Christie Straps On The RINO Horns: It’s “Intellectually Dishonest” To Compare Romneycare And Obamacare…
Hey, it’s not like Romney’s own advisers met repeatedly with White House policy officials when they were writing Obamacare . . . no, wait?
Via Weekly Standard:
In endorsing Mitt Romney for President, Chris Christie alleged that, when it comes to health care, “Any attempt to try to compare what happened in Massachusetts and what the president has done to the United States of America with his plan is completely intellectually dishonest.” The problem with Christie’s claim is that the Massachusetts health care legislation that was spearheaded by Romney has the same three core features as Obamacare: an individual mandate, requiring essentially every resident to buy government-approved health insurance under penalty of law; enormous taxpayer-funded exchange subsidies, codifying the principle that middle class Americans shouldn’t be expected to pay for their own health care (but should be expected to pay taxes to finance other middle class Americans’ health care); and a major taxpayer funded expansion of Medicaid — the government-run health care program for the poor, with its notoriously subpar patient care and provider compensation — into parts of the middle class.
Posted by ZIP on Wednesday, October 12, 2011, at 10:19 am | 
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Great! Just add another rat-bastard to my list of those I wish would just go away!
Any attempt to link your big fat RINO ass to the volume of cheeseburgers in your diet is intellectually dishonest too. Or something.
Hey Sarah Palin… You still have 3 days to file…
He has taken the Romney bait: “If you support me I will kick gobs of money your way and make you my VP.”
Did anyone see the interview with Hannity? He does not want to be President because he is “committed” to the people of his state and his Governorship. But, listen to his babble when asked if he would accept the VP nod! PATHETIC little hobbit!
her undiscriminating love affair with this RINO has caused me to boycott one of my favorite pastimes,
Reading and watching Ann Coulter
Want to talk about ‘Intellectual Dishonesty’?
Really?
Please, STAY in NJ, they Need you, and you are about as far toward the middle (never quite reaching the right side of the scale) they could stomach
I smell unicorn dung.
Can you say “Marching Orders”?
Dear God,
PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!
faithfully,
your obedient servant
Never trusted the Bloated One from the first.
He has RINO written on his forehead for all to see.
And if you think that making fun of his weigh is wrong, take a good lok at him. He is not just “fat”. He has gone on to super-morbidly-obese.
That really does say something about him.
“Jabba the Hutt” turns out to be nothing but a RINO after all….
Levin made a great point yesterday. Christie would never have been elected without the Tea Party people, yet this is how he pays them back?
You people should take a week off from reading this blog. You are going to make yourselves sick.
“We do not consider Perry a factor… We know who will be our nominee.”
Race for 2012 reported:
Those words were spoken today by Georgette Mosbacher, RNC Finance Co-Chair and huge GOP fundraiser, after Chris Christie’s announcement. The “we” is all the big bundlers, fundraisers, and money folks who have been sitting on the sidelines waiting for the field to be set — and that quote represents the coalescing around Mitt Romney that is expected to happen rather quickly now. Mosbacher went on to say:
“I think tomorrow, we’ll be contacting one another and probably put something together with Romney… And I would say that the race is now Romney and Obama. Quite frankly, the enthusiasm wasn’t there at the outset. He’s less conservative than a lot of us would like. However, our first and foremost goal is to defeat Obama. And we do believe Romney, in terms of independents, will be a strong candidate. We will coalesce behind him now… the time has come to get behind him… Tomorrow I’ll be on the phone all day. Quite frankly, it’ll be easier, because now we know who it is who will be our nominee. So we will pull our Rolodexes out and get to work.”
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/top-gop-official-we-%e2%80%9cdo-not-consider-perry-a-factor%e2%80%a6-we-know-who-it-is-who-will-be-our-nominee%e2%80%9d/
Again, “However, our first and foremost goal is to defeat Obama.”
That’s it in a nutshell. Defeat Obama. Nothing else matters.
El contraire El Grande…you are a traitor to the Tea Party and Reagan. We want Cain/Rubio
I am not surprised at all. I met a guy from NJ last year at an airport and asked him what he thought of Christie. He said, “He’s OK if you like the mafia.”. Then he added in NJ all the politicians are affiliated with the mafia.
If Romney does become GOP standard bearer for the presidency next summer, then it is critical that the tea party conservative movement gain traction among the attending delegates to the convention. It is important that they get involved in the platform proposals and then hold Romney’s feet to the fire on every move.
