-GOP Freeholder Board in Morris County, where he won. In these situations Governor Christie can always be counted on to let his emotions get the better of balanced judgment.
That Democratic candidate for Freeholder in Sussex County is already using the Governor’s comments in her campaign there. Look for the Governor’s words to be used again as early as next year, when he is on the ballot, to elect Democrats in Republican counties with all-GOP Freeholder boards like Morris, Somerset, Hunterdon, Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean, and Cape May. Will anyone have the guts to tell the Governor that he screwed up again? We doubt it. The GOP has been conditioned to keep its lips sealed very tightly, as was revealed in this PolitickerNJ story from last summer’s convention:
The insider stood there amid the balloons with the stoic, unfazed air of one who’s tried himself not just in leadership roles at past conventions, but in life’s various other furnaces.
PolitickerNJ.com felt comfortable asking him the inevitably uncomfortable following question: “Is anyone’s ego among the delegates visibly bruised by the fact that it’s obviously Chris Christie’s convention and he’s taken up all the oxygen?”
These are politicians, after all, who must craft their own egos carefully for use in the public square, now wholly occupied by a gubernatorial presence, the keynoter at this year’s convention.
The GOP insider shook his head in response.
“No, no one’s off to the side expressing any jealousy,” he said. “What you have to understand is this governor has so conditioned the Legislature, that they’re used to this. They know how to fall in line and do what they’re told.”
As we can see, it won’t be easy, but Governor Christie needs to find himself a friend he can bounce his emotions off of before they turn to words falling from his lips. It can’t be the lobbyist Bill Palatucci. He is up to his neck in deals with some of the most corrupt Democrat bosses in the state. The Governor needs a Republican friend. He needs someone who he will listen to and who will advise him to count to ten before he calls for the defeat of Republican office-holders in his most Republican counties, or before he attempts to throw a close presidential election to the Democrat, a week out.
Hopefully, he will find someone so that this kind of insanity will end.

While your Governor runs around claiming he is “helping his people” when he praises the wunderkind Obama, he is also busy sending robo-calls into my Congressional District… In New York. At least it is for a Republican.
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If Romney loses, It’s due to Christie’s actions praising Obama’s actions during the storm. Of course that leaves an opening for Christie to run for pres in 2016 hmmmnn
He wants people to think that he cares. We know the truth. He just wants to get elected.
He is what I have always thought he was. A mean SOB who is only interested in advancing himself. I can’t even say he is a RINO, he is a Democrat!
And here we are the day after the election and Obama won the electoral vote but Romney won the popular vote. Christie is a scumbag egotistical loser who thinks he will be president in 2016. He will not win because he just lost the election for Romney on purpose no less and people don’t forget these things. Was the love fest with Obama and Springsteen worth it you fat ass Christie? We heard you cried when you hugged Springsteen. Maybe you can go work for him as a stage hand. You will not be in the republican party for long.