We read:
"Chris Christie, New Jersey's combative GOP governor, has become a nationwide YouTube sensation with posts showing him hurling verbal "truth bombs" at town hall meetings attended by citizens upset with his policies. But local opponents back home are now trying to use such incidents as evidence that the governor is a "bully" engaged in "hate speech."
The latest "Christie Moment" came last week at a town hall attended by some 250 people in Parsippany. Kevin Chaudruc, a public school teacher, launched into a lengthy list of complaints about the governor, culminating in a question about how Mr. Christie could have vetoed a tax hike on millionaires while low-income people saw their transit fares rise.
After several minutes of back and forth, Mr. Chaudruc interrupted the governor. "You want to come up here?" was Mr. Christie's reaction. "You come up here ... Let's have a conversation." Mr. Chaudruc was initially reluctant to step up on the stage, but the governor said "bring him up here," and a state trooper did.
"Your wonderful increase in taxes would have killed jobs in this state," Mr. Christie said with his index finger wagging. "You and I have different ideas of what being a Republican is all about because I'm not going to raise taxes." Mr. Chaudric wanted to respond but was escorted off the stage by the trooper. "It's his playground; he holds the ball," was Mr. Chaudric's reaction to reporters afterward.
Hate speech? More like a frank and candid exchange. The governor is certainly guilty of using Mr. Chaudric as a prop for his campaign against public employee unions. But his opponents have seized on the incident as evidence of some authoritarian complex. The Newark Star-Ledger, the state's largest paper, editorialized that no matter how important or humble you are, if you criticize the governor he "will try to humiliate you publicly." It went on to say that "his combativeness is counterproductive and breeds the kind of hate speech that plaques the nation."
Hate speech? A frank and candid exchange, yes. A little theatrical? Perhaps. But equating the governor's "I calls it as I sees it" style with encouraging hate speech is nonsense.
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Lacking a real thing to complain about the Governor's opposition is simply throwing stuff at the wall in the hope that something will stick.
"and breeds the kind of hate speech that plaques the nation"
Like-I hate being proven I am wrong. I hate conservative ideas. I hate rich people. I hate myself as an American. I hate not getting entitlements.
The major obstacle that will keep Gov. Christie from a long and brilliant political career, which i hope would include the WH, is the simple fact that he's honest. And honesty to a leftist is like sunlight to a vampire. Unfortunately, and human nature being what it is, most people will do anything to avoid the truth and reality, which is why people like the Gov. scare them. Let's just hope that the results from the mid-terms mean the people are finally starting to wake up. Maybe.
The Left has gained it's power by lies, distortions, and manipulating the truth. Of course, having almost total control of the MSM doesn't hurt either. As an example, and after having received their talking points from places like the HuffPo and "The Anti-Christ", (a.k.a.George Soros) all they keep whining about is "tax breaks for the rich", when in fact, the tax breaks are for everyone, a small "fact" they omit, as they do with all information they don't want the public to hear.
The Left relys on the weakness and stupidity of the masses. And as always, they rely on their fellow liars in the MSM to see to it that the people stay weak, dumb, and misinformed. Sadly, and for far too many, it works.
Anything that doesn't put more of our money into black pockets, and Charlies pockets, is racist.
Christie understands that the Left is simply trying to increase the "social cost" of propounding conservative ideas, the better to drive them out of the public debate.
That tactic works, too ... unless it's countered head-on, something else Christie understands.
The guy was meant for the Oval Office.
Anyone for hooking that liberal up to a backside kicking machine and turning it on full blast
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