But conservatives must work hard to build a strong coalition that can bring back a majority to the Senate as well.
well, thanks for the advice
truthfully I am just a hater
I HATE georgette
I HATE romney
I HATE christie
different emotional response to obongo
I KNOW he wants to destroy the U.S. and RULE over us
the RINO’s smile while they stab you in the back and ask how your grandmother is doing?
If you hate Romney, and I know you do, the only remaining candidate worth getting behind is Herman Cain. Mittens needs to take the beating of his life in the primaries.
Herman Cain would beat Obama in a landslide if the election were held tomorrow. The same will hold true a year from now. Don’t you waffle on me, people.
>You are going to make yourselves sick.
TOO LATE!
Well, there you have it, folks. While everyone is riveted by all the mayhem in the streets caused by the useful idiots, it’s bidness as usual in politics. Which in plain English means, theft. It’s socialism and communism for us, and it’s capitalism for everyone else. And whether you like it or not, you’re going to have national health care shoved down your throats one way or the other.
There.
Look the dummy and the ventilaqist
when i see this headline “straps on” i can’t help but think something else…
considering our pansy-in-chief
I am not defending either RINO here, BUT Christie is correct. Romneycare is a State mandate, Obamacare is National mandate. If you do not like Romneycare; MOVE. If you do not like Obamcare; TFB. That is the difference between the two plans.
I am completely fine with States / Cities passing socialist / communist laws for their people, because those who do not like it can move to an area where people believe more like them and they will not have to help pay for the BS. The problem is when this same BS is on the National scale and I can’t move AND I have to pay for it.
Never TRUST any politician! They ALL love to USE us to get what they want and when they’re there you are soon forgotten!
V in PA,
States that go bankrupt (Commiefornia sooner or later) will end up costing everybody in America
so do you like your Romneycare if Taxachusetts ends up needing to be bailed out..
suddenly that State Law becomes national…
In other words, the rest of us are intellectually challenged if we don’t swallow Christie’s position since he is intellectually superior to the rest of us in every way. The pomposity of the humans that represent us, in both parties, is unmitigated. Thanks ZIP for laying bare the lie.
@VinPa
vangrungy is right
your ability to compromise with marxists and socialists may seem like the nice thing to do,
but WHO do you think is PAYING for california, NY, NJ, Maryland, Mass, Ill,???
WE DO!
compromising with commies means LOSING your freedom, not expanding your freedom because you are SO INCLUSIVE! aren’t you a NICE person
come ON!
The demographics of each state,county,and city can vary dramatically in their economic strength. What might be considered middle class in one county or city can be completely different in another county and city. That is why the mandate of Obamacare cannot work uni-formerly across the country,in fact it is economically impossible when you look at some of the small and distressed towns that people live in. Yes you’ve seen them,you’ve driven through them,they may have only one street light and you wonder how they survive in these small towns.
Mitt Romney, is slithering into the 2012 Presidency, on the same “Perfect Storm” senario that Barak did. ‘Anybody but a Republican’, and now ‘Anybody but Obama’.
Chris Christie was just the messenger of the message from up on high, down to us down low, that “MITT ROMNEY IS THE ONE”.
The Tea Party is rendered useless under the current political circumstances on this presidential election. Mitt is a Rino waste of time. We have to fight the ground war on State level still, like Warren vs. Brown. The President voted in on Tea Party principals will probably be a Tea Party voted in Representative or Senator and still aways off but closing in.
I feel like a faux Occupier, but the powers that be have spoken, those mother f!@#$ that they are!
ers.
V in Pa. is right in that the states have the right to enact whatever their voters vote for. The problem some of you have brought up about V’s statement is that the federal gov. will HAVE to bail them out eventually. That is the rub because there is no law that any state must be bailed out for any reason. Historical precedent is that the US gov. will NOT bail out any state due to financial insolvency. That is something the present candidates should make clear of their position on this bailout issue before the primaries end. The founding fathers intended for the states to let their citizens decide what they wanted to have as residents of their state. This going to come to a head when the state and federal unions go bankrupt and the issue of bailouts come up again. Right now the US postal service is bankrupt but since it is constitutionally mandated it may present a different problem.
looks like someone bought into WH propaganda.
[Hey, it’s not like Romney’s own advisers met repeatedly with White House policy officials when they were writing Obamacare . . . no, wait?]
Smear Republicans to reelect Obama, nice strategy.
If not Romney than who?
Perry? What happened to him?
@NoBlahBlah, I never thought that if a state went bankrupt the other 49 (or is it 56?) would have to bail them out. I thought the state suffered the consequence of bad decisions.
My job was cut back from full-time to 30 hrs, my investment property was in an area that hemorrhaged jobs and I was paying off medical bills for chemo – in short, I declared bankruptcy. And might I say prior to the housing meltdown I had a 700 credit rating which allowed me, a single middle-class woman to invest in rental property. My point is, it never occured to me to ask my neighbors to bail me out so now I’m just sucking it up and paying for my mistakes. Of course, had I just let all my bills sit for a couple of years, it looks like the government would have helped me. My point is-why should any state have to bailout another state. Let the citizens pay for their decisions.
Like MaKettles says, we must start locally, then on state and federal level to get committed conservatives into position. Then we can survive a RHINO POTUS. We cannot survive BS and the corruption of his reign. Suck it up and vote Repub.
Christie = the floating fat man in Dune
There are three that are running that I fully support. Perry, Cain and Gingrich. Perry isn’t a great debater, but his ideas are great, and he is a conservative. Everyone has some things people don’t like, but Perry has been horribly maligned.
thle tiniest thing that has happened is dumped on him as if it happened yesterday.
Everyone is on Cain’s case over 999 and over him telling it like it is to the Wall Street mob. And the fact that he has never run for office, and doesn’t know about foreign policy.
Most people say that Gingrich is the most powerful and intelligent. but fall back to years ago baggage also. He is smart, and really know history, and is excellent on foreign policy, and would take Iran to task.
I know Perry would open up all the oil fields, which would almost immediatly cause the gas prices to lower, just because they know we will have our own oil soon so Opec will start lowering the price of oil.
Like I said , any of the three have my vote, just can’t get behind any right now.
NO to Rino Romney!!!
But I will vote for him if he wins the nomination. I did last time against McCain.
Please Sarah, please!
@myrtle
sorry about your situation, unfortunately a LOT of us are going thru difficult times
not to put TOO fine a point on this, but really, we are arguing semantics
the states and cities with the largest financial problems, all, coincidentally governed by progressives
are also (coincidentally) the ones that have received the Largest per capita Pieces of the ‘Stimulus’ pie and all the other boondoggles obonga has managed to Shove thru congress, from outright grants to hidden agenda bills dressed up as something else
you can call it what you want,
I choose to call it ‘BailOut’
To the poster that wants Cain/Rubio. You can’t have Rubio because he, like Obama, is Constitutionally ineligible. I like Rubio a lot. He can be a Senator, Representative, in the Presidents Cabinet, Governor of his state but he cannot be POTUS or VP nor in succession to become POTUS because of the status of his parents. Read the Constitution, deVatels Laws of Nations and Supreme Court Decisions early in our countries history. There are solid reasons behind this that we must carry on with those decisions today so we can save our country from foreign takeover which is precisely what is happening now! That is precisely why Obama is a Usurper of the office. The Congress, Courts and Media are all complicit of a huge fraud on the American People. That’s likely why they are not taking action because it just might implicate them for their lack of action against the criminal, Obama, Biden, Holder, Cabinet, Czars, plus many members of Congress! This must be overturned and all of these people must be tried for TREASON. They have to pay a severe penalty for what they have done to the United States! The message has to get out to any others that would attempt this that it will not be tolerated in our country!!! The penalty has to be severe so as to discourage anyone else from trying this again. Yes, I like Marco Rubio. He’s a fine American! He just can’t be POTUS or VP.
These two guys give me the Willies: Free and Limp.
And this is exactly why I never wanted this overstuffed pillow to enter the race. He is just another typical Northeast moderate republican. Think Scotty boy Brown.
After that photo-op, Mittens and Christie went out for a salad. Ha ha! I kill myself! And WZ crowd…get over it…Palin ain’t budging an inch. I might actually say that her stringing all of you Palin lovers (I very much liked her…note past tense) along was a bit deceitful, esp. when you consider what she gained by stringing everyone along. So you have only 2 true conservatives to choose from: Cain and Bachman. GET OVER IT!