Paris was for all Americans, but especially for Republicans, a summons to seriousness that should have two immediate impacts on the Republican presidential contest. It should awaken the party’s nominating electorate from its reveries about treating the presidency as an entry-level job. And it should cause Republicans to take another look at Chris Christie, beginning with his speech in Florida the day after the Paris attacks.
... security concerns might be Christie’s opportunity. The more disorderly the world becomes, the less luminous is the one credential that supposedly qualifies Hillary Clinton for the presidency. The credential is not her adequate but unremarkable eight-year Senate career. Rather, it is her four years as secretary of state. Recall the question Ronald Reagan posed to voters at the conclusion of his single debate with President Jimmy Carter a week before the 1980 election: Are you better off today than you were four years ago? The electorate’s answer was emphatic.
...In a debate 10 months from now, the Republican nominee will ask a variant of Reagan’s question: Is America safer or more respected today, anywhere in the world, than it was when Clinton became secretary of state? Today, Republican voters need to ask themselves a question: Whom do they want onstage asking that question? It is beyond peculiar, it is political malpractice for Republicans to fritter away time and attention on candidates who, innocent of governing experience, cannot plausibly ask that question with properly devastating effect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/after-paris-we-should-look-to-chris-christie/2015/11/18/9077dbea-8d58-11e5-ae1f-af46b7df8483_story.html
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Okay, I've gotta say the obvious: I don't wanna look at Christie!
Christie seems like another Bush to me, which is better than any Dem, but not a smaller government Repub. We could do worse. I think he would easily flatten Hillary in the campaign.
If he sits on her.
Set and spike!
If you go to the article it's more about bashing Trump than promoting Christie. Will is desperate. Normally he would despise Christie, who is Trump lite.
I guess Christie could go up against Clinton well enough, but he's too much of a Jersey tough guy, I think, to win the general. Also weight discrimination would factor in.
I don't hold Hillary's weight against her.
The Paris attack mastermind is dead - bullet-riddled body identified in that raid yesterday.
George Will finds the prospect of writing about president Carson or president Trump frightening.
"mastermind"... Estimate of the cost is around 10,000 dollars.
Some people are reluctant to call the savage "mastermind", but, in France that's not a lot of money.
The fact Christie pardon Ray wife-beater and not Shaneen Allen (until dragged to do so) speaks to his character. I think he is conservative for NJ, but very squish compared to America. He won't be President, barring some unforeseen disaster like a plague wiping out the rest of the contenders. He survives because of all the extra fat, a once thought antiquated survival gene. Then he will be skinny and presidential. Like Cartman was after being hung on the cross for three days.
Trooper bait.
Oh, I see Trooper WEIGHED in already. Quite restrained.
They don't call George the Perrier Conservative for nothing.
Even Coulter realizes she was wrong about him.
What's Christie gonna do? Slow down traffic at the pont de Bir-Hakeim?
George Will is pompous, Over-the-hill loser. He's been pushing the Republicans down the road to defeat ever since 1988.
He needs to hang up his bow tie and his supercilious attitude and retire.
That he'd like Loud-mouth Christie surprises me.
George Will is the kind of guy who would try to get on the Hindenburg while it has already caught on fire.
He has a thing for blimps.
Guys with bowties are without exception perverts. Just sayn'
